Well, I am more than willing to pay for the music I want to listen to but since I am moving a lot, I favor everything in an mp3 format and not on a CD.
In addition, I would have to order some CDs from other courntries and after some really nice experience with the Norwegian customs I will just not order anything anymore. Anyway, the mp3 provider I usually use (quite decent prizes and well equipped with my preferred music) shows a fantastic error when I want to pay with credit card ... it says: , , (very informative). And it does that since December I've been trying to get music from there since then, I tried different browsers, I made others to try it because I thought it might be the credit card, I wrote them - nothing. Ok I thought, I waited long enough, let's try another provider, the next one just didn't want to add albums to the basket so it was useless, the third one did all that and had even music I'd never expect they would have - I made it to the registration and then it said that I cannot download music because my IP address is not German and they provide their service only for Germans.
AND NOW PLEASE TELL ME WHY PEOPLE DOWNLOAD MUSIC ILLEGALLY?
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Sunday, January 18, 2009
When it rains ...
... it pours like hell. However, we have some of the lucky days and it is cold enough to snow ;)
But this post is not supposed to be about the weather - it is about the song 'The Gale' which is just awesome although it is too short. I had it on my mp3 player yesterday when I was coming home from a meeting - it was snowing and I was dancing home.
The Gale is a fantastic entrance song for Insomnium's album 'Above the Weeping World'. On their homepage they promise that they work on new material - that sounds really promising :D
Caution do not listen if you don't like metal. I have to quote a friend: they growl into a destorted microphone over 50 dB of background noise.
The video is of course not official so I mainly post it because of the music and they don't growl that much in that song.
But this post is not supposed to be about the weather - it is about the song 'The Gale' which is just awesome although it is too short. I had it on my mp3 player yesterday when I was coming home from a meeting - it was snowing and I was dancing home.
The Gale is a fantastic entrance song for Insomnium's album 'Above the Weeping World'. On their homepage they promise that they work on new material - that sounds really promising :D
Caution do not listen if you don't like metal. I have to quote a friend: they growl into a destorted microphone over 50 dB of background noise.
The video is of course not official so I mainly post it because of the music and they don't growl that much in that song.
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Russian roads and the White Sea
The night at the White Sea was just the best of the whole trip - wild camping directly at the ocean. Good food, extremely nice people, guitar music at the campfire and a lot of vodka. The only annoying thing was the armada of mosquitos, the usual companions in the North. The last picture is taken around 1 am if I remember that correctly ;)
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Karelian Craton field trip
These are still pictures from July (extreme 'back-blogging', I know)
It was the first time in Finland and Russia for me and it was the first field trip after a long, desperate time. The group was so fantastic - wonderful people and we all got along so well. The weather was extremely good for the North as you can see on most pictures. The geology was fantastic - it was such a pleasure to take part in this event and although I enjoyed every single minute of the trip, it was all over too fast. We were a group of 14 people and travelled in a small bus with a fridge which was always filled with beer (and other beverages). At the end of the day we then all had a beer (or two, or three) in the bus. In Russia, we had to drive a lot on gravel roads and at times we felt more like sitting in a horse carriage than in a comfortable bus. The Russian toilet was a stop in the middle of nowhere - women to the left and men to the right ;)
The first night, we spend at a quite fancy, historic place called Karolinenburg. There was even a privat sauna in the bathroom of the suite where 4 of us stayed but we were too tired to use it.
This is the place:
And the history to it:
There was also a river castle and as one of the Finnish guys in the group pointed out: this is one of a few river castles left in Finland and what did they do? They built a bridge over it.
The view from the balcony of the suite:
Inside:
Reindeer lichen:
Lunch break at one of the numerous lakes ;)
It was the first time in Finland and Russia for me and it was the first field trip after a long, desperate time. The group was so fantastic - wonderful people and we all got along so well. The weather was extremely good for the North as you can see on most pictures. The geology was fantastic - it was such a pleasure to take part in this event and although I enjoyed every single minute of the trip, it was all over too fast. We were a group of 14 people and travelled in a small bus with a fridge which was always filled with beer (and other beverages). At the end of the day we then all had a beer (or two, or three) in the bus. In Russia, we had to drive a lot on gravel roads and at times we felt more like sitting in a horse carriage than in a comfortable bus. The Russian toilet was a stop in the middle of nowhere - women to the left and men to the right ;)
The first night, we spend at a quite fancy, historic place called Karolinenburg. There was even a privat sauna in the bathroom of the suite where 4 of us stayed but we were too tired to use it.
This is the place:
And the history to it:
There was also a river castle and as one of the Finnish guys in the group pointed out: this is one of a few river castles left in Finland and what did they do? They built a bridge over it.
The view from the balcony of the suite:
Inside:
Reindeer lichen:
Lunch break at one of the numerous lakes ;)
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Happy New Year
how time flies ...
anyway, I wish you all a successful, peaceful and above all healthy new year.
May millions of legions be behind you:
anyway, I wish you all a successful, peaceful and above all healthy new year.
May millions of legions be behind you:
sorry, there will not be a translation although I tried one but it was impossible for me to express it in a poetic way (I guess one of the reasons why I quit translation and interpretation studies ;)
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