First of all, thanks to all the people that have been patient and still visit this blog. Thanks to everyone that sent me emails asking whatever happened to the blog. To those who don’t have a clue what I’m talking about, well, thanks for visiting it now.
The blog was down from July 30th to August 19th. The server where the blog was hosted crashed. There was a server failure. This is not that uncommon. What is uncommon is that it took so long to be restored. Actually, it was never restored in that server. I changed servers, I changed hosting companies, and restored the whole blog manually, post by post. I couldn’t restore the comments though. Thus, there are no comments on any posts in the blog now. This makes me very sad because there were some GREAT comments, great stories being told by band members, and some discussions and disagreements on many of my rants. But well, who is to blame? The name is Cool Handle Hosting. You know, if you google them you’ll never find a bad review about them? They seem to be the best in hosting services. Seems it’s all a facade. They are truly crap. You can’t imagine how nightmarish this has been. Emailing them all the time asking them for updates and they barely answering me “thanks for your email, we have forwarded it to our admin” time and time again. I called them on the phone and some clueless guy would answer me. No help whatsoever. So yeah, never host your website there because their technical service is utterly bad. And their customer service is even worse.
Good thing is that the blog is back, right?
But then I’m going to take a big break from September 1st to September 14th. When I’m back I’ll start to document this year. I miss doing that. There hasn’t been much time this year. It’s been like a roller-coaster year. Lots of trips, meeting old friends, making new friends, buying lots of records, trying new food, releasing more records, and learning lots of gossip. There have been really difficult months, like the one that is about to end. Where not only the blog was down, but had so many arguments with friends. Also many friends have left town this past month making Miami a desert. Lots of work, little time. Rough times. This break just comes in handy.
Where am I going?
First stop is Berlin. There I will attend the Indiepop Days festival that is organized by the lovely Let’s Kiss and Make Up gang. I will DJ on Saturday night and on top of that I will see many bands that have passed by Cloudberry like Zipper, The Felt Tips, The Sunny Street and Stars in Coma. I also look forward to Bart Cummings (from Cat’s Miaow) solo set. This should be magical. Especially that Saturday night at the Disney-looking Water Tower (yes, that’s the venue!!). Hanging out with the same people that made last October’s Hamburg weekend one of the best times of our lives, we expect to match that but in Berlin. This time we’ll celebrate my dearest Kat’s birthday and that alone is also such a good reason to be there. The memory of walking Prenzlauer Berg with her on a chilly autumn afternoon in Berlin while she is pushing her bicycle around, and then stopping to drink beer, sitting on the sidewalk among dead leaves, it’s just brilliant. And this has to be repeated. And also repeat the schnitzel and those tall hefeweizen beer glasses for three euro!! ha!
Second stop is in a little seaside town, in the Baltic, called Scharbeutz. Not much happens there, just visiting my mom. I’ll have a little rest I hope.
Third stop is Malmö, Sweden. Half of my good Swedish friends seem to live there for some reason. I decided to pay them a visit. And I will have the chance to DJ two days in a row, on Thursday and Friday. On both days I will be joined by Jennifer behind the decks. String Bean Jen for many indiepop people. For me, Jennifer, maybe Jennifercita. Ah! Best of friends. So I’m sure we’ll just play the best indiepop tunes. If you happen to be in Malmö, definitely come. Where in Malmö? Okay, Thursday it is at So Tough So Cute. and Friday at Don’t Die On My Doorstep. If you click on the links, you’ll be teletransported to the facebook event page.
Fourth stop: Copenhagen. We are going to be here on Saturday, Jennifer and me, to be tourist and to Jennifer to enjoy bicycles or something about bicycles. I still don’t know what the bicycle part is all about, but she always associates Copenhagen with bicycles. I just want to walk around, have beer, walk around, have beer. And take touristy photos! The little mermaid anyone? It should be fun!
Fifth stop is back to Berlin for just a day. I really don’t want this day to come: a day to say goodbyes.
To leave August behind, to start traveling again, is what I wish for now. September’s not so far away.
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