Finnish Interview With Ville (04.02.2010) Part. 2

second part if it… Veera: So have you stopped hanging out in bars altogether? Or if youre having a night out with your friends, do you take part in that? Ville: I dont have many friends, and I dont go out. Not hanging out in bars anymore doesnt have to do with me not drinking anymore but with the fact that you cant smoke there anymore. Bars smell bad now and theyre ugh and I dont want to hang there anymore. Itd be fun to go to a corner bar to read the paper or whatever and drink some coffee and smoke, but you cant do that anymore. You can say that I quit drinking because you cant smoke anymore. The two things went hand in hand. Now I just spend time at home where I can smoke. Veera: How have you filled that time? Is it just by reading and hanging at home? Ville: With music, pretty much. Its hard to say how I have filled my time because functional alcoholism is possible. You can do a lot of things while being a little drunk. Veera: What kind of big questions have you been pondering on lately? Ville: Big questions? Smoking laws. The economy of England/the English language. [What he says could be translated either way, and I honestly dont know which one he means. I guess the latter would make more sense.] What else? About how Barack Obama is accused of not having done anything. I have speculated about that on many occasions. Its interesting. If you think that theres a country where there was slavery about 160 years ago It doesnt matter how much he gets done because all the