which is to say, i’m working quite a bit these days and so i wake up before six to leave my house around seven to get to longmont by seven forty or so. yeah, i’m going to sleep now - but now that i’ve cleaned out those ques, i’ll write again this week with actual news.

cheers!

Now the substance: I have no school and the next project for work doesn’t start until next week, so this week I have time to do all the things that I’ve been needing to do but haven’t had time for. Like, I’m hoping to get the oil in my car changed. I’ve been wanting to clean my room really well for a couple weeks not. I’m going to cut off a pair of pants and hem them into shorts. I made bank deposits yesterday. I might get a haircut (I might even pay for one…). I’m trying to catch up on sleep - I didn’t sleep much in the last couple weeks. I’m playing music with friends. I might read something for fun, not for school. That would be nice. Okay, that’s pretty much all I’ve got right now, except for one complaint:

I’m listening to songs that I want to learn how to play by watching/listening the videos on youtube right now, and I’m trying to listen to “Big Yellow Taxi” (they paved paradise and put up a parking lot), and all of the videos of the versions by Joni Mitchell (who wrote it) and the Counting Crows (who did a couple decent covers of it) are loading extremely low while the version by Amy Grant loads lightning quick. Maybe because noone out there would watch it on purpose, but I don’t know, maybe that’s mean to say. Sorry, Amy.

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…

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.

Welp, the weather is nice today in Colorado, and I’m going to enjoy it a little bit.

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

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

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!

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!

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