April 18th, 2009 by Rika
posted in Music |
I just changed my telephone’s ring tone to Sash!’s Ecuador. I needed to share this, because Ecuador is possibly the best example of the so-called eurodance -genre. Although I’m not sure if it qualifies as such, because Ecuador actually has some wit to it, composing-wise, that is. But then again, I think that the dudes made some other noteworthy songs, like Stay and Mysterious Times.
And dammit, I wish I was young, pretty and flexible, like I was during the summer of ‘97, when everything was laid back, warm and possibly a little beer-fumed all the time.
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April 5th, 2009 by Rika
posted in Wayback Machine |
This episode of I Used to Be a Funny Blogger is brought to you by Why am I NOT Finishing My Portfolio -network, and is sponsored by GTFO of Wayback Machine You Goose!
On January 14th of 2005, at 3:36 m I wrote:
A - Accent: I try Scottish when talking English, but fail miserably. In Finnish it’s not an accent, it’s a language of it’s own.
B - Breast size: Hmmh… Sufficient, thank you.
C - Chore you hate: Mopping. I feel it’s utterly useless thing to do.
D - Dad’s name: Olavi
E - Essential make-up item: Black mascara
F - Favorite perfume: Ode L’Amour. It’s some Yves Rocher shite.
G - Gold or silver: Silver
H - Hometown: Kemi
I - Insomnia: All the time.
J - Job title: Slacker 
K - Kids: Pregnant with twins. Colin’s their father. Right.
L - Living arrangements: With an imaginary boyfriend in a wee 33 square metre apartment.
M - Mum’s birthplace: Kemi
N - Number of apples you’ve eaten: 372,4 about.
O - Overnight hospital stays: After being hauled home from being born? One.
P - Phobia: Spiders. And mushrooms.
Q - Quirk(s): I’ll be spending the rest of the night here listing…
R - Religious affiliation: Happy heathan. Or a Frisbitarian. *points Bono* I’m with him
S - Siblings: One sister, Rei.
T - Time you wake up: Right after opening my eyes.
U - Unnatural hair colors you’ve worn: Probably every color of rainbow, excluding bright green.
V - Vegetable you refuse to eat: I absolutely despise boiled cabbage, so let’s say that.
W - Worst habit: Smoking. I can’t seem to be able to quit it. Spell it with me: s-p-i-n-e-l-e-s-s. Thank you.
X - X-rays you’ve had: Four? Maybe five.
Y - Yummy foods you make: Chili. It burns, baby.
Z - Zodiac sign: Libra.
Goes to show, that I really didn’t sleep a whole lot at that time. And I believe everyone agrees, that it was painfully obvious from the wacky posts I wrote.
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March 27th, 2009 by Rika
posted in Music |
I know most of you know at least by now, that Manic Street Preachers’s song Motorcycle Emptiness is such a masterpiece, that I thought to put it as my domain name. Not just once, but twice.
When the song first came out in ‘92, I was fourteen, saw it on MTV (they used to show music videos on that channel back then, isn’t it incredible?), loved the song and oh my sweet jesus, how I lusted for James Dean Bradfield.
I don’t much prefer the James D.B. of today, but the song still kicks ass. Like a lot. It hasn’t lost it touch or the relevance of the message (even though I usually absolutely hate straight-forward political lyrics) at all during the what? 17 years of its lifetime. Since then I’ve become familiar with a bunch of other songs form the band, thanks mostly to dear Juk, who is a big fan of Manics. I particularly like the This Is My Truth -album, which sounds… white and crispy. Tsunami is marvellous as well as Everlasting.
The best of Everlasting is definately the Sonic Stealth remix. It can be found on the Forever Delayed -greatest hits album’s remix cd. It has all these weird saw-playing sounds, and it turns out to be a sort of spiritual experience with church organs blaring on the background. Absolute masterpiece. To me it is a hair-raising thing to listen to, every time.
And holy fuck, has it been seventeen years since I was an awkward fourteen-year-old? D:
Honestly. Fuck.
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March 25th, 2009 by Rika
posted in Domain |
For the eleventieth (or so) time in my life I declare a grand opening on a domain I have registered. Or a re-opening after a “dreaming it all up again” -phase.
I’ve been trying to get on the blogging train for a year now, ever since I re-registered my first and apparently best domain evar!!1 but it somehow went all bollocks every time I tried to do anything. Also I felt like I’d lost the ability to code anything. And not to mention that I kept thinking how much WordPress sucked donkey dick.
Except that it doesn’t. I had an epiphany on Monday night, after Johanna and I tried to upgrade and tweak an already existing WP I had running in here. You can believe that I was facepalming and headdesking like no tomorrow when I realized that I’d been a complete dumb fuck, thinking that the themes were somehow more complicated than before. No they weren’t and aren’t. It was just me. Hahawhoops.
But the point is, I have a gazillion things to say, people to annoy and cursing to do (you know me, when I’m around, there are more obsceneties flying around than in a bar full of drunken fomorians sailors). Feast your eyes upon the recycled layout from the ice-ice -age. I shall be filling up missing parts in here.
Cheerio.
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