last night i went to fredagsrock at tivoli, which has nothing at all to do with fraggle rock even though that's all i can think of when i see the sign, but is, rather, a friday night outdoor rock concert at a 100 year old amusement park, which, i must say, walt disney ripped of in some pretty obvious ways.
an amusement park where the mascot is a white clown. we'll leave the entirely too disturbing implications of this aside for the time being.
this friday was a big deal with a capital B (or F?) because the band playing was dune, a young danish rock group. my lovely danish friend maria took me, and she has watched the documentary on them (i'm willing to bet more than once) so she could tell me who has dated whom and where exactly they are from and that now they live in berlin and they are all about 21 but have produced several albums.
in return for this kind cultural gesture, today i dragged maria around to multiple tourist attractions. she was a real trouper, and to be perfectly honest, i think she loved the excuse to actually go see stuff that as a regular copenhagener she would normally be too cool to go see. including, but not limited to, the renovations of the crown prince and princess's residence in amelienborg palace. what makes this renovation so cool is that they invited danish artists and designers to give modern twists (like some truly awesome murals) to the castle, which i think is nice and generally unheard of in other stuffy royal-type places. plus it only took about 45 minutes to walk through and decide that, yes, thanks, i would love to marry a danish prince.
and now i will stop because this is getting eerily close to a recap of my day, which is something i promised you i would never do, ever.
although, i might add that i gave directions to a dane today. sure, it was directions to the street where i live from about a block .5 away, but you best believe i'm still going to brag about it.
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