Archive for January, 2008

Fill that cup and love me like before

Maybe the cutest lyrics ever. ^^ This morning I just realized that I’ll have 4 hours without nothing to do, ‘cos I decided to skip physics test… and hell yeah, I’m going to do it, but not before I’ve practised. And practised. And… practised.

So. What I’m going to do with my hours? I’m going to write a short story, about a ghost and a girl, and it’ll probably be a good one. At least I hope so.

And then I’m going to do something with my ideas, which I haven’t used yet, even though I should have had used them.

And ‘m going to start my secret project.

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Well, there’s a gun and 100 km long tree…

…so said our physics teacher. The whole example:

“Well, there’s a gun and 100 km long tree 200 m away from you. You shoot with a bullet, which weight is 0,0050 kg, towars an iron “thing” on the top of the tree. The “thing”’s weight is about 0,50 kg. How fast must the bullet be shot, so that iron thing will get a consistent orbit around the Earth? They all are in the space.”

That was the worst example ever.

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Still?

While I bounced around in the world of the Internet, I found this. I’ve written it maybe 3 months ago and it made me smile – I just tried to tell who I am with some words, and the result is here, translated in English and also originally in Finnish in the end.

We can fix it.

Sometimes you just have to learn how to forgive.

I believe love is the thing that matters most.

Letters, those nights when you can see the stars, mist of autumn, origamis, Gerard Depardieu, pastel colors, candles, bark, scent of the clay, gray, optimizing the cosmic emission (still), trains, snow, Anna Gavalda, faltering in the edge of creativity, hoarfrost, sound of the steps on the bridge, voices (especially Quinto’s), silence, blues piano (we have one!), poems, shine of the mother-of-pearl, feathers, flying, running, fragrance of your hair (can’t remember that anymore), Count of Monte Cristo, walking hand-in-hand, dancing, knocking of the tap dance shoes, sad and happy endings, life, smiling, Ultra Bra, note book, odor of the ink, old writing machine, friendship, learning, withering of senses, eventfulness.
We can fix it.

Joskus on opittava antamaan anteeksi.

Minä uskon, että rakastaminen on kaikkein tärkeintä.

Kirjeet, tähtikirkkaat yöt, syyssumu, origamit, Gerard Depardieu, pastellivärit, tuohuskynttilät, kaarna, saven tuoksu, kalligrafia, harmaa, kosmisen säteilyn optimoiminen (yhä), junat, lumi, Anna Gavalda, luovuuden rajalla häilyminen, huurre (hoarfrost), askeleiden ääni sillan alla, sijaisihmisyys, Elizabethtown, niin täydellisesti suoritettu liikesarja että se näyttää virtaavalta vedeltä, äänet (varsinkin Quinton ääni), hiljaisuus, bluespiano, runot, helmiäisen hohde, sulat, lentäminen, selkounet, juokseminen, sinun hiustesi tuoksu, Monte Criston kreivi, käsi kädessä käveleminen, tanssiminen, steppikenkien kopina, surulliset ja onnelliset loput, elämä, hymyileminen, Ultra Bra, spiraalit, muistikirja, musteen tuoksu, vanha kirjoituskone, ystävyys, oppiminen, tajunnan hiipuminen, Stand by Me, ailahtelevaisuus.

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The Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind

It came back. And made me smile.

Change your heart.

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Music was my first love

I promised to show my tags, so. This is probably illegal.

Autumn

This tag is probably my favorite, ‘cos autumn is the most beautiful thing in the world, and if I want to express, that I love a song, I’ll describe as “autumnish”.

David Gray – Alibi
I can’t actually remember when I found this song, but the voice of mister Gray is wonderful. Maybe a bit too epic, but anyway.
Coldplay – Amsterdam
Right now the name of this song makes me smile. Amsterdam means (if we believe the book called Meaning of Liff) “deep happiness, which makes you to sing in the rain”. For me this song is a bit same, even though it is quite sadl.
David Sylvian – September
I read a short story about a year ago, and the story was based on Sylvian’s song, “Brilliant trees”. I was curious and tried to find that song, and so on.
Indica – Scarlett
An old (or actually not so old) classic to me. “Gone with the Wind” is a great book, and this song has great intertextualism in it.
Eisley – Memories
Usually I don’t like female singers, but this is a pleasant exception. The video is also beautiful.
Röyksopp – Poor Leno
Don’t even ask. I don’t know.

Winter

We don’t have winter anymore, but luckily some songs remind about it.

Ben Kweller – Sundress
A pianist, black-and-white film and personal voice – need I say more?
The Killers – Read My Mind
You should know already.
Iron Fire – Alone in the Dark
Mmh. Yeah, it is heavy metal, even though you won’t believe it. ;)

Sorrow

Maybe the most teenish tag ever :D

Alanis Morisette – I Was Hoping
Just listen.
key – Back Where I Started
It is actually a bit funny, but she is already the third female singer I’ve tagged. Well, she is also great.
James Blunt – Same Mistake
Coldplay – Fix You
‘Cos everybody needs to get fixed sometimes.
KT Tunstall – False Alarm
Click-clack-clock.

Nostalgia

Vitas – Opera
I’m studing Russian, so, this one was a great foundation.
Era – Mother
Old classic, again. I listened for that song when I was maybe 12, and a few months ago I found it again.

Desert

I have no idea why I have this tag.

Demons and Wizards – Gallows Pole
D & W. They made music about Dark Tower series, so they’re good.

Makes me smile

Yeah. I smile, sometimes.

Regina Spektor – Music Box
This song just bounces around…
Mika – Grace Kelly
…and this one does too.

Too bad, too sad

Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers – Into The Great Wide Open
Listen to the story.

Forest

Liekki – Loistaa, loistaa
Why do I have to comment each of these?

All You Need Is Love

Isn’t it?

Travis – The Humpty Dumpty Love Song
Love ain’t so easy.

Fury

ARGH!

Axenstar – Salvation
Another piece of heavy metal. Oh.

If I’d Be A Song

Keane – Try Again
Once I was sad. I listened this. And.

Spring

It comes. Unfortunately.

Collective Soul – The World I Know

Cabaree

Tsih.

The Dresden Dolls – Sing
‘Cos it made to think all those cabaree dancers. Simply, right?

Evening

Most beautiful time of the day.

Teitur – Sleeping With The Lights On
This is sad and lonely, as I was when I tagged this.

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Can’t believe I’m doing that again

Ok. I need to change my life before it’s too late. I’m skipping physics lesson once again, I don’t know what I’m going to be… So, let’s make a decision right now.

Here we go.

Gosh, I’m going to study… Psycologhy. If I can’t, then I’m going to study Chemistry. And if I can’t… well, then I don’t know.

I’m far too tired being like that. So, my next project.

Firstly, I’m going to concentrate to the school. I’m going to learn to play the piano better, I’m going to speak less to other people and I’m going to… well, yeah. I’m going to… Why is it so hard to say?

I’m going to give up. It’s crazy to think that anybody would never become interested about me, so, I won’t even try.

And by the way, I’m not Vehka anymore. Sad, but it is so. My real name, even though it is the most stupid name exists, is my name. So, please, call me Miina from now.

And I won’t be a substitute person anymore. I can’t, it hurts too much. Well, I guess I’ll be that again, but not right now.

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Fragile Things

Oh, I started Neil Gaiman’s Fragile Things today and it is fascinating. I have just read the first novel, A Study in Emerald, but it was fascinting. Sherlock Holmes and Lovecraft-style together, oh, how somebody can write something like that? Fangirling, yeah, but he deserves it – I’m far too lazy to read long stories in English, but some authors still success to make me hooked, and Gaiman is one of them.

So, I’m going to make a quotation from his forewords, because it was beautiful one.

Stories, like people and butterflies and songbirds’ eggs and human hearts and dreams, are also fragile things, made up of nothing stronger or more lasting than twenty-six letters and a handful of punctuation marks. Or they are words on the air, composed of sounds and ideas – abstract, invisible, gone once they’ve been spoken and what could be more frail than that? But some stories, small, simple ones about setting out on adventures or people doing wonders, tales of miracles and monsters, have outlasted all the people who told them, and some of them have outlasted the lands in which they were created.

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Read my mind, part 2

Well, when I was in the train today, travelling towards the place I call home, I decided to write a long, long entry for my blog. So long that nobody can’t read it totally. About what? Well, I’ll find out. But, anyway, I know already it’ll be quite… strange, so, please, try to understand. I’m not the most normal girl, I guess.

First, let’s talk about movies. I’ve seen quite many movies in my life, but the first one I actually remember was Bambi. I went to see it with my godmother, and it was a bad decision – I was maybe about 6, and cried when… well, you know. I don’t want to spoil the part where Bambi’s mother… well, so.

Then, when I was maybe 13, I watched three movies, which I really do like. The Beatles’ Yellow Submarine, which was maybe the most psychedelic movie I’ve ever seen, Stand by Me, which is still my favorite movie, and The Breakfast Club. Last one is still quite important for me, I’ll get you a quote from it later on.

Ok, I guess movies are boring topic, sorry. But, still, if you want to know something about my personality, we have to discuss about one movie, Elizabethtown. Why?

Because…

…the theory about substitute peoples. Here it comes.

I’ve wanted to be a substitute person for my whole life. I’ve tried to make others life a bit easier, and I’ve tried to take the place which is needed. It’s quite hard to explain, so, lets take an example.

Somebody is lonely. He/She (usually they’re boys, actually, but let’s return to it later) needs a friend. If she is a hippie, I’ll become a hippie also. If he listens to heavy metal, I’ll listen it also. So, the point is that I’ll try to be flexible, I’ll try to make she/he understand, that he/she is important, she is special, and the things she/he does aren’t worthless. And, when she/he realizes that and gets more self-confidence or becomes happier or… anyway, I’ll concentrate to next one. When I’m not needed anymore, I’ll be ready to leave, ‘cos if I would stay, I would just want to continue and continue, and the sad fact is, that substitute persons aren’t mean to be established.

So, that was a part of my theory, and I’m usually happy with it. But then, sometimes, I meet a person who really likes me as I am, and then… I usually fall in love. And gosh, it is maybe the worst thing that can happen to a substitute person. I start to enjoy about everything which I see in him – his smile, the rhythm he speaks, what kind of words he uses… I really do love little things, those details, and when I fell in love, I’ll pay special attention to those. And when I find more and more… it’s not easy for a substitute person. So, actually, I should not fell in love with anybody, ever. ‘Cos if I do, I start to demand too much from a person, who should be the one I should NOT demand anything.

Ok, that was enough about substitute people and feelings, right now.

Snow. I do love snow. When it falls softly or the wind makes flakes dance. When it catch on my hair, when I can try to hunt snowflakes with my tongue, when my foot prints stay in the snow. (English people don’t have enough words for snow, actually. In Finland we have quite many, even though I guess we’ll forget them soon). This evening it was snowing and it made me glad. I hope I could draw a picture with my pastels, but a promblem is that I should use only black and white (it is dark outside) and I’m not good at drawing with out colors.

Colors are my strength. I can choose exactly right color for fire, for leaves and so on. I can’t draw, but I can use colors, and hues of the colors.

Oh, about colors. I’ve never told you about coloring the music. Sometimes, not so often anymore, I just sit in my room, put some music on, and color it. Usually cellos are dark blue (Apocalyptica, for example), Sting is red as dark roses and a bit haze with it, The Killers are like burned umbra… And same thing with moods and … well, tagging. I’ll show you what I mean. In last.fm, I’ve tagged quite much of the music I’ve listened by random. I’ll link the songs for you also, if I can find them. But not now, ‘cos my great internet connection would crash.

What else I could talk about? Hmm, maybe about autumn, as I always do. I love autumn, maybe because I’ve always been happy during it… or, actually, not always, but. I’ve been in love, I’ve written letters, I’ve been very creative. I do love rain and wind and frost and mud and all that.

But the truth is that if autumn is going to last around the year, I’ll be sad. ‘Cos part of the attractiveness of that season is the ending, first snow and so on. And if it fades, autumn loses it’s magic.

I have a dream. Actually many, but let’s have a look for that single one. I want to go to a silent movie (you know, like Charles Chaplin etc.). One of those which were accompanied with a pianist, which played during the whole movie. That must have been totally great. And it’s gone.

I also want to… well, it’s not that important. Just a thing I miss terribly, which is kind of crazy.

Actually, I’m quite nervous right know. I don’t know have I feel or how I should feel. And I would like to break up with a boy I’m not even together. The problem, you see, is that I do like him too much. And, as always, I can’t do anything for it. He should be my best friend, but 1) people don’t fall in love with their best friends and 2) substitute people… well, yeah.

I’m tired to my network connection. Ka-BUM! Die, stupid wlan, die! Crash! Ca-BOOSH!

Yeah. How intelligent.

Ok. Let’s talk about domino cookies. There is that white… thing… inside them. It’s far too sweet for me, and I can’t understand why people keep trying to make me eat those monsters. I don’t like too sweet things, I prefer savoury snacks.

(There should be square.)

I hope I would be a bit more responsible, but unluckily, I’m not.

This is totally random.

And I’m random too. I don’t like to show too much about myself to other people, and still I do. Sometimes. And it’s quite hard, ‘cos I don’t actually know anymore, what kind of person I am. I’m melancholic and happy and optimistic and pessimistic and spontaneous and I think too much what I do and… well, you’ll get the point, hopefully. This is not easy to explain, and I don’t know why I do it in my blog, which nobody reads. Maybe ‘cos I’m far too tired.

Oh, about dreams. I remember my dreams quite well. Usually I saw dreams about tv-series or about books or… so on. I’ve seen a dream in which I kissed Zachary Quinto (he was marvellous kisser, by the way), I’ve seen a dream where I’ve been a mutant in X-men, I’ve seen a dream where I’ve been a wizard… And dreams are on of the best things in my life, really. Sadly they’re just dreams. (Zachary should be a part of my reality ;) )

My parents are arguing again. It is always sad. I can’t do anything about it, but I wish I could. I wish I could do something always, when people are sad. But, which is quite understandable, I can’t.

Altruism is a good thing, anyway. If we would put altruism and utilitarism together, it would make a perfect philosophy for me. Unfortunately, those people who are great philosophers, say that the point is to find an answer from one single thing, not from puttin a few aspects together. And that’s why I don’t want to be philosopher. (Even though I could make a stone for Harry Potter, omg!)

Well, this is getting interesting. Maybe I should end before I tell my deepest secrets, like that man in Montana… oh, did I just wrote that! Oh God, what have I done…

I guess that’s enough. I’ll  write more later on, but this is longest entry I’ve ever written, so maybe it’ll done. And, at least, it contains the theory about substitute people.

Aloha.

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If I’d be a song

This morning I listened for a song from Crux and Reverend B. It just striked me down. I guess you won’t understand it, or even care about it, but ‘cos this is my diary, I guess I should write about it anyway.

If you keep looking out that window, you’ll be falling off this train
If you keep looking at these pictures, you’ll be crying in the rain,
If you keep singing that same old melody
If you keep saying whatever will be, will be

The river is running, running to the shore
but in your heart you know nothing’s gonna be like before

If you keep telling the same story about the one you never had
If you keep writing all those poems, making rhymes to make you sad
If you keep telling your children about the game you should have won
If you keep calling back that summer, if you keep staring at the sun.

The river is running, running to the shore
but in you’re heart you keep on singing like before.

You’re singing serenades to the wind, wishing that it would turn
You’re singing lullabies to your long lost dreams,
cause there’s no more letters to burn

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Over my shoulder

I looked over my shoulder last night, and even though I’m 18 now, it was still there. The second star to the right.

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