Hartwall Arena, here I come...in November

I got my Taste Of Chaos ticket. About time. Plus I got a keyboard that's been lying around my dad's flat for ages. But I really have to get lessons on the bass thingy, I'm too lazy and/or afraid of humiliation to learn that by myself. Should be no problemo with the keyboard since I know a little bit about reading music and it has a handy little screen that shows what note you're playing. Well yay for me.
       There's like tonnes of little things I have to do. Like save money for the Papa Roach show, dye my hair (which costs money, u'know), write something to show in my creative writing class, start my wondrous composing career by doing some semi-lame techno song, become a wiz kid in maths and physics overnight... especially maths, I suck at that. Oh, well, I should start right about now.

I'm gonna be a (bass) guitar hero...for real!!!

We have a music class in school that is way  more inspiring than the ones I've suffered through in the past, so because we have such a good group but not many people that play an instrument I decided to make my life-long dream come true and start playing something. And the basics of bass playing are (supposedly) easier than other instruments. And I just love  the sound. Plus we have a 5-string at home so I can have extra practice. Yes, I wanna play a 5-string, if only because with a quick glance I didn't see a 4-string anywhere in the classroom. But who cares?
       Ooooohhhh! I forgot to mention that we are playing some Disney songs. Well, at least that's the plan. They sound pretty retarded but it could be worse. The other girls have so much enthusiasm some of it infects me as well. Now if someone would lend me some money for a taste of chaos ticket... :D

Ta-ta for now!

I lied, I have time to update after all

 Listening to: Mayday Parade - Three Cheers For Five Years (acoustic)


Okay, it's been a while. I just started my way through high school and so far I'm loving it. The classes I have now are very  interesting, the school buildings are old and gorgeous and the people are just a blast to hang out with. And I didn't get lost once! The only downside I can think of is that school starts at 8 AM so I have to leave home by 7.15. Going by bike would be way more fun if it wasn't so hot all the time. Thank you Earth for the global warming.

Anyhoo, Puistotapahtuma is tomorrow, so I'm going to Helsinki with Okki. Good luck with that! In November there is going to be another trip to the Capital for me, Taste Of Chaos starring Disturbed, Papa Roach, Buckcherry and Halestorm. Seriously, I've been waiting for Papa Roach to come to Finland for years so I'm just not gonna miss it!

Enough talking, I have things to do, places to be etc so until next time.

Jupiter is known for crazy potato chips and dangerous jungles

Listening to: Sugarcult - Memory (acoustic)
   
    I got in. I've done all my gloating already, so I don't have to do it again here. Okki went off to Protu yesterday. And my headphones broke. I have some guaranty left, but I can't find the receipt anywhere. Figures. Well, I have my back-up headphones, but there's a reason to the back-up part of the name. But I'll survive until I either find the receipt or get new headphones.

    I stole the idea of "listening to" from Shawn Milke, singer/guitarist of the band  Alesana. I just read a series of blogs he wrote last winter for Revolver Magazine.
He had all kinds of countdowns of the best films, foods, movies etc, most embarrassing moments on stage and so on. He also wrote a story to their official site where he changed some things:

"1. Paul Minske:  noun. Me (played by Josh Hartnett)
2. Machete:  noun. Guitar
3. The jungle: noun. The stage
4. The Oneders: noun. Alesana
5. Jupiter: noun. Michigan
6. Potato chips: noun. Crowd of people"

True story of when he did a guitar (Machete) swing and hit himself on the face. He comleted the show despite the mass of blood, of course. Then he cleaned his face with baby wipes and closed the wound with super-glue. Idiot. Thought he did remind everyone not to try it on themselves.

"OK, I know, this story is ridiculous, but I’m trying to make a point. Life is full of challenges, both big and small; waking up in the morning after getting no sleep, running a marathon with a stomach cramp, getting the last bit of toothpaste out of the tube, driving in the snow, changing the channel when American Idol is on, finishing the calzone at Pagliacci Pizza in Seattle. The world of art, whether it be music or writing, drawing or filmmaking, is no different. Writer’s block is awful. But does that mean it has to win every time? The trick is finding another way into the building, so to speak. If the front door is locked, try the back door. If the back door is bolted shut, find a window. The only time we lose is when we give up."

   Yes, the whole thing was about writer's block. But I have to give it to him, talking about the crowd as "potato chips" and still making the story interesting instead of retarded. So, inspired by him, I'll make my own countdown of my 5 favorite bands in the world at the moment:

5. Papa Roach
4. The Used
3. Paramore
2. Asking Alexandria
1. Alesana

   Alesana has been on the top for a long time, and that is the only part of my countdown that doesn't change every week or so.

  Oh, yeah. I have a Twitter now. My username is HelmiMeriTuuli.
The www for "THE ADVENTURES OF PAUL MINSKE STARRING ME NOT ME" here: http://www.alesanaofficial.com/news/7851

Panic!

In just 3 short days I'll find out if I get to TYK or if I have to go Clasu. I don't know what I'm gonna do if I don't get in. I mean I've wanted to study there from the day I was told more of it than just a name. When I was a kid, everyone I knew said it was a snob school and yeah, maybe it is a bit, but people talked about it in a bitter, jealous tone. I have quite a lot of friends either already there or trying to get in like I am, so if  I can't get in it will be so much harder than if  I had no friends there. I'll get to hear all about their cool projects and stuff without being there with them. Clasu has some interesting courses not available in TYK and I wish they had an English drama project like Steiner but nothing is perfect.
Maybe I'll wait for the results and THEN start bitching if I don't get in and gloating if I do.

I'M BAAAAAACCCKKK!!!

BREMEN WAS FUN!!! Except that it rained SO much yesterday...and I had to get up at 3.30 AM today...I bought a pocket watch, a silver/amethyst ring, sunglasses, a t-shirt, birthday gifts to various people and A FUCKING ALESANA EP!!!!!!! I just totally lost it when I saw it in the record store! So of course I had to buy it.

So, an Alesana quote from the song Early mourning:

"Why not one more night,

one last kiss goodbye

my sweet love tonight.

I hope the stars

still spell out your name

where you are ."

 I am currently listening to the new version of  Asking Alexandria's song "Not The American Average". A new love for me♥. And I think  after hearing one song that Enter Shikari is also worth listening to. A mix of electronica and hardcore = nintendocore! I just so cracked up after hearing about that genre.

Anuway, I had a fun trip and I'm exhausted. I'll post again when I feel like it...

Yikes!

Off to Bremen tomorrow. Have to be at the Ryanair terminal at 8 am, dunno when we take off though.....Anyway, I'll be back on Monday and back to school on Tuesday. Last week of school, yay! Today was our last eurythmics class...so of course I skipped it.

I've forgotten to have a "quote of the entry", so maybe just a "quote when I feel like it". So, for today:

"So pray then, if it makes you feel safe.
But all I can say is we go our own way.
We go our own way.
So save us."

The Used - On The Cross

Love that song......And I'm still annoyed about their show @ Kaapelitehdas being cancelled... :C

Anyway, I have a lot to do today if I want to be ready for tomorrow, so I'll close this for now.

sry about the delay....

It's been a month since my last update *guilts*, but yay I've got 2 readers now! Thanks Nata & Miisa. Maybe I'll bother to update more often now....Anyway, the play's all done with, I'm going to Germany Friday morning and only 2 weeks of school left. No German or eurythmics lessons ever again!!!

I've got almost nothing to do this summer! Only my little brother's Prometheus party and living in Saunasaari for a week with Olli, Konsta, Roope, Heli and possibly others... Oh, and my aunt mentioned that I could spend some time in Vuokatti...which would be a good chance to meet my cousins if they visit too. I haven't seen them since my grandad's funeral 3 years ago and that time we didn't get a chance to speak, so the only contact with them for the last 5 or so years has been through facebook...

Ooooohhh, I've got new hair!! Red and black again. Deeper red than before, though. But besides the hair I dyed our bathroom and some clothes. Accident, I swear! But the new, pale green top that I made is now ruined *laments*

But now I've got nothing to say, so I'll just close it for now...

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

Well, I had the world's most annoying headache last night which probably has something to do with a bus smelling like the dentist's office. I hate that smell, it's so dry and clean. Everything has to be a little messy in my opinion. Not enough to be disgusting or revolting, just enough to see that the place has life in it once in a while. Of course, my room is always near a pig sty level, but no can do.

Anyway, our last practice was okay, so I can just hope the premiere isn't a disaster... And I have a book presentation tomorrow. Well, it's actually a play I'll be telling about (Minna Canth: Anna Liisa) , but no matter. And because I've discovered new aspects to it while doing the presentation, I have to do some parts of my separate essay again if I want to raise my grade for the end-of-year report. Plus I failed my German test. Yeah, I was absent from the class we were told the subject, but I had time to find out. As you can guess, I didn't. So I have to take it again.

Yay, 10 hours of history/week for a month! I've been waiting for this. Except the real teacher is on paternity leave, so we have a substitute. She's okay, but I've been hearing about how good the real teacher is for years and now he's gone when we have the course. And I won't be there next year........unless my applications to 4 other secondary schools fail. Which is almost impossible. I've also decided to get a nine (on a scale 4-10) from P.E., which is gonna be tricky. Body Pump tomorrow first thing. I hope I don't completely fail that one.

Well, it's kinda stupid to write in here since no-one's reading this, but mayde I could remedy that with a few Facebook ads...  :D

BLERGH!!

Stress just isn't fun. At all. Today is the last rehearsal of our amateurish Hamlet play and the premiere is on Wednesday, so I'm near hyperventilation at this point... I'm just glad it's finally spring and most of the snow is gone. But now it's wet.
          
"The river's running fast right now
It's the time of year the water cleanses itself
Running wild, but always in control
And now's the time to sever the ties
To habits that we can't discuss by trying to sell"
(Silverstein - Love with Caution)

Quote of the day sounds better, but I'm not gonna write in this daily, so quote of the entry will have to do...

I went to see a blog I heard about in some magazine. Written by a 12(?) year-old fashion guru, Tavi. I just stared, Seriously, she wrote something like "Boohoo, why does everyone like Tim Burton? I want to like him, but I can't because other people do! It's the same thing with The Beatles, I thought it was very indie, but it's not! I was supposed to be original and indie and different!" She's fucking 12! Yeah, it's good to be interested in something, but this? And I know she's the inspiration of some clothing line (based on what I saw of some shirts, I'd never wear them) but world-wide fame at that age because of a fashion blog? And high-fashion clothes aren't cheap (daddy pays, anyone?) so sooner or later someone's wallet gets anorexia. Or Tavi if she doesn't watch it.

Now that I've got my rant out of the way, I suppose I'll close this up 'till the next time I have something to write here....

Let's see how long I'll keep this up...

Yeah, so I'm really crap at keeping things up. Doesn't matter if it's plants that need watering, diary that you'll have to keep writing if you want it to be useful, a long, independent project with no-one to kick your arse a little if you quit, anything at all, it just fails after a little while.So I'm kinda hoping this would be the exception that makes the rule...
Anyway, I'm a 16 year-old girl from Finland (you know, that little Nordic country between Sweden and Russia) who needs a place to ramble insanely without getting shipped to the nearest nuthouse.