Duck soup

I'm still alive. One day I'll feel like it. Nothing serious, just something that happens every year in these early spring days, sleeping through days and waiting. Short walks, some working, studying at home. A cup of tea, tofu, too much coffee. Soon it's time to wash the windows.

Oh f*ck!

My poor bird! It's been with me at so many occasions, clubs, gigs, parties, everywhere, and then it snapped while I tied my shoelaces. Well, we had fun for an year and a half. I could order similar one but it wouldn't be the same magpie. Let's hope it still could be fixed somehow. I don't have that many pieces of jewellery that I like to use. This week this also happened to someone else.



The red circle, the goldfish and the birds on a branch are gifts from my boyfriend. He knows my taste better than I know it myself. The golden bird is a gift for me from myself, bought last summer. It's almost too girly for my taste but somehow I still like it. Two little birds on the left used to be with me all the time but now I'm afraid of losing them so they have to stay inside. In addition to these, I have some vintage pieces from the 50's my grandmother gave me a couple of years ago. They just need some extra care before I can use them again. Jewellery is also the only way to wear plastic. Plastic shoes are not shoes.

Yesterdays Fever Ray gig was magical! The sounds, the visuals, everything. I'm easily attracted by laser beams, I see them so rarely. During the warm-up act, Svarte Greiner, I had hard time concentrating but when my boyfriend dragged me almost to the front row to see what the artist was really doing with his instruments, it got more interesting. But if you ever have a chance to see Fever Ray playing live, you should definitely go.

I'm working hard on an intellectual look

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.

Swans

Still no sunshine. I miss Paris. Well, London too and maybe Lisbon but mostly Paris. Picture is from London though.