I think the final piece in the Hilastherion album puzzle fell in place today. I won't say anything more at this point, all shall be revealed soon enough. Here's some music while you're waiting.
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Friday 31 August 2012
A little bit of soul
Today is a good day for some soul music. A good friend of mine plays in a band called Project Soul, and they played this on a local radio station last Tuesday. An old classic, but still a great song.
I love soul music, there are some absolutely awesome basslines in soul. In fact, even though I mostly listen to metal and rock, my favourite bass players are soul bass players.
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I love soul music, there are some absolutely awesome basslines in soul. In fact, even though I mostly listen to metal and rock, my favourite bass players are soul bass players.
/H
Wednesday 29 August 2012
Languages
I thought I'd mention that although I write my blog posts in English, you're more than welcome to comment in Swedish and Finnish. Of course you can try commenting in other languages as well, but I reserve the right to remove all comments I cannot understand.
I'd love to learn more languages, I speak enough German to order food or to avoid being sold as a slave, but not much more than that. I understand some Spanish, but not enough to speak it myself. The way I see it, languages are the key to understanding people (d'uh!). But not just in the way that you can understand the actual words, I think you can understand a bit more about your mother tongue at the same time. And you might also earn some respect if you only know a little but try to speak the language anyway. I know that it's true, because it's happened to me a few times.
Right,that's about it, now we need some music. This is not the kind of music I normally listen to, but The Prodigy is the exception that confirms the rule. This is the song Breathe.
/H
I'd love to learn more languages, I speak enough German to order food or to avoid being sold as a slave, but not much more than that. I understand some Spanish, but not enough to speak it myself. The way I see it, languages are the key to understanding people (d'uh!). But not just in the way that you can understand the actual words, I think you can understand a bit more about your mother tongue at the same time. And you might also earn some respect if you only know a little but try to speak the language anyway. I know that it's true, because it's happened to me a few times.
Right,that's about it, now we need some music. This is not the kind of music I normally listen to, but The Prodigy is the exception that confirms the rule. This is the song Breathe.
/H
Monday 27 August 2012
Batman
Yesterday I went to see The Dark Knight Rises together with my two sons and my brother-in-law. It was a great movie. Not as good as The Dark Knight, but that one's hard to beat, Heath Ledger is so absolutely amazing as the Joker. Anyway, while watching it, I realised that I just have to try making a Bane mask. Yes, I know there are Bane masks out there to buy, but I bet it's a lot cheaper to make one yourself. Not that I think I'll ever be able to use it anywhere, but I want to try anyway.
There was one scene in the movie that I kind of anticipated before it happened. And it wasn't because anyone had told me anything about this movie, it was because I had read a copy of a Batman magazine when I was a kid. You see, reading comics can come in handy later in life. I don't want to spoil for anyone who might read this blog, and hasn't seen the movie yet, but it has to do with Ra's al Ghul.
And of course, we need some music to get through this day. Here's one I must have heard a thousand times, but it suddenly really clicked last week. This song is awesome, it's Action de Grâce by The Hellacopters.
/H
There was one scene in the movie that I kind of anticipated before it happened. And it wasn't because anyone had told me anything about this movie, it was because I had read a copy of a Batman magazine when I was a kid. You see, reading comics can come in handy later in life. I don't want to spoil for anyone who might read this blog, and hasn't seen the movie yet, but it has to do with Ra's al Ghul.
And of course, we need some music to get through this day. Here's one I must have heard a thousand times, but it suddenly really clicked last week. This song is awesome, it's Action de Grâce by The Hellacopters.
/H
Thursday 23 August 2012
Time for a short update
It's been waaay too long since I posted here. Still enjoying Clockwork Angels. I still haven't been able to print my tickets for Rush' O2 Arena gig in London. I'm not really worried yet, but I'm wondering what the problem is. Well, as long as I can print the tickets before May 2013, I'm ok with that. We still have to find plane tickets and some place to stay, but I'm sure we will. After all, it's not the first time I'll be going to London, and this time I should be able to ask some advice from my TNMS mates.
Almost all the recordings for the upcoming Hilastherion album are done now. I think there are some spoken parts that still need to be recorded, but that should be it. We started practicing again after a summer break, and it went better than I expected. Of course I didn't nail all the parts, but at least I remembered most of them. And some parts I even remembered better than I thought I would. This is going to be a great album.
There's also a pretty big Larp coming up next summer. Dark Paths' End is Eloria's 10th anniversary Larp. Eloria is a Swedish-language Role-playing association, where I'm a member. I'm really looking forward to this Larp, it's not only for one evening or even for one day. It starts on a Thursday with preparations and prebrief, the actual Larp is on Friday and Saturday, and it ends on Sunday with a debrief and disassembling the camp and everything around it. Actually, preparations have already begun, and will go on all the way until the Larp takes place. There will be a lot of different workshops building up to this Larp.
/H
Almost all the recordings for the upcoming Hilastherion album are done now. I think there are some spoken parts that still need to be recorded, but that should be it. We started practicing again after a summer break, and it went better than I expected. Of course I didn't nail all the parts, but at least I remembered most of them. And some parts I even remembered better than I thought I would. This is going to be a great album.
There's also a pretty big Larp coming up next summer. Dark Paths' End is Eloria's 10th anniversary Larp. Eloria is a Swedish-language Role-playing association, where I'm a member. I'm really looking forward to this Larp, it's not only for one evening or even for one day. It starts on a Thursday with preparations and prebrief, the actual Larp is on Friday and Saturday, and it ends on Sunday with a debrief and disassembling the camp and everything around it. Actually, preparations have already begun, and will go on all the way until the Larp takes place. There will be a lot of different workshops building up to this Larp.
/H
Friday 10 August 2012
Vaasa Night of the Arts 2012
Last night I went to the "Night of the Arts" in my hometown Vaasa. It was absolutely brilliant! I got a few tips on genealogy, I saw a little demonstration of medieval fencing by Vaasan Miekkailijat. My very good friends, the wonderful Ulvens döttrar performed (together with two additional musicians, both of them also good friends of mine), a "fire dance group" Titinki tulitanssiryhmä performed some beautiful fire dance routines, and finally another good friend of mine (and guitarist in one of my current bands) performed with another of his bands (Divine) on a stage in the town square. Most of this in excellent company, a bunch of good friends from the Fenno-Swedish Role-playing association Eloria. By far the best Night of the Arts ever for me. And very inspiring too, I got a few ideas I really want to try. If any of these ideas should work out, I'll be sure to tell you more about it later.
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