Friday Curry and Saturday Jazz and Soul

The first Friday of every month, Jesper (from my lab) organizes Friday Curry. He picks a restaurant and invites everyone that works around us. This Friday, 24 of us went to a Jamacian restaurant called Back A Yard. It was a small place that only seats 40 people so we basically took over. We were at 3 tables of 8, which was nice for conversation. We filled the tables up in the order we arrived (more or less) so I had the opportunity to talk to a few people who I don't know that well. It was nice and the food was good. I had lamb curry and banana cake with rum raisin ice cream.

Last night I went to Jazzclub Fasching with a bunch of people from my department. The jazz trio was pretty famous in Stockholm so the place was crowded. I'm not a huge jazz fan but I enjoyed the show. After the jazz show, the place converts to a club that opens at midnight. I actually went to this club when I was here in August for a conference and I know I described the club with the weird, unexpected music to many of you. It was the same music this Saturday but it made more sense this time - because I knew ahead of time that it was "50s-60s Soul Music". I wouldn't classify all of the songs played in that category but there was definitely no unz-unz-unz or techo versions of top 40 songs. Anyway, it was kinda funny to be in a club super crowded with 20- and 30-somethings dancing to songs like Heat Wave, Hit the Road Jack, Disco Inferno (which I thought was 70s disco?), Do You Love Me, Mustang Sally, etc.