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My first visit to Estonia today (a cheap €10 return day ferry) was also my first visit to any former Soviet state; we decided to forego any sort of touristy things in favor of just walking around and hitting some charity shops on the periphery of the center. Proper photos of the city and its sights can come later; I'm just excited about the stereo amplifier I found and painfully...

• Review of "Ex Drummer"
  A pretty good review that actually sees compassion in the film somewhere. I'm not sure if i agree but it actually makes me want to see it again, already.
  (tags: film review ex_drummer)

It's Christmas time, and I've been spending it staring at the TV. I'm currently locked into a weird existence where I've been staying up past 4 AM, and then sleeping through any small bits of daylight we might be granted here. It's an easy pattern to fall into when you don't have windows anyway. And now that I'm on Christmas holiday from the day job, there's...

When he has finished speaking I can never remember what he has said.  there remains only an impression of strangeness, darkness … On television, his face clouds when his name is mentioned.  It is as if hearing his name frightens him.  Then he stares directly into the camera (an actor’s preempting gaze) and begins to speak.  One hears only cadences.

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• Piscium
  Old fish illustrations from BibliOdyssey - pretty amazing.
  (tags: art illustration fish bibliodyssey)
• New Left Review - Mike Davis: Fear and Money in Dubai
  Mike Davis on Dubai
  (tags: urban theory city dubai)

Bat Tarbet will be performing at the two-day It's All In Your Mind event, at Vaihtolava in Kallio, Helsinki.  This will be our first performance in over a year and our first performance in Finland.  We're playing Saturday around 19:30 but I recommend the whole event as there will be lots of interesting music there!