My life : Opole, May 16-18 2013

As you know, or not, I was in Opole [Poland] from May 16 to May 18 and I spent there so good time. Concert, my sister's birthday, cool place and wild time... Yes, it was something really great.

Distance between cities, Gdańsk and Opole isn't so bad - only 487 kilometres, what gives about 6-7 hours of a drive in a car, damn.

What's the best in such situations? Great music, coffee and nice weather. This time we had everything - coffee from time to time (4 huge cups of strong black coffee + box with 3x Monster Energy and 3x Red Bull / per person), great weather was not only during our travel to Opole but also when we were there, and then when we came back. And music... Our playlist was really diversified: from old songs to newest, from rock to pop, from reggae to hip-hop. And everything what was on the radio.

↑ 7AM - after the first coffee... what to choose now ? 

May 17 - such a great day. My sister was a birthday and I would like to thank you all who sent such a nice words/wishes for her - it was really nice. To these people who didn't do it - shame on you (!), hope you'll do it next year.

Opole is a city in southern Poland on the Oder River (Odra) and is the capital of the Upper Silesia, Opole Voivodeship and, also the seat of Opole County.

↑ Opole - city of music

At first we went to the small but amazing cake shop / ice-cream shop JKM Górka on Krakowska Street 32 in Opole.

Trust me, their birthday cakes are just amazing and coffee...oh yeah, really good :)

↑  my sister's birthday cake - it was really delicious

After a short break in the cake shop, we decided to tour the city. Of course it wasn't so easy to do because we had only a few hours before the show and that's why I was a bid sad but I'm sure I'll come back there soon for a little longer :)

And guess, what surprise I could to do for my sister? I could only buy tickets for the concert of her favourite artist - Andrzej Piaseczny. Yes, I did it.
The show was at the Opole Millennium Amphitheatre. This place is one of known symbols of the city and  is hosting the yearly National Festival of Polish Song.

Ok, returning to the conversation about the concert...

In my opinion it was one of the best their (as the band not only vocalist) show this year! Two hours with music and good vibrations : main performance + two encores - interesting, am I right? :) Anyway, there were new songs and the ones old, also a few surprises f.e.  cover of Michael Jackson's Rock with you.

Yes, not only my sister had a good time during the show... I should be honest and said that the show was really really good and I spent so good time there.

I was so surpirsed that Opole is such a quiet city, even that I've about 50 metres to the main railway station from my hotel, I didn't hear any sounds... And at night - nothing, really. Streets were desolate, even at 1AM haha ;)

↑ traditional hunt of the concert poster ;)

And - as we all well know, everything what good must end - we woke up at 4AM, after 2.5 hours of sleep, and we came back home. Yes, this travel was crazy and just awesome :)

BACKSTAGE

↑ small town Krzywe Kolano / Crooked Knee  - isn't it crazy and funny? ;D

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and a few vids from the show (forgive me, I had to...).

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the best of... [#7]

How it is possible that I didn't write nothing as 'the best of...' so so long, from November?! Damn, bad me! So now it's time for the best of...last months! O.o

What can I say about my silly mind that I forgot about it? Nothing. Nothing will be good - I'm guilty, as hell. At firts, I should say that these last months were really great, with travels and concerts and crazy moments, and if you read my posts earlier you should know about what I'm talking now. Of course I didn't write here about lots of good and bad moments in my life and about other things. But I put here a few 'woow' things f.e. reports from concerts and meetings, postcards from my travels, I wrote a few posts about books and writers, I recommended you some albums and artists - yes, many good things :)

Music which I listened to very often: 
...and here's huge, black hole because I don't know what to write here. Why? Because I should put here long as hell list of all songs and albums which were played but I think that's just too crazy.
Ok, so what would you say for 'the best of the best' - albums which I listened the most?

• Aerosmith Music From Another Dimension!
• Bastille Bad Blood
• Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa Don't Explain
• Biffy Clyro Opposites
• Bring Me the Horizon Sempiternal
• Bruce Springsteen The Promise
• Darren Campbell Days to Come EP 
• Depeche Mode Delta Machine
• Enter Shikari A Flash Flood of Colour
• Everything Everything Arc
• Green Day ¡DOS!
• Hollywood Undead Notes From The Underground
• Imagine Dragons Night Visions
• In This Moment Blood
• Josh Groban All That Echoes
• The Killers Battle Born
• Linkin Park Living Things
• Machine Head Unto The Locust
• Mumford & Sons Babel
• Nine Inch Nails And All That Could Have Been
• No Doubt Push and Shove
• Power Of Trinity Loccomotiv
• RHYME The Seed And The Sewage
• Sixx:A.M. This Is Gonna Hurt
• The Smiths The Queen Is Dead
• Stereophonics Graffiti On The Train
• Ukeje Ukeje
• Whitechapel Whitechapel
• William Control Silentium Amoris

Movies which I watched (a few of them):
Next question, please ;) maybe that's funny but to be honest I don't have any list of movies. So I think I can write only a few, really a few.

•  The Impossible
•  The Hobbit
• The Descent
• Resident Evil: Retribution
• Largo Winch [Tome 2]
• The Grey

The newest thing:
Mmmm, concert tickets, even for the next year [hell yes!], books, CD albums, concert T-shirts ... nothing special, as you see :)

Big travels: 
Mmm, everything was in Poland unfortunately - Poznań, Warsaw, Cracow, Szczecin, Włocławek...

Amazing food/ drinks: 
black coffee Americano @ CoffeeHeaven, amazing pasta at Portofino in Cracow

Plans :
As you know me, I'll find something to do. Concerts concerts concerts and concerts! Big travels and also small trips and many more :)

Letters/boxes: 
Bills - letters from 'not-my-friends' ;) , also a few letters or even better - surprises from my friends: Nina and Isidora, and a few letters from people who I know. 
But yes, I got one special and so nice letter (E-mail) from Joseph Finder - thriller writer, who wrote f.e. The Moscow Club, Paranoia, Killer Instinct. Woow! :]

bad/good news:
I think you read about good news yet, so I won't put them here again.

• I can tell you that cool band Rhyme (you could read about them on my blog yet: http://xgosiax.blogspot.com/search/label/Rhyme ] will be playing at a few excellent f.e. at Rocklahoma, at Metal for Emergency Festival, and they'll be support of HELLYEAH! in Italy. More dates and their shows you can find here: https://www.facebook.com/rhymeband & here: http://www.rhymeband.com . 
• Depeche Mode and their two shows in Poland -  dreams can come true sometimes...
• New single Up In The Air by Thirty Seconds To Mars. Yes, small surprise because this is something different but it's still so good. Can't wait for their new album :)
• It was really sad to heard about Chi Cheng's death. More about it you can find here: http://www.nme.com/news/deftones/69724 .
•  Marina and the Diamonds canceled concert in Warsaw. Yes, second time she canceledher show in Poland - first was her show on January 30 2013, then her show on April 16 2013. Shit!

• I think I can write it here, as good news. March 14 2013 - 10.000 views of Only Music Saves! One more time big thank you for it - you're amazing! [more: http://xgosiax.blogspot.com/2013/03/10000-pageviews-on-only-music-saves.html]

• Also here, http://xgosiax.blogspot.com/2013/04/news-news-news-few-words-about-me-and.html you could read about a few nice words about me and this blog - Only Music Saves - from DonkeyBox - thanks one more time :) 

               

Concert/event :
Meeting with Dario Castagno [http://xgosiax.blogspot.com/2013/02/meeting-with-dario-castagno.html], 6 concerts - so far so good ;)

Photo:
Hard thing, because it's really hard to choose something... But I did it, I chose a few, a few with which I have really good or even crazy memories... so enjoy :)

My crazy pleple - have a good time and see you soon! xxx

-G