It’s after the show here. Everyone’s asleep except me. I think the show went horribly today. It was a last-minute, thrown-together show, and there was about 15 people here, but I still think everything fell apart. It’s SO hard to tell if we had a good show. The woman selling drinks complimented us, and our old European booking agent complimented us. That was it. Alyson said that the Dutch are known to be very, very laid back about complimenting people after a show. People sat and watched. The TV was playing some show about astronomy! They were talking about black holes and stuff, from what I gather. It was all in Dutch, so I had no idea what they were saying!! It sounded great along with the songs though. And at the end of the show, the TV spoke a sentence, loudly, in Dutch, and everyone laughed, so I turned it off quickly. I asked later what it said and people told me it said, “In two days time everything got a lot worse!” heh heh heh…shit, I hope not! 2 days from now is our big showcase at PopKomm, the German equivalent of CMJ, I guess.
We were fed this extraordinary meal today on the roof of this co-op. There was a quiche with everything you could think of in it; eggs, toasted nuts, corn, green things, red things, pineapple!! Other dishes were rice, and then a salad with more nuts, tangerines, and pineapples. They have some big thing about pineapple here; you can get it in everything. I was so impressed with the food, I asked if they always eat like this here, and a girl replied that I was so impressed with the food because it was so “Colorific!” I was impressed with the many colors in it. Everyone here speaks such perfect English, it was funny to hear a word like that being used; almost like she saw it in a Jeans advertisement or something like that!
So tomorrow we’re going to Texas. Oops, I mean Germany. I’m almost looking forward to it! Holland is SO STRANGE!!
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