All-American Trifle, Angel Food Cake, Apple Cake, Babka, Bánh Chuối, Banbury Cake. Battenberg Cake, Bebinca, Birthday Cake, Black Cake, Black Forest Cake, Bolo Rei, Bucellato, Butterfly Cake, Caramel Macchiato Cheesecake, Cassata, Castella, Chiffon Cake, Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice Cream Cake, Christmas Cake, Coffee Cake, Croquembouche, Čupavci, Dacquoise, Depression Cake, Devil's Food Cake, Dirt Cake, Doberge Cake, Dobos Torte, Double Layer Pumpkin Cheesecake, Easy Bunny Cake, Egg Tart, Eggies, Fairy Cake, Fruitcake, Garash cake, Gâteau Progrès, Génoise Cake, Gugelhupf, Heavy Cake, Hot Milk Cake, Imagawayaki, Irish Cream Bundt Cake, Is It Really Better Than Sex? Cake, Kolache, Linzer Torte, Madeleine, Marble Cake, Marry Girl Cake, Mooncake, Mud Cake, Napoleon Torte, Ostkaka, Pandan Cake, Paska, Pastiera, Pavlova, Petits Fours, Piece of Cake, Pinca, Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Princess Cake, Prinzregententorte, Profiterole, Pund Cake, Queen Elisabeth Cake, Raspberry Custard Kuchen, Red Bean Cake, Red Velvet Cake, Rigo Jancsi, Roscon de Reyes, Runeberg Cake, Sachertorte, Šakotis, Sfouf, Sno Balls, Song Gao, Southern Style Banana Split Cake, Spanische Windtorte, Sponge Cake, St. Honoré Cake, Strawberry Shortcake, Suncake, Tarta de Santiago, Tarte Tatin, Tiramisu, Tres Leches Cake, Torta Tre Monti, Vanilla Slice, Wacky Cake, Wedding Cake, White Chocolate Raspberry Cheesecake, Whoopie Pies, Wife Cake, Zwieback Cake.

Now I'm listing locations of Springfield: Albania, Algeria, Australia, Austria, Bahrain, Belgium, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Chile, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic (I'll never learn to spell this country correctly), Egypt, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Macedonia (this is a political statement against the Greek nationalists to not to call it FYROM), Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Montenegro, Morocco, Netherlands, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania (I think I go there in March), Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, Singapore, Slovenia, South Korea, Spain, Syria, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates.

Obviously, these places have nothing to do with the 35 Springfields in the United States, 13 Springfields in the United Kingdom, six Springfields in Australia or four Springfields in Canada. Neither this is not related with the most famous place called Springfield - the fictional city where the Simpsons live.

I've always been fascinated byt the lists of countries or cities (Paris - Tokyo - New York) in the plastic bags of brands and the bag of Springfield, the Spanish clothing brand, looked attractive with it's long list with exotic countries, though surpsingly it doesn't operate in the any of the two superpowers of the planet, the United States of America and the People's Republic of China.

I'll do an exhibition at Korjaamo, Helsinki, in the end of February exclusively of my list drawings. I'm still choosing the works but this is more or less the selection:

1 My Favorite Brands 2 My Favorite Chemical Weapons 3 My Favorite Drugs 4 Springfield Locations 5 My Favorite Banks 6 My Favorite Shops 7 My Favorite Execution Methods 8 Kim Jong Il-s favorite drinks 9 My Favorite Camps 10 My favorte Places 11 Prostitutes in Madrid 12 My Favorite Cities 13 Gals 14 My Favorite Yellow Fats 15 My Favorite Chinese People 16 The Life Style I Dream of 17 My Favorite Parade 18 My Favorite Drinks 19 My Favorite Sniper Rifles for Killing Civilians 20 Top Diets 21 My favorite Christian Terrorist Groups 22 My Favorite Hypermarkets 23 Best Escort Girls in Novosibirsk

Three years ago, I stayed two months in Tokyo – the monster megapolis par excellence if we don’t count Beijing. The Nipponese capital city doesn’t have street names and for that reason every ad, every flyer and every invite includes a map where you find marked McDonald’s and 7 Eleven. You navigate through the city the Golden Arches as your North Star. It’s celestial navigation of the consumers.

I’ve been reading in the newspaper maps of  Port-au-Prince, which was – before devastated by the earthquake last week - the capital city of Haiti. The Caribbean republic is - according to CIA World Fact Book - the 168th richest country of the world sorted by the gross domestic product at purchasing power per capita. The last time we heard something from Haiti was a couple of years ago when the price of the rice went 50% up and the food (or famine) riots hit the country.

Anyhow, in the maps of Port-au-Prince, the name Carrefour caught my eye and I was thinking how the world’s second retailer that invented the concept of hypermarket would have occupied this poor island. And furthermore, why the Carrefour hypermarket was pointed on every single map I saw. Carrefour was showed with the same importance that the presidential palace or the airport. I was consternated by the power of the brand.

Sometimes, we forget that the words had meanings before the brands hijacked them. Seven and eleven were numbers - not a convenience store, and a shell was the external covering of mollusks - not a gas station. Reading one of the numerous articles about the destruction of Haiti, I finally understood that Carrefour - meaning crossroads in French - used to be a haven for tourists when the infamous dynasty of Papa Doc and Baby Doc ruled the country. After the Doc family dictatorship the tourists went to th neighboring Dominican Republic and the Carrefour became abandoned and one of the poorest communes of  the Port-au-Prince metropolitan area.

A sniper is a highly trained marksman who shoots targets from concealed positions or long distances.

The Serbian sniper warfare during the siege of Sarajevo in the early 90's was an infamous terror tool by shooting at any person, whether military or civilian, adult or child. Inside the city, the Serbs controlled most of the military positions and and the main boulevard of the city was called informally Sniper Alley.

I continue with my sinister list drawings and now I listed my favorite sniper rifles for killing civilians.

Accuracy International AS50
Al-Qadissiya tabuk
AMP Technical Services DSR-1
ArmaLite AR-50
Arisaka Type 97
AWC G2
Barrett XM109
Blaser 93 Tactical
Brügger & Thomet APR308
CheyTac Intervention
Ceská Zbrojovka Uherský Brod  CZ 700
China South Industries AMR-2
Dakota Arms Longbow T-76
Denel NTW-20
Desert Tactical Arms Stealth Recon Scout
Dragunov SVD
EDM Arms Windrunner
Famae FD-200
FR F12
Harris Gun Works M-96
Heckler & Koch HK417
Hellenic Arms Industry Kefefs
István Fellegi Gepard
Izhevsk Mechanical Works SVDK
Kalekalip KNT-308
Kongsberg Small Arms Mauser M67
Knight's Armament Company SR-25
Marine Corps Systems Command M39 Enhanced Marksman Rifle
MKEK JNG-90
Mosin-Nagant Model 1891/30
Norinco JS 7.62
OBR SM Tarnów Bor
Parker Hale C3A1
Prairie Gun Works C14 Timberwolf
Pusca Semiautomata cu Luneta
Remington Arms M24 Sniper Weapon System
RH-Alan RT-20
Robar RC-50
Sako TRG
Savage 10FP
SIG-Sauer SSG 3000
Springfield Armory M25
Steyr HS .50
Valmet 7.62 Tkiv 85
Våpensmia NM149
Vidhwansak
VSS Vintorez
Walther WA 2000
WKW Wilk
Zastava M93 Black Arrow