Alright!
I've bought a camera. Now I just have to wait a little longer to buy a laptop and then I'm all set.
I just had a strange opportunity come my way. One of the singers in the cast went home today because she needed surgery, odds are she'll be fine and back working within 2-3 weeks.
Until she comes back, there's a crucial part towards the end of the Broadway show that needs to be sung by someone in her absense... and guess who was asked to sing it!! Me, baby!
Actually, to be fair, they were just talking about it a few days ago while I was sitting with them at dinner and I just said "I can do it" and I thought they wouldn't take it seriously but they loved the idea and gave me the music yesterday. I've been practicing my Alto singing all day. I've pretty much got it down now. We rehearse tomorrow and then perform in 3 days, so everything should work out nicely.
We get a new bass player and a new piano player/band leader in 3 days, too. I hope the new band leader will be as easy to work with as the current one. If not, I'll just kill him and we'll get a new one.
I went out with a few friends in Istanbul last weekend. The ship docks overnight, so the ones of us who don't have "port maninng" (that means you can't leave the ship) can party our ass off in Istanbul, which I did.
We started out by going to a heavy-metal bar. And I have never heard metal songs covered as well the house band did that night. They were playing MetallicA, Megadeath, Slayer, Iron Maiden and a bunch of other stuff, and it was all amazingly well played. We had about 6 beers there before heading to a Reggae bar... talk about ying-yang. But that was a cool place as well. Not AS cool as the metal bar, but still cool. We met a bunch of crewmembers in the reggae bar and continued to drink there.
When we started making our way back to the ship, appearantly I started dancing to some trumpet gypsy music being played on the street, and appearantly someone decided that it was worthy of a video recording... that would be Yotam, the birthday boy. It's a funny video which I'll show you some other time.
Yesterday we were in Kusadasi, Turkey. And to our surprise we got the day off. So, Ben (my roommate) and I decided that it was time to get hammered. We started by having lunch with the rest of the orchestra because it was Andrea's (trombone) birthday. After lunch we searched for (and found) a bar that had the cheapest Efes, which a Turkish beer. We had a few of those. Next bar was an Irish one where I got 3 beers for the price of one because I sang "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias for the owner... don't ask. Then it was time to head back to the ship, smoke a Cohiba cigar, throw up and go to sleep at 20:30.
Good times,
Ellert.
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Hæ Elli minn!
Þetta er Hulda vinkona Maríu....langaði bara að kasta á þig kveðju. Ég er að pæla að sækja um vinnu á skemmtiferðarskipi....hvað heitir skipið sem þú fórst á og hvar sóttir þú um vinnuna?
Svífðu um í ævintýri lífsins:)
Hulda
Töffff!
Stattu þig strákur.
Þorri
Snilld að þú sért að fara að syngja!
Kick ass or don't come home! ;)
Ég hef heyrt að maður syngi betur ef maður losar sig við kúlurnar! :oÞ
Þú stendur þig vel kallinn.
Við hlökkum samt til að fá þig heim. Sigurður Rúnar hefur svo mikið til að sýna þér og segja þér frá. :o)
Kveðja,
Essin þrjú!
Hi baby.
Wish I could have been there with you when you danced your ass of and sang Hero (yakk).
Sorry to hear you coudn't last longer than 20:30 in your day off. Must have been a crazy day.
Lots of love, hugs and kisses ;-)
Your best Aunt
neijj blogg :O .... loksins ;P gettu hver verður EIN heima í september í viku nananana búbú ....ÉG!! engin vala enginn elli né mamma til að trufla :P ahhh hlakka svo til að slaka á og drekka mojito:) en við erum að spá að fara til tenerif í januar :D
heyrðu ætlaði bara að skjóta einhverju hérna inn hafðu það geggjað;*
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