buenos aires

so i made it down here to argentina and am staying with a friend in palermo soho, a borough of the city. they have a funky little apartment right off of a main road, but you kind of wind your way back into the building and can't really even hear the noise of the street. there's a really nice rooftop area that is great for eating and hanging out, especially in the evenings when it cools down a bit to a more reasonable temperature. it's pretty hot here, upper 80's and 90's, and humid, although not as bad as parts of the south.

the plane ride down was long, mostly because of a head cold that i got from staying up playing music and boozing way too late at the old time gathering. in retrospect, it really doesn't make sense to be playing tunes until 5 in the morning....does it?

so this city is pretty freaking huge. i always heard that it was a latin nyc in a way and it seems to be true. there are just people everywhere. today molly and i took a walk around the city, and i couldn't help staring upwards at all the skyscrapers and apt buildings here. they love their tall skinny apt buildings. it's a very developed city as well, and there are some very posh spots and some huge avenues with ten lanes across.

either way i think i'm going to stick around untiil sunday and then start making my way up to the northwest to meet my friend daniel, who is from here, and play and see some music. i've never really been a big city person, so it will be nice to be up in the mountains. hopefully there will be some swimming up there as well.

well everybody, we had a great weekend here in Portland for the Old Time Gathering. lots of friends in town and two of the brothers....The Band i'm in, Ebenezer, got to play for the opening dance on Thursday, which was a blast. It was the most people we'd ever had dancing for our music, and probably the most we had played for in general. People seemed to enjoy the music, and as the dancers seemed to be getting along fine, I imagine we did alright. It's become quite the ordeal, with folks from all over the country descending on our fair city. some pretty ridiculous musicians as well.

Either way it was a good last hurrah for me in town and now i prepare for my flight on wed morning to opposite land where santa wears swim trunks and the big dipper is nowhere to be seen. i have been gathering quite a body of both singing and instrumental tunes, and am looking forward to sharing our music down there and learning a bit of theirs.

so bear with me on this whole blog thing, as it is my first real foray into putting my thoughts onto the information superhighway for just about anybody to read.