"Ukkoni tulinen turkki,

Ämmöni palava paita 

Tuonelasta tuotakoon, 

Päälleni puettakoon"

Fiery fur of my fathers,

 Red wrap of my mothers

Fetched from netherworld,

 Arrayed around me

"Stop living in the past"

If I'm listening to Otis Redding perform Shake in London on the 16th of September, 1966, it's not because I want to live in the past, it's because the music is always alive, and it makes me feel that way. Not all music is like that.

Did I correctly state the bleeding obvious?

"The fox urinated in the sea: the entire sea is my urine."
- Sumerian proverb

"Siinä on lissää, sano itikka kun mereen pissi."
(There's more, said the mosquito, as it peed into the sea.)
- Finnish
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"Ei meijjän kanat rupia siun tähen persettään repimään,
sano Paakkalan mies Viipurin torilla, kun rouva moitti munia pieniiks."
(My hens are not going to tear their ass because of you,
said Paakkala at the Vyborg market, when a lady said
that his eggs were too small.)

Don't try to finish my sentence you fucking

Actually, could you just give me suggestions, and I'll click from there.

Have you noticed how the internet gives everyone a great handwriting?

My irony surpasses all others

I, the first consciousness of chaos

arose from the abyss

to harden matter, to set forms

Odilon Redon

Ride of the Bollocks - Richard Wagner with Brian Blessed

siansaksa
pig's German:
gibberish

juosta pää kolmantena jalkana
to run with your head as your third leg:
to rush, race

oma lehmä ojassa
your own cow in the ditch:
having a personal interest or investment in a matter

saippuakauppias
soap salesman (palindrome)

sammallammas
moss sheep

tulen, I come / fire's something
tullen, when something comes 
tuullen, when wind blows
tulleen, (noticing or announcing) that something has come
tuulleen, that wind has blown
tuleen, into fire
tuuleen, into wind
tuulen, wind's something

Pieces of Finnish folk poetry

 
Genitalia

"Play loud"

"Play loud"

It used to mean something. It used to make sense.

THERE'S A REASON WHY IT WORKED.

WOULD YOU LIKE ME TO CONTINUE LIKE THIS!?

HAVE YOU HAD ENOUGH YET!!!!??????

Only you can become emptier than the abyss you're looking into

Max approaching things with an axe in Herostratus, the 1967 film by Don Levy

Max is a poet who has become aggressive. He decides to commit a suicide. The idea actually starts to seem like a rapturous opportunity.

He tries to persuade an advertising agency to publicize his jump from a building.

A series of unstable and explosive situations follows.

The film is an experimental examination of ego. "A tragedy of ego", says Don Levy in a 1973 interview. No opening or closing credits, simply performances.

"Herostratos, Ephesian arsonist who burned down the Temple of Artemis in 356 BC, on the night Alexander the Great was born, in order to be immortalized in infamy. The Ephesians decided not to mention his name ever again. The name did survive in the works of the historian Theopompus."
Antiikin käsikirja, Handbook of Antiquity, Paavo Castrén and Leena Pietilä-Castrén

"Until now, Don Levy's 1967 Herostratus has existed only in a handful of 35mm prints, long ago faded to monochromatic magenta."
Herostratus BFI DVD booklet, 2009

http://filmstore.bfi.org.uk/acatalog/info_20902.html


No matter how great the abyss, there is always a brink.

Herostratus.

A man from out of space
Said, 'I'm from a superior race.
You're all inferior
While I am superior.'
Then he tripped and fell flat on his face.

- Spike Milligan, 101 Limericks

Nobody criticises E.P. for being literary, which to me is the foundation of his feebleness, thinking that poetry is made out of poetry & not out of being alive.

- Philip Larkin on Ezra Pound

I wished to suggest by means of a simple nude, a certain long-lost barbaric luxury.

- Paul Gauguin

Perhaps it will soon dawn on the most alert of the teen-activists that moving only among the poetry of one's own generation, one's own ideology, one's own brand of modernism, one's own country and continent, is the worst kind of philistinism. The authentic poetry of the people has more to tell about Africa, Latin America, south-east Asia than any slogan or programme which western and eastern propaganda organisations echo from the developing countries back to Europe.

- Matti Kuusi, World Poetry 1974

Finnish music picks, folk and classical

Songs that move me a great deal.

Martti Pokela
-- Riekko hangella (Willow Grouse on a Snowdrift)
From Keskiyön auringon lauluja (Songs of the Midnight Sun) SFLP 8500, 1969. Based on Lapponian melodies.
-- Muut ne kuuli kirkonkellot (Others Heard the Church Bells)
-- Itkevä tyttö (Weeping Girl)
-- Talapakan Nikolai
From Kantele of Finland, SLP 531, 1965. Traditional Finnish.

Martti Pokela, Matti Kontio, Eeva-Leena Sariola
-- Kalevalainen sävelmä (Kalevala Melody)
-- Seitakivi (Seita Stone)
-- Unna ulla nunnu
From Kantele, FACD 018, 1990. Finnish and Lapponian.

Martti Pokela ja Eeva-Leena Sariola
-- Vanha pelimanni (Old Musician)
From Kanteleet, LJLP 1027, 1983.
-- Piru kellotapulissa (Devil in the Belfry)

Teppo Repo
-- Omasta päästä, "kävelykeppi" (Improvisation, "walking stick" flute)
-- Paimensäveliä, truba (Shepherd's Tunes, truba trumpet)
From Paimensoittaja Teppo Repo (Herdsman's Music from Ingria), KICD 7, 1994

Konsta Jylhä
-- Vaiennut viulu (Silent Violin)
1970

Jean Sibelius
-- Andante festivo (at a festive walking pace)
1938
-- Tuonelan joutsen (The Swan of Tuonela [underworld])
1900

I was afraid of this as a child

This is an animation telling children not to walk on thin ice.

It seemed very eerie.

Later I've realized that it was my first profound experience with music.

Mauri Antero tickles people in the wrong place

The second album of M. A. Numminen, "Taisteluni" (My Battle, 1970) includes a lively and bluesy song called "Laki epäsiveellisten julkaisujen levittämisen ehkäisemisestä" (The Statute of Preventing the Distribution of Obscene Publications). What the singer Rauli Badding Somerjoki sings is a quotation of a genuine law.

That song got banned from the Finnish radio.

That's something in a nutshell, isn't it?

This is one of my favourite stories of all time, and Taisteluni (Available together with In Memoriam LP) is one of the best seminal Finnish avant-garde records along with "Vallankumouksen analyysi" (Analysis of Revolution, 1970, available on the "Arktinen hysteria" compilation) by Jouni Kesti & Seppo I. Laine, and "Shh!" LP by The Sperm.

You can find some information in English at http://www.phinnweb.org/early/ and
http://www.phinnweb.org/early/early_discog.html.

Other sources for texts Numminen turned into songs included a sexual reference book (for the song "Nuoren aviomiehen on syytä muistaa", A Young Husband Should Bear in Mind), horse cleaning instructions from Finnish army and The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He is better known for his own lyrics. This is one of them.

Panic is the brother of ecstasy

That panic
that panic in your eyes
it tells so much
tells about that soul of yours

It is the same
the same that I have
starting a long course
in search of doors

Because panic
is the brother of ecstasy
you will learn to see that
but not right away

And that agony
you have chased for so long
it is yours
your subconscious offering

And the agony
will be your company
you'll learn to accept it
or you'll die right away

Because panic
is the brother of ecstasy
you will learn to see that
but not right away

Paniikki on ekstaasin veli from Mana Mana: Totuus palaa (Truth is burning) LP 1990

Ditty

Variksenmarja: Anarkiaa autiomaass

Thanks for listening to the single, there will be a Variksenmarja EP or album with this song on it.

variksenmarja = black crowberry

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