"Farewell to the straths and green vallies below / Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods"

"I've never seen a night so long / when time goes crawling by / the moon just went behind a cloud / to hide its face and cry" * Diamanda Galás: I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry * live at the Vogue Theater in Vancouver on Nov 9th 2002 * written by Hank Williams * arranged by D. Galás * produced by Blaise Dupuy * the song released originally in 1949 * released on Dec 8th 2003

"We changed the light to low / it made our spirits glow / if it were up to me / I'd never let you go" * Blondie: End to End (music by Chris Stein, lyrics by Deborah Harry & Romy Ashby) * originally released in 2003 * Sessions@AOL on Feb 24th 2004

"Minä lasken elämäni silkan typeryyden huomaan / minä katson kiittäneeni jo kyllin korkeaa" * CMX: Fysiikka ei kestä (music by CMX: Janne Halmkrona, Tuomas Peippo, Timo Rasio, A.W. Yrjänä, lyrics by Yrjänä) \ produced by Rake with Halmkrona & Yrjänä \ released on Nov 11th 2003

"Mitä ne läskipäät lapsista ymmärtää? / vain kaavakkeen käskivät puolittain täyttämään" * Leevi and the Leavings: Matkalla omiin hautajaisiin (Gösta Sundqvist) \ produced by ANDERS FROM (Niklas Nylund) & Erik Kääriäinen (G. Sundqvist) \ released on Jun 13th (Fri) 2003

"I always have to comfort you every day / but that's what I need you to do, are you gay?" * Amy Winehouse: Stronger Than Me (A. Winehouse & Salaam Remi), released (at least in UK) on Oct 6th 2003

"Man takes a pencil and puts down his thoughts / the old human highway from Eden to Nod..." * David Byrne: The Great Western Road (from the soundtrack to the film Young Adam, premiered on May 16th 2003), released in Sep 2003 (assumingly on the 4th), uploaded by xxWhiteBrickWallxx

"Life is waiting, don't forget" * Heather Nova: I Wanna Be Your Light, released on Sep 8th 2003

Houston Skyline (Philip Glass), from the soundtrack to the film The Thin Blue Line (directed by Errol Morris, released on Aug 25th 1988), released on the album Music from the Thin Blue Line on Apr 4th 2003

Themes from the Finnish sports news tv program Urheiluruutu from 1963 to 2009, the first one released on Aug 18th 1963, the 1980's theme titled Tuhannen markan seteli (disco instrumentaali), performed by Leevi and the Leavings, written by Gösta Sundqvist, originally released in the spring 1980, heard on Urheiluruutu from the early 1980's to the early 1990's, the 1991 theme written by Kari Nihti

150 years (and 5 days) since the autonomization of Finnish - "Helvetin hyvin menee" * PMMP: Rusketusraidat (composed by Jori Sjöroos, lyrics by PMMP: Paula Vesala & Mira Luoti), released in Jun 2003, video directed by Kusti Manninen (first aired in 2004)

"Ich bin noch jung! Geh, lieber / und rühre mich nicht an" * Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto) & Inger Södergren (piano): Der Tod und das Mädchen, D. 531 (composed by Franz Schubert in Feb 1817, lyrics from a poem by Matthias Claudius; first published in Nov 1921), released in 2003