Joe: you like this?
indie kid: yeah, and it's only like 3 bucks. do it up.
joe: but it doesn't look really cool.
indie kid: who the fuck cares, u like it, it's 3 bucks. so buy it.
PET SHOP BOYS LAST NIGHT!!!! Were those Gareth Pugh jackets I saw? Anyways, it was a show. They once again proved they are the best pop group (or as my friend said, any group) alive. And I've got confetti still in my bag. After that, exhausted, we did went for an ex-tempore swimming and chilled for a while in the beach. Love. Sanna took this pic while ago when we were also chilling in the seaside, near a skating park and an everlasting fire...Have a fabulous weekend!
I almost forgot! Tomorrow is the last day of my new friend Mimmi Mattila's exhibition of cool drawings and stuff at Galleria Punavuori! Go go go! Art is good for you! Here is what you do: go to this one tomorrow and then on Friday there is free entrace to Taidemuseo Tennispalatsi's Dada and Surrealism exhibition and you'll feel like you've done something in midst of all this doing nothing and you won't get so depressed either and you'll love more. Then clean out your room and find your old schoolwork and be amazed how clever you were as a child and go out drinking afterwards to celebrate that. I was supposed to go to my homeland Estonia tomorrow but I've got no money, would have needed some extra cheap tights and alcohol beverages though. I wish I had money to develop some film!
Morrissey was fun, although I couldn't clap because of the night before. I also can't go out without wearing tights because of the night before. After the gig I went wandering around, saw some disturbing things and took a bus home. You know when moz throws his sweaty shirts and people go crazy and start tearing it apart? Well, I got a piece cause some nice guy tapped my shoulder after the show and asked me if I wanted one. Yay! It was just enough to knot it around my wrist.
Morrissey tonight! I think last night was fun too. I love summer, I've got no money (but a new croc imitation bag and crazy jewelry with african coin from 1956), I've got no Pet Shop Boys ticket and I lost my phone last Wednesday. I don't mind, I've got my friends and all the people around me are enough, with a touch of lipstick. Sanna took this picture one night when we were over her house, in the woods, we played Tomb Raider and ate cupcakes and I fell off from trampoline. That's how I actually feel right now..
You know sometimes when you're in the cashier line and you kinda feel like your outfit deserves only the prettiest packaging, that your not-quite-chanel (well, Coco herself said that luxury is all about the illusion anyway) jacket and bag would perfectly match with Vogue cigarettes? Well, I've been there and right from that moment on I've yet again realized how the modern day with its choose the right crackers choose your life via the right products has drained me out and actually how sad I become when I read of sale scores, seeing brands everywhere and the ads in bus windows forcing me to not look out if I don't want a headache. At the same time I cheer at the scores, congratulate myself at my knowledge of brands and their history of violating and I have to admit sometimes I purely enjoy the outdoor ads taking over public space if they happen to be high-fashion images pleasing my eye. Whenever I buy something new, especially from high street, I try to soothe myself with the same mantras: it's made of this and this material, made in this and this country or it's just plain simply updating my look to bit a trendier mood. Usually I find myself feeling more happier in something like a second hand jacket with a classic design that's over twenty years old and I'll probably wear it for another twenty, and all this for 3 euros 10 cents. I've bought the H&M loose shirt made in Poland and spent three hours reading Adbusters and Wired in it to be reminded that hey, it's a great buy but what the fuck, all these people in thrid world country wastelands with their swollen eyes from the toxic, could there be something wrong with, uhm, everything?
Here is something that I found useful today:
Never go to art school. Never go to New York. Never rent a loft. Dump your font folder. Forget symmetry and colour coordination. Stop taking text from editorial that you don’t read and packaging it in eye-catching ways. Walk away from your computer. Then take off. Go to India, rural China, Rio, Caracas, Belize. Mingel with the filthy rich and the dirt poor. Dig up all of the roots of terror. Make hunger, disease, cruelty, lust, greed, self-preservation and genocide your roomates. Then, when you run out of money and can’t take it anymore, fly back home. Look in the mirror. Face your fears, your weaknesses, strengths, your imminent demise. Then, when all of this begins to get into a master narrative in front of your eyes, go get a job.
- From Kalle Lasn's Design Anarchy
I feel like staying home. I feel like staying over my friends, like now. I've never made my home a place where I could relax, cause it's covered with piles of stuff, like this great interior magazine I bought on one rainy day. I want to make my room beautiful, a place I'd welcome every time I open the door. Before that, I'm at a happy place in my friends houses, at parks, in the streets watching people around me instead of the endless stream of the life I should be living, smiling back at the fake smiles and blank stares.
It's midsummer! I lost my phone! And I got new wedges from DinSko sale and a ring from museum shop. Sanna took the first picture when we went to see a skating film a while ago...one has to experience all kinds of stuff in life, you know? Like posting crappy pictures etc. I also got new Wolford Velvet Deluxe 66s, Dr. Hauschka skincare products and sequin skirt and a tunic from H&M, jesus. Well, I've been chucking out lots of clothes so it's alright. I just want to read blogs and fashion news (Like Choo for H&M, I really hope the shoes are made in Spain atleast) and read and go to film festivals and everything. We watched von Trier's Antichrist recently but secretly I enjoyed some other crazy skating film I saw later that night more... Have a wonderful weekend you all! Love and tenderness! I love Marina & The Diamonds!
Here's a video I shot for DINOSAURUXIA's song Sky, featuring our friend Lauri Kopio represented by brand new Swedish modeling agency Nisch Management. He was also featured in Theonestowatch just few days ago! It feels weird to see pictures I've taken up there cause four years ago I used to be such a fanatic over that site among the other modeling pages.
Well today I did totally pointless stuff, went to a museum opening in hopes of free food and was there any, of course none. That sucked. And it had like half hour speeches to boost up politicians egos and stuff and the whole exhibition had one cool piece of art and that was not even the one the opening was for. Whatever. Then we quickly took a bus and met up with friends and went to a totally cooler opening in small gallery in cool part of town and the opening was titled You Don't Have to Be Cool To Be My Friend which was way more better and intresting than the stuck up museum stuff and cause my summer school days are over I'm probably going to do a post about it. After hanging out in the gallery for hours we went to a bar nearby and there were young (= my age. Have you heard this song by Mickey Gang..I was born in the 90s? It's awesome.) DJs spinning tracks which I like cause yeah I can actually hear music that makes me feel at ease. Sweet! After that we just took a bus over my friends where I'm eating their food right about now.
DINOSAURUXIA will perform today at Korjaamo Bar in Helsinki, it's totally FREE and VERY INTENSE & AUTHENTIC. Depending on the weather, the show is going to start around nine at the terrace or at ten indoors. Hope to see you there!
