I kinda decided to continue writing in english so my American and UK friend can follow up on the most mediocre stories the intarwebz has to offer...
I got back to Boston last Wednesday and still don't feel too comfortable to be here. But I guess daily routine always has a hard time competing with exciting traveling and good friends.
anyways still one week of my trip to cover. Nashville was the location.
first of all my friend Sean took such good care of me and was the most amazing tour guide one could ask for.
on my first day in Nashville the temperatures were somewhere in the 10s and it was not nice to be out at all, so I ended up getting the tour de Nashville sitting in the passenger seat of Sean's car. In the afternoon we went to the most amazing photography exhibition I've ever seen. The George Eastman collection (founder of Kodak) was on display at the Frist Center, covering everything from the first daguerrotypes, photography of war and society, the first motion studies to more artsy photography. It was amazing and Sean could give me some more insights as one of his majors in college was film production.
The next day he showed me around the Opryland hotel which has several glass domes covering temperature controlled halls with houses, palm trees and even rivers with boats (!) on them. Pretty impressive I have to say.
We spent most of the weekend in Murfreesboro, the the town he grew up in and I got to meet his family, my friend Matt, that I haven't seen since summer 07 and the dolcim drummer Justin who is a cool kid, too. I got the chance to see them practicing and I am excited to see them live this summer at the cry me a river fest in Germany. Check out their band at myspace.com/dolcim
On monday I got another great tour of Nashville and in the evening we went out for dinner and drinks with Sean, his roommate Chris and my friend Ryan, that I haven't seen in years. He gave me tons of presents including a record of his new band sanctions (myspace.com/sanctions1). Thanks!
On my last day in town we went to the Tennessee state museum cuz I was particularly interested tin the role of TN in the civil war as it was one of the main battlefields in the war. The museum was pretty good and Sean took a couple of good pictures. In the evening Sean and Chris took me downtown to experience the "real country deal". We went to a couple of bars with live music and ended up in bar where Sean and his friends taught me how to play shuffleboard and made me play my first match in which I turned out to be a natural ;-) but anyways it was a lot of fun. And I experienced Nashville as a great place to live!
For additional reports from my Nashville week and tons of pictures please visit seanconley.tk
I got back into Boston Wednesday afternoon and had to unbury my car from under excessive amounts of snow the next day. It took me at least on hour and I am not even kidding. Thanks to my roommate who drove if around the block a couple of times while I was gone it still started up and seems to be fine, which I did not necessarily expect. Utilizing this new mobility I already took the car to buy groceries (big deal without a car) and went up to my school to get books and stuff and went to visit a friend on my way back. Also I went to a Daniel Striped Tiger basement show last night which was a lot of fun!
that's it for now. As soon as I can figure out how to post pictures embedded in the text without messing up everything I might start that as well. For now as usual:
Gaylord Opryland
"country music is music with a lot of class. It's just ordinary stories told by ordinary people in an extraordinary way" - Dolly Parton
dolcim + 1 dolcimite
cowboy boots lined up
Johanssen and Hobo-Sean <3
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