It snowed today. The weird and disturbing thing was that it was snowing from earth to the sky. Funny winds. I've been trying to study the whole day, not a big success though. I only went outside for my dancing lesson so old photo today again.
Tonight it's Tavastia and Fever Ray (Karin Dreijer Andersson, the other half of the Knife).
Some of the old pictures are not visible right now. They will be back in a couple of days.
My sequin Converses got out yesterday. They went with me, my boyfriend, my little brother and a bunch of other friends to see Antony and the Johnsons. They were great. I'm usually not a big fan of long gigs, but this time two hours felt short. After Antony, we went to a friends sisters home warming party, felt a little out of place, left early, went to Dubrovnik to see Kap Kap, met other friends, felt a lot better and today I woke up with a bit of a hangover. I needed many beers to get the fact that people of my age talk happily about pensionary insurances in home warming parties out of my system.
Yep, spring is finally here. I wake up too early every morning because of the sun and the warmth, there is a fresh wind blowing outside, seagulls and other birds are coming back from south and I stop caring about things. My new spring shoes want to get out, they want to run and play, meet new people and hear some great music.
One of the things that always happen in the springtime is that there is one particular record awaiting me just around the corner, and when I find that album, it sticks into our record player, and into my head and into my heart. Jenny Wilson released her first album "Love and Youth" in 2005 and I spent the whole spring listening to it. The stories that the songs tell are so amazing. So familiar! I'm not sure if I listened to anything else that spring. I was almost afraid to listen to the new album, "Hardships!", because I love the first one so much. But I didn't have to be disappointed - I love the new album too!
Jenny will play three gigs in Finland this May, I've been waiting for it since her last gig at the Flow Festival in 2007. But something I've really been waiting for will happen as soon as tonight, I'm finally going to see Antony and the Johnsons playing live.
Old photo from 2005. An year later I found The Decemberists, especially their album Picaresque and I still love it's stories of mariners, their wifes and Eli, The Barrow Boy.
Holga + age old film + shot in 2004, developed in 2009 + bad scanning = 1 almost recognizable image.
This film was not the only age old film that I developed. There were other rolls with more recognizable pictures. It felt quite strange to see these old, somehow familiar and somehow very strange old photos. Oh well, another lesson learned - don't leave your films in the fridge for five years. It will destroy the film and make you feel old.
