tour! blog! one!
it is day five of our three-week tour and only today have close quarters started feeling like close quarters. right now we're half an hour out of pittsburgh, which feels ridiculous, seeing as pittsburgh still feels like home. tour? what tour? i'm going back to pittsburgh! that could be a country-western song, in my other life. we've been on the road since early this morning and emily & i both took naps, which is perfect. sometimes the car has too much talking, and so naps were perfect. there's right now a giant ruck with weird ladders on it, and emily & andrew are debating: circus equipment? bridge installation? children's playground structure? i'm excited and nervous about the show tonight, because you always want the most people to come to these shows, but you know so many people that some are bound to not come. last night putting together the futon at ariela's i intensely scraped my foot & it's still hurting. the rest of the tour has gone something like this:
day one, eddie (drums)!) & joe (violin!) arrive in chicago. practicing, good mexican food, and lots of sleep.
day two, emilyn (uke! solo act!) arrives. lots of tea. still more practicing, and then our first show at blend! some lovely lovely people came and we made gas money and there were lots of windows facing the sun. we saw old friends & drank good beer and then crashed with bob & gail, my fantastic uncle & aunt, in the city. eddie & joe slept on my cousin luke's bunk beds and joe fell out of the top bunk during the night, directly onto eddie, who was actually on a trundle. apparently when he fell he yelled, "WHOA!" loudly and woke everyone, but i was three floors down.
day three, we hit the road and headed to cleveland, which was also the day my twin sisters turned 10, which is a very big deal. we were in the car for a long drive but not a painful one, and got to the barking spider a bit late. we played to only four people (the ones hosting us) in a very, very sweltering bar. but there were free pitchers of beer and tealight percussion, which made the situation somewhat more at ease. i also learned about drugstore liquor, which i had never heard of. man, ohio. my aunt gail's friend susan hosted us in her gorgeous home full of antique furniture that was stylish yet comfortable. i kept forgetting if we were in columbus or cleveland, because i have no context for either. susan's house sat right on lake erie, which was gorgeous & warm & we sat out drinking drinks and enjoying the night time. i cuddled nora, the adorable and loveable dog of the home, on my lap.
day four, we enjoyed the house a little more in the morning and ate granola and tried to pack our bags and the car more efficiently. we have a weird top-attachment on andrew's truck since we couldn't fit everything, and we packed alot. sidenote: we keep passing intense looking men driving. emily commented on it earlier and one just passed and gave me an intense, kind of crazy look. anyway, we headed to ann arbor, where we met up with ariela & damien and lazed around the apartment and finally checked the internet and imported photos and did nice, lazy things. it was ridiculously hot. we all traipsed to dinner (america's best burger, voted by GQ magazine) & ended up at the punk-rock elbow room in ypsilanti - emily made lots of charming jokes about the name during her set, and took to calling it slanty - where we had a great time together and the sound was great, despite me feeling too folky in a very girly, pastel-weird-pattern sundress. the club did have a bubble machine, though, which made me feel like maybe it was a little more girly than it tried to appear. after the bar we went back to ariela's & crashed, since it was late & we (i) felt like i had showered in smoke. (smoking! indoors! how i can't stand it!) i was kind of grumpy all night but i got over it this morning (which is now, day five.) damien made us eggs & toast and we piled into the car and now, four and a half hours later (wow, great time!) we're merging onto 376 from the veteran's bridge and my heart is welling up with love for this city. i'm excited about my move to chicago, but i really love it here. i guess other people aren't as excited about pittsburgh, but i think it's pretty great. tonight we're staying with dan & joyce, which is strange that we don't have our own place anymore, but we couldn't ask for better friends in this town. the more i think about it, the more i get excited to see everyone tonight. it's raining, but at least it's not 97 degrees.
emily in the backyard in cleveland!
day one, eddie (drums)!) & joe (violin!) arrive in chicago. practicing, good mexican food, and lots of sleep.
day two, emilyn (uke! solo act!) arrives. lots of tea. still more practicing, and then our first show at blend! some lovely lovely people came and we made gas money and there were lots of windows facing the sun. we saw old friends & drank good beer and then crashed with bob & gail, my fantastic uncle & aunt, in the city. eddie & joe slept on my cousin luke's bunk beds and joe fell out of the top bunk during the night, directly onto eddie, who was actually on a trundle. apparently when he fell he yelled, "WHOA!" loudly and woke everyone, but i was three floors down.
day three, we hit the road and headed to cleveland, which was also the day my twin sisters turned 10, which is a very big deal. we were in the car for a long drive but not a painful one, and got to the barking spider a bit late. we played to only four people (the ones hosting us) in a very, very sweltering bar. but there were free pitchers of beer and tealight percussion, which made the situation somewhat more at ease. i also learned about drugstore liquor, which i had never heard of. man, ohio. my aunt gail's friend susan hosted us in her gorgeous home full of antique furniture that was stylish yet comfortable. i kept forgetting if we were in columbus or cleveland, because i have no context for either. susan's house sat right on lake erie, which was gorgeous & warm & we sat out drinking drinks and enjoying the night time. i cuddled nora, the adorable and loveable dog of the home, on my lap.
day four, we enjoyed the house a little more in the morning and ate granola and tried to pack our bags and the car more efficiently. we have a weird top-attachment on andrew's truck since we couldn't fit everything, and we packed alot. sidenote: we keep passing intense looking men driving. emily commented on it earlier and one just passed and gave me an intense, kind of crazy look. anyway, we headed to ann arbor, where we met up with ariela & damien and lazed around the apartment and finally checked the internet and imported photos and did nice, lazy things. it was ridiculously hot. we all traipsed to dinner (america's best burger, voted by GQ magazine) & ended up at the punk-rock elbow room in ypsilanti - emily made lots of charming jokes about the name during her set, and took to calling it slanty - where we had a great time together and the sound was great, despite me feeling too folky in a very girly, pastel-weird-pattern sundress. the club did have a bubble machine, though, which made me feel like maybe it was a little more girly than it tried to appear. after the bar we went back to ariela's & crashed, since it was late & we (i) felt like i had showered in smoke. (smoking! indoors! how i can't stand it!) i was kind of grumpy all night but i got over it this morning (which is now, day five.) damien made us eggs & toast and we piled into the car and now, four and a half hours later (wow, great time!) we're merging onto 376 from the veteran's bridge and my heart is welling up with love for this city. i'm excited about my move to chicago, but i really love it here. i guess other people aren't as excited about pittsburgh, but i think it's pretty great. tonight we're staying with dan & joyce, which is strange that we don't have our own place anymore, but we couldn't ask for better friends in this town. the more i think about it, the more i get excited to see everyone tonight. it's raining, but at least it's not 97 degrees.
emily in the backyard in cleveland!
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