Personal characteristics
Surname: Salminen. Given names: Tapani Antero.
Born: on the 7th of April, 1962,
in Kangasala,
Finland.
Home address: Fleminginkatu 14 A 18,
00530 Helsinki,
Finland.
E-mail address: tasalmin@cc.helsinki.fi.
IRC nickname: Termis.
Telephone (at work): +358-9-191-7002.
Citizenship: of Finland.
Nationality: Finnish.
Tribal association: Tavastian [hämäläinen].
Native tongue: Tavastian Finnish.
Languages of oral communication: Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian.
Languages of correspondence: German, Tundra Nenets.
Profession: linguist [kielentutkija].
Academic degree: Dr.Phil.
Seat of learning and working:
Department of Finno-Ugrian Studies,
University of Helsinki, Finland.
Sign: Aries.
Character: see the previous entry.
Gender: male.
Lovelife parametres: gay as a goose, queer as a three-dollar-bill,
a perfect Kinsey six,
and proud of it.
Marital status: registered.
Hair: strawberry blond and receding heroically.
Eyes: officially blue, but possibly greenish-grey.
Face: see the (old) big picture.
Skin: sort of pink.
Height: 186 cm.
Weight: 75 kg.
Religious affiliation: no longer Lutheran.
Political conviction: ultra-green [linkolalainen].
Hobby: ornithology.
Other ways of passing time: sleeping, listening to music, reading, watching movies, stroking cats, occasionally working.
Favourite singers: Olavi Virta, Laila Kinnunen, Zarah Leander,
Jussi Björling, Edith Piaf, Carlos Gardel, Georg Ots, Tamara Lund.
Favourite songs: Eva (Virta), Na mandzhurskix sopkax (Kinnunen),
Rose in Novgorod (by Nino Rota; Leander), Värmland (Leander), Midsommarnatt (Björling),
Zurga and Nadir's duet "Au fond du temple saint" from the Pearl Fishers (Björling and Robert Merrill),
Hymne à l'amour (Piaf), Volver (Gardel), Saare[n]maa[n] valss[i] (Ots),
Lapin tango (Lund), Valkovuokot (Veikko Tuomi), Jäähyväiset (Anneli Sari),
Satumaa (Reijo Taipale),
Katjusha, Reppurin laulu.
Favourite Christmas song: Arkihuolesi kaikki heitä.
Favourite group: Eppu Normaali.
Favourite dance: jenkka.
Favourite books: Tuntematon sotilas and Täällä pohjantähden alla
by Väinö Linna, Mikael Karvajalka and Mikael Hakim by Mika Waltari,
Ihmiset suviyössä by F. E. Sillanpää, Master i Margarita by Mihail Bulgakov,
The Lost Language of Cranes by David Leavitt.
Favourite poem: Blixtens trängtan by Edith Södergran.
Favourite movies: Elokuu by Matti Kassila,
La ley del deseo by Pedro Almodóvar, Maurice by James Ivory,
Il fiore delle mille e una notte by Pier Paolo Pasolini,
the Apu trilogy by Satyajit Ray, Detstvo by Mark Donskoi.
Likes most: birds and trees.
Dislikes: forestry, pollution, waste and corruption,
which in Finland always go together.
Motto: "I like short hair best" -- E. M. Forster, Maurice;
or, "Istorija rassudit nas" -- Mihail Bulgakov, Master i Margarita.