setting fire to things seems to be pretty popular so far this year here in finland – makasiinit went up a few weeks ago and there was a few more over the following week or so – then some time early today the church in porvoo went on fire. (the cause of the porvoo fire is unknown at the moment – idle speculation on my behalf as to its cause.)(update: yeah arson – someone has been detained.)

one thing i noticed at the lordi celebrations the other night here in helsinki was the presence of a pelastuslaitos (rescue department) film crew – at one stage of the evening two fellas decided to try to swim across a narrow (10metre) channel just beside kauppatori – they spent a few minutes getting out of their clothes and a few people on both sides of the channel started to cheer them on – they took so long prepare for it that by the time one of them jumped into the water there was already two official boats in the channel (one a police boat, the other a coast guard (i think) boat). the film crew ran over and filmed what was going on – then a few minutes later (pictured) reviewed what film they got. i wonder how much of this was a follow on from stuff they learnt from the makasiinit incident a little while back.

i’ve been trying to write an ad for some työtila for the last two weeks. everytime i start the email i go blank.

moleskine diary, a muji pencil and a blue table

iittala glass and a blue table

oh man the eurovision is over. but silvia night (silvía nótt) makes me laugh so much (and makes greece go “boo”!). here are some youtube vidoes of here in action:

silvia night in mtv japan. first thing she says “dont mention björk – cos shes a retard – i feel really bad for her cos everyone is making fun of her” and then .. “i am (in japan) shopping for a kid – there are some really cute japanese kids here. for my boyfriend romario – his wife – she really wants a kid – so im buying it for her”

silvia night tokyo. a fantastic japanese / icelandic mashup of silvia night on the streets of tokyo.

silvia goes nuts after the eurovision. so fantastic – ranting at the reporters. check it out!

mastercard commercial in japan