Well hello there, and welcome back to my ongoing travel blog. When we last caught up I was leaving Barcelona to return home to NYC after 3 months of living a "broad". Now it seems I have found myself back in the hairy arms of my beloved Barcelona for another 3 month stint. Perhaps this time I will actually learn spanish, maybe I'll finally figure out how to work Ableton Live, or at long last I will get a spanish boyfriend...without exchanging currency.

I landed on Wednesday and have been crashing at my friend Reuben's pad in Exaimple, a limp-wristed stone's throw from my old place here on Balmes. This time around I had to wait to secure an apt here till I arrived because well I's broke. Now that the cookie jar has some crumbs I have put down my deposit and move into my new fist (code=apartment) Monday. It is cuter than hell, in a newly renovated building and even has a pool and gym on the roof. AND it is only slightly more money than my little pied a terre in the East Village. Obviously there is a drawback and it is that the building is in East Shitsville. But luckily the metro is pretty fierce and if I wanna cab it the center of town is only 10 mins away. Hopefully this is a minor drawback, we shall see.

Last night I played a club in Madrid called Low that I had done previously in Feb. Back then it was a packed sweaty mess however rigth now is festival season here so there were about 10 festivals this weekend drawing the kids out of the clubs. I thought I'd be spinning for the staff, but as it turned out some kids couldn't afford the festival ticket prices and we had a good house. I'll post more when I can put up some pics but just wanted to get the blog rolling. Bienvenido!

Daddy: I can't wait to see what shenanigans and misadventures my DJ daughter will get into this time around! If you want to read part One of Sammy Jo's blog Click Here.

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Just a quickie post. Things going well here in BCN as I've finally got my new place all homo-y after a trip to IKEA. (Make it GAY Rene!) Wednesday night I ended up going to a foam party here. Yes...a FOAM party. MOI! It was hysterical and sooo much fun. Literally the foam was as high as your armpits. Lots of gropey gropey moments but luckily no one's got a camera at a foam party. BAH! Today I'm off to Porto so will report back tomorrow, with pics. Cheers!

Be careful.
You can still get pregnant in that foam!

I see that you are working like the whore you are!
Good.
Someone's got to pay for all that IKEA.
Unless of course you've got a "Sugar Papi" that we don't know about.

No sugar papi but the frenchie is making an appearance tomorrow at my gig at Razzmatazz. This outta be interesting...

I guess he's your "Freedom Trick".

Can we change the name of this topic to "Another Sammy Jo Joint"?

Just a thought - miss you and thanks for keeping us posted here

Consider it done. Was totally thinking that with the name. Do the right thing indeed!

Ok so I waited a few days so I'd have something to report that's more interesting than "bought pasta, made pasta, ate pasta." First here are some pics of my new apt...

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Mi sofa...

Mi terraza...

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Mi view...

Mi roof (ow!)....

Low in Madrid...

Ok so last week, as I said, I spent getting my apt in order. And this past weekend it was back to work. Friday I went to Aviero in Portugal which is about an hour outside Porto. I played there last summer at the same club called Estacao da Luz which just celebrated it's 21st Anniversary! Of course I was playing the night before the anniversary so it was not nearly as packed as usual but it went ok. I wasn't particularly happy with my set as I felt I was chasing the records. As Daddy may have explained in my last blog, sometimes the records play themselves (on a great night) and sometimes you feel like you are chasing the music trying to find your rhythm. Regardless, the promoter, a great guy named JP, seemed happy with the night so hopefully it means I'll still get asked back.

Me & Paolo (JP's friend)...

Saturday I returned to BCN to play at Razz determined to reclaim my confidence. It being July at Razz the room I djed in was stiflingly hot. Nevertheless the people danced like mad and it was a fab night. Lots of the boys came out to support me. But since Razz has a strict "No Shirts Off" policy they had to settle for this look...

This is Gerard who promotes/djs a night called Boombox. He's also a really cool photographer. Below is his website. Click on the "Late of the Pier" pics and scroll towards the end to see a fierce photo diary of how Sat night was. http://icanteachyouhowtodoit.com/

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This is the Rex room where I played...

That was taken after a hit of poppers I think. Oops. The night finished with Frankie Knuckles' mix of "Blind" by Hercules & Love Affair (my fave 'last track')...