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so. maybe i should correct a misconception about this trip. i called the first post "vaca," but this is not fully a vacation. i didn't lug my two volume OED to berlin, so dictionary.com will have to suffice. they say a vacation is "a period of suspension of work, study, or other activity, usually used for rest, recreation, or travel," and while i am in some ways taking a break from my usual routine and am traveling, i am still studying and working. aaron is keeping me busy with music, which is wunderbar.

yesterday we went to margareth's apartment and recorded aaron's bandmate mary. maybe that was the day before?? anyway, he plays drums in this band called mary and the baby jesus (it's been suggested to me it might be "...and the baby cheesus"). it's girl punk stuff. so mary came over and recorded vocals to some songs that had already been started, and did vocal/piano basic tracks on some new songs. all to 1/4" tape, then dumped into computer. it was fun.

i'm having trouble with chronology at this point. the days are bleeding together. but i think then we headed to ausland to go to a show that some people aaron knows were playing. en route we bumped into his roommates brian and andy who were leaving cause, they said, it wasn't very good. we got there and bumped into iggy who came out to send a text. we talked to him for a bit. he had just spent some time in the u.s., including a residency at a music school in a city on the west coast. there, he said, the students were doing interesting stuff but were not happy with the faculty. which was interesting to me cause i had just read an interview with one of their faculty who had had a rough time in his undergrad days and was now kicking a kid out cause they played indie rock on the side. wtf? anyway, we didn't go in. went back to margareth's place and laid down some tracks.

actually, now that i think about it, i'm pretty sure we just went back to margareth's place and drank a lot. and i laid down some tracks the next night. but the point is, this is what you might call a 'working vacation.' cause i spent one night of it playing music. aaron plays, and has written, these great country songs and he has asked me to lay down some lead and rhythm electric tracks on top of his recordings.

that's right. ok. so. recording mary was on the day of the last blog. then. i slept.