The Scent of Earth

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It's warm outside. Sunlight warms up the earth, birds sing everywhere. This is what we all have been waiting for anxiously. And here it is. And soon it will be summer.
All the past memories have faded away into the shadows and I don't think about tomorrow, and just enjoy every day at a time.

I'm still studying for the "college" entrance-exams. And speaking of which, I need to get back to it. But I wanted to make this short post only to marvel the wonders spring has brought back.

Cannot wait for the weather to get warmer. To drink beer on the balcony and perhaps get myself a grill to barbecue on. And for my actual first summer-vacation I could go roaming the nearby woods. See what I can find there. 
There's a lot of things to look forward to.

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An old family-tradition in the summer-time has been watching horror-movies. I could make a list here about some of them at some time, though the internet is already full of lists. Perhaps I could make a list of classical horror-movies and newer horror-movies that are actually worth the watch.

If the sunlight gets too warm you can try to feel cooler by reading chilling horror-stories. Here's a nice collection of short horror-stories from the amazing - and one of my favourite - blog "Pumpkinrot": Horrorstories.

The Hall of the Mountain King

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Had here a cover song "Mountain King" by the band Apocalyptica until copyrights(?) kicked in in Youtube. I understand the copyrights but I think with music it should be applied as it is with pictures etcetera: if you claim it's yours, it's violation. if you share it in nonprofit-way mentioning who the work belongs to, it is just like marketing, after all it is free advertisement for the band. Oh well... 

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I'm not a fan of the music by Apocalyptica, but I enjoy the sound of cello, even if it is electric one. I also like this song for two more reasons: 1. amazing classical piece and 2. it reminds me of my dear childhood game "Ultima VIII: Pagan". Ah, the nostalgia.

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It was the kind of game that would make you see nightmares. In a very lovely way claustrophobic and haunting mood. Just as this old midi-song implies.

Ouroboros

 Snake eats snake kind of world.

(Drawing by Theodoros Pelecanos)

I've been following the animal-rights news-feeds lately, especially by the Finnish activist, who released a book about the inhumane condition of farm-animals. Animal-rights questions go too far into the political subjects that I vowed not to approach in my blog, since they are too realistic, too grim. My mental condition allows me to read about things like that again, but I won't make any posts about it - not any too specific posts, I mean. 

What I wanted to say was that although my hatred towards mankind has gone back to the place where it came from, most likely because of my affecting medication, yet I keep noticing how far I am from the rest of the humankind. And by judging the people who are my family and friends, I cannot help but to notice, that there's only so few emphatic people in this world. Most of the human-race seem to be unable to feel empathy. Which makes me feel like the world of humans is a sick and dark place. If you cannot feel empathy even towards the smallest of living beings, how can you feel empathy towards other human-beings?

And I, as probably everyone else, can see everyday how much empathy people have for each other. That makes me feel like this really is a dog-eats-dog world.

If my countrymen are interested in reading the blog of the author of "Salainen päiväkirja eläintiloilta" ("The secret diary from animalfarms"), just click the books name. There might be nothing you didn't already know, yet she makes really smart notes and insights.

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Into the Finnish bloglist of gothic blogs has crept few nongothic-blogs, which made me think, if the goth-scene is getting "watered-down". By that I mean that if some people feel that they don't really qualify as gothic yet they hold on to that categorization for their own purposes even when it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the blogger and their blogs. Which doesn't concern me, rather just puzzles and confuses me. I do not judge, and at times I can barely consider my style gothic, yet I was wondering if it is not just about watered-down gothic-style but a way to trick more viewers... which I would judge, if the whole idea behind it is to get more viewers by false pretenses. You should have enough confidence in your blog that you wouldn't need trick-measures. And what is the point of trying to make a blog just for getting a lot of readers or viewers... Sometimes I cannot understand the human-race (sorry for the generalization).

"All things pass into the Night"

I've had a desire to listen to this song for some time now. And now I have. Perhaps the new season of Hannibal brought this desire. It is still an amazing show.