Showing posts with label thrilling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label thrilling. Show all posts

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Minimal



Our gardener isn't a fictional being after all! When I got home today both the front and the back lawn had been mowed! It somehow makes me so happy! Lawnmower is a nice word. When I was little, I always read lawnmover, and didn't even realize what it was until I learned what a lawn was. I just thought it was something you moved lawns, whatever they were, around with. It is funny how you somethimes misread and misinterpret words. Every now and then I mishear words in songs, and then when I for some reason or another look up the lyrics, or happen to realize what the misheard word really is, I get quite surprised, because sometimes it can change the meaning of the whole song.

My gaming fingers are starting to itch. I've promised myself that after I've finished my essay I'm allowed to start playing something big and epic. My goal is to finish tomorrow. I have 900 words now, a couple hundred of which are to be the so called final version of the text. The rest is random, unstructured facts. Unprocessed raw matter. Tomorrow I will process this matter into a finished, academic product á la Essay on Minimalism, complete with an introduction and a conclusion. Actually it's a lot easier than just Minimalism. It's about how minimal artworks were considered, no, theorized as objects in the 1960s. It's quite narrowed down, actually.

And that's good.

Friday, 18 November 2011

Reality



Wow, another week has passed. On next Monday there's exactly 2 weeks until the essay deadline. Uni is slowly starting to realize this, and student's are starting to be on pins and needles. Some people haven't realized it's due in the beginning of December. Other's haven't realized the independent study material that has been running along our lectures is also due on the same time. They are meant to be approximately 1500 words each. Who will make it, and who will break under the stress? Who masters the Harvard referencing system? Only one can emerge victorious through the twists and turns in this race. Stay tuned for the next episode of CHUCA (Critical Histories at the University for the Creative Arts).




No, it's really not that bad. I'm not stressed yet.


I think?





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The Wishlist



Essential, serious stuff:



Stick blender
Stavmixer
Sauvasekoitin

Won't need that many of them, I hope.




Crisp rye-bread
Surskorpor
Hapankorppuja

You simply can't find essentials like this in the UK




Money
Pengar
Rahaa

Quite essential.




Bicycle
Cykel
Polkupyörä

Might be best to give me money for this one. Quite difficult to ship.




Can opener
Konservöppnare
Purkinavaaja


The normal, sane, cheap version. I'm sorry Brits, but you've got this all wrong.
Or then I'm just too simple-minded for the fancier versions.






Pot (ha ha, very funny.)
Gryta
Pata

Might once again be better with money, quite heavy to take on the plane.




Cash
Fyrk
Mammonaa

I can't stress this enough.




Money for artist's materials (going to order markers online)
Pengar för konstnärsmaterial (tänker beställa tuscher på nätet)
Raha taiteilijantarvikkeita varten (tilaan netin kautta)

For messing around on paper.







Not so essential, but oh so nice stuff:




Bubble bath
Bubbelbad
Kylpykuplia

Because I'm worth it.





Books:





Watership Down
Richard Adams

Cute bunnies hopping around. Nothing more.




Abarat. Absolute Midnight
Clive Barker

Filled with nice illustrations.




The Witches
Roald Dahl

More lovely illustrations.




Fables vol 2. Animal Farm.
Bill Willingham & Mark Buckingham

Because I like Comics.




A Dance With Dragons
George R. R. Martin

I'd really prefer this cover, it would go together with
the rest of my collection. It's a paperback.





Nerdy section:



Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney

Intense game of investigating and winning legal cases.





The World Ends With You

Heard it's one of the best games for the DS.
Action-packed role playing game with a great story (i heard)





Professor Layton and The Curious Village

Intelligent and unique puzzle-solving game with an outstanding gameplay.




Bastion

Downloadable from Steam.
Beautiful, unique adventure game with flexible gameplay.




Terraria

Downloadable from Steam.
Do what you want; craft items, explore, build, and hunt.






And the most important section - Sweets:

Something I've been longing for, these won't need explanations.




Dumle



Fazerin Sinivalkoinen
Blåvit Fazer


After Eight




Tupla