First Day

Wednesday

1. got up this morning late, at 5:42 am, after being home for a little more then 24 hours, to head to the airport and jump back onto a plane headed for san luis obispo by way of phoenix. i have a show at calpoly this evening with mike mcgee and. 3 hour long shows, each of us doing a 20 min set in each one. tomorrow i'll jump the train to go and hang in los angeles until monday when i head to nashville to meet with the gang of solomon sparrow's electric whale revival. we'll hole up at derrick's for a few days, mashing out poetry, then start the tour, first date in atlanta on the 21st.

2. i'm going to try to attack this blog with updates from the road, though i have set up a new blog at blogger that i may post updates there instead. i still like lj, but i feel i want something that i can control the feel and look of more in regards to writing things that as opposed to meandering through whatever i feel like writing here on livejournal, have a purpose, such as updates from life on the road or whatever else i feel like writing about. which sounds like a meandering path as well. but trust me it's not.

3. airplaning today i felt like a rock star. i had my white daniel larusso style jacket with the yellow and red stripes over the zipper track, with my backpack on and carrying my white electronic grand piano for kids that comes with drum beat accompaniment. i just felt cool, like i was going to go kill crowds with me and my piano. i can't wait to get an mpc.

4. spent the day in airports burning cds, drawing on them and reading some things and thus felt disconnected from the world around me.

5. started ursula le guinn's left hand of darkness

6. got off the plane to the beautiful sunny cold breezy tune of 70 degrees. awesome.

7. this evening did the show with just mike, mush couldn’t make it. went really well. we did round robin, he did a poem i did a poem, and kept tag teaming out. it was a lot of fun doing the show with mike. between poems we’d each run back into the green room to continue burning our cds, cuz between the shows, we were swarmed with folks wanting the merch. i made 500 in cd sales, mike, who has a 6 hour mp3 cd for 20 bucks, made 1100. yay us. the kids were so gracious too. a room full of eager new freshman at their orientation, clamoring afterwards for us to sign their shirts and wallets or whatever. it was pretty cute. and i got a new WORD. shirt. small and chocolaty brown. yessss.

8.afterwards we ate some pizza and drunk a root beer and had a desert pizza of apple and cinnamon, then i fell asleep.


Thursday morning
1. am sitting at cafe luna down the street from the train station. mike headed off to san jose an hour ago, i’m waiting for my bus to santa barbara to transfer to my train to la where my friend kim will pick me up and i’ll hang out for the weekend, see sarah, ago to disneyland on sunday and then head out to nashville on monday. i have a cup of jasmine tea and buttered banana nut bread to keep me company until my bus comes.

p.s. also brown came through. looks like the sparrows are doing providence on sunday the 30th of september.