Notes from last week

Howdy, today I'm writing two days late from the usual for certain reasons yadda yadda yadda... let's get down to business. As I was listening a Helsinki-located radio show Heikelä - Linnanahde korporaatio (Radio Rock 94.9 MHz) the other day and they were talking about commercial flights to space. Alright, they've been available a year or two but now ONLY for 155 000 €. Yeah, it's still a price of a decent house or a used Ferrari but the way the cost of a space flight is going, maybe in 15 years the most popular tourist destination won't be Thailand, Spain or New York, it will be the space.Further to the show they were talking about what kind of trip will it exactly be. Later on they found out that from this 'cheap' trip you will only be able to see the Baltic Sea and the neighboring countries - not the whole globe. I at least would want to see the whole globe and all the other things you're supposed to see when you're in space. So maybe this new cheaper way of space traveling is kind of Ryan Air of space - cheap prices, shitty experience. If you are interested in getting to space 'cheap' and understand Finnish here's the official brochure.

Some other notes from last week :

• The fellow blog writer Joonas told me about this new Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino where he's being as badass as ever beating up and out-cooling people (eventhough he's almost 80 years old). So fuck Chuck Norris, Jack Bauer, etc. Clint's da man.
• If you like good mash up remixes and hip hop / classic hit dj sets. Check out Redrum (in Helsinki, FIN) this thursday. The world-famous dj Girl Talk (USA) is playing in Misf*ts club in Redrum this thursday. Should be a damn good party.
• Another great internet site found. Flickr is a site where you can upload your pictures (even the ones with higher quality) and organize them nicely and easily. However the best part in my opinion is the ability to just choose certain colours and the search machine will find pictures with the colours you like. An easy and good way to find some aesthetics to...well whatever you need it for.
  

I've been to movies quite few times lately, three times this month. As all you know the trailers before the actual movie have always these pompous songs to hype the movie. Anyways, I've been listening lately a lot of these movie theme songs and other powerful and pompous stuff (and by that I don't mean death metal) . You just gotta love the powerful orchestra sounds in these songs. Listening these songs makes my mind wander and actually some of 'em give these nice scary chills. Okay, listening to this Saw theme song in the middle of the night is making things pretty scary over here so here's this week's special playlist :

Week's Pompous and Powerful Playlist # 4

1. Charlie Clouser - Hello Zepp (Saw theme, also used in Operation valkyrie)
2. Wim Mertens - Struggle for Pleasure
3. Hans Zimmer - Drink Up Me Hearties (The Pirates of Carribean)
4. The Bloody Beetroots - Butter (check this out. some scary shit)
   
5. Justice - Genesis

honorable mentions : The intro of "Slam" by Pendulum, "Imperial March" by John Williams (I know it's a classic but not one of my top favorites) , "Master of Puppets" by Metallica and San Francisco Symphony.

So there's some mighty sounds for you all. I'm sure you know some or most of them but if you got that nostalgic feeling be sure to listen to those songs. For this time, I have a perfect ending song, the king of all pompous songs - Ennio Morricone's "The Ecstacy of Gold" . Just gotta love it, a great movie and even better song.

So that's all. Until next time

- Samppa