After my travels I’m home in the Keys and settling in when I heard a certain siren call, I learned my favorite band, Xperimento, was playing this weekend at my favorite bar, the The Green Parrot. All I could think of was wanting to gather up all of town to attend the nights of their lives. This band is a gorgeous work in progress, hence their name. They combine all sorts of genres and their music is ever evolving, sometimes even the musicians are switched out for others.

I texted everyone I know, and facebooked those I don’t and urged them to attend the shows.

As perhaps you know the Parrot has a new dance floor, so I was glad to go check it out. It is matte black and flat and even like a freshly tarred road. It was shocking. The new floor felt great under my flip-flops, and it no longer has the shredded wooden floorboards, one side with a dip and trip area, or the one hundred years of spilled beer making for a tacky grabby surface where on occasion a flip-flop did get stuck. But it is so ugly, I can’t love it. Except that I know the young demoiselle who worked on it, helped make that new floor, and she is a very special little angel, you know her as Amy Badass. So I have to learn to love the dance floor.

Xperimento has some new songs and they are mesmerizing. No point me describing, please get their latest CD and you’ll hear for yourselves. Goes live December (but you can pre-order) at www.music.xperimento.com

Life trucks on yet much has changed. The dance floor at the Green Parrot is changed, the members of the band are changed, I am changed after my travels.

What has not changed is I’m up to my old tricks dancing the nights away, hence the brevity of this post. And now, as the roosters crow, I must go to bed!

I love Key West!

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