pictures of last weeks trip to copenhagen. uploading to flickr is ongoing!

oh yeah im back from ten days in ireland. a fantastic time was had. picture uploading is ongoing here on flickr.

almost finished the month, some pictures from berlin and copenhagen online - many many more to come soon to both those sets and to the irish set too. back in helsinki on tuesday.

i saw a duck do a moonwalk, well moon”swim” - it was a very impressive thing.

waiting to leave ireland. some photos online (more to come when i get back home to helsinki in a few weeks). but for now, [2007.07 ireland: flickr set].

next stop - copenhagen.

36 hours till i head off on summer holidays. a super long 4,5 weeks away this time. a mixture of hyper anticipation and feeling a bit down too - not being in helsinki in july is almost a crime. hopefully august will also be kind to me.

songs of the momemnt:
the national: “about today”
snow patrol + martha wainwright: “set the fire to the third bar“

still uploading pictures from copenhagen. so far some pics of friday night at cphdistortion. to come: random pics of soccer stuff and ørestad. (update: all there now)

outside gate a27 in kastrup, copenhagen this morning. i was heard to audibly gasp a few moments before i took this when i walked into this section for the first time. nothing overly spectacular, just wasnt expected.

in 2000 i inter-railed. i met an austrian girl in stockholms main train station as i was finishing up my few weeks. i told her about sigur rós and we swapped email addresses. a while later when sigur rós played in vienna the concert was recorded by austrian radio and broadcast. she taped it off the radio and sent the tape to me. as an introduction to the concert there was a simple piece of music played over the pa system. it was “für alina” by the estonian composer arvo pärt.

at one stage in this piece there was a noise by an audience member - i listened to it many many times trying to see if it was what i thought it was - a baby crying. so here i am now almost seven years later listening to the same song (this time a proper version) and i miss that little baby, keep expecting it to interrupt the delicate silence between the notes of the piano.

flying home yesterday from copenhagen. more pictures here.

im heading to ireland for a woooooosh quick visit tomorrow. dublin for a day, carlow for a day, limerick for a day, dublin for 30hours then stumble back on a plane and come back to helsinki. woo!