Mies ja vaimo - Husband and Wife

Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

My old drawings from 1998

20 years ago I was 13 and drawing zombies with a pencil.
I don't do this anymore.

Kala - Fish

Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Favourite folk music

I have always loved folk and classical. Growing up I was one of the few appreciating this type of music, so I usually couldn't talk about it. A teenager listening to folk music is apparently one of the worst things imaginable. I didn't care about the ridicule. I still don't care. It's not just teenagers who do that.

Martti Pokela: Muut ne kuuli kirkonkellon (Others Heard the Church Bell)
Kalevalainen sävelmä (Kalevala Melody)
(from Kantele of Finland, 1969)

Pokelat: Golggo maanon (November)
Seitakivi (The Seita Stone)
Unna Ulla Nunnu
Riekko hangella (The Ptarmigan on the Snow Crust)
(from Keskiyön auringon lauluja, 1969)

Konsta Jylhä: Vaiennut viulu (Silent Violin)
(from Konstan Parhaat Osa 1, 1970)

Romolo Grano: Tarantana
(from Arcana, 1972)

Pokela, Sariola, Kontio: Karjalan kunnailla (The Hills of Karelia)
Konevitsan kirkonkellot (The Church Bells of Konevitsa)
(from Vanha ja uusi kantele, 1978)

Niekku: Velisurmaaja (Brother-slayer)
(from Niekku, 1987)

Värttinä: Kylä vuotti uutta kuuta (Waiting for the New Moon)
(from Musta lindu, 1989)

Hedningarna: Täss'on nainen (Here's a Woman)
(from Trä, 1994)

Sanna Kurki-Suonio: Ei musta (Not a Dark One)
(from Musta, 1998)

Juopunut - Drunk

Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Vastustamaton - Irresistible

Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Father

"What would any of us have been, if our fathers hadn't drawn our faculties out of us?"
Charles Dickens

Ruumisarkku - Coffin

Wax crayon. Rinta-Perälä, 2018.

Experimental music

Once again a list of artists I recommend. I'm not a critic. There are still so many stupid cliches and misconceptions surrounding experimental works.

The Velvet Underground & Nico (1967)
Ennio Morricone: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage (1970)
Ennio Morricone: A Lizard in a Woman's Skin (1971/1996)
Miles Davis: On the Corner (1972)
Goblin: Suspiria (1977)
Carlos/Ligeti/Bartok/Penderecki: The Shining (1980)
Chrome: Red Exposure (1980)
Diamanda Galas: The Divine Punishment (1986)
When: Drowning But Learning (1987)
Portishead: Dummy (1994)
Björk: Homogenic (1997)
Virus: Carheart (2003)

Dark Fantasies of Italian Cinema

Gothic, giallo, gore and cannibals - dark fantasies of Italian cinema. This 29-page article on the history of Italian horror from 1950s to 1990s appeared in Finnish Portti magazine in 1995. It presents the key directors and their films with short descriptions and spoilers.

In 1997, when I was 12, I primarily watched 1980s horror, but these days I prefer 1960s Mario Bava and 1970s Dario Argento. This article stimulated my imagination without restraint. It gave me a playground and introduced me to a world I fell in love with. One of the most beautiful realisations was that I didn't have to imagine a plot.