The perfect place for horror stories, Part 2

In my previous post I told you about the spooky carnival we only got to see from the outside. We thought we'd seen pretty much at the first 2 times, but we were quite wrong, fellas... Here's what happened when we got in.

Seems like the park really did close quite suddenly at its time, since someone even left their tea cup and a piece of cheese lying around.

Dinos chilling by the water.

Candy shop.

It was a bit windy and rainy.

There was a cute little island just outside the park too:

Laundry: Yellow raincloak - Spreepark
beanie - H&M men's
scarf - vintage (from Colours in Kreuzberg)
jeans - H&M
boots - Motivi

In the end we were lucky enough to get a ride on the loudly rattling rusty rail! No seatbelts or sfety measures of any kind! Awesome!!! The clip is over 3 minutes long, but hang in there, if you wanna get the tour from the spooky water slide through the dinosaur land and even further. In the first car is the old fella that we wanna think is the owner, who maybe even still runs his shady businesses in the old buildings of the park... we like to think the worst of everyone. Enjoy!

Finnish suicide ballads in Berlin

 

This was HIM on a free gig in Berlin, arranged by Myspace Secret Shows. Going on a free gig by HIM in Berlin sounded like an idea born dead, since I know the emo- and goth-kids of this city love their Finnish love metal bands and it was bound to be packed. This is like the only place in the world where Finnish music breaks through (apart from Bam Margera's iPod). So I didn't expect us to actually get in, since they only let in 500 people. (I'm the least VIP ever, in fact I'm VUIP, if you know what I mean. I sometimes don't get in when I'm on the list. - Or maybe it was the blacklist....But luckily the "secret" show was still secret enough I guess, and we weren't too many. 

The secret concept MIGHT not work very long though. (Hush hush.) 

Anyways, I hadn't seen these homeboys in a long time. Actually I started reminiscing, and realized the first ever time I saw HIM live was warming up for a Prodigy gig 1998, and we were all like, "who the hell are these healthy skinny boys talking about death?" And since Finland is rediculously small, my girls and I all had our little stories of how we're all somehow slightly almost related to Ville Valo.

 

They still give a hell of a show, and make damn pretty pictures!

 

This is a clip of Join Me, probably their most known (and disturbingly creepy) hit. It always warms my heart when 500 teenagers sing "This life ain't worth living".

Old man Jeppa, the awesomest cat in memoriam

I dunno if a blog is the place for an obituary, I just want to give my respects to the coolest cat in the world. Our almost 16-year-old cat Jeppa passed away last Thursday, and will be missed so much. He was our family member for a long time, the years I grew up. The best and biggest cat I've ever seen, all white with long hair, a totally unpredictable but wise old timer, and the most innovative sleeper and stretcher, as you can see below. 

The right pic is from when he was a baby, and we lived in Lahti. The left one is from later (2 years old) when we moved to helsinki, and I set a pillow for him in front of a heater, cos he loved the warmth.

 

We had to find a new home for 4 months due to a pipe renovation, so the two of us sacked at my ex's house and Jeppa had really good company of his 3 male human roommates. Around this time he was about 9. They were good times, once Jeppa got settled into a new environment, and he loved sleeping in the beer case. :)

 

This one's from around last Christmas when I was planning on moving him to Berlin with us next summer (he lived with my mom in Helsinki). We even taught him some German. :) He was waiting for me on my bed usually when I came home. Of course this room (that used to be mine when I lived at home) was now totally his room, so maybe he wasn't actually waiting for me, but I liked to think so since he always purred when I came to him.

 

 God I love this fella. I'm out of words now...