Filed under: Eating and drinking, News | Tags: enemy, Finland, Fishermen´s Friend, Fisu, friend, innerwille, kippis, Tampere, Vodka
Finnish people have the same attitude towards drinking as luxembourgish people have. Not a healthy one! But as beer is really disgusting up here (or am I just accustomed to better one?) in Finland, people just experiment with the hard stuff. During one of these experiments one finn has discovered an awesome drink which is now known as “Fisu”
To cut a long story short, “Fisu” tastes like/is a mixture of vodka and Fishermen´s Friend and that´s why a lot of locals as well as students mix their own.
Here is a real good recipe:
- Buy one bottle of Vodka (75 cl and min. 37%) and 3 packs of white Fishermen´s Friend.
- Pestle all the pastilles and fill them into the bottle of Vodka.
- Deposit the bottle in the freezer. After a few hours (+/- 3) you can serve the ice cold drink in shots.
Kippis!
Be careful! Your best friend can very fast turn into your worst enemy…
-innerwille-
Filed under: News | Tags: Aphex Twin, Chopin, Him, innerwille, Lady Gaga, Nightwish, Portishead, Sex, silencer, Sunn0))), Swamp Music record Store, Tampere
I am a big music fan. I am a big record fan and I especially have a soft spot for all kind of special and limited edition stuff (this also counts for movies/dvd´s). This addiction is to blame for my constant condition of being broke.
As a lot of you know, I have a very wide-ranging taste in music which includes Portishead just as Aphex Twin, SunnO))) just as Chopin.
However most of the time I listen to a music genre, which is known as Depressive Suicidal Black Metal. Personally, I am absolutely no fan of all these different music categories and I especially don´t like this name of Depressive Suicidal Black Metal. It sounds completely ridicoulous and doesn´t reveal anything. I would, if inevitable, describe it as atmospheric and emotional music with post rock and black metal influences.
But I see that I just fly off on a tangent, so back to topic. As I listen to a lot of underground music, it is very hard to find any good record store. You probabely are going to say now: “Buy the record online or just on iTunes”. But this is the next problem. I love it to go to record stores to look for records for hours.
As I have already mentionned, it is really hard to find any good record stores but the Swamp Music Record Store in Tampere is just great! This store is not just limited on Nightwish, HIM and Lady Gaga. You also can find diversified stuff from Black Metal to Reaggie. They also have a nice assortment of Vinyl. I even found a record I would never have expected to find in any store, so thank you very much for this quite nice surprise.
Thumbs up for this record store, which is this week´s win!
-innerwille-
Filed under: Culture and Art, Experiences, News | Tags: Finland, ice swimming, innerwille, sauna, Tampere
I am now living in Tampere for over 2 months and I haven´t been to sauna just until last week (shame on me)! So my friends from Luxembourg and me decided to go to a real sauna with real finnish guys and ice swimming afterwards.
What should I say?! It was the most extreme experience I have made until now. The average temperature was around 115 degrees but as the finns are real masochists, they pushed the sauna, from time to time, up to 125 degrees, which was really crazy. It felt like you would burn while being alive.
After sitting in the sauna for around 15 minutes to half an hour, we just went outside in the snow and walked to the little lake. I made one big mistake in the begining, I was waiting to long, standing in the water, instead of just jumping into it. Hoffmann and Carneiro, they did it and I was just waiting for them in the snow. After the ice swimming you should just wait a little bit outside in the snow, so that your body can recover and you don´t just switch from one extreme to the other.
After 5 minutes we went back to the sauna again and the second time I was also jumping in the lake and it was the most painful thing I have ever felt. It feels like millions of little lightennings run through your body or like someone would stab you with a knife again and again. We just stayed a few seconds in the water and we repeated the whole ritual again 2 times.
I think saunaing and ice swimming is an experience you will never forget and I am really looking forward to going to this happening again.
-innerwile-
P.s. the finns are even drinking while saunaing!!
Filed under: Eating and drinking, News | Tags: chicken, eating, elk, Finland, helsinki, Hirvenmurekepihvi, innerwille, Kananpoikaa, kappeli, Poronkäristystä Kappelin tapaan, reindeer, restaurant
During the trip to Helsinki, my friends and me went to a very nice restaurant called Kappeli. At first we had no clue what to order but it was sure that we wanted to try something new, something finnish. After a view minutes we had made our decisions:
Poronkäristystä Kappelin tapaan
Sautéed Reindeer Rowanberry Sauce, Mached Vegetables, Lingonberries, Prickled Cumcumber
Kananpoikaa
Spring Chicken Dark Currant Sauce, Sweetened Apple, Goat Cheese Risotto
Hirvenmurekepihvi
Elk Meat Cutlet Grand Veneur Sauce, Root Vegetable Hash, Rowanberry Jelly
If you are going to Helsinki, I can recommend you this restaurant with an nice atmosphere and real good food.
-innerwille-
Filed under: It´s all about music, News | Tags: Belus, Burzum, Burzum-Belus review, Det som engang var, filosofem, Finland, Help children in haiti, innerwille, last.fm, mayhem, ordo ad chao, Tampere
After 11 years Varg Vikernes´ new record was released yesterday.
I have to admit that I was tired of all the rumors going on about a new cd and I even was more tired of all the little children in Burzum´s Last.fm Shoutbox.
As I am not really interested in the whole Metal attitude and Music anymore and as Last.fm is one of my only music information source I ignored all the sayings about Varg and Burzum during the last couple of years.
It was until a few month ago that I heard about “Belus” and I have to admit that I had absolutely no feelings towards this record. I really like “Filosofem” and “Det som engang var” and I, from time to time, also listened to the other records. But this was it, I have never thought about a new record not to mention that if I have done so, I probabely wouldn´t have cared about it.
But now “Belus” is there and what should I say? It´s great, really great! Burzum has definately grown! Varg has got older and wiser when it comes to the music but still he managed it somehow to keep the flair of the Filosofem Burzum. When Mayhem failed with their “Ordo ad Chao” in trying to sound like ´94, Varg has done everything right. The sound is just a perfect mixture of modern Black Metal and the old primitive sound.
Furthermore it´s quite difficult for me to describe the music in words or even to categorize it (what I really like) and this shows me that this record has potential.
Fast Black Metal guitar riffs and Varg´s typical and unique voice are melting with voice samples (Kaimadalthas´ Nedstigning), guitar melodies and mesmerizing monotonie.
Varg has managed to capture an incredible atmosphere which I only can feel in a handful of other records. You totally got me Varg and I am speechless! Great work!
Buy the record and help the children in Haiti!
9/10
-innerwille-
Filed under: Experiences, News, Pictures | Tags: Finland, helsinki, ice water swimming, innerwille, kappeli, Karjalanpiirakka, Kauppatori
After Carneiro and Hoffmann arrived in Tampere we very fast made up the plan to visit the capital of Finland. On the 05.03.2010, after I overslept (2nd or 3rd time in my life) , we finally hit the road around 11 o´clock.
The drive to Helsinki was not that interesting so that´s why I´m going to skip it. Arriving in the city we were searching for a free and gratis parking-lot but Finland doesn´t seem to support cars in the cities and that´s why we had to pay 8 euros for a few hours (after seven the parkin lots are for free).
We immediately went to the Kauppatori (market place), next to the port, where we bought the karjalanpiirkka. We hadn´t really a plan what we should do or visit so we just started to walk. And that´s how it looks like when 3 luxembourgish guys are walking through Finland´s capital:
Next posts will be about the real great meal we had in Kappeli and the sauna/ice water swimming.
-innerwille-
Filed under: Eating and drinking, News | Tags: Finland, helsinki, innerwille, karelian pasties, Karjalanpiirakka, Tampere
I tried the Karjalanpiirakka (engl. karelian pasties) in Helsinki and as so often here in Finland they were nearly flavorless which I don´t really like that much.
-innerwille-
