Syndicating various hours of existance

Everything's different! Yeah! I'm excited about this for real. I've decided to bring my internet worlds together; the blog and the music site now cohabitate. Don't expect the blog content to change at all. Once in a while I'll mention a new release or a show I've recently played but besides that it's the usual dose of whatever is currently floating my boat. I figured that since my music is such a huge part of who I am it made complete sense to link it all together and streamline the amount of links you have to click to keep up with my business.

As I mentioned in my last entry, this past weekend in Sweden was Midsommar. And as is the case with most of Sweden's holidays, you start early and go really late. A friend of ours drove us to the outskirts of town where we visited a public Midsommar celebration. Unfortunately you have to pay an entrance fee to join the party. What, no guestlist! And so I'm sorry to say this, but I'll go ahead and admit it here; myself and my counterparts jumped the back fence and breached their um, "secure" border. I can't say I'm proud of this, as the money surely went to the 3-man band that sang song after traditional Midsommar song as all danced themselves around the Maypole. We joined in for a few songs, I learned a few new dance moves and left feeling a couple percentage points more Swedish than I was when I walked (jumped) in.

I'll spare most of the details, but for the next 10 or so hours I consumed mass amounts of food and drink, talked to lots of good people and got embarrassed in a boys vs. girls game of kubb. By about 1:00AM we were in a taxi bouncing over the countryside in hopes to find m'sweet's brother, and did in the midst of his own Midsommar dance party. I stepped up to the CD player for my turn as DJ and graced the small gathering with a short set (details are fuzzy) that wrapped up with "Emotional Rescue".

I spent the taxi ride home trying to convince m'sweet's brother's girlfriend that Sweden had a great chance to beat Germany in the World Cup the next day and I think I may have been good enough to peak her interest. Sorry to get everyone all worked up about that one. If you didn't know they were pretty easily defeated. My USA is out as well. My plan now is to trace my familytree back on my grandfather's side and get in touch with that small bit of German heritage I think I might have.