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forssto

Funk not only moves, it can re-move, dig?

About Me

Aaayyyy!

Über-geek musician ( Viola , Echo Is Your Love and The Duplo ), indie-label co-head-honcho ( If Society ), record collector and rock-trivia buff (how sad is that?!) from Helsinki, Finland. Not into using narcotics apart from a semi-excessive caffeine intake, but heavily into shaking my ass in an embarrasing manner when the beat is just right (Give me some Happy Mondays or The Rapture, and I'll be going fukkin' mental, hanging from the rafters going "WOOO!" and acting like an idiot in a heartbeat!).

Check out some stuff released by If Society at last.fm :
...or check ME out on Last.fm!

Dear Tooth-fairy,
Please-oh-please make this humble wish of mine come true and I promise to be good for the rest of my days to come: remove that stupid feature from MySpace that let's people embed songs into their profiles! I'm fully capable of choosing for myself when and what to I want to listen to and I really do dislike being bothered by random song beginnings when I browse through my friends' profiles.

(Or at least make the feature of disabling music autoplay on MySpace work properly)

My Interests

JAM!
JAM!
JAM!
JAM!
JAM!

I'd like to meet:

♥Helen Baxendale♥ (Rachel of Cold Feet)

Please do not just randomly add me as a friend as I'm not into building a 1000 friend list of people I have no clue about. If you want to be cool and hip by being my friend, either know me in the real world or send me a message first. My momma didn't raise no fool.

Music:

Heart
Soul
Booty

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COWBELL

I like both: country AND western.

Gang of Four, Van Morrison, Mana Mana, Suicide, Belle and Sebastian, Happy Mondays, Mew, Lou Reed, Yann Tiersen, Velvet Underground, AC/DC, 22 Pistepirkko, Grant Lee Buffalo, Sonic Youth, Joy Division, The Vaselines, Eels, The Smiths, Dinosaur Jr., !!!, Kaseva, Germs, Miles Davis, Kraftwerk, PMMP, Leonard Cohen, The Rapture, Valse Triste, David Bowie, Catharsis, Black Flag, Nirvana, Sea Scouts, Love of Diagrams, Ninetynine, Björk, Shadowplay, Serge Gainsbourg, Teenage Fanclub, Beatles, X, New Order, Beastie Boys, John Coltrane, Nick Drake, Minutemen, Big Black, Rapeman, U2, Shellac, Tom Waits, Type O Negative, M.A. Numminen, Scott Walker, Leevi and the Leavings, Air, Adam and the Ants, Last Poets, Lama, Bruce Springsteen, Kauko Röyhkä, Interpol, Iron Maiden, Godflesh, Giant Robot, Fredi, Explosions in the Sky, Eppu Normaali, Butthole Surfers, Blonde Redhead, Motown, Stax, Philly International, Anticon, Dischord, Touch & Go, Bad Vugum, Verdura, Madchester, Post-punk, indie, indie, indie, 80's underground, Noise, Synth pop, Post-rock, P-Funk, Disco, Soul, Funk, Jazz, Old-skool hip hop, New wave, No wave...

Movies:

The Graduate, Napoleon Dynamite, High Fidelity, Star Wars: A New Hope, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi, Blood In Blood Out, 24 Hour Party People, Rocky Horror Picture Show, New Jack City, Boys n' the Hood, This is Spinal Tap, Big Fish, Lolita, Rambo - First Blood, Rocky 1, Rocky 2, Repo Man, Dodgeball, Stanley Kubrick, The Royal Tenenbaums, Tim Burton, Michael Moore, Quentin Tarantino, Spede Pasanen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 80's action, 80's comedy, sad bastard movies, crappy dramas, old finnish movies, ghetto movies

Television:

Muppet Show, Simpsons, Cold Feet, Friends, documentaries, nature films

Books:

Get in the Van, American Hardcore, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Psychotic Reactions and Carburretor Dung (Lester Bangs), music biographies and history, J.R.R. Tolkien, Charles Bukowski, Astrid Lindgren, Henry Rollins, Henry Miller. Currently reading the "Freaky Dancin'"-autobiography by Bez of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape.

Heroes:

Ian MacKaye, Keränen-Keränen-Haverinen, Mike Patton, Morrissey, Steve Albini, Gösta Sundqvist, Spede Pasanen. + the obvious drug-crazed lunatics like Syd Barrett, Jouni Mömmö, Darby Crash and such.

My Blog

Records of the year 2006

1. Rättö ja Lehtisalo - Ed Benttonin briljantti stabilismi2. Rättö ja Lehtisalo - Ed Benttonin briljantti stabilismi3. Rättö ja Lehtisalo - Ed Benttonin briljantti stabilismi--4. Rättö ja Lehtisalo - ...
Posted by forssto on Tue, 14 Feb 2006 11:32:00 PST

Records of the year 2005

This is what rocked my world this year, out of the records released of course: 1. 13 & God - '13 & God' 2. Mew - 'Mew and the Glass Handed Kites' 3. Kauko Röyhkä - 'Elämä ja kuolema' -- 4. ...
Posted by forssto on Mon, 16 Jan 2006 01:19:00 PST

It's so easy to burn at night

Yet another journal entry regarding sweet re-encounters with former love-affairs. This may be a tad useless reading for all you anglophiles out there as it concernes a finnish music record sung in fi...
Posted by forssto on Sun, 14 Aug 2005 04:32:00 PST

I would go out tonight...

I'm sick. Not in the sense that I'd usually call myself sick, but I'm actually downed by a cold. It's been super-weird not doing anything (well, almost anything that is...) useful for the duration of...
Posted by forssto on Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:24:00 PST

Together we're heavy

G'damn. I feel like this Polyphonic Spree record I'm listening to. I wonder what'll be the thing that brings me down again?
Posted by forssto on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Jurassic Fart

So, how will you guys be spending the start of next week? Any nice plans? Maybe some hanging out with friends? Trips to your summerhouses and such? Working for most, I guess as vacations are probably ...
Posted by forssto on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Somebody else would have broken both of her arms

During the course of recorded music history, countless albums have been released. Some forgotten, some immortalised into our collective consciousness. Out of those countless records most - and I mean ...
Posted by forssto on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

He'd rather be alone than pretend

What is it about the lack of the Y-chromosome that makes people so thoroughly incomprehensible to me? That's right, I'm talking about women. I've lived 26 years of this life and it's 10,5 years since...
Posted by forssto on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Die Mensch-Maschine

I ♥ my MPC4000!
Posted by forssto on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST

Touch me, I'm dick

I feel like such a useless fucker. I've terminated relationships with girls several times in the past, but none of those times have really made me feel as downright guilt ridden as today. You can rea...
Posted by forssto on Mon, 01 Jan 1900 12:00:00 PST