This is what you get when you carry out unplanned ideas

Yesterday I made a perfect shopping list and went to a grocery store to buy everything on it. But while I was shopping my daily necessities I started to think how lovely and motherly it would be to have a closet stocked with cookies and other things I could serve with tea. This thought soon transformed to an idea to fill the freezer with home-made muffins. And it sounded like an idea good enough to carry out, so in my head I added chocolate buttons to my shopping list.

But when I got home I realize that I actually need more than just chocolate buttons to bake muffins. I only got two eggs and I was seriously running out of sugar and oil too. So I had no other choice than go back to the store..

But when I got home again I realize that I didn't have flour... Luckily the store is near.

Every reader counts

According to Hannes his good friend reads my blog. I don't know much about her, except that her name is Sanna and she lives somewhere like 500 kilometers away. Anyway. Since I know you're there, I just wanted to welcome you. So welcome. And feel free to drop me a comment sometime. I would totally appreciate that. And please make Hannes to drop me some comments too. He's been reading my blog since forever and he has never commented me!

First set of first impressions

I really enjoy listening to new bands but it takes a lot of work to find them by yourself. That's why I was more than happy to snatch so many albums from my sister's laptop. She listens to metal too so there is actually a big chance that I might find something I could really like.

I don't often have the patience to get to know new bands at home. I just download some samples but never really listen to them. It doesn't work that way. That's why I decided to listen to these new albums at work where I can really concentrate.

I have now listened to six new albums (that's pretty much all I can fit to my mp3-player) and I'm ready to write down some first impressions. Notice that these are not supposed to be reviews or recommendations, just lazy scribbles to document my musical journey. I hope that later I can look back to these and see how my taste of music has developed (and hopefully extended too).

Trivium - The Crusade



The Crusade it's indeed a very decent album... if you happen to like trash metal. I just don't like. I tried to listen to this with an open mind though, because this was something my sister especially wanted me to try out. But I just couldn't really enjoy this. It was too Metallica-like, and if I want to listen to something that sounds like Metallica, I listen to Metallica.

Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked



I'm not sure if metal music is supposed to make you feel good, but that is the main reason why I listen to it. Annihilation of the Wicked certainly did not made me feel good; It made me want to kill myself by being way too boring for my taste. Hell yeah, it's aggressive. But not in a good way. It was more like totally meaningless background noise, with no melody or anything that you could actually catch on. This album just made me yawn and I couldn't find anything good from it even though I listened to it twice. The cover art is quite cool, though.

The Gathering - Home



This album got me hypnotized from the very first song. And it just kept getting better song by song. I'd say that Home sounds a bit like No Need to Argue by the Cranberries but with a beat and rougher vocals. In fewer words: it's just perfect. Listen to yourself:



Carcass - Heartwork



I know that these bands don't exactly walk hand in hand, but somehow Carcass reminds me of Dimmu Borgir. It was the very first metal band I ever listened so I guess it's a good thing even though I don't really listen to it anymore. Anyway. Heartwork is quite basic melodic death metal album and therefore highly enjoyable if you're into that. I think I still have to work with this one even though I already like it. I just think I could like it more if I could listen to it when I'm on the right mood for it.

Porcupine Tree - Deadwing



I knew in advance that I was going to love Deadwing. I'm not psychic or anything. I've just seen this happen before; Amarth likes Vast. Then Amoena likes Vast. Amarth likes Katatonia. Then Amoena likes Katatonia. Amarth likes Porcupine Tree... Yeah. There's a pattern. I'm not trying to copy his taste of music, it just keeps happening. And it wasn't even Amarth who made me listen to this album in the first place!



Summoning - Stronghold



If Nile was an anti-feel-good metal, this is the exact opposite. Stronghold definitely makes you feel good. It will also make your imagination flowing. It sounds like a soundtrack and it will fill your head with awesome ideas and pictures. At least it worked for me and left me feeling totally creative. Now I just need to find out where to use such creativeness.

I guess I don't do girls then

Every now and then Hannes kindly suggests me to get a girlfriend. Of course he doesn't mean that I should turn to a lesbian but he thinks I should hang out with girls too. In a way I agree with him. I have started to feel way too comfortable with boys. They just make better friends. But that's not the only reason why the vast majority of my friends are boys.

The real reason is that other girls at my age make me feel insecure. And I really don't like to feel that way. I've never felt as insecure with boys than I have with girls. I know that boys get me. They understand what I'm talking about since most of the time I'm talking their language anyway.

And other girls make me feel ugly which of course make me even more insecure. But I can't help it. I'm like totally clueless when it comes to clothes and make-up and hair and other girl shit. I just don't know how to do it properly. And it doesn't help that I happen to have like bad hair day every single day and a problem skin. So it's like no matter how hard I try I always feel myself somehow less pretty.

And then there is this one thing that I lead a very different life than other girls usually do. It's not exactly easy to be a girl nerd. I know other girl nerds exist but I've chosen to believe it only when I actually meet one. And so far I have met none. I simply can't imagine myself befriending with someone who doesn't understand nerdism. And I'm not sure if I ever even want to. And once again my strict teetotalism is not helping. I wouldn't want to hang out with girls who are into partying and stuff. I want to stay home drinking tea and watching silly movies and not hear a shit about how my life's lame.

And let's face it: girls are back-stabbing bitches. That's what I meant earlier when I said that boys make better friends. They don't talk dirty things about you behind your back or... anything that girls tend to do to each other. They're just above all that shit. And I rather stay out of it too. Don't get me wrong here. I'm totally bitchy too, but not to boys since they're not bitchy to me.

I know that my view of girls is totally stereotypical. And I do know that there are plenty of girls out there who are actually really nice. Like Elina for example! They're just not coming to me and I always rather befriend with boys if possible. Btw, if you're nice and you think you wouldn't intimidate me, feel free to drop me a comment or something.

New music and new plans

Last year my sister bought herself a quite decent laptop.It was a surprise to everyone because she's definitely not a nerd of any kind. So we used to make fun of her and questioning her purposes. Like did she bought a laptop because she thought it was like a super modern microwave oven or something. Anyway. She has becoming more nerdy since. She even knows how to use Ctrl+C nowadays.

When I took my own laptop to Viiala I asked my sister to brought hers too. We share a similar taste of music so I thought it would be fun to exchange some of our favorites. I gave her some VAST and Katatonia and other shit I like and she gave me... nothing. She got bored so she went out to play with her dog. But meanwhile I took like 35 random albums from her laptop so now I'm seriously loaded with new music. I'm way too lazy to actually count but I think I have like 60 albums I have never listened to. That's a project, if you ask me.

It's also a project I will blog about. Here's the deal:

1. I upload as many albums to my mp3-player as possible and listen to them while I work.
2. When I have listened to every album once, I come here and briefly write down my first impressions.