Epinions Recent Reviews for jarno_m_l

Rocks are Friendlier In Finland!

Tue, 24 Jul 2001 10:10:33 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - I'm Awfully sorry about my very late submission to this write-off... someone sometime said that never make excuses for being late, so I won't. I hope someone knew what (s)he was talking about, and I won't get stoned to death or something.
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The Stooge Guide To Coming Down A Mountain

Fri, 11 May 2001 22:23:41 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - I am not much of a skier, let that be said right of the bat. As much as I'd like to elegantly swoosh down the mountains with impressive speed and agility, charming the ladies with my victorious smile as others are left biting the dus... er... snow, I...

Death Does Balvenie...

Tue, 8 May 2001 19:29:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - I've recently made a wonderful discovery - there's a pub in Helsinki that actually houses a whisky bar with a very nice selection of single malts. And here I was thinking that the only way for a poor Scandinavian whisky nerd to get to sample a...

Stoogin' in Kraków

Sun, 6 May 2001 20:35:32 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - It was a dark and stormy night... well, not that stormy really, but it was dark enough to make up for the lack of storminess. Twenty six weary Finns plus luggage were drudging through the snow on the streets of Kraków. The snow had melted...

Dark And Dreamy

Fri, 4 May 2001 20:02:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - When you buy a Kate Bush album, the only thing you can be sure of is that you're in for some sort of a treat. Whether the flavours are bitter or sweet, whether your ears will be massaged with soothing sounds or charmed by hectic vocal acrobatics...

In the future, women will have breasts all over

Mon, 23 Apr 2001 22:26:08 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Weird and catchy and... um... did I say weird already? Those are fitting words for Talking Heads, and the man behind the music, David Byrne. You might remember Byrne from his music videos - he's the sweaty guy in a way too big suit,...

Was that my smoke detector going off?

Thu, 19 Apr 2001 15:24:05 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - "Smoke in a bottle". That's how a friend of mine, nowadays a whisky-nerd just like me, described the 16 y.o. Lagavulin to me after his first taste of the stuff. "I swear that you could smell the smoke in my apartment the whole day once I...

Explosions! Lasers! Target-seeking rocks from the sky!

Sun, 15 Apr 2001 19:36:49 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - I learnt something important a couple of days ago… when everybody tells you not to bother seeing some movie, don't. Of course, having failed to follow that commonsensical advice in the past, I should have known better than to waste my time...

The meeting of son and father - of east and west.

Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:45:43 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - A few years ago, I stumbled on a book titled The Monk And The Philosopher among the new arrivals section at a bookstore. The title immediately caught my eye, and as I read the back cover, I knew that there was no way I could get myself to leave...

Wow

Fri, 6 Apr 2001 18:42:49 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Lately, my cd-player has grown very fond of Kate Bush. The infatuation has revealed itself in the fact that "The Whole Story" cd can be found in the company of my cd-player more often than might be considered appropriate for a refined...

Rekindle the bum inside you.

Mon, 2 Apr 2001 20:46:17 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - "Ladies and gentlemen! Harry's Harbour Bizarre is proud to present, under the Big Top tonight, Human Oddities!

That's right, You'll see The Three Headed Baby, you'll see Hitler's brain, see Lea Graff the German midget who sat in J.P. Morgan's...

Looking for some sweet stuff?

Sat, 31 Mar 2001 17:44:04 GMT

rating: 3/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Here's a new chapter in my search for the perfect whisky, the one I'm sure exists, just waiting to be found. You know, the true "water of life", the stuff that only the select few ivory-tower whisky-snobs know about and secretly drink, laughing at the...

Bound for pleasure, destined for trouble

Thu, 29 Mar 2001 19:21:43 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - I love flying. Now sitting still for hours in a crowded aeroplane nourished only by that strange substance called "aeroplane food" is not particularly enjoyable on it's own. Nor do I get any satisfaction out of the uncomfortable changes in air-pressure...

Sculptures of sound for weird people.

Tue, 27 Mar 2001 22:20:37 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Experimental music is a funny thing. If you are exposed to it enough, it tends to creep up on you and make you listen. Initially you listen out of the morbid curiosity of someone watching a freak show. After a while, a question pops in your head;...

Heaven in a bottle

Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:31:55 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - After a long day of treasure hunting during my trip to London I finally stumbled upon the Holy Grail. Well, maybe not the Holy Grail, but that's how it felt to me, a whisky-lover infatuated with Islay whiskies.

At first I had tried the...

Interview with a cosmic Baron von Münhhausen... sort of...

Fri, 23 Mar 2001 20:58:35 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Star Diaries is a book I wrote a long analysis on in my late High School years. I exposed, almost line by line in some cases, the sharp satire and the brilliant social commentary behind this masterpiece by the Polish author Stanislav Lem. I...

Whatever you do, just don't think of mimics

Tue, 20 Mar 2001 17:51:20 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - You know the experience where you hear some aggravating catchy tune in the morning, (most probably from some cheesy commercial) and then spend the rest of the day trying to stop it playing over and over again in you head? Why is it so hard to...

Sweaty socks. Sound appetizing?

Mon, 19 Mar 2001 19:53:59 GMT

rating: 2/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - I recently made a whisky-lover's dream trip to Scotland, and had a chance to sample a lot of whiskies that I was previously completely unfamiliar with.

Isle of Jura was one of the single malts that really intrigued me, because it is...

Velvet voice - gems among lesser rocks.

Sun, 18 Mar 2001 17:54:33 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - One day, not so long ago, I had the pleasure of watching Fight Club. And just like a good little Tom Waits fan, I immediately spotted the music playing in the background in one club scene - it was from the Waits album "Bone Machine".
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Adventure like no other - India stole my heart

Fri, 16 Mar 2001 21:55:30 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Imagine finding yourself, after more than 24 hours of travelling and waiting at airports, in what looks to your Western, polished-clean Scandinavian eyes like a... a... city slum. But not just any slum, but a slum where all the poverty stricken...

"It's like looking at pictures of yourself with big ears"

Thu, 15 Mar 2001 22:18:13 GMT

rating: 4/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - The 1973 album "Closing Time" is the beginning of a long and impressive career of one of the most original songwriter/performers you'll ever hear. You might be a little surprised though - is this young man with an almost angelic voice really the...

Take your medicine... that's a good boy!

Wed, 14 Mar 2001 20:51:11 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Laphroaig is so often referred to as the love-it-or-hate-it whisky that it's become almost obligatory to mention the fact in any review of this malt. I'll make no exception - Laphroaig indeed is the whisky which tends to have people split into two camps...

Something is rotten in the state of Denmark

Tue, 13 Mar 2001 22:55:14 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - Many phrases from Hamlet (like the title of this review) have acquired a life of their own, and become so ingrained in the shared memory of Western culture that we seem to have received the ability to recognise them almost in mother's milk - who does not...

From beyond a fate worse than death

Mon, 12 Mar 2001 20:46:31 GMT

rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, the ex-editor-in-chief of Elle magazine, suffered a severe stroke that damaged his brain stem. A few weeks later he came out of the coma only to discover himself in a condition called LIS,...

Aliens have kidnapped Manhattan Transfer....

Sun, 11 Mar 2001 23:07:31 GMT

rating: 1/5 by: Epinions Author jarno_m_l - ....and replaced them with a humanoid replica band!

But they can not fool me! I know the Manhattan Transfer, they are jazzy, clever, and never stoop to mediocrity!

*sigh*

This is not a pleasant review to write. For...