So I never knew about Current TV til anasarca posted the Wax Poetics bit the other day. It’s really neat. I dig the interface, and I keep finding great little clips from all over the world.
Here’s a funny, honest look at fashion in Finnish Lapland. Love it! hahahaha
Anasarca at Asita Recordings points out that the closing music on a Current TV show featuring the inimitable Wax Poetics magazine(!) is a funk band from Finland called Nicole Willis and The Soul Investigators. She messaged me:
“I just thought you might be interested in this band, if you haven’t heard of them already. They bring [...]
From ice bar to sauna bar plus communist kitsch in Cuban and Russian flavors, Helsinki drinking establishments are not lacking in novelty. This of course means they are slightly corny and very expensive! A recent travel-section article in USA Today confirms that this trend of theme bars is on the upswing.
After reading the [...]
Why are there so many ways to make a simple, hard-boiled egg? Ice baths and timers, are they really necessary? Then when I find the perfect recipe, why do I tell it to my sis wrong, when she’s just trying to eat?
And why did my guestbook, attract so much comment spam? Every day a [...]
Learned something new about Finland on this travel-video site. I wonder if they eat the heads, or they have to cut the teeth out?
Lamprey have nothing to do with this hilarious article in the Helsingin Sanomat about the “authentic Finnish national costume,” the shellsuit (tracksuit in U.S.-English). However, in the lamprey video, you can [...]