enjoy the silence
tuesday, july 31, 2001
well, thanks to a sweet girl at the v�xj� tourist office, i've got a place to stay tomorrow night after the concert, and it's only a three mile walk from the outdoors venue.. yey, tourist-girl saves the day!
the boy is performing live on the telly tonight anyways. it's the biggest summer tv show in sweden, which is a weekly live broadcast from stockholm where thousands of people primarily between the ages of 60-80 show up to sing karaoke along with the host and guests for an hour. no, really, total karaoke, us viewers can participate since all the lyrics roll on the bottom of the screen.
while they're singing good ole songs with plenty of "la la la la"'s interjected in their lyrics, the host and guests sway into the audience and push their microphones into the elderly's faces to have their weak singing be heard extra loud. no matter how bad the prey squeals, the host keeps a benign smile on his face before moving onto another squealy audience member. the terror on some faces when they see the mike coming closer and they know they have to sing for real... smashing fun.
with sailor boy there, i'm sure it'll be even more fun. snerk!
now if i could just get out of the ten day long funk i've been in all should be perfect for
tomorrow. i've got batteries, loaded camera, batch of cds, a book, two large bottles of water,
umbrella (for the sun), snacks and a neatly folded sheet to evade the $5 sheet charge at the
overnight place.. obviously, something will take place to ruin tomorrow's concert as well, it's
the law of.. something, but for now, i'm ready.
bring it on, i say - bring it oooon!
