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Post by Nordis on May 20, 2011 9:36:56 GMT 2
Giuseppe Maiello's "Vampyrism in the Cultural History of Europe". Quite an interesting reading Sounds interesting I read some small book about vampirism in Europe a few years ago, it included lots of trial minutes and other official papers from 1400's until 1800's but I doubt it was the same book you mentioned. Have to see if I can find that in here. Latest book I finished was Itämeren merirosvot (Pirates of The Baltic sea) by Juha Ruusuvuori. It's pretty informative take on North European piracy from the vikings 'til early 19th century, concentrating mainly to renaissance because obviously that was the busiest time in that business. As an interesting fact, Baltic sea has been the largest area terrorized by pirates in the history, beating even the parts of Caribbean sea That makes sense, since all the nations from Sweden to Poland and from Russia to Denmark and German empire were fighting most of the time despite the Kalmar union and Hanseatic league, allowing their own privateers to invade other nation's ships. I also read Crowley's The Book of the law, Julius Krohn's Pakanuuden aikakausi (Age of paganism) and A bewitched life by H.P. Blavatsky, but those were mainly booklets that you can finish in one session Next I'll try to finish Suomalaisten runojen uskonto (Religion of the finnish runes) by Kaarle Krohn. It's an early 20th century in depth study about pre-christian finnish religion as well as it's merging with christianity. I'm already half way through, the best parts about evil spirits and heroes are still coming up
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Post by Nordis on May 20, 2011 8:47:05 GMT 2
Haven't I really posted anything from Blood Ceremony yet? They released something that's pretty much going to be the best album of this year (sorry 'klaani!) for me. Awesome 70's style progressive occult rock with a slight modern touch. I've described them as a mix between Black Sabbath and Jethro Tull and imo that's pretty accurate Duck yea!
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Post by Nordis on May 18, 2011 8:21:37 GMT 2
I'm with bike almost every day to my work, only bad thing is that there are not much bicycle alleys here... Here the alleys are wide and asphalted, it's just that I haven't had neither bike or a reasonable distance to my work in the past. Now the distance is a bit under 8km one way and I managed to get a dirt cheap bike (which is older than I am and doesn't have gears) so I can finally have some excersise instead of sitting in a commuter train Good: Managed to find a nice route through woods, so no more industrial warehouses for my road to work! Bad: Humm... nothing really so far, it's just 9am after all ;D
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Post by Nordis on May 17, 2011 9:05:26 GMT 2
Sucks: The hockey championship. ...if you bring it to a discussion with me I'll knock your teeth off. It's a bunch of rednecks poking a piece of rubber with a stick, get over it. And knocking someones teeth of for saying Ice hockey isn't redneckish? Sorry I just had to... Nah, I just have a bad habit of flaming something and then having to explain myself because I'm really not that extreme on anything and don't really want to make myself look like so after all I tried to reason with the whole hockey thing, but liking or hating something is usually pretty irrational thing that just can't be explained. Bad: My right shoulder hurts and I have no idea why. Actually my whole right side from plates to the top of my head doesn't feel that good, but I guess it's just the shoulder's pain effecting the nerves around it. Good: Bicycled to work for the first time in 5 years It took a bit longer and the route had more hills than I expected, but it's good to see that I'm not completely devastated even though I am in horrible shape. Let's just see how well I do in September if I keep this up!
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Post by Nordis on May 16, 2011 8:57:58 GMT 2
Sucks: The hockey championship. I guess I'll just limit my social contacts for the next 3 months, because if you bring it to a discussion with me I'll knock your teeth off. It's a bunch of rednecks poking a piece of rubber with a stick, get over it. Good: The short movie contest I wrote about on the previous page was awesome. I'm tired and my neck hurts, but our team managed to make a really nice clip that looks awesome Unfortunately we can't show it until the movies applying as winners are decided. That will be in a few weeks.
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Post by Nordis on May 13, 2011 13:51:17 GMT 2
I'm not sure if You remember me still But I am sorry for the long disappearance. I had tough time and spent it with the support of the Korpiklaani's and my other fav music. Now I am feeling bit better! Exam time started so I am going to have "more time". I think I do Welcome back! Good: Going to take part in a 48hrs short film race which starts today at 7pm and ends at the same time on sunday. In that time we're supposed to make a short film from scratch, so there isn't going to be much sleeping this weekend I also found a few awesome bands today. Bad: My company won't be hiring me as a full time employee because of some human resources policy. I think I'll just start to accept all the one-off jobs if they just pay better than this, since I'm a freelancer after all.
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Post by Nordis on May 13, 2011 8:47:54 GMT 2
Lousy Lipton yellow label tea. The morning coffee ran out before I had a chance to have a second mug of it, so I just have to go with this
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Post by Nordis on May 13, 2011 8:30:03 GMT 2
So this was a nice suprise while I turned my playlist on suffle: Damn, I thought the Blue Cheer version was the original: np. the Eddie Cochran version.
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Post by Nordis on May 12, 2011 12:46:47 GMT 2
I make another post in a row, because something in this performance reminds me A LOT of 'klaani and I tell you it's not just the bassist's boots ;D
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Post by Nordis on May 12, 2011 9:59:36 GMT 2
Angels on acid - Now you know
HOONZ HOONZ!
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Post by Nordis on May 9, 2011 13:47:21 GMT 2
I found that there's no thread about the customs in different countries - I mean what you do like a folk tradition or ritual in different events in life - birth, wedding, death, holidays... I moved the posts from the new thread here since I thought this thread here could be about celebration days in general, not just the nationwide ones Nordis / mod.
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Post by Nordis on May 5, 2011 10:15:11 GMT 2
@ Nordis: I hear you. My self/friends/family also were raised to treat dangerous things with caution--fireworks, knives, open flame, the bull in the barnyard... And part of why I know how to use a sharp knife safely today was the deep cut I gave myself fooling around with one as a child. But the last couple decades the US legal system seems to be trending away from personal responsiblity for individual actions in order to protect everyone from every conceivabe ill (and lawsuit) under every circumstance--or so it seems to me. Is this similar to what you are experiencing in Finland, or are there specific reasons the government is making these restrictions? There's always few of accidents on new year's eve, which is the only night when you're allowed to use fireworks without a special permission. But that's just a sorry excuse, I'm pretty sure they're going to ban everything from sledding to horse back riding in the future because those thing's aren't productive or profit the society in any way. Like shooting fireworks, they're done just for fun and have a risk of injuring oneself and others. The perfect citizen works from nine to five and spends his free time sitting home and watching tv, causing no problems whatsoever. Oh, and every now and then he consumes to keep the economy rolling. I'll add an extra layer to my tin foil hat, but it certainly looks they're aiming for that dystopia Some governments are too obsessive of protecting youth.But some governments looks as if they were protecting their citizens however they are trying to create robot-minded people.In Turkey,it is forbidden to drink alcohol for under 24 years old people during organizations,gigs etc.That's true.I shall not to write anymore details because it may be off-thread. Here the age limit is moderate 18 years for beer and wine, 20 years for spirits. But as the local way is, if someone does something wrong, everyone will get punished. That's why only mild beers and ciders are sold in grocery stores, while everything that has over 4,7% of alcohol is sold in government-owned liquor stores. Of course this doesn't help a single thing, if someone wants to get piss drunk daily they can do it as well with the beer they can buy from every corner shop. The liquor stores are scarce, so if you want to have a bottle of wine for your dinner you need to plan and get it in advance. And good luck trying to get one on a sunday. Actually I could start a great rant thread, since some stuff is just too heavy for a "bad thing today" -thread ----------------------------------------- Bad for today: It's cold and cloudy, our plants aren't doing too well and I think our sweet basil has already died Good: Everything's going fine at work for a while, and I got my VJ set and stuff ready for next saturday. The bad thing is that I won't know if I get a projector until tomorrow afternoon, so there's still a chance that the gig will be cancelled. But even if it was, our club is still going to be awesome infektio.wordpress.com/ (finnish only)
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Post by Nordis on May 3, 2011 22:08:35 GMT 2
A big welcome from me as well! Good to see so many new people on the forum
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Post by Nordis on Apr 30, 2011 10:57:57 GMT 2
Bad: What the hell is wrong with this country?! It's well known that our government is over protective on the people and basically everything that's not specifically allowed is forbidden. But yesterday I went to a grocery store and noticed that goddamn PARTY POPPERS are forbidden from people under 18 years! Plain toys that say "pop" and shoot confette, there isn't even the slightest chance that you could possibly harm yourself or anybody else with those. The same goes for sparklers and basically everything, kids can't even hold a lighter or matches legally nowadays. Fifteen years ago I could go and buy almost any fireworks alone, even those that would break bones if they exploded in your hand. They got completely banned some years ago, and now there's a yearly discussion if all fireworks should be banned from the public. No-one I ever knew had any accident, but instead we learned to treat dangerous stuff with caution and respect. Where the hell is this world going to? Meanwhile on the other edge of this continent: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwYrPhLBvz8
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Post by Nordis on Apr 30, 2011 10:26:03 GMT 2
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