Egotrippi

Some other quick fun facts about our first anniversary: we ate at a great Indian restaurant in Lahti, the smallish city I mentioned near Helsinki. It's the only Indian restaurant in town, called Indian Garden, and has food from across India on the menu, which makes for a nice variety to sample. The chef had been recruited from a five-star hotel and the proof was in the paneer. We were the only people in the place and we stayed for a couple hours. We walked by it the next day and it was again empty. I pity the burgeoning ethnic restaurant owner in smallish city Finland.

After the meal we took our giant bag of leftovers to the jazz festival and took in the closing act, which was not at all jazz. It was Egotrippi, which as Miia mentioned in a previous post is a popular Finnish pop\rock band. They are known for their philosophical lyrics. Miia translated one great song that they had about how you can so quickly bike into town and then waste an unbelievable amount of time in a record store, spend all your money, and not even feel guilty. This was a song written for me! They also have a song about how man has ruled long enough and maybe woman could do better. As a famous feminist Miia knows the name of pointed out, the opposite of patriarchy would not be matriarchy but fraternity and equality. What say you?