30th April 2008
no show in boulder tonight… and some press coverage?
hey, just in case you for some reason thought that we might have a show in boulder tonight (because at one point we did have one scheduled), we no longer are playing it. i meant to let everyone know this before, but am lazy. or busy.
probably both.
and the loveland reporter-herald ran a little human interest story on me/sauni’s big jump the other day - yesterday? - tuesday, whenever that was. there was a nice picture of kristen and i practicing (she says, ‘i don’t even really play guitar in this band…’ and laughs, and i tell her, ‘it’s ok, noone else knows that’). you can check it out at the reporter-herald’s site…
and finally, i’m working at the test grading place in the evenings right now, from 5:30-10:30ish (i actually get off around 10:45) and so between trying to get enough sleep, go to some of my classes, get some of my schoolwork done, and everything else there is to do to make life happen (not to mention, not wanting to do any of the schoolwork or grading on account of having perfect spring weather), i’ve been somewhat busy, so if I owe you a phone call or something like that, these are the reasons.
cheers! i’m here in denver and i’m going to study for half an hour, sleep for 5 hours, go to classes/finish assignments from 8am-3pm, and then drive to longmont, work from 5:15-10:45, go home to loveland, try to sleep, get up and do schoolwork, go to work, pass out, etc. etc. and on and on…
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26th April 2008
true confessions of a paraplegic seminary student…
i just got back from watching nick and justin (who play in sauni’s big jump with me) play at a bar in boulder with another band (called big in japan), and while i was there a funny little thing happened, that i thought i might write down as an internet anecdote because i haven’t written anything really interesting in a while.
anyway, there were a couple girls who knew one of the other band members who started talking to me, and so i tried to carry a pleasant conversation. one of the girls in particular i was talking to - you might even say that i was flirting with her just a little - and she was… how do we say this?… a *little* on the enebriated side.
i asked her what she was studying in boulder, and she in turn asked if i was a cu (university of colorado) student. i told her that i took classes at a school in denver, and she asked what school. i replied that the school was called denver seminary… and she got a look on her face that said she was digesting the meaning of that word, ’seminary,’ and figuring out what that meant. all of a sudden she was less talkative, and then a minute later i saw and overheard her talking with her friend (trying to whisper with a loud band playing is hard enough - doing it when you’re drunk must be even harder…).
‘he’s in seminary,’ she said.
‘what’s that mean?’ the friend asked.
‘he’s going to be a priest,’ she ‘whispered’ back.
i couldn’t help but laugh to myself concerning their little misconception, but decided to let them think what they wanted to about me and my reasons for being in seminary - and priesthood or no, i don’t think i was what they were looking for, anway.
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19th April 2008
today is my birthday…
I’m 23. Getting old. You may or may not think 23 is old, but I’m starting to feel it, that’s for sure.
Welp, the weather is nice today in Colorado, and I’m going to enjoy it a little bit.
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10th April 2008
Sauni’s Big Jump at Crabtree Brewery this Saturday
Hey y’all, I’m sitting here doing research for my thesis proposal (due next Tuesday), and realized that I ought to at least post a bit more info about our show this Saturday. After Saturday we aren’t playing again until May 1st, and I’m not sure yet what that show (in Boulder at the RockNSoul Cafe) will look like, whether it will be just a couple of us playing or what. Other than that, I’m not sure whent our next show is - we might take a little break from playing to reload and refresh.
So, this Saturday at the Brewery’s Springfest event we’ll probably end up playing somewhere around 6 or 6:30 until 8 or 8:30. The party starts at 4pm with the Kingpins Blues Band, then we’ll play, and then after us Ben Pu and Crew will play. The event is 21+ and there is a $5 cover charge that gets you free pool and a free limited edition pint glass from Crabtree Brewery. It should be an all around good time, so I hope to see you out there!
Crabtree Brewery is at 625 3rd St. #D, Greeley, CO 80631 and you can find more info about Springfest at their website. Hope to see you soon!
-daryl
2nd April 2008
congrats to the contest winners…
Matt and Kacey! They got themselves tickets to see Dave Beegle with Sauni’s Big Jump this weekend in Boulder. Look for more contests to win fabulous glittering prizes like poorly built katamarans (anyone know the reference for that one?) or Sauni’s Big Jump merchandise…
And remember, you can still see us play in Boulder this weekend, it’s just going to set you back a few bones because it’s for charity and it features one of the best musicians in Colorado in Dave Beegle (besides Nick, Jon, and Elle, or course!) - and the ticket prices are still pretty reasonable. Go to mentalmusic.org for more info.
-daryl
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29th March 2008
Only two days left to win tickets to see us with Dave Beegle!
And believe me, there are NOT very many entrants at this point! See the post two below this for more details. I’ll make a few more suggestions for what to do, like email all kinds of people you know and let them know that they should listen to our music; or create a myspace fan page for us with links to our pages and then add friends or *use a friend adding program*, which I would never actually recommend because they can get your profile removed; or get people to join our mailing list by going to www.saunisbigjump.com…
Just do something, anything really, and email me at darylholmlund (at) gmail (dot) com telling me what you did and then you’ll be entered in the contest to win tickets - or a free CD!
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22nd March 2008
Show tonight at Everyday Joe’s in Ft. Collins!
We’re playing second of three, sandwiched between two amazing acts: Eva Holbrook and Bradley Hathaway.
The show starts at 7pm and costs $7, and we *might* be having a CD sale tonight and tonight only, so if you have yet to get our CD and you want to, paying the discount I give you on our CD *might* make up the difference for buying a ticket…
Hope to see you there!
18th March 2008
Hey You! Win tickets to see Sauni’s Big Jump play with Dave Beegle!
You guys might have noticed that we’re playing with Dave Beegle on April 4 in Boulder at a benefit concert for the Mental Health Center of Boulder County. If you don’t know who Dave Beegle is, then let me just tell you:
He’s kind of a big deal.
Maybe you’ve heard of Jimi Hendrix? Well, if Jimi Hendrix were alive, he would want to be like Dave Beegle. Same thing with Stevie Ray.
When Phil Keaggy comes to town, he calls up Dave Beegle to show him how good he could have been if he still had all his fingers.
Jimmy Page and Eric Clapton learned everything they know about playing guitar from Dave Beegle’s paperboy who somehow absorbed a small dosage of Dave’s essence while delivering papers to his house.
BB King didn’t have the blues until he realized how much better Dave Beegle was than he.
OK, maybe those items are not actually true, but Beegle has played with Keaggy, who calls Dave, “one of the most creative and accomplished guitarists I’ve met.” And Beegle was good enough in his younger (and hard rock years) to earn an audition with the band KISS.
What I’m telling you is that this guy is the real deal. You can hear some of his songs at www.myspace.com/davebeegle. If you haven’t ever listened to his stuff you should do that now.
So our show with Dave is going to be a really great show, I can tell you that right now. But it’s also one of our first not-free shows! Tickets are $12 advance or $15 at the door, and it’s for a great cause, so buy your tickets and come… but…
Here’s your chance to pick up a pair of tickets for FREE!
All you have to do help promote Sauni’s Big Jump online somehow, then email me at darylholmlund@gmail.com by noon on Monday, March 31st and tell me what you’ve done and you’ll be entered for a drawing that will take place at that time. One fan will win a pair of tickets to the show through the drawing. We’re also going to give a pair of tickets to the fan who does the best job promoting Sauni’s Big Jump - and Eric Holmlund of ericstips.com (a real expert on internet promotions) will help judge which fans are the most deserving!
As for what you can do to help promote Sauni’s Big Jump, let me give a few suggestions: 1) Write about us on your blog or myspace, including a link to either our website, www.saunisbigjump.com, or our myspace, www.myspace.com/saunisbigjump; 2) Review our CD on iTunes or cdbaby.com - to find our music just search for Sauni’s Big Jump; 3) Join Ourstage.com and “favorite” our songs and then judge the music competitions until our songs come up and give us a good rating!
And if you participate in our promotion contest, you’ll also be entered in a drawing to receive either free passes to Crabtree Brewery’s Springfest event (April 12 in Greeley, CO - we’ll be playing with a couple of other NoCO bands) or a free copy of our CD, Anything Could Happen! That drawing will take place the following week on April 7th.
So help us out and get the chance to see us play with some great artists!
Much love to all you Sauni’s friends!
Daryl Holmlund
darylholmlund@gmail.com
For more info on Mental Music with Dave Beegle, see www.mentalmusic.org
Check out an interview with Dave Beegle at www.westword.com/2007-07-26/music/dave-beegle-s-ax-is-sharp/
And for info about Crabtree Brewery’s Springfest, see http://www.crabtreebrewing.com/news_and_events.html
16th March 2008
what it takes to be a real blogger…
I was just looking at the blog of a guy named Ben Witherington - a New Testament scholar - to read a post that he put up about a year ago about Lazarus being the original writer of the Gospel according to John, and I flipped over to a guy named Adrian Warnock’s blog, and he had something on it about it being his 3000th post!… And I thought, Dang, that’s a lot of blogging. I bet I might have readers if I wrote 3000 entries about interesting things…
Check out Witherington’s post about Lazarus, a critique by another blogger, Adrian Warnock’s 3000th post, and a Time article about Re-Judaizing Jesus.
Alright, that makes me feel like a better blogger…
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12th March 2008
We’re on iTunes…
Yeah, so I know we already have a website where you can download our music and everything, but it’s still cool to be on iTunes, right? We would still rather that you buy our MP3s from www.saunisbigjump.com because we get 100% of that money, but one of the benefits to iTunes is that you could download just one of our songs if there was only one that you really liked and wanted - we can’t do that on our website. There are a bunch of other sites that you can purchase our music from, as well, but iTunes is the big one, and I just think it’s cool to be there. (Perhaps the one downside is that the album art color is a little bit off so the green is a little sicker rather than brighter, but… whatev’).
Oh, and if you really love us, you could review the album or give our songs high marks!
Also, our songs on ourstage.com have been doing pretty well - especially Day Off, which has been no. 1 in the Indie category for a while. Check it out and vote for us if you have a few minutes sometime!
It’s another nice spring day here in Colorado, but I need to do some school work now…
-Daryl