Wolfs, Eagles and Fish

This has been a Fantastic week! Friday to Friday with none stop fun and work. Last Friday Stina arrived at JFK, we got in a taxi and rush of to New Jersey via Manhattan to get to a Wolf Parade show at Wellmont theater. This being my first time in NJ, it was a experience in it self. It has a completely different feel than Manhattan. The show was good, not as fantastic as I had expected, but I must admit that my expectations was sky high. But I had so much fun it didn't matter at all. After the concert we got invited back stage because Cole is a friend of one of the member in the band. The backstage wasn't literally back stage, it was a trailer parked outside the venue. There were so many people trying to get in there, the owner of the trailer looked really nervous. I've never understood the fuzz about getting backstage, unless you know someone who is there. Trying to push my way in would only make me embarrassed, feel like a groupie. Any way, it was fun enough, but Stina had been awake for more than 24 hours so we left before the party back there really took of. The trip back to Manhattan was a chapter in it self, after doing a couple of things which aren't exactly legal, and kind of embarrassing so I won't mention them here, we headed for the train station. As we should have expected, the train from NJ didn't go at night. We were walking from the station and was considering paying the ridiculously expensive NJ taxi home, when to our luck we saw a NYC taxi letting of some people. I rushed over to it and asked if we could catch a ride to the city. He wouldn't let us because NYC taxi's are not allowed to pick up people in NJ. Disappointing! we started walking again when we met a Asian girl, who also had been at the concert and was trying to get back. She was really geeky but nice enough. She started following us, not in a threatening way, just think she felt it was safer to go with someone. Then I saw the same NYC taxi and this time he said that we could get in if we hurried before the police saw us. All three of us got in the taxi. After driving for about an hour we all got the feeling that we weren't heading in the right direction, the driver asked for direction and realized that he had been driving in the opposite direction of the city. The Asian girl seemed nervous, making strange sounds, I think she thought that we were being kidnapped or something. We on the other hand had a hilarious time, blabbering in Norwegian, enjoying NJ "sightseeing". About two and a half hour and twenty dollars later, we were at cooper square buying food at Mickey D.

On Monday we were at another concert, this time with Eagles of Death Metal with The Dukes Spirit as support at Bowery Ballroom. I've never listened to the British band TDS before, but they were quite fun. Clearly influenced by artists as Cramps and Nick Cave. The lead singer had an amazing karma (in lack of a better word), with her sexy dance, nice voice and harmonica solos you didn't notice any of the other members at all. EoDM was just pure fun. We got up all the way to the front and danced as good as possible in the cramped space. There were a lot of bullying, but I was really in the mood for it so I threw my elbows everywhere without getting annoyed with any of the retaliations. Yeah!

On Thursday a big group of my Friends went to my favourite bar, Fish bar, to celebrate Charlotte's birthday with cheap bourbon, beer and cake. It was great! And to my surprise there were sitting a celebrity amongst us. In a dark corner of the little pub, wearing a hat and big glasses sat Scarlett Johansson! As said before I'm not the biggest celeb stalker, but I must admit that it was kind of fun that she was there.

These are just some of this weeks highlights. In between all the fun, I've been really busy at school, I've realized that the opening of our upcoming show is a week earlier than I thought. It's, as usual with me, gonna be a rush until the last minute.