About me

Name: Vehka

Occupation: Painter of the heavenshore

Date of birth: 8.1.1990

Charasteristic: Happy little creature, melancholic, quiet, positive, pessimistic

Motto: We are what we want be, even though we wouldn’t like to.

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    Chai said,

    April 4, 2008 @ 8:04 pm

    Hi Vehka

    I came accross your blog by sheer accident (such is the nature of the corridors of the web) I was searching for an image to tag the audiobook “The Lathe of Heaven” in iTunes (which I’ve not read/listened to yet) and I came across your avatar in the image search – since I am interested in anime I thought I’d click. I was presented with your marvelously evocative post from January and though it is quite an ordinary musing, not spectacular at all – it transfixed me enough to warrant a comment (which I almost never do).

    So – you’re in Finland, right? I knew a guy called Santeri Ojannen – I studied with him in university in the late nineties. He was from Helsinki. Also I met an artist called Christer Lindstrom – he’s really great! Aside that I know very little about your country except Monty Python’s song “Finland”, and it being the origin of cellular phone technology. A lot of rock-metal in Finland too, isn’t there? Still, I’d love to visit sometime, and Norway too – I love Norwegian music.
    In response to one of your yearnings – I’m sure sometime you will be able to see a live piano recital with a film – though they occur seldom indeed. I was fortunate to see in 2002 NOSFERATU with a live pianist score in Cardiff (that’s the capital city of Wales). It was transfixing!

    So you’re eighteen, I guess? – Your english is great!
    I’m always impressed by the mastery of this language my my European brothers and sisters – it’s usually better than in the US where it’s the first language!
    It’s great that you’re discussing things like you do – your relationship to what is outside of our often insular consciousness.
    I must admit I had to familiarise myself with the terms ‘altruism’ and ‘utilitarianism’ but after reading them I was reminded. Since I left college I have not dedicated much energy to reading. More recently I have had set upon me a learning FRENZY so have been reading books, listening to audio books, watching documentaries, films, animation, propaganda, learning about history and psychology, philosophy, physics, listening to new music, classical music, anything which seems to relate to existance and creativity. Learning – It can be a trap but it can be liberating. A delicate balance as anything in this life! I have been particularly drawn to the work of Nietzsche and Sartre, as well as others, and just read the Epic of Gilgamesh fot the first time. Great stuff!!! I have also finished reading a treatise on the psychological archetypes of storytelling (The Seven Basic Plots) by an English author called Christopher Booker. It’s a pretty amazing book in some ways. If you are interested in stories and writing and humanity’s relationship to telling stories – it’s for you.

    Anyway I could waffle on all day…
    Great to read your blog. I’d like to come back if I got the time

    Chai (South London)


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