It is complete.

Sometime in the near future I should make another inked copy of the cover artwork and get that scanned, so I can mass-produce copies for my friends. Of course, the mass-produced version won't be in a fancy folio with fancy artwork, it'll be a jewel-case version. This means the inside cover drawing won't be on it.


More yabbering later if I feel like it. Gah. Now I have to think about homework.



Later...


About Timo Rautiainen's new "Sarvivuori" album...

I don't get what the fuss is about over 'Hiljaisen talven lapsi'...okay, so TH wrote it and plays in it. Fine. Anything else? Because except for the (TH's) piano solo in the first ten seconds (which, of course, I have to learn to play now), I didn't find anything special about the song. Well, the extensive instrumental bit in the last minute and a half is, um, nice. Not great, but nice. I don't want to call it a guitar solo because it's so long, it's practically like guitar whoring (if that's even possible). It doesn't even remind me of NW, maybe it's because of Timo's voice. I don't know. But I don't find it particularly beautiful or sad (sure, the lyrics are) or anything, really. In fact it sounds quite a bit like the old Trio Niskalaukaus songs... Good song, anyway. But not in a TH-specific way.

I like the title track, an instrumental (which comes just before HTL), though. It has intricate folksy guitar-ness and ostinato-ish accompaniment.

Seriously, just because TH writes a song to play with his long-time friend doesn't mean you fans have to go all "squee!" over it. Unless you're prone to go "squee!" over anything TH, in which case... (I'm not one of those.)

Sigh. Groupies and fangirls/fanboys. I can never understand them.