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.

Now the world is more grey than white

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.

Ghosts?

Still old photos, maybe 2004 or early 2005? Spring is here and maybe I should finally tell someone that I have a blog again.

Bikes

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.

Noble Beast

Quick note: must love the new Andrew Bird album Noble Beast. And the older one, Armchair Apocrypha, too.

Tea flowers

I've always loved lazy days. Stolen moments. Drinking tea, playing saxophone, reading a book and listening to music (today: PJ Harvey, Pariisin kevät and Feist) when I know I should be doing something else. And when I should get some rest (when sick, very tired, etc...), I swim, go to gym, do everything but rest. It's always been like that.

White wolf in the snow...

...or a walk with a friend and her young but not so little dog.