Here we go

All band: Me, myself, I and Heikki (the bass player gets a job), we´ll take some gigs sometimes in clubs and other good places.
We ´re playing, `couse we like it. The subscription from here.
(Next gig 29.6.2011 - Get your ass at K-Klubi)
Next gig: 28.7 - Hiili, Aurinkoterassi). My regards.
Get your ass at Resistori-Klubi: Next gig: 29.9.2011 .. .. !
Next gig 1.5 at Kuopio Market Square at 14.00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 28.7.12 at Piispanpuisto (at Bishop´s Park of Kuopio).
Now: I´m gonna present some of my texts in three languages  with simple accompaniment at next TEXTfirst night.
Get your ass at Henry´s pub  15.1.2013 at 22h, for my please,..and the new gig: April 16nd.
I will get my ass and quitar to Lekkeri 13.4.2013 @ Helmi's birthday party with streetpunk.
the next time you will see me in Kuopio will be 26th May 2013. there comes a gig ... at Pushkin's statue to start at 12:00.
Next gig playing for Save the Rupla, 23th November 2013 at Rupla. Starts at 14:00 -> Get your ass on there where occurs!
Nästa min spelning ska finnas på Nykterhetshuset 2014/12/04 (kl 11:00) i Kuopio. Hör du, som nya arbetarklassmusik, några bra låtar.
The Next gig will be May 1, 2014 on Kuopio Market Square's stage at 9.00.
.. and you will also see me in Kuopio on the gig-stage at the lake of Valkeinen about at fourte
en May 1, 2014.

hemmagården på onsdag, den 28:e dagen kl 21 i denna månad ->
Ro sitt röv hit och se:
The Old Union Band.
The solo-gig on the Kuopio's VR-Magazine at 8/08/2015 Saturday. There will be some kind of antifascist theme. Get your ass there at 19:00. The next gig at same place at 29/8/
den spelningen på Kuopios marknadstorget den lördag, 12 september (2015) klockan 11 framåt.
det kommer att
finnas upproret nu!
Live at BilliardCenter oct 30, 2015. The FridayBand.
scenen 6 augusti `16 på Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio.
Följande gig på scenen 12 augusti `17 vid Peräniemenkasino i Kuopio-stad.
Gig på Peräniemenkasino den 4 september 2021. Jag har startat nya soloalbumsinspelningar.

Ps. Someone did ask,
my first album The Desert Songs is sold out.
I `m sorry.
(we are working with the new material)
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record..
(Update 08.7.12: ROH Band Mark II works)
(Update 30.3.14: The Old Union Band has been formed)
(Update 30.8.15) the newly named: Fridayband.
(Update 20.9.11: Heikki has left the band.)
Pena Tikanmäki came in on bass.
I'm making a new record (update: 15.11.2023

30 juli 2020

"Mark my words"

Joe Biden
has previously raised the possibility of Trump attempting to delay the election.
Mark my words: I think he is gonna try to kick back the election somehow, come up with some rationale why it can't be held, 
Biden said at a virtual fundraiser in April (2020), according to a pool report.

1) The President does not have the power to change the date of the election.
2) Election Day is set by congressional statute, and most experts agree that it cannot be changed without congressional approval.
3) How ever historically, voting by mail has not led to massive voter fraud. And nonpartisan election experts say the possibility of foreign entities printing millions of fraudulent mail-in ballots this November is highly unlikely.
See the background information in this case by CNN.

28 juli 2020

the comment speech

The Nazi Bell.
According to Scientific American UFOs have been back in the news  because of videos initially leaked, and later confirmed, by the U.S. Navy and officially released by Pentagon that purportedly show unidentified aerial phenomena = UAP in our skies.
Judging the nature of these objects, objects, as confirmed by the Navy, needs a coherent explanation that should accommodate and connect all the facts of the events. And this is where interdisciplinary scientific investigation is needed.
As Carl Sagan concluded at the 1969 debate,
Scientists are particularly bound to have open minds; this is the lifeblood of science. 
A template to perform a thorough scientific investigation can be found in James McDonald’s paper Science in Default.
Methodology itself is a great example of objective scientific analysis. And this is exactly what scientists can do to study these events.
We do not know what UAP are, and this is precisely the reason that we as scientists should study them.
Not everything comes from the outside.
So called Nazi Bell was Hitler’ssecret technology
Maybe there were finded a way of defying gravity, sure.
The Bell, known as Die Glocke in Nazi-German powered by a mysterious red-hued fuel - it was red mercury, the flying saucer was capable to soaring from Earth. This is said to have been developed by a top team of scientists and engineers, headed by SS General Hans Kammler.

I don’t know if those engineers were fed specific diagrams and algoritms in their sleep. But something went wrong.


17 juli 2020

Беларуси

"Онлайн заказ, бесплатная доставка по всей Беларуси."

Э
то жестокое место в мире,
хотя хотя
И ты, моя любовь
просто маленький момент
и я все равно не забуду тебя любовь всей моей жизни

Есть воспоминания, которые человек таскает с ним всю жизнь
которые человек?
нести всю свою жизнь
Я уже говорил это

15 juli 2020

Walk A Mile In My Shoes

give me your boots,
okay?

walk a mile in my shoes Then you know how I feel walk a mile in my shoes Before you judge this man
If you walk in my shoes you might understand this man.
richer bone,

14 juli 2020

"my golden years" by pH

Give us some insight into the well of inspiration driving all of your activity?




I think it’s possibly to do with finding myself in my golden years. I’m also involved in two different halves of a career. One is the solo work and the other being Van Der Graaf Generator trio work. Together, the activity has reinvigorated me. Going from one thing to another is an energizing thing.
I too, I' ve writtin songs to finding myself -  also in my previous lives.

If you describe the creative process behind Consequences?
Every time I do a record, I try to do something different. That might seem a bit absurd after a 46-year career.
You might think a record is a routine effort, but it isn’t for me. For instance, the minute I sit down to record a rough piano part, that part might still be there on the final effort.
[...]
I’ve never gone into making a record or writing a body of work thinking “These are the things I want to say.”
I discover the things I want to say the minute they’re coming out of my mouth. That’s when I discover the stories and areas of human interaction that interest me at any given time. In this particular period, I think the writing had an even more unified aspect to it. The album (Consequences, 2012) includes a few slightly bizarre, stalker-oriented stories which took me by surprise. I hasten to say I have not been subject to stalking in the last year or so, nor has anyone I know personally, but it is an aspect of modern life people have to deal with.
stalker-oriented stories are the best.
How long the time seems, how dark the shadow
How straight the eagle flies, how straight towards his arrow
How long the night is – why is this passage so narrow?
How strange my body feels, impaled upon the arrow
Arrow

Peter Joseph Andrew Hammill (born 5 November 1948) is an English singer-songwriter. He is a founder member of the progressive rock band Van der Graaf Generator. Best known as a singer&songwriter, he  plays piano (and also little guitar). He acts as a record producer for his own recordings and occasionally for other artists.

13 juli 2020

vi har en sten i vår sko

.. därför gör resan är inte naturligt.
Finskt koncentrationsläger
 i Petrozavodsk, som den finska
ockupationsmakten döpte
 om staden till 1941.
 Bilden är tagen vid den allierade
 befrielsen av staden 1944
 och visar ryska civila
 som tillfångatagits i etnisk rensning.
Den finländska debatten har präglats av två perspektiv – dels är finländare medvetna om att de som finländare utgör objekt för stereotypisering, dels tillämpar finländare själva stereotyper i sina beskrivningar av omvärlden.

Jag hållar med synvinkeln historikern Henrik Arnstad: Finland ljuger om nazismen.
Finland allierade sig med nazisterna.
Finlands utrikesministerium bör skickas på en grundkurs i historia. 
75 år efter krigsslutet har Finland ännu inte medgivit den nära militära alliansen med Nazityskland.
Därför är det bara extern forskning om finsk historia som har värde.
Vi måste påminnas att Finland var den enda demokrati i världen som frivilligt allierade sig med Nazityskland.
Ett faktum som borde tillhöra allmänbildningen i Finland.
Men i den finska offentligheten levas det en nedtystad sanning. Detta har jag personligen fått erfara i mitt barndom.
Vårt förflutna med nazisism är en tabu sak.

FN-stadgan undertecknades i San Francisco den 26 juni 1945 - av de fyra stormakterna, Förenta staterna, Sovjetunionen, Folkrepubliken Kina och England och de stater som ingått i anti-Hitler-koalitionen, totalt 50 länder.
FN-stadgan har alltid handlat om mer än bara att förhindra och förebygga krig, alltså så kallad negativ fred.
i kapitlet om "internationellt samarbete på det ekonomiska och sociala området" formulerar stadgan också FN:s uppgifter för att förbättra levnadsstandarden, främja full sysselsättning och lösa internationella problem av ekonomisk, social, hälso- eller kulturell karaktär.  Alltså mänskliga rättigheterna, som annars inte nämns i stadgan, måste observeras, artikel 55 d. Allt som statsvetenskapligt kan betraktas som "positiv fred" bör också vara en del av FN:s uppgifter.

7 juli 2020

den röda linjen

Rött är rätt.
Rött är rätt färg
Blått är flott. Gult är verkligen nästan fult.
 jag kommer inte längre att röstä för de gröna.

Den röda färgen är både traditionstyngd och revolutionerande - och symbol för fara, kärlek och inte minst jul.
Polsk-tyska Rosa Luxemburg (1871–1919) rörde sej inte från sin synvikln människan som politisk varelse, sin tro var på aktivismen – på möjligheternas nej och att vi blir till genom våra handlingar – och sin övertygelse om massornas styrka samt vägen mot möjlig förändring.
Hun hade på samma gång den hårdföra revolutionären, den skickliga retorikern, den analytiska marxisten.
Luxemburg kan ha varit också vara en ömsint kärleksfull privatperson och de politiska drömmarna varieras med fantasier om att någon gång få stanna upp, viljan att sätta oväntat borgerligt bo och bilda familj. Hun var manniskan.


6 juli 2020

Consciousness

Representation of consciousness
 from the seventeenth century
by Robert Fludd.
Consciousness is a scientific problem that is unlike any other. This is a different, and a true solving will be unlike any other known solution. The brain is a use tool of consciousness.

Is a relentless true that
every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
by Ernest Hemingway.
Yes, but I can't write my own - it does not make sense if a clairvoyant does not indicate both the most important and the most interesting things.
Here's too, is already half too much.
But maybe it could a new study in consciousness: a contribution to the sciences of psychology and physics.

4 juli 2020

I hate patriotism

Woody Guthrie.
Fourth of July is fast approaching, and with it, the in US there comes a wave  of customary patriotic playlists featuring rousing anthems, nostalgic rock 'n' roll favorites and all sorts of other songs with America in the title.
But many of the classic songs that casual listeners may assume to be patriotic are anything but, from misunderstood anti-war missives to singalong favorites masking darker meanings.
Yes, I have been singing one or two of those.
See the list of songs with meanings that go deeper than their patriotic or America-centric first impressions.

According to USA Today both President Trump and candidate Bernie Sanders used Neil Young's 1989 track during their respective presidential campaigns.
Perhaps both rabble-rousing candidates found something to agree with in Young's tale of George H. W. Bush-era disillusionment, as he rails against wealth inequality, consumerism and the general decline of American society.
The chorus' Keep on rockin' in the free world refrain may be a rah-rah catchphrase that was used at the time of its release to celebrate the collapse of communism, but Young's words are almost certainly intended to be taken ironically, making the song less patriotic than the anthem it may initially seem.  
I think that is not.
This is NOT ok with me…, 
Neil Young self tweeted Friday evening.
Canadian-American rock veteran Neil Young took to Twitter on Friday to blast U.S. President Donald Trump for using his song Rockin’ in the Free World at a 4th of July rally at Mount Rushmore.
Remember it is the voice of a tax-paying U.S. citizen who does not support you,
You are a disgrace to my country,
Neil Young posts open letter to Donald Trump on last February. It seems so Young was triggered about Trump’s consistent usage of his 1989 rock anthem Rockin’ in the Free World at a number of his campaign rallies. To Trump:
Your mindless destruction of our shared natural resources, our environment, and our relationships with friends around the world is unforgivable.
They say that only a month later being naturalized as an official U.S. citizen, Young, 74, went on a scathing rant defending his country against its Republican leader Trump.


3 juli 2020

Jeff Beck

Jeff Beck and Tal Wilkenfeld.
I’m sort of horribly, pathetically fannish about Jeff. Ever since Hi Ho Silver Lining came out, when I was 20-odd, I’ve revered him and his playing. In many ways he just is the best guitar player. 
According to David Gilmour, Beck is still, after 40-something years since he came to prominence in the Yardbirds, the only person pushing forward in that way.
He’s never retreading old ground, he’s always looking for a new challenge.
Jeff’s scarily brilliant. Jeff’s a tightrope walker, I’m not. 
I like to cover all my bases and make myself secure with a great band of people and the music all rehearsed, and I just walk out there and if I didn’t even play anything it would still sound great.
Jeff’s different, he’s out there mining that seam.
I do not fully understand this last sentence, but it sounds good.