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Came down to eastern Finland from Helsinki yesterday to start working on my new album. I also started a weight lifting program yesterday to build some muscles. Tomorrow morning I have an interview with the university I applied for in…

It’s past midnight. Today I am born again. I couldn’t sleep so I got up and made some notes. Started reading and then felt the urge to write this. I am Markus. Songwriter. Singer. Guitar player. Musical genius. The world’s…

This seems to happen to periodically. I get really interested in health, ethics, science, philosophy, knowledge, spirituality, life, and everything related to it. I want to know more. I want to feel great. I want to be efficient. I want…

I’m feeling slightly frustrated currently because I can’t record here since there’s too much noise coming from everywhere. The problem is outside mostly, there’s this constant hum of traffic and for the whole day some guy has been cleaning the…

The other day I came across an interesting phrase “raising the bottom” from a radio interview with Michael Ruppert and Peter Joseph. This expresses very well what I wrote about earlier about abandoning my ‘gradual changes’ thing. Btw, Joseph in…

I decided to scrap the “gradual changes” thing and just live life the way I want to right now because honestly I know what to do and what needs to be done. Sure, I will probably make mistakes here and…

Spent today at Nuuksio national park with my cousin who drove down to helsinki to pick me up in the morning. It was nice a place although there were surprisingly many mosquitoes in the forests. We walked about 6km and…

It is pretty stupid to practice an instrument for hours and hours, year after year or rewriting words again and again that just don’t feel right or endlessly rearranging/rewriting/reshaping older material and musical parts and combining them with an ever-expanding…

I’ve made a lot of changes in my life in recent years. Or at least tried to. I’ve also made a lot of mistakes in my lifetime for which I’ve paid the price. At some point I just realized that…

I had my 29th birthday exactly a month ago which I celebrated my becoming a vegetarian! So far it’s been a success and expect it to be so for the rest of my life as well. The ideal is to…