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oops, I keep leaving off in the middle of tour/travel diaries. I have a new travel entry but I thought I would take care of unfinished business.
I'll give 2 quick wrap ups for anyone who has elephant like memories or bothers back reading my journal:
I left off in San Francisco with Ego Likeness. I learned to like SF a bit more after playing a successful show there. We went north, I liked Portland. Seattle show was okay, got a call from my mom about my Grandfather in the hospital again for a stroke and she was heading up there. I had the flu from Colorado through Oklahoma. Bounced a rent check, lost my keys. I managed to buy minutes for my phone and then burned through them the next day as a system I set up crashed and burned and I couldn't really help in the recovery. I had migraine symptoms every night for a few days after I got over the flu including a Kansas City show where I couldn't see my gear or the audience through the scintillating schetomas. We ate fish tacos in -20 degree weather. Wisconsin has signs that say "CHEESE, gas, beer, cigarettes, bait" in descending font sizes in that order. I spent the day riding shotgun to Rogue covered in candy wrappers. We played a drag bar on a stage too small to fit CXS and the next day was our finest hour as the CXS van's wheel nearly fell off and we had to unpack the van into a rental truck and we hit the stage half an hour after arriving at the venue including simultaneous setting up the stage for us, Aria and CXS. I was rewarded that night with a Chicago style hot dog with everything on it and it was goood. It was pretty clear at that point that I couldn't maintain an adult life back at home touring like that and I wasn't really growing as a performer to match Steve and Donna, so it was a good time to step off that crazy train. I wouldn't have traded that ride for anything.
Where I left off in Seattle was Easter Sunday Dim Sum run. Going into Seattle I called up someone who I met briefly a couple of times and I was immediately invited to a bhangra dance party and Dim Sum the next day. I was doing Honk stuff so I didn't make the bhangra but I was a block away from the Dim Sum that morning. As my regular readers may know, I travel on my belly. I like to go out and eat when I go some place and I think that eating with a group of new people is a really interesting way to get to know them pretty quickly. I was there, all the way across the country eating with my new best friends. Table conversation was fresh, yet familiar. Strange things were consumed and analyzed. As is the way of Dim Sum we lay waste to a table of food for about $14 a piece. I poked around the city trying to decide if i wanted another $15 cab ride to the rest of the Honk festival when I was invited to dinner by my new friends. Venn diagrams were drawn and social networks were traced and I really wish Seattle was only as far away as DC so I could hang out more easily.
Monday was more hanging around in the city drinking coffee. I managed to have dinner with an east coast friend and his wife who I have only met while touring and online and it was really good to see them together and get to chat. Someone had an Ambulance called for them while I was taking the slower route bus to the airport so I rushed through security almost right on to the plane where I napped listening to air traffic control in the in-seat entertainment all the way back home. the end.
next up: montreal
I'll give 2 quick wrap ups for anyone who has elephant like memories or bothers back reading my journal:
I left off in San Francisco with Ego Likeness. I learned to like SF a bit more after playing a successful show there. We went north, I liked Portland. Seattle show was okay, got a call from my mom about my Grandfather in the hospital again for a stroke and she was heading up there. I had the flu from Colorado through Oklahoma. Bounced a rent check, lost my keys. I managed to buy minutes for my phone and then burned through them the next day as a system I set up crashed and burned and I couldn't really help in the recovery. I had migraine symptoms every night for a few days after I got over the flu including a Kansas City show where I couldn't see my gear or the audience through the scintillating schetomas. We ate fish tacos in -20 degree weather. Wisconsin has signs that say "CHEESE, gas, beer, cigarettes, bait" in descending font sizes in that order. I spent the day riding shotgun to Rogue covered in candy wrappers. We played a drag bar on a stage too small to fit CXS and the next day was our finest hour as the CXS van's wheel nearly fell off and we had to unpack the van into a rental truck and we hit the stage half an hour after arriving at the venue including simultaneous setting up the stage for us, Aria and CXS. I was rewarded that night with a Chicago style hot dog with everything on it and it was goood. It was pretty clear at that point that I couldn't maintain an adult life back at home touring like that and I wasn't really growing as a performer to match Steve and Donna, so it was a good time to step off that crazy train. I wouldn't have traded that ride for anything.
Where I left off in Seattle was Easter Sunday Dim Sum run. Going into Seattle I called up someone who I met briefly a couple of times and I was immediately invited to a bhangra dance party and Dim Sum the next day. I was doing Honk stuff so I didn't make the bhangra but I was a block away from the Dim Sum that morning. As my regular readers may know, I travel on my belly. I like to go out and eat when I go some place and I think that eating with a group of new people is a really interesting way to get to know them pretty quickly. I was there, all the way across the country eating with my new best friends. Table conversation was fresh, yet familiar. Strange things were consumed and analyzed. As is the way of Dim Sum we lay waste to a table of food for about $14 a piece. I poked around the city trying to decide if i wanted another $15 cab ride to the rest of the Honk festival when I was invited to dinner by my new friends. Venn diagrams were drawn and social networks were traced and I really wish Seattle was only as far away as DC so I could hang out more easily.
Monday was more hanging around in the city drinking coffee. I managed to have dinner with an east coast friend and his wife who I have only met while touring and online and it was really good to see them together and get to chat. Someone had an Ambulance called for them while I was taking the slower route bus to the airport so I rushed through security almost right on to the plane where I napped listening to air traffic control in the in-seat entertainment all the way back home. the end.
next up: montreal