We’re ready to go to Graspop!!! We got all our stuff sorted (i think), and now it’s just time to wait for the others to show up and take off to Dessel. The weather looks like a mixed bag, with Friday and Saturday 20C and possible rain, whereas Sunday it’s going to get incredibly hot again.
Curious what we’ll end up with, but I know we’ll rock anyway. With bands like Slipknot and Soilwork, how could you not? They’re playing an hour after one another, btw. Not sure how I’m going to survive, but there are worse ways to die!
Onwards, to more music and fun! 
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burn – we watch it burn – right before our eyes
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011thoughts on provinssirock
Monday, June 20th, 2011Life experiences I now have:
- Flying to Finland
- Seinajoki is as northern as I’ve ever been
- Seeing Helsinki, both from a tower on the thirteenth floor (including its toilet with the spectacular view) and from a beer tram
- Waking up because a puppy is chewing on my ear (Johanna’s puppy dog Tara is sooooo adorable!)
- Drinking pear- and peach cider
- Puking my guts out in a Finnish toilet because of aforementioned cider (never did it on a Finnish toilet before)
- Swimming in the lake at Johanna’s cottage
- Having a Provinssirock wristband around my wrist
- Listening to a Finnish crowd going nuts to a Finnish pop band (REALLY weird, everyone was singing along and Olli and I felt like we missed something 
)
- Getting bitten like a mofo by Finnish mosquitos
- Sitting in a sauna at 4am
- Not seeing the sun set AT ALL… just mild twilight at times (those times being between 1am and 2am)
- Sitting on the porch of Johanna’s friend Saatu’s house at 4.30am in only a towel, in bright daylight (soooo weird)
- Rocking out to Pendulum
- Ordering food and drinks by pointing, gestures and my limited knowledge of Finnish because the dude in the beertent didn’t understand English)
- Learning words like Olut (beer), Ulos (exit), Irtti (sp? – means ‘let go’ or ‘loose’), Mosh Pitti (I am not shitting you), Kanalanio (sp? oh wait, google translate says it’s känniääliö – means drunken idiot), Aukki (open)… there’s more, but I forgot already 
- Seeing a Finnish crowd go completely NUTS during System of a Down (which was BRILLIANT)
…And add to this a shitload of beer, cider, wine, weather that held itself admirably well (only two short rainshowers), skinny dipping in aforementioned lake, silly drunken people, a great time with Johanna, Johanna’s gracious friend Saatu who hosted us during the weekend and bbq’ed with us in the bit of rain that we got, and Finnish bands that were cool to see but whose name I should REALLY check back because they were too long and too Suomi to remember. Good times. 
Pictures will soon follow
if you’re not in love, stay where you are
Wednesday, June 15th, 2011Bodhi and Charlie are in their respective vacation addresses, bags are pretty much packed, boarding passes are arranged… in twelve hours Olli and I will leave on our journey to Finland.
Together with Johanna we will roam the fields of Seinajoki, rocking out to (among others) System of a Down, at Provinssirock. I’m terribly excited! Just the idea of vacation already makes me giddy. I was SO READY for vacation, you have no idea. I mean, it’s fun and all that my contract’s been extended, but the past two weeks I’ve been doing the work of the whole month and I was getting really damn tired. Of course this resulted in me having a motherfucker of a cold and having to sleep most of the past Sunday afternoon away on the couch. In the past few days I’ve slept a lot and now I’m only a bit snotty. Hopefully it won’t bother me too much during our flight.
And on the subject of hopes: the weather predictions for both Provinssirock and Graspop are terribly edgy, so please keep your fingers crossed for 20-22C and clear skies for us, please! As a hardcore festival goer I’ve lived through a lot of the extremes (torrential downpours, 12C and drizzle rain all day – but also 32C and scorching hot) over the years. It hasn’t been too often that we had perfect festival weather… it would be nice to have it this year. So weather gods… please?
I brought my rain poncho and warm coats, but I hope I get to use my t-shirts and capri pants, thank you very much!