Pieces of Finnish folk poetry

GENITALIA

 "Voi sinä vihanen vittu,
puolen kyrpe purasit"

"Vittulat sotahan lähti
vasten kyrpiä sotahan"

"Kyrpä kuusehen kykäsi
niinkuin kultainen orava
eli näätä kultarinta.
Vittu nousi kannon päähän
niinkuin leveä lehmän paska,
riekisteli, rääkisteli:
- Tule kulta kulkkuhuni,
hopea ikenihini!
Kyrpä vastasi vakainen:
- Tulkoot tuliset nuolet
sinun kutta kulkkuhusi,
ilkiä ikenihisi!
Kyllä muistan muinosetki
ikuset pahat tekosi:
veitpä väänit silmästäni,
aivot päästäni pusersit,
nahan kuorit korvilleni."

Oh you cursed cunt,
cut off half a cock

The cunts went to war,
a war against the cocks

Cock sprinted up a spruce
like a golden squirrel,
a gleaming weasel.
Cunt climbed onto a stump,
like a caked cow's shit,
jeering and sneering:
- Come, golden, into my gullet,
through my mouth!
Cock replied resentfully:
- Let arrows of lightning
come into your grievous gullet,
your miserable mouth!
I can think thoroughly back to
your every evil deed:
stole the strength of my eye,
squashed the brains out of my skull,
stripped the skin up to my ear.

- My translations of verses from Finnish folk poems
Vitun vihat (Curse of cunt)
Vitun synty (Creation of cunt)

Suomen kansan vanhat runot (Old Finnish folk poetry)
loitsuja (spells)

Finnish music picks, folk and classical

Songs that move me a great deal.

Martti Pokela
-- Riekko hangella (Willow Grouse on a Snowdrift)
-- Seitakivi (Seita Stone)
-- Unna ulla nunnu
from "Keskiyön auringon lauluja" (Songs of the Midnight Sun) SFLP 8500, 1969. Based on Lapponian melodies.
-- Muut ne kuuli kirkonkellot (Others Heard the Church Bells)
-- Itkevä tyttö (Weeping Girl)
-- Talapakan Nikolai
from "Kantele of Finland", SLP 531, 1965. Traditional Finnish.

Martti Pokela, Matti Kontio, Eeva-Leena Sariola
-- Kalevalainen sävelmä (Kalevala Melody)
from "Kantele", FACD 018, 1990.

Martti Pokela ja Eeva-Leena Sariola
-- Vanha pelimanni (Old Musician)
from "Kanteleet", LJLP 1027, 1983.
-- Piru kellotapulissa (Devil in the Belfry)

Teppo Repo
-- Omasta päästä, "kävelykeppi" (Improvisation, "walking stick" flute)
-- Paimensäveliä, truba (Shepherd's Tunes, truba trumpet)
from "Paimensoittaja Teppo Repo" (Herdsman's Music from Ingria), KICD 7, 1994

Konsta Jylhä
-- Vaiennut viulu (Silent Violin)
1970

Jean Sibelius
-- Andante festivo (at a festive walking pace)
1938
-- Tuonelan joutsen (The Swan of Tuonela [underworld])
1900
-- Sydämeni laulu (The Song of My Heart)
1898

dictionary

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Index:Finnish

Nothing is certain, except death and x

* Artist: Läjä Äijälä
* Publisher: Huuda huuda

Finnish and translated.

X is the best policy

I used to look for the original comics on auction sites, but now my wildest wishes have been granted and Äijälä's drawings for X magazine come in one beautiful 96-page book.

X came out once a year from 1990 to 1994 and had many artists besides Äijälä. It was sold in sex shops and advertised in S&M/leather... magazines.

Some of these comics are based on earlier ones from the 1980s and some were further combined and remixed for this new book. Finnish magazines Kannus and Sarjari have also featured them.

How would I describe the style? Bleakness and titillation. The tone is laconic, excessive and outrageous. The illustrations are gorgeously rough. What makes this interesting is that it isn't just basic leather and rubber fetishism. The minimal frenzy you see on these pages transcends you. It reminds me of the Japanese artist Hideshi Hino, and in some ways Finnish artists like Kalervo Palsa and Tom of Finland.

A man in his fifties celebrates his opportunity to be middle age crazy: he blows his brains out alone in an apartment and declares his new purpose, rotting.

Pin-up dominatrix Bettie Page has insane sessions with Elvis and Urho Kekkonen beyond the grave. Bettie is the one who crystalises the philosophy:

"You're one of us now!! Evil, good, pleasure... DEATH???
You find it exciting??? You're in a new world now!!! FOREVER."

"Mmm... I wonder what's next!!!"

Something good with three exclamation marks.

To each their x

Läjä was recently on TV talking briefly about his musical principles and how he and Terveet Kädet wanted to "kill all the rednecks in Tornio with their music."

He also appeared earlier on a pop culture program where he talked about his passion for pin-up photography, his early days when he discovered Hasil Adkins, his fellow comic artist Nalle Virolainen and his current obsession with death.

When Läjä was quietly turning the pages of a comic book in front of the camera, the program came to a screeching halt. It was appropriately awkward. It was perfect.

I recommend this book to all the people who wished that Veli-Matti "Läjä" Äijälä had directed films.

It ain't over till the fat lady whips

Anna mulle piiskaa

Give me some spanking

Rat shit, bat shit, dirty old twat!
Sixty-nine assholes tied in a knot!
Hooray! Lizard shit! Fuck!
George Carlin

Nothing is true, everything is permitted.
attributed to Hassan-i-Sabbah

The explosion of galaxies is violent. A comet falling on Jupiter making seven big holes is violent. The birth of a child is very violent. Someone passing away -- and I have assisted dying people -- I go sometimes. Even if the person is quietly dying, it's immense violence... this loss of consciousness. Life is violent; the circulation of blood, the heart beating, all this is violent. But there are two types of violence: creative and destructive.
Alejandro Jodorowsky

The souls of men must be scared to the core by unfathomable and seemingly senseless crimes... crimes that cannot even be understood by those who commit them... crimes that do not prove profitable to anyone. Their only purpose must be to spread fright and terror. The ultimate purpose of crime is to establish The Absolute Rule of Crime... a condition of complete insecurity and anarchy, built upon the perished ideals of a world. As soon as people are ruled by the terror of crime, when they have been driven insane by horror and fright, when chaos has been established as the governing law, then it will be the time of The Reign of Crime.
Dr. Mabuse's Reign of Crime

"In a group stupidity condenses."

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Finnish_proverbs

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Appendix:Finnish_idioms

"The forest answers in the same way one shouts in it."