About home and other stuff too

Heyo!

Last week I had holidays all week. I finally got to travel to Helsinki (with a trip through Tampere and Turku first) to meet my buddies. It had been two months since I last stayed there. I had planned to visit Helsinki more often, but an excuse and so on.
So I spent all week with my friends and I liked it very much :). I also shared some quality time with my one and only electric guitar and watched awesome flick called "Drive". It used a lot of techniques I'd like to use if I'd ever make a movie. Like telling a story without much dialogue.

After that truly enjoyable week, as I returned to Virrat, it actually felt more like homecoming than my trip to Helsinki, to the city where I have lived for almost twenty years, almost my whole life. Weird.
Perhaps Virrat has grown to me more than I realize. And I've always adapted to new fast.

Still I asked myself; what is home?
My pal suggested a more subjective answer: home is wherever one feels it is. True, but a bit obvious too.
I myself thought that home is a place where a human being "becomes" herself.
This leads to conclusion that in Virrat I have already become something and I continue to transform. And that sounds about right.
Like U2 puts it in a song of theirs:
"House doesn't make a home".

Random notes:

* We have to make a 40 minute presentation about composition of the movie "Fisher King" by Terry Gilliam. Not too bad, but I would have rather watched "Raging Bull".
* Also in the making is a 10 page essay about alternative screenwriting.
* And a list of scenes of our first screenplay of which we have already made a synopsis.
* And our group has a growing interest of start working with our own off-school projects.
* So yeah, a lot of stuff goin' on, and a lot more I can't write about now.
* I dyed my hair last week, for the first time in my life. Now it's once again this weird reddish colour.
* I cut my own hair. It shows.
* I also took two new piercings to my ears. I like 'em very much.
* At last I have a working television in the house. Not that I have watched it.
(I had a two month break from television before I traveled to Helsinki. When at home I opened it up to watch something while eating. I closed it after 15 minutes and noted to myself: "still nothing")
* I attended to a Halloween-party last night. Good times, conquering the dance floor dressed as a Nazi officer.
* Weather's cold 'n wet here... :(

That's it for now.

J

I have listened a lot The National for a while now. Perhaps it's a phase. A kind of phase were you listen to music about (as pastemagazine.com puts it) "the search of love, continually increasing paranoia, fractured relationships, the deterioration of youthful innocence and a generally bittersweet world", all the while being happy yourself.
Or I'm just a melancholic person.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KehwyWmXr3U

About my new home and other stuff too

Hello there!

It's been about two weeks since my last entry. During that time I started writing five different texts for my next blog, and finished none. One in particular I wrote about five hours, and rewrote it three times, and I still have lots of work to do on that one... That's what you get for being a philosophy-writing perfectionist. But yeah, I try to write more often.

Anyway... Today I'm writing about my new home/apartment here in Virrat (and about other stuff too).
Like most other students, I live in student dormitory that's right next to the school itself. When I say "right next to", I truly mean it: My school trip takes now approximately fifteen seconds. During high school it took over 40 minutes, so I'm glad.
My apartment is quite decent place to live. Rent is low, it takes only around 30% of my student allowance (if it would only arrive to my bank account...!), with electricity, water, heat and internet connection included in it. Thus I most likely have little more than some surplus every month. Not sure yet, as I'm intent on visiting my friends and family in Helsinki and Tampere sometimes, and travelling is unfortunately expensive. But I keep close track of my economy and all my expenses, so I'll know soon enough.
I share my apartment with another student, who's a nice guy, thankfully. I was a bit worried of moving in with some unknown fellow, but in the end, there was nothing to worry about :)

My moomin cards :). Cute chaos on my wall. 

About other stuff. I'm currently sick, again... Well, at least I have plenty of time to do my chores and homework. Just played "Supermassive Black Hole" a few times with my guitar, and it worked quite well. I'm likely to spend a lot more time today with my lovely guitars.
School is awesome. Screenwriting classes are full of fun and insights. We'll begin making our silent films soon, and our group has already a basic script to work with. It will be good. Can't wait until we get to film it!
Sense of community within our class is rising! That's so great!
I watched "First Blood" yesterday, which was even better than I remembered. I''ll watch another flick today. Options are "Requiem for a Dream", "Magnolia" or "Pi". Or then I just play Dragon Age and Devil May Cry 3.
Also I tried to re-read my childhood favorite "Dark Elf" -trilogy, but it was so bad compared to Martin's books, so I couldn't. So now I'm reading "A Short History of Nearly Everything", again. Life's just too fascinating.

I also received a post card from my ex-girlfriend today. The trick is, when she sent it to me, she was my current girlfriend, but the post card took six months to arrive and we managed to break up during that time. It's sorrowful to receive words of attachment that were true when they were written, but when I finally read them, they were nothing but false. But that's life, I guess. Lovers come and lovers go.

See you soon

J.

Sometimes bands end awesome albums with short and minimal songs.
Here's the last song of "Strangeways, Here We Come". Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWGrN5c91BA