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31 May 2006

Kligur Videos

A dear friend named Jan-Marcus Kligge, aka ’Kligur’, who certainly is a man of many skills, has now decided to take on video production. And for you who know him, you have probably also experienced his many, very interesting, experiments in music.

So, for all of you, go check out his videos now! They are very much worth the effort and time to click here! And for you who do not understand what the “click here!” instruction means, or if you in any way are rebelling against such internet etiquette can always instead click on this here link: http://www.veoh.com/users/kligur

Marcus is married to A-K (Anna-Karin), and they have a son named Jonah. They live happily somewhere in the sunnier parts of Sweden and have, to my knowledge, a couple of cats, or at least one, and a sauna that they built some time ago.

Both of them have a very good taste in music.

If you also want to check out the band that Marcus’ plays in, you can do it by clicking here! *insert same procedure as earlier here* or if you like to, you can click on this here link: http://www.doomestica.tk

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On a Sidenote

Picture taken from www.crossrhythms.co.uk
Today I heard an interview with Brian Thomas Littrell, and for those of you who doesn’t know who in the geckosoup he is, you might know him as the Brian from The Backstreet Boys.

Well, anyway, they interviewed him on the radio about his new solo-album, which is a Christian record, or whatever one could call it, but I guess you know what I mean. A record that’s all about the Big guy, the Boss, the Savior, the Lord, Alpha and Omega.

I was quite surprised when I heard the interview, because I have on another occasion heard about this album, and my first thought was “ok, so now this guy has also found out about the money in spiritual oriented releases…”, as that is not very uncommon.

But in the interview he told all about how he is a reborn Christian, and he was quite outgoing with his faith and beliefs. So this was rather a refreshing interview to listen to.

Always great when the Kingdom of God expands, always makes me rejoice.

Even though I’m not a fan, not of Brian (his music that is…) and not of The Backstreet Boys, and I will probably never be either, but I think this is great!

Inside of me I have a rather childish longing to see all of the great metal bands out there getting saved!

Great musicians with great talent and great gifts should in my opinion not be playing for anyone else than the Lord!

If you want ti read what the man has to say, click here.

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30 May 2006

Intermission

Ok, today I had quite some inspiration writing posts and so on, but then blogspirit was down for the greater part of the day.
So now all I will do is post a cute picture of Aron. Here you go.

It seems they have made some changes in blogspirit, and now you cannot get a free account anymore. I hope I'll get to keep my blog...

Well, have a nice day/night/evening/dinner. =)

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29 May 2006

A New Blogger

Once again there is a new blogger amongst us!

This time it is my sister-in-law Ida that has entered the bloghoworldo, and I went through a lot of trouble finding a picture that would be most representable.

http://iik.blogspirit.com

Go and say hello or something. =)

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Blueprint Dives

Ah, just wanted to write a post about a cd I have in my small collection.

Extol’s Blueprint Dives is an amazing record, it is one of the few records that I own that spins in my stereo again and again and again, over and over again.

It’s one of those records that just get better every time you listen to it, that’s if you’re into the genre that is.

I’ve also seen them live twice, the first time they played all the Extol old-school stuff that was a lot more brutal, I guess I would’ve been more excited that time if I had been more into them then, but I had just heard about them. I think it was their last show with the old line-up and sound. It was almost 2 hours long if I remember right.

The second time I saw them live, they really rocked my socks off.

Well, what to say? I like it very mucho.

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28 May 2006

Sunday Afternoon

Blessed is the man who does not walk in counsel with the wicked or stand in the way of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. But his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night. He is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers.

- Psalms 1:1-3

And this Confucius dude really got a good point here, something to think about every now and then.

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26 May 2006

Walk in ArtsyVasa

We went on a stroll the other day. Me, Tanja and Aron, we went to a park in Vasa, and then we walked to the city centre. In the park we looked at some artwork and some statues, and in the city center we finished our walk with an ice-cream and a serenade of a very nice local Finnish, very drunk or maybe not, punk band.

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Working Man

Now I’ve got evidence of that I’m actually working, for all of you who ever doubted it!

The picture says it all, a hard working man with a shuffle in his hands, sweating away in the early Finnish summer.

Don’t ask what he is doing though.

He’s digging a hole in a gravel-road, obviously.

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25 May 2006

Our Home

This is where we live. Not much, but its home.

It’s ugly and scarred on the outside by the tooth of time. But it’s nice and comfy on the inside. We have two rooms and a kitchen, a sauna in the cellar and nice neighbors, although half of them are moving or have moved away now. There are only four apartments in the whole building and they are all owned by the same man, so there are not that many neighbors to try to get to know.

It’s quite fun that it has it’s own yard, as it’s almost in the middle of the city, and it’s only about 50-100 meters to my work. And there’s also a playground just next to it, so next to it that it actually melts into our yard, you can’t even tell where our yard stops and where the playground starts.

We like it here, so we may stay for a while, until it gets too small for us all.

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24 May 2006

Baby Aron

"One day I was thinking about complex issues"


"Then something caught my attention"


"It was amazing"


"The amazement was so overwhelming that I had to sleep on it"

This is the every day life for Aron at the moment, every day is so full of new impressions that he has to sleep on them every now and then.

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23 May 2006

You guys are pure gold!

I want to thank my two dear dear dear friends Jimmy and Mathias for making my blog look so spaghetti-fudging nice! Thank you! You are the best!

As you may have noticed the design of my blog has changed, and I like it aloooot. I hope you do to.

I would have thanked them for helping me out with the design, but they didn’t help me, they did it all. Really really great guys those two!

Btw, the pic of Jimmy is professionally made with all kind of copyrights and so on, so I hope Jimmy won't mind me puttin it up here. The pic is taken from http://www.elisanet.fi/jimmy.pulli/sokkles.html

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21 May 2006

Now it has happened!

Picture taken from www.iltasanomat.fi

So it finally happened, what no one would ever have believed. Finland won the Eurovision Song contest.

I myself have never been a fan of Lordi, and I can’t really say I that I am one now either. But somehow I understand the thing they have going. It’s kinda similar to what Spawn and Rob Zombie represents, the funniness of old 60’s horror-movies and the longing to be over everything else.

How funny all this may be, there is one passage in the Bible that springs to my head…

Jude 1:8 and forward

“In the very same way, these dreamers pollute their own bodies, reject authority and slander celestial beings. But even the archangel Michael, when he was disputing with the devil about the body of Moses, did not dare to bring a slanderous accusation against him, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!” Yet these men speak abusively against whatever they do not understand; and what things they do understand by instinct, like unreasoning animals- these are the very things that destroy them.”

This passage comes to me every time I hear Lordi sing “The devil is a looser and he’s my bitch…”

This thing is very though for me, as I love metal music very much. But I do love the Lord Jesus Christ much more.

One thing that is kind of alarming is, in my opinion, that a gospel band from Israel did not get more than about 4 points…
I mean, either there are no Christians in Europe or then they just don’t care.

Well, anyhow. I feel very strange about this, yesterday I was laughing and had a great time, and in some way I’m actually very glad that they won, as I don’t have much over for the Eurovision song contest. And much rather Lordi winning than any of those who seemed to have forgotten all of their clothes at home.

Ok, good for Lordi, and good for Finland, a Bwahaahahaaa to the ESC.

But I will not praise Lordi in any Lordi-boom that may sweep over Finland. Good music but the lyrics I will never agree upon.

Have a nice day!

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19 May 2006

Me jealous? Oh yes!

I have to confess that today I was a bit jealous on a person at work, or more exactly on her neighbor.

Her neighbor had taken her for a ride in car that he had won for a week in a contest. A Smart Roadster Coupé, with a card with which he could by all the gas that he just was able to consume with the car.

Just imagine, spring, all the gas you can consume for a week, and one of the smallest and lightest cars in the world into which they have crammed a V-6 engine!

Oh, man… Me also want.

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18 May 2006

Wedding Anniversary

Yesterday me and Tanja had been married for exactly three years. It must have been three great years, because time flies when you're having fun, and these three years have certainly flown past.

We celebrated by going to a local, very fancy, restaurant called Gustav Wasa. It's a very nice restaurant with a medievel feel to it. A bit too fancy for common folks like us, but we have been there before so we are used to the place by now. But still one feel a bit uncomfortable when someone is treating you like a very important person... Like a lord, or something. =P

Well, just to show off I'll list what we ate.

Me
Main dish
Grilled sirloin of beef with bearnaisesauce, asparagus and countrystyle potatoes
Dessert
Warm chocolatecake with strawberry ice cream

Tanja
Main dish
Fillets of perch Prosciutto with lemon hollandaisesauce and almondpotato purè
Dessert
Whitechocolatemoussè with XO marinated raspberries

And with it all we drank some Torre di Giano Bianco di Torgiano 2004 Cantina Giorgio

Yum! This things I sure could do more often. But it costs a fortune...

We however had coupons. ;)

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14 May 2006

Movie of the weekend

Mother of Mine, a finnish movie, by director Klaus Härö.

We watched this film on Friday night, and finally I got to see a good Finnish movie. Usually Finnish movies consist of LOTS of sex, violence and alcohol. But this one didn’t. If I would show a Finnish movie to a foreign friend of mine, this would certainly be one of the choices I would consider.

It was a great film in many ways, the screenplay, the acting, the ideas and the script. It actually almost made me cry on a few occasions, this has only happened in the past during The Lionking, the part where Simba’s father dies, and Pay it Forward, it’s the one with Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt and Haley Joel Osment.

“…a masterly portrayal of landscapes and people in their quest for love.”
- Jury of the Cairo International Film Festival

“unfolds with fierce restraint… brought to vivid life by the strong cast.”
- Sheri Linden, The Hollywood Reporter

“…an emotionally involving tale… to striking effect.”
- Gunnar Rehling, Variety

I really enjoyed this movie, highly recommended for a movie-night with your beloved one.

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13 May 2006

Wanna hold me?

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12 May 2006

A breeze of history in presence

Tanjas grandma found this book on the attic. It’s a collection of some kind of Swedish newspaper, roughly translated into “New Illustrated Paper”, paper as in newspaper that is. It’s from 1878 and covers the whole of that year.

It’s so cool, for many reasons. It tells, among other things, about this inventor dude in America called Edison that is coming up with all kind of fantastic inventions.
It tells about things that I’ve always only read about in history books when they actually happened.

Somehow I had the idea that we have romanticized old times and made them into fantasies that does not reflect how it actually was back then.
But this collection made me think again. I love just looking at the pictures in this book, and read the articles. Man, do I wish the newspapers would look like this again!

Here you can actually read about expeditions in Africa and Asia, adventurers and inventors, and it’s seems like it was everyday news! One article that really caught my attention was about an explorer in Asia that was murdered by one of his servants.

It’s like reading a roman, or a fantasy-book. It’s also written in a more of a story-telling style than what we are used to in our reporting newspapers of today.

I don’t know what to do with it when I’m finished reading it though, Maybe I’ll take it to an antique store or something.

This thing is over a 100 years old…

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09 May 2006

About the United States of America

This here is a very complicated subject for me.

What am I supposed to think about the USA? How am I supposed to relate to this country?

It’s a country I have never visited in my whole life; still it’s one of the countries I know the most about. I have grown up watching Hollywood movies and all kinds of TV-series coming from the States. I have relatives there. I read about the country and about its politics every day in the papers.

What kind of image has been given to me of this country? We have Michael Moore, McDonalds, Kentucky fried freaking chicken, Marilyn Manson, Slipknot, Slayer, Michael Douglas, Samuel L Jackson, Hardcore Catholics, George W Bush and his father, Jackass, MTV, and just about everything. Oh yes, and Dr. Phil.

Just take the wars in the middle-east that they are carrying through. They created their own enemies, Saddam, Bin-Laden, all USA-financed training and equipped. Why did they choose to wager a large-scale war when their economy was in crisis? Why are they fighting in countries that happen to have large amounts of oil-supplies? Is it for the money? Or are they just good guys?

I mean, you can say all kinds of nasty and evil things about America, but they do keep the scales in some order in the Middle East, I wouldn’t want to have Irak, Iran and all kinds of countries having major nuclear firepower. I’m afraid of these countries, why? I can’t really say, they just seem hostile… And America is not? Ehrmm…

But they took Saddam of his dictator-chair, and that’s a good thing. They are one of few countries that really stand up for Israel. They have a president that has a great walking style, have you seen that man walk? He must have practiced for years!

Is the USA a wolf in sheep clothing, are they a sheep in wolf clothing? Are they the good herdsman? Or the one who steals the sheep in the night and blame it on the next door neighbor?

One thing is for sure; in Europe it’s not popular to take America’s side, or even to say nice things about them. And don’t even think about being Bush-positive.

Well, maybe you can sort all this out for me?

Pepsi, Coca-Cola and McDonalds to all of you!

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New bloggers

There are two more people of whom I now know that be blogging the net with us...

First there is David, you can find him on skagersten.blog.com
But he will soon change blogserver to somewhere else.
And he blogs in swedish, just so you know.






And then there is Jessica at jesca.blogspirit.com.
She blogs in english.


Welcome them both, and say something nice to them. =)

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07 May 2006

Coolness overload!

There’s a band that I like very much. It’s called Tourniquet. They rock. They also have an album called “Crawl to China”.

Yesterday Aron just got the coolest shirt ever, at least it made Daddy jump of joy! It was made and given by our dear friends Emil and Akku. They decided to give Aron something cool, and so they printed the Tourniquet logo on the front of a white shirt, at first they wanted to print it white on black, but guess how easy it is to find black baby-clothing… So they printed the logo black on a white shirt instead.

Then they wanted to put something on the back of the shirt, but they didn’t know just what, until one night when Emil tried to sleep. Inspiration hit him like thunder, and he remembered that Tourniquet has a record called “Crawl to China”, and Aron is supposed to start crawling one day. Brilliant!

At home everything goes in it’s own pace, every new day seems familiar but somehow very different and always comes with new challenges. Yesterday we were attending a wedding, and it went really good, Aron didn’t seem to mind at all being out of the house for a whole day, he didn’t sleep much thou. And big congratz to Anders and Julia who got married yesterday! Huzzah!

Tomorrow I’ll start working; it will be a new challenge. To be a full time parent, with a full time job, and still try to do something with the non-existential spare time.

But all things in the hands of God. =)

Like trying to find a new used (previously owned) car.

God bless, take care, tata, see you later!

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02 May 2006

His totally right

This morning when I was attending to Aron’s morning routines; changing diaper, getting out of the pajamas into casual baby wear and so on, he got really angry when I dressed him, obviously he likes being in the nude.

I then explained to him why we have to wear clothes. I said that of course, in a country as Finland we have to have clothes, or else we would freeze to death. I also explained it all from the beginning, the fall of man in Eden, the paradise, and the leaves Adam and Eve clothed themselves with, and the clothes God gave to them as they were thrown out.

I explained to him how we people are ashamed while being naked and how it is used to degrade people and humiliate people in this world.

But then I looked at him and said “But you’re not ashamed of being naked, are you?”. He looked at me and had a look on his face that was expressing something like “Why would I be?”. We exchanged a couple of looks, and then I had to give in.

I said to him “*sigh* you’re right Aron, that’s to way it should be, and you’re absolutely right, but this society and this world will not listen to a baby, so I’m going to get you dressed anyway”. He then had the look that I can imagine kids will have a lot when they learn more and more about the fallen world we live in.

Babies are truly amazing, and so wise, in some way…

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