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11. Tanssiaiset
(Heikkilä) (The Ball)

It all started with an idea how to get enough minutes together to fill my portionof this box, as we use to split the production 50/50 - Davy could do easily 80/20 but he believes some stupid democracy or something.

Anyway, I got this idea of a castle and the ball there, people were to join in by small groups, every time with more than last time. You can't dance with one, you need two more, then three more etc. I got bored after the group of 15 people and 24 verses but 11 minutes were done by that time.

I so surely not will write down those verses in English, nor in Finnish, but the main idea is this:

They had a dancing party at the castle, doors were opened, inside were called, let's say 7 people and soon it was clear more were needed, doors were opened again, 8 were invided to join. This keeps going on and on. To avoid boredom I fill the gaps between to tell how they all were dressed up and sometimes they needed a break and ate some food.

Personally I'm kind of proud for ending each line with '-iin'. Only the guitar is real, all other sounds are made by iMac. With the keyboard.

A little inside joke at the end: Storyteller gets bored and he yells to the doorman that he could leave the doors open instead of opening them all the time and asks him to join in too.
- they play music now...
- what is the band there?
- It's... Baltic Moonshine Band...
- are they any good?
- well, they are... different. Little odd.
- okey, I'm coming... -- Jore

The painting on the left by Kaarina 'Välly' Välimäki

Good God - Jore's 'Desolation Row'! He writes much more lyrics than me nowadays. This will be a classic in 50 years time - students will study it in school looking for the hidden meanings - they will sit exams and write essays about 'Minimalism and Maximalism in the Songs of The Baltic Moonshine Band' and collectors will pay $1.3 million for Jore's handwritten lyrics for 'Tanssiaiset'. The iMac has made Jore's creativity open up like a giant lotus flower. -- Davy