Bossa Mortem

Krushing and myself went to this battle of bands -type of an event yesterday to see Sami of Neocite and the esteemed Captain Jansson play a really good set of Alice in Soundgarden -inspired grinding. There were other bands in the event, too, bands like The Chant, Drifting Brigade and ... Postmortem.

Postmortem. Say that without wincing, would you?

I'm not going to talk about their music or talent, a thing that has sadly been detached from success anyway. We left after a few bars so I'm officially not allowed to comment. However ... (oh you know where this is going, do you?)

Had they stopped for a second and thought about differentiation they would surely have realised that (1) there are probably hundreds of bands called Postmortem, Post Mortem or Post-Mortem, at least one of them being a major death metal player. (2) looking like emo kids and choosing an irony-free name is NOT the way to go. Why? Because all the skinny self-mutilators are doing the same thing, the only ones who get noticed are the ones who latch onto the titties of a Big Record Company like ticks.

Bossa Mortem doesn't have to do that. They're different even though they can't play for shit and look like scrawny punk/metal hybrid kids. Only, Bossa Mortem wear white Cannibal Death Grinder t-shirts, jeans and sneakers instead of the common black ones. Bossa Mortem may not have much more class than their real life counterpart but at least they have a factor of differentiation on their side.

"I'd sure like to boot you blatantly underage crooners from my respectable establishment but the song you just sang reminds me of my own youth"

Unlike their real-life counterpart, Bossa Mortem will not get booted from the pub next door to the venue because they topple a few drinks while getting their pre-gig plaster on. As the bar lady approches they just break into a song, she breaks down and the whole thing is settled.

Bossa Mortem - Corpse from Ipanema
Tall and gone and dead and lovely
The corpse from Ipanema goes stalking
And when she passes, each one she passes goes "uuuuh - SCARY BITCH!"
When she stalks, shes like a samba
That skin so cool and sways so gentle
That when she passes, each one she passes goes - "uuuh - I'D CUT MYSELF FOR U GIRL"
(ooh) but I watch her so sadly
How can I tell her I love her
Yes I would cut myself gladly
But each day, when she crawls from the sea
She looks straight ahead, not at me

Ladies and gentlemen, Bossa Mortem thanks you.

<3 t.. / polyfonken

positively negative temps

frosty winter morning
colors of the sky have turned all oily
like the whole thing was made of cheap petroleum
smoke hangs frozen in between tall buildings
looking more solid than it has a right to be
first hunded or so meters of it like an impregnable wall
of heat, some carbon dioxide and waste
an obstacle for the birds
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as opposed to the previous winter post, now it's really winter, finally. last friday we watched an inconvenient truth which, even though we probably knew most of the facts, was something of an eye-opening experience and comes highly recommended. the film hit the spot partly because the things it tells about are self-evident in here. this is january and we didn't really have snow or sub-zero temperatures before last sunday.

this is finland. i know some people think there are polar bears and igloos in here (usually the same folks who think that finland is a part of russia and europe is a country). we don't have those things ... but we should fucking have a proper winter! i never liked it much, personally, but it should start in october or november at the latest.

thank you, george w. and your army of SUV-driving soccer moms. thanks to you we'll probably be having our summer holidays in december a couple of decades from now. underwater.
fuckwit.
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on a more positive note, i have a new computer. only after using the 20" imac for a week did i realise how much i have avoided turning on my pc, how uncomfortable it has been to use. makes me wonder whether i would still be using hardware to do music if i had had a mac for the past ten years ... or would i be doing some glitchy laptop electronica...?

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Tried a bit of animating last night

New year, new site

Polyfonken dot com is new and improved. Of course most of you end up in here after being to the said site so this shouldn't be of news to you folks. Anyway, i spent a good couple of evenings on it and didn't use any nice gimmicks that would make it stand out. It's rather simple.

Since I'm currently in the business of trying to figure out what the hell kind of a job to apply to (one nice company already called less than two days after the new site was published), I've obviously been thinking about work and work ethics.

I'm no good with totally unchallenging safe jobs. After a remarkable stretch of work (creating Habbo) we spent at least a year fixing minor bugs, revising legal texts to make them fit the new teen demographic and all that kind of stuff. That was a real low point for me. My productivity had been very high, almost worryingly so, and now my job consisted of minor tweaks, some concepting, graphics and a lot of sitting around. (Note: It's possible that I actually got to do a lot even back then but after the stretch of doing Pellehyppy and Kultakala/Habbo, it sure felt like a life-sucking experience!)

For me there are few things in this world as depressing as wasted potential. And that kind of makes the whole job-seeking experience I'm about to embark on a bit more difficult: I don't want to end up doing totally brainless work (and it probably wouldn't earn me the massive amount of money I need to keep ahead of the loans etc.) but at the other end of that scale are thing like:
* overtime: a sign of lousy co-ordination if anything ... and I like my life.
* management jobs: I want to do stuff, not push pencils.
* huge companies: in my experience these end up making people a part of a machinery, usually one that's too big to be really effective. And I do not come with spokes.
* moving abroad. can't do this right now.

Let's see what happens. I surely can't do everything I want to and at least the music bit I have no pretensions of wanting to do professionally.

Anyways, enough of that. I did a new version of a Polyfonken tune yesterday. It's called "9 volt girl", and another one from day before that:

Nine Volt Girl

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