Finnish contributions to Art
Exhibit A: Sapattivuosi, a finnish Black Sabbath-only cover band. Finnish as in: also the lyrics are in finnish. Their second album is out now, bought the first one today, since the price has been now significantly reduced. No Paranoid on either record. Haven’t seen them live, so don’t know whether that’s part of the repertoire at all.
Exhibit B: Shoggoth’s Old Peculiar by Neil Gaiman. No, no, no. I’m not trying to claim that the creator of Sandman is a finn, honorary or otherwise. This Lovecraftian tale is illustrated by one, Jouni Koponen, a fan who sent his pictures to Neil, and here they are immortalized in book form. And as further homage to Finland, the protagonist is seen prancing around in a very traditional Jussi-shirt in some of the images. Locally available, but not that cheap (14 euros for twenty-odd pages), but at least part of the cost goes on to an excellent cause.
Did the not-periodical enough update to the record and movie listings.
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