laundry vans and lumber yards

Friday, 22 December 2006

The tour diary is done. Scroll down past the laundromat entry to read about the Bay Area of California, USA, Earth, Universe.Also: I have new stuff up at some familiar places. Check out Juked and SmokeLong. Sort of like winter sweaters, these places. Comfortable and fantastic. So more like winter s

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i was like: lovers are waterproof

Tuesday, 19 December 2006

Spent much of the day at the laundromat, back in Oroville.Something was messed up with my left ear. Clogged, very quiet.A blue, suspicious towel hung on the doorknob in the public restroom.I read Roy Kesey's Nothing in the World. It fit the mood of my bad ear. It made me want to wash my heart in a

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tour diary part très

Saturday, 16 December 2006

Kindness. It sizzles me. Let me explain.We left Ashland in the wee hours of the morning, waltzing down I-5 through eerie Shasta clouds and talking about National Geographic documentaries, Lemurians, power ballads, the etymology of the word emo, the Calif

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tour diary part dos

Tuesday, 12 December 2006

Glorious evening to all of youze. When I started this entry, I was in Portlandtown beside a fireplace, staying with one of T-Poe's childhood friends. The Portland show went well. We played in a converted garage. After the show, I ate a piece of pound cak

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tour diary part uno with a lot of passive voice

Sunday, 10 December 2006

Hello. I am currently sitting on a kitchen floor in Vancouver, BC. We are staying at Laura Boo's house. There is a slab of wood across the back door and a sewing machine on the table. We, the minor poets, ate artisan pastry bits leftover from a major poe

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