Parliamentary Elections in Finland

It's time to go to the polls here next Sunday. Browsing over entertainment news in Yahoo, I was surprised to find this. It's "a news item" about a book a former girlfriend wrote about our prime minister. No, it's not interesting, I was just surprised to see it there. :) "The news" is that it doesn't seem to effect negatively the general opinion on him.

Matti Vanhanen is the leader of the Center Party, and then we have the Social Democrats and the National Coalition Party, which are the three major parties here. In practice this means that one of them is out of the Government, and this has been going on for quite some time, so it's a bit different from those countries that have only two major parties. Every one is trying to get along with each other, so there aren't that many differences between the three.

At least the media is trying to make it a competition between the three prime minister candidates. Is it going to be Mr A, Mr B or Mr C? Who is going to be your next date... excuse me, I mean Prime Minister? :) I wonder if the general public really finds that the most interesting question. I know I don't.

I'm not going to vote for any of those parties anyway, but I will vote!

Treeball

Treeball is a "Finnish" band that has decided to release their fourth album I Dream of Eclectic Sheep for free on the internet. I guess one might describe their music as indie pop/rock. I've heard some of their songs on the radio before, but I haven't paid much attention really. Why have they decided to do this, I don't know, but I'm pretty sure it's not because they had no other options.

I think the album is rather good, better than I expected. Go to their website, download the songs, and see what you think.