Friday Night/Saturday morning

On friday night Jenson and I headed out to go see "The Ladybug Transistor", i am not exaclty sure where they are from but they sing about Virgina alot so my assumption is Virgina. We weren?t sure what to expect but I assumed the best and expected a crowd. It took about 20 or 30 minutes to walk to the Domus Atrium 2002 where the show was being held and when we got there we didn?t see anyone. I figured that it was just really early but nope there just wasn?t a crowd at all.

The entire crowd consisted of about 70-100 teenagers and mid to late 20s somethingers. outside the gates another 20-30 people were hanging around. The cost of admission was only 3 euros but you could see the entire show from outside the gates and hear it just as well. Wanting to support this type of activity I bought a ticket even though I only went in for a few minutes. It was neat though, those that showed up knew the band and they were singing along with the songs.

The Ladybug transistor plays a soft independent style music with a definite roots in old country (not new country pop crap), beach boys and ventures. The lead guitarist looks exactly like the early beach boys or Venture. He had bleach blond hair the swayed over his eyes and played a red rickenbacher with a white stripe down the middle. Each riff he played you could hear the influence of the beach boys and ventures on it.

Even though they were decent I wasn?t that into the music and neither was the people we ran into. When we arrived at the theater we met up with the Dutch group. They are called the dutch group because the group seems to grow. It started out with Judith (my roommate) and a few of her friends (Danielle, Sander and Vincent) but it is now like 15 people. They are a fun bunch though and we run into them everywhere.

Ok so we were all a bit bored with the concert so we decided to walk back to town and go to the dance club med-evio. That started a big trend, we went to a bazillion more clubs all night long. Club hopping in Spain, quite fun. I?m not quite sure what time I got home but I do know that most clubs don?t close until 5:30am and now I know the reason for the Spanish siesta. I needed one today. :)

Oleg

Jenson would prefer me to not talk about his adventure here in Spain, which should say a lot. He is doing well isn?t that sick anymore and is going out almost every night. I, however, go out only once maybe twice a week that boy can just party to no ends. As for spanish senoritas for Jenson, he hasn?t kicked me out of the room yet so maybe he?s not doing that well in the clubs. I don?t know though I?ve ran into him at a few clubs (he hangs out with the Dutch group and I tend to hang out with a few people from Sweden and Brazil) and is always full out pimping. He dances like Snoopy Dog?s sidekick (minus the jewel encrusted suit).

Classes

Oh boy, two weeks down and I have learned quite a bit. I really, really want to stay here another month or so. You can learn so much in so little time by living in Spain and attending 5 hours of instruction a day, it?s just insane.

Tonight

Tonight I am trying to do two things. The first is a bull fight at 6:30 (in one and a half hours so I?ve gotta get going) and the other is a Ray Gelato concert. I have no idea who Ray Gelato is but the concert is free and check out the website. That guy is a straight out pimp. It is going to be another interesting night. 

Alright I have a ton of homework to get done before the concert and tomorrow is going to be chock full of homework. I have to write a story about "mi fin de semana" it?s only a page long or so but umm.. I?m in the beginner class I can barely form a sentence, let alone a whole story. Additionally past tenses in Spanish are freakin?ridiculous I barely have present tenses down and now I have to figure out past tenses. My story is going to be quite interesting (and quite grammatically incorrect).

By the way, current music for the week: Fangoria and some Paulina Rubio. I had both of these album before I came to Spain and they play them all the time, Fangoria is quite good. (Neither group is from Spain but they are both Spanish, Fangoria is Mexican I believe)