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Mikko R.

mikkoroisko

About Me

26 years old. Living in Tikkurila, Finland. Spend my free time making music, snowboarding, skateboarding, reading books, watching amusing tv-shows and just hanging about and getting drunk with my mates. Been into music all my life. I play guitar, bass, keyboards, banjo, melodica, harmonica, glockenspiel, percussions and bunch of other stuff I can get my hands on. I'm not saying I play all these instruments well, I just enjoy fooling around with all kinds of devices that create sounds. Stuff I make is usually quite melancholy & mellow, though I sometimes try to create more uplifting nuggets (mostly with poor results I might add). Currently I'm writing & producing songs for the forthcoming Northbound album...I also play guitar in a reggae band that doesn't have an official name yet, but we usually refer to it as "Lähimuisti Soundsystem" or "Skulle-I Sound"..go figure. Some other semi-interesting side projects are also in the works, but more on those later...
Sites to visit:
northbound
northbound myspace
monotonik

My Interests

Music, playing all kinds of instruments, making weird noises, snowboarding, skateboarding, cinema, literature, girls, nature, travelling, eating food, talking, listening, photography, philosophy, history, present day, future...pretty much everything.

I'd like to meet:

Herman Hesse. Nikola Tesla. Natalie Portman. Ennio Morricone. The ferryman from "Siddhartha". The Knights who until recently said "NI".

Music:

like scruff said: anything with soul. go see my list at the Northbound page...it's long.

Movies:

Donnie Darko. Dollars-trilogy. Pulp Fiction. The Great Escape. Papillon. One Flew Over Cuckoos Nest. I Love Huckabees. Dead Poets Society. Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back. Clerks 1 & 2. Monty Python films. Hayao Miyazaki's films. Tim Burton's films. Michael Winterbottom's films. Lock, Stock & 2 Smoking Barrels. Football Factory. Ondskan. Star Wars. Moulin Rouge. Goodbye Lenin. The Unknown Soldier. It's All Gone Pete Tong...for starters.

Television:

None until I decide to jump on the digi-wagon and buy one of those digi-thingys.

Books:

Herman Hesse: Siddhartha, Narcissus and Goldmund, Steppenwolf.
Mika Waltari : The Egyptian
Douglas Adams : Hitch-hikers Guide to the Galaxy
Venedikt Erofejev : Moscow - Petushki
Oscar Wilde : The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Jack Kerouac : On The Road
Erik Wahlström : Jumala

Heroes:

My Grandmother

My Blog

The art of missing out on gigs

This month i've mostly been not going to live shows. First I succesfully avoided seeing Joanna Newsom, a brilliant move considering that she is hands down one of the most intriquing artists ...
Posted by Mikko R. on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 01:14:00 PST

Mandatory babbling about the current state of hip hop music

There's just no escaping it, is there? Everyone who writes a blog seems to be obliged to address this issue sooner or later...so I might as well get it over with. There are as many view...
Posted by Mikko R. on Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:19:00 PST

ilosaari

Got back last night and I think I may be dying. 3 days of drinking and practically no sleep did the trick...again. Anyways, here are some of the shows I witnessed: CunninLynguists - Propa, what a...
Posted by Mikko R. on Tue, 17 Jul 2007 12:33:00 PST