hiidenkonttibeta

“Arma Ulea” arms exhibition is held yearly in Oulu. This was the first time I checked it out.

The pistol in the last picture is Česká zbrojovka CZ-75, the weapon Rally uses in Gunsmith Cats. Toni pointed it out to me, I would never have spotted it myself.

No, I didn’t get one of the masks. But I have this disturbing vision of having one as a decoration on the top of the bookshelf. On a head of a mannequin. With Lappish four winds hat. Or maybe a bright pink anime hair-style wig..

I’ve got two русский камеры, both old Leica copies, or maybe rather Leica derivatives. One is a Zorki-4K with 35mm/f2.8 Jupiter-12 (not original lens, I got it separately):

and the other one is Fed-2 (ФЭД-２) with 50mm/f2.0 Jupiter-8 (Юпитер-8):

The problem is, one of these cameras has film inside. But I don’t know which one (or both?), since it’s about six months from the last time I used these cameras. Of course there’s no any kind of indication about it. Fed’s frame counter is at 4, Zorki’s in 2. From this I bet that the film is in Fed, and I’m going to open Zorki now and look inside.

… woohoo! Zorki didn’t have film. ラッキー! I’ll shoot the remaining 20 frames with Fed some day (and feel really dumb if it doesn’t have film either..)

Visited library to pick up some reserved CD’s – and it’s quite impossible to avoid picking up some random albums too:

Cradle of Filth: Dusk and Her Embrace
Dawn of Relic: One Night in Carcosa
Babylon Whores: Death of the West
Black Sabbath: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
Entombed: Wolverine Blues
Lacrimosa: Fassade
Katatonia: Discouraged Ones
Goblin: Volume II 1975 – 1980
To/Die/For: Jaded

But the eX-Girl album is just so great that I can’t give up listening to it :-)

Chant these magic words over and over
Relax and follow me
I will make you remember

Beyond being human
Beyond age and time
Beyond borders and gender
Come and go freely
Come and go

エクス・ギール: SASUKE

One of the smartest things to do on a やすみ is to stay up late and sleep long. Getting back to work feels even worse after sleeping too little the previous night. きのうは Loppiainen でした, it’s a religious holiday of some sort, but that’s as much as I know. It’s not even my religion, but it’s a day off for みなさん and that’s what matters. はる is nicer than あき in that matter, there’s もっとやすみ.

When you wish upon a frog! EXG!!

After hearing 1 song by eX-Girl and reading a review of their Back to the Mono Kero album, I just had to get it. And to my surprise, they had it in shelf at Musiikki-Kullas (the clerk congratulated for picking such an uncommon album):

Here’s a quote from allmusic.com review of the album:

One expecting the cutesy, Hello Kitty goofiness of Shonen Knife will be shocked to find that Back to the Mono Kero! is closer to Zappa catalog. In fact, the opener, “Waving Scientist,” sounds like an outtake from Joe’s Garage. These girls can sing, and with excellent range, as evidenced by nearly every track. The music is progressive, noisy, and strange, running the gamut from new wave inspired keyboard workouts, to dense, multi-part prog rock freakouts — yes, occasionally complete with Fripp-esque guitar.

Trio of Japanese punk girls playing prog rock compared to Zappa! Convincing, no?

Saw The Return of the King at last. It’s been running for three weeks and the theatre was, of course, still full.

Wow. Three+ hours just flashed by. A captivating movie, with something very good (the trickery of Gollum), some unanswered questions (how did the palantír end up in the pool?), some silly heroics (again by Legolas), something strange (Denethor eating), and something that luckily did not happen (Faramir getting almostkilled in a battle against some hero orc).

The extended edition has a lot of potential for being absolutely wonderful movie – Saruman, Aragorn doing the healing and receiving even some sort of recognition in Minas Tirith, and adding some square kilometers to Mordor (it seems that Frodo and Sam walk from Minas Morgul to Mount Doom in a couple of hours) are things I hope to see.