Excellent scheisse

Excellent Scheisse: Teemu

Teemu Brunila

Books:

John Steinbeck: Of Mice and Men, Tortilla Flat, The Moon is Down
Mihail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita
Ernest Hemingway: The Old Man and The Sea
Tove Jansson: Moominland in the Winter, Moominvalley in November, Moominpappa at Sea... and actually pretty much all the other Moomin books too.
Fjodor Dostojevski: Notes from Underground, The Gambler
Herman Melville: Moby Dick
Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
X-Men: any Marvel comic book that has Wolverine in it.

Music:

David Bowie, Lou Reed, Sufjan Stevens, Anthony & The Jonhsons, Air, M83, Smashing Pumpkins, Nick Drake, Lloyd Cole, U2, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys, The Cure, The Jackson Five, Michael Jackson, Kelis, Stevie Wonder, Ladytron, Van Halen, The Rolling Stones, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths, The Police, The Beatles, The Carpenters, Abba, Astor Piazzolla, Queen, Moloko

Films:

1. Clockwork Orange (Stanley Kubrick). à “I was feeling a bit shagged and fagged and fashed for it had been a night of some great energy expenditure.”
2. Sånger från andra våningen = ”Songs from the second floor” (Roy Andersson). à The film about everything.
3. Dancer in the Dark (von Trier)à I cried.
4. Festen (Winterberg) à What do you have to have if you can’t use any explosives? A good script.
5. Happiness (Todd Solontz) à A moral tester.
6. Magnolia à Ok, there is Tom Cruise but just deal with that fake bohemians. Especially the singing scene is historical.
7. Rambo: First Blood. à “They drew first blood.” Great argumentation for blowing up everything.
8. Spinal Tap. à I cried. These things actually happen.
9. Dead Man (Jim Jarmush). If I’d have to have sex with a man, it should happen with Johnny Depp. Of course if that’s alright with Mr. Depp.
10. Woody Allen movies. à Zelig, Deconstructing Harry, Men and Women for starters. Truly excellent scheisse
11. 2001. The Space Odyssey. (Stanley Kubrick) à Stanley really knew how to make the picture bigger than the screen.
12. Blade Runner. à The film itself isn’t nearly as good as it could be but the music, the music my friends, it is divine. It sounds like Vangelis is playing sky scraper sized synthesizers (although Yamaha CS 80 is a bit smaller).

Beaux arts:

Yoshitomo Nara, Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Ernst Billgren, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami

www:

I’m not good at finding interesting sites. Then again, I don’t have thick glasses like Erkki and Samuli. I’ve heard that you can even find pictures of naked people somewhere in the Internet but I just can’t believe that. It can’t be true. But anyway, since I love good sounds and expensive gadgets with many buttons my favourite site is www.gearslutz.com Check it out ladies! I know you wanna know what kind of a tube an original Telefunken U-47 microphone has!

Excellent Scheisse: Samuli

Samuli Haataja

My gear (on gig):

Fender Precision bass -78
Gibson EB-3 bass -68
Tech21 Sansamp RBI preamp
Sovtek Big Muff

Recommended reading

Samuel Becket: Mercier et Camier
Henri Michaux: Selected Writings
Jacques Cousteau: The Silent World

DVD’s I just bought

Jacques Cousteau – The Movie Box
U2 Rattle and Hum

Sites I’ve visited recently

Excellent Scheisse: JJ

Samuli "JJ" Jokinen

MUSIC

Astor Piazzolla
David Bowie
Queen
J.S. Bach
S. Rachmaninov
F. Chopin
Muse
Jamiroquai
Sigur Ros
Jamie Cullum
Chick Corea
Charlie Parker
Guns 'n' Roses
Joni Mitchell (especially "Both Sides Now")
Sting

MOVIES

Forrest Gump
Band of brothers (This is more like a TV series, but I feel it as a long movie…)
Trainspotting
Fantasia (Disney)
Silver Fang (all of them)
Clockwork Orange
The Shining
The Shawshank redemption
Magnolia
Shine

CITIES

New York
Tokyo
Lisbon
Berlin
Prague
Wien

GEAR

Clavia Nord Stage

This is the stage piano that I'm using at the gigs and, yeah, must say that those guys in Sweden really know how to make keyboards!! Good job, definitely...I just love this instrument. Everything works splendidly. I especially love the sounds of Rhodes and Wurlitzer in the Nord. The Nord is also very practical to use in live situations.

Roland Juno 60 and 160

What can I say? Old, but what a great sound and quality! I've used the Juno 106 in every gig with the Crash and can always trust it to do a great job. I think the Juno 60 has better and slightly warmer sounds than the 106 and that's why I like to use it in studio. Maybe someday I'll take it for live gigs too…

Korg Triton

This is very basic tool in live situations. It doesn’t have that much specialty or personality about it, but the basic aspect is just what is needed on stage sometimes. The best thing about this instrument is that there is the sampler in it.

Bugari Accordions

I have three different sorts of accordion by Bugari. One of them is a traditional instrument, called "Golden Cassotto", then I have the concert model accordion (free bass), and, my favourite, a Bugari Musette accordion. It is this Musette that can be heard in the new version of Lauren. You can really feel the french mood with that…

Excellent Scheisse: Erkki

Erkki Kaila

Gear in use:

- Ludvig '75 drumkit (24"bd, 13" & 18" toms)
- Yamaha 70's steel snare (14 x 6.5 ")
- Zildjian A-Custom 14" hihat, K ride 20", K-custom 18" crash & A-Custom 17" crash
- Pro Mark 5B drumsticks
- JP refreshment pack

Sites worth visiting right now:

- The unofficial Speak fansite - http://speak.index.hu/
- Cartoon dubbing in Finnish - http://koti.mbnet.fi/wheany/agapio/index.php
- Planearium.de : create your own South Park character - http://www.sp-studio.de/
- Something Awful: Photoshop Phriday - http://www.somethingawful.com/d/photoshop-phriday/
- Overheard in New York - http://www.overheardinnewyork.com
- Superdickery - http://www.superdickery.com
- KIDDofSPEED - Ghost Town - http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
- Chuck Norris Facts - http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/

Recommended animated movies:

- Tim Burtons Nightmare before christmas & Corpse Bride
- Les Triplettes de Belleville by Sylvain Chomet

- Anything from Hayao Miyazaki, but especially these:
- My Neighbor Totoro (Tonari no Totoro)
- Spirited away (Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi )
- Crimson Pig / Porco Rosso (Kurenai no buta)
- Howls Moving Castle (Hauru no ugoku shiro)
- Princess Mononoke (Mononoke-hime)

- From Walt Disney:
- The Lion King
- Dumbo
- Fantasia
- Winnie the Pooh

- From Nick Park:
- Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave
- Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
- Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out
- Creature Comforts

Recommended comic books, artists and series:

- Peanuts (70's and older) by Charles M. Schultz
- Krazy Kat by George Herriman
- Calvin&Hobbes by Bill Watterson
- Maus I & II by Art Spiegelman
- The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers by Gilbert Sheldon
- The Far Side by Gary Larson
- Benoit Sokal
- Carl Barks
- Robert Crumb
- Ralf Kˆnig
- J.Tilsa (unfortunately only in Finnish..)
- Nyrok City by Mauri Kunnas (..as well as this one)