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mudelta

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About Me

I'm just an ordinary sort of bloke.

My Interests

Music, Art, Architecture, Design, Books, Cooking, Graphics, Computer Games, Technology, Philosophy.

I'd like to meet:

Myself coming back...
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Music:

Well here is a new random ten from the iPod for 2007 to give you an idea: The Modern Things - Björk/Post; Onnea [Congratulations] - Teach Yourself Finnish; Tell Her Tonight - Franz Ferdinand/Franz Ferdinand; Rise - Primal Scream/Evil Heat; (Just Like We) Breakdown - Hot Chip/The Warning; Deja Vu - Yeah Yeah Yeahs/Show Your Bones; Israel - Siouxsie and the Banshees/Best of...; Ball and Biscuit - White Stripes/Elephant; The Test - Chemical Brothers/Come With Us; Auto - Hexstatic/Zen: A Ninja Retrospective.

Movies:

Obscure Finnish arthouse.... not entirely by choice. And anything by the Cohen brothers.

Television:

Heroes. Lost. (PS Sky sucks... I only have Freeview) Also useful for video games and as a computer monitor.

Books:

Lots, including: Murakami; Pratchet; Banks; Stephenson; Gibson; Jansson.

Heroes:

See television...

My Blog

Blue Flashing Lights

I've been trying to rekindle my cycling bug, which is not going too badly with J buying a bike to cycle to work, and with us planning a cycle trip round the Turku archipelago in the summer. J has got...
Posted by mudelta on Sun, 11 Mar 2007 03:37:00 PST

Yesterday I woke up sucking a lemon

Actually this blog isn't about Music, it's about me delaying my Finnish homework for another 10 minutes (Constant Gradation / K,P,T change in Type 1, 3 & 4 verbs anyone?)So what's been happening this ...
Posted by mudelta on Sun, 11 Feb 2007 07:48:00 PST

Not the B of the Bang (yet)

First of all, no - it wasn't my office that 'got bombed' this morning!Most of you know the architecture company I work for got taken over by Capita last year (who do diverse things such as Engineering...
Posted by mudelta on Tue, 06 Feb 2007 01:56:00 PST

nothing going on but the rent

If there is one thing I don't want to write about it is work... so I haven't had anything much to write about for the last few weeks. No gigs, no films, no art (and definitely no sexdrugsandrocknroll...
Posted by mudelta on Fri, 26 Jan 2007 03:25:00 PST

Taking Stock

Being New Year (and having had a few weeks holiday*) you get a bit of time and head space to think about the future and take stock of what has happened in the last year... I'm not going to bore you wi...
Posted by mudelta on Tue, 09 Jan 2007 03:39:00 PST

Food for thought...

To go with our (Finnish) Christmas eve dinner (7 types of fish, pickles and salads to start, then a huge christmas ham, mash 'boxes' of potato, carrot, turnip(?) and liver 'stuffing') I made coleslaw....
Posted by mudelta on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:21:00 PST

Are you experienced?

A selection of recent experiences and observations in Finland this Christmas, but which one is not true?:1. Cars with winter tyres sound like they are driving on gravel the whole time.2. I am at about...
Posted by mudelta on Tue, 26 Dec 2006 01:01:00 PST

If you go down to the woods today...

We were supposed to go for a walk a few days ago, but didn't get round to it. So it is a welcome chance to get out and about for a hike around the woods with J's (mad) friends B & P.We drive out to on...
Posted by mudelta on Sun, 24 Dec 2006 07:21:00 PST

Yksi Sika, Kaksi Sikaa, Kolme Sikaa

Some things seem to come in threes: London buses; wise men; blind mice. And of course little pigs. In this case the three pigs (kolme sikan) I have encountered have been a day apart, not so little, an...
Posted by mudelta on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 03:19:00 PST

More of the same

Just for Robin here is another picture of that bus stop this morningPretty exciting, no?I don't know if you've seen the visitor map on my profile page yet, but so far (since I added it) a stunning two...
Posted by mudelta on Wed, 20 Dec 2006 01:14:00 PST