Well i am back from my christmas trip to Finland, and i must say it was awesome! quite sad to be back but, i have next time to look forward to, hopefully the cabin in the summer (Cabin Pictures below), Christmas was great, a little different from the usual british christmas i am used to, as over there you open your gifts on the 24th and have a chill out day on the 25th! i got some great new DVD boxed sets from my girlfriend and her family, and some i bought myself! i also bought 6 more today, i love the sales

The DVD's i got for Christmas are:

Note - The DVD on the left titled 'Yön Ritari' is the 'Dark Knight' =)

I am so happy i finally got Jericho, and Twin Peaks, as it has not been fully released in the UK yet, and probably won't, we only have season 1 released here and it only contains 7 episodes and it still sells for like £40, so i managed to get the 10 Disc Definitive Gold Box Edition, which contains everything Twin Peaks, Season 1&2, UK & US original pilots, and a rediculous amount of cool special features and extras!

And Madventures II is amazing, and is also not released in the UK, i am the editor for this show on here also, so check it out, Season 1 does not contain English subtitles but this season 2 set does! and they are making a season 3, which airs in Finland in March 2009, and for the first time ever they are going to show it on UK and US tv, in the UK on channel 5, not sure of the US channel, but this is awesome, because before it airs they are also for the first time going to show Madventures I & II in the UK also, and include subtitles for season 1! which i am hoping for as they might re-release season 1 with English subtitles.

The DVD's i bought today are:

30 Days of Night (2 Disc) - (£3)
No Country For Old Men - (£4)
Blood Diamond - (£3)
This Is England - (£5)
TMNT - (£3)
Walk The Line - (£3)

Anyway, thats the christmas and DVD part of this blog over, now i took quite alot of photos on my travels this Christmas while in Finland, and i though some of you may like to take a look at them, so here are the links to the pictures, they are in seperate albums, The Winter Cabin pictures are of the same Cabin i will be visiting in the summer, i can't wait for this as it will be completly different in the summer, and the lake will not be frozen! =), please feel free to have a look and let me know what you think:

London (We had to travel from Newcastle to London to catch the flight)
Helsinki
Winter Cabin Part One
Winter Cabin Part Two

Enjoy!

Till next time! take care!

Well we finally arrived in Finland, we travelled to London on a coach and then got the flight from London Heathrow yesterday! we are in my girlfriends hometown of Elimäki at the minute and then off to Helsinki tomorrow to stay at our friends house for a few days! will not be back untill the 29th Dec so may not be on much! so hope you all have a great christmas!! =)

Oh and on a quick note, what on earth has happened to the homepage? and the drop down navigation system sucks in my opinion! what were they thinking??

Hey everyone!

In June my girlfriend got me tickets to see Apocalyptica, and the date of the gig finally arrived the other day! and i must say they were awesome! i was amazed at how good 3 Chello players and a drummer can sound live! they rocked! No singing at all, which i knew was going to happen as like 99% of their music does not contain lyrics, but they sometimes get guest singers in on some tracks such as Cory Taylor from slipknot, Adam Gontier from Three Days Grace and Sandra Nasić from The Guano Apes!

They covered some Metallica songs just on Chello from their "Metallica by Four Chellos" album, they sounded amazing! some of the songs being "Sad but true", "The Unforgiven", "Enter Sandman", "One" and "Nothing Else Matters"!

If you have not heard anything by this awesome finnish 4 piece then i suggest you have a listen!

Speaking of Finland, me and my girlfriend are heading there in 6 days to spend christmas with her mam and sisters!, i cannot wait! i have been to Finland a fair few times, but never for Christmas, we are going into the forest to chop down our own tree which will be awesome as i have never done this before, then we are going to her cousins winter cabin in the woods for a few nights, then onto Helsinki to stay with our friend Sari for a few days and visit some other friends we have in Helsinki, then onto her mam's house over Christmas! i can't wait, i am very excited! yet a little sad, as i have always spent christmas with my parents and sister, but this year i will be missing it, and my sister cannot make it home either, so this will be the first christmas my parents have spent alone as just the two of them in like 24 years! but we made a deal, i will pop on windows live on christmas day for a little while with the webcam on oh and another thing that i will find strange is that in Finland they have their Christmas dinner and open the presents on Christmas eve, and spend the Christmas day relaxing!

So i will not be online for 2 weeks starting from the 17th Decemberm well i might pop on for a little while on the lazy days while i am there

Oh and finally i would like to state how shocked i am at the new Battlestar Galactica Season 4 set! this is it:

Notice this just states "Season 4", which to me makes you think the complete Season 4 set, but NO!, This says season 4, but only contains the first 10 episodes on Season 4, no special features either, now call me picky but shouldnt this set clearly say "Season Four - Part One"?? some places are charging £35/$70, so it would not suprise me if some of these get baught as Christmas presents as it has just been released, and make alot of people dissapointed as it only contains 10 episodes! only to find that next year when the last episodes of Season 4 air, their will be another set released that will more than likely be called "Season Four - Part Two".

I think this is a very sloppy boxed set, it should be taken of the shelves and reprinted to clearly state that it is only part one and NOT as you would assume, they whole of season 4! things like this make me angry, i knew that it could not be the full season 4 as it has not all aired yet, but alot of people will not know this!