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Ryan Hembrey at the airport in Oslo, Norway

My bassist Ryan Hembrey took this picture in the Oslo Airport. It was the end of a long tour… we’d had no sleep and were drinking coffee at six in the morning trying to stay awake so we could catch our flights back to Chicago.

Played at the Café Mono with Ryan Hembrey accompanying me on electric bass.

Okay, now I’m in the Oslo airport waiting for Ryan to get here.  There’s wireless internet access, though it wasn’t free.  I’m not sure how much I paid for it, maybe like $150 kroners for two hours.  Is that like twenty bucks or something?  Jesus.  Ryan and I had to take separate flights to get here, he’s arriving in 2 hours.  Nobody seems to be here yet to pick us up so I assume they’re coming when Ryan’s flight gets in. Everything in Italy went fine.  I was fighting a cold for a little while but that’s pretty much over now.  I am sooo ready to rawk Norway and SWEDEN (not Switzerland, at least not this time)!  And then I get to go home.  Hooooooooome.  I’m having a blast with all the traveling but all I can think about is being home and back with Johnny.  :-)

Shit!  Jan is here to pick me up, I have to bolt.  He’s going to come back later and get Ryan while I do an interview somewhere?  I’m so confused!!!

Note: This is a journal entry — it was written on paper or on my computer, then transferred to my website, maybe years later.

Hey there, happy Halloween!!  I just got back to the hotel after the show in Sevilla at the Fun Club.  I KILLED tonight.  Swear to god.  The sound was really really good, at least for me, so that made it a lot easier to hear myself well and put on a good show.  Also, all the employees of Green UFOs were there (the folks who put this Spanish part of the tour together), so I guess I wanted to do really well so they could see what a kickass performer I am.  Hahaha!!  Good thing they didn’t see me last night in Puerto Real.  ;-)

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