THIRTY SECONDS OF APRIL

Not totally sure whats going on, if I am standing still in space or what, as time seems to go faster day by day and year by year. So just like swish! April went by and here is what it looked like, compressed to one tiny second per d...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW

Or, that were today.Long time no smoothie! I have a bit of chaga at home of so I made an antioxidant-rich smoothie out of chilled chaga-tea, mango, some cherries and physalis.Admiring my super huge (1,81m) Mucha-poster that I ordered from the Mucha museum. I saw the original sized theatre posters there...

520 SUNDAYS

Considering how rather unstructured my day-to-day life's routines are, as in not-really-there and lets-see-what-happens-next-week-in-life, and supposing it is not the first impression I tend to give, I am actually rather un-enthusiastic about change.  It's not that I am reluctant to change, just lazy about it. Mainly small everyday bits, perhaps as a balance to even out the lack of certain routines...

BOHEMIAN RHAPSODY

Waiting for November then!Queen was the first band I was an actual fan of! I did my first presentation ever in school about the band. My mom helped me put it together. That was a terribly long time ago already.Biopics like these can either be a hit or miss (and sometimes going back and forth between either one), but lets hope this one is good! So far I like how the song mix for the trailer is made,...

SUPERWOOD

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BLUE MONDAY

Lets end the week with some creative music playing. Or making.Orkestra Obsolete play Blue Monday using 1930s instruments  (BBC Arts)In Swedish there is actually a separate verb for playing and making music on an instrument, more in the sence of performing it or playing together: musicera, as can you say 'musisoida' in Finnish. One can refer to that as musicerande (kind of like something...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW - IN THE AFTERNOON SUNSHINE

Four things right-right now.The books above my head.A cat in the after noon sunshine.Reading the Egytptian Book of the Dead (but now I got distracted with a documentary on Marie Antoinette's coiffures.)I want Mikael Hadreas pants.As a side note; this was the first time I made a post in one sitting without...

FOUR THINGS RIGHT NOW: BLUE, GREENS, SHINY PINK, INVASIVE

Today I've been wearing blue.From top to toe, rather literally; I have a new sky blue faux-scarf turban that I've been hiding my somewhat un-styled hair under lately.And so today as well, serving also a practical reason to help my hair stay put and away while I finally got around changing the soil for...

UMK: TWO MORE DAYS TO GO

Most of my time the past months, or if not most then at least a lot, has been taken up by my participation in UMK; the competition for new music, which in other words is the national selection for the Eurovision.It has been an interesting project in many ways, but we'll get back to all that next week...

DO THE TWIST, DO THE GO GO, DO THE -

Here's the music video for the UMK17 participation song that I am a part of!We filmed it in November with a bunch of our friends and students taking part of the shoot.Some people love it and others hate it but that's how it is with most things in this world.It's going to be really interesting to get to do the actual show on January 28th because it's, of course, a production of a size a lot different...

SHOOTING THE MUSIC VIDEO

The other day we shot the music video for our UMK song.The second look for the day.  That's a lot of brushing and hairspray there I tell you....and a lot of conditioner afterwards.A bunch of fabulous friends as well as our burlesqe students joined in on the shoot.My glitter boots are surprisingly...

UMK!

Photo: YLE / Miikka VarilaSo, you know I've been rather (add ""...) lately, and one reason is the fact that I am part of UMK, which is the competition for the song to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest.I'm a huge lover of all things kitsch and camp and thus also a huge Eurovision...