Seriously Fun Lessons

Now that I've presented you with a few serious lessons, it's time to recall some seriously fun lessons:

• Take pictures of everything. EVERY-THING! Including parrots.


• Expect surprises. You never know where you'll be the next day.


• Don't plan ahead. Ever. Because there could be surprises.


• A firm foundation for a tripod works wonders. It also makes concert video much easier to film and more fun to watch.


• There are more flavors of Ahlgren's bilar available with every passing year. Chocolate bilar, and sour bilar, and lakrits bilar, and mega-size bilar, and road sign bilar, and breast cancer awareness bilar...


• It's a little too easy to get into Expressen's newsroom - "You must be in the choir. Just go through that door."


• Bring a camera and a back-up camera with you. You never know when you'll drop the first one on the cobblestones or nearly drop it out a window while trying to film firetrucks.


• A play about old folks rocking out in a nursing home is hilarious and deep at the same time. And mumbling is quite effective dialogue, as long as you play the piano in the meantime.


• People are very willing to talk - once they get over the shock of a stranger asking for an interview.


• It's always a good idea to hit record on your audio device before you begin an interview.


• Live concerts are so much fun and No More Nights sounds even more incredible live.


• Jenny is a lot sillier and funnier than I ever realized.


• Anna's sense of humor rivals Jenny's humor.


• Jessi leads such a busy life, she barely has time to breathe. Somehow, she fits it all into one day. She's a mega multi-tasker.


• Anja comes up with the best one-liners, always full of intelligence and wit.


• Natural superstars are everywhere. I met several of them in Lindome, Gothenburg, Tranås, Karlstad, Stockholm, Kungälv, and Jönköping.


• My Swedish isn't as rusty as I thought it was. It's only highly rusty instead of terribly rusty. But better is better.


• My Story is awesome!

I could go on and on with these fun little lessons. But I think you get the idea...