Microsoft Country: Tour '06 - Entry #3

[highway, seattle]

the rumors about the pacific northwest are totally true. northern northern california into portland into seattle ... what great smelling territory! mends the little broken puppet sides of you and makes you feel appreciative and happy... good pine, good mountains, good fog...

Portland also secretly houses one of the most hospitable families i've ever met (kim's cousins). We stayed with them our second night in P-Town. Besides the bedding, towels, a key to the house, welcome notes, don't worry about making noise notes, we woke up the next morning after her cousin's had already gone to work. We were tired, crusty, hungry and wandered into the kitchen to find it mapped out with post-it notes on all the cupboards like so:





wow.

As for Seattle...

i got to see a friend i hadn't seen in 3 1/2 years. Somehow in that short spell, he'd gotten married, become the father of a handsome two year old and had another baby on the way, He came to the show in seattle where the loud girl shouted for kim and me to go back to la. That and damp clapping left us down on our show, but he said that we girls "delivered the rock." And he reads the Economist and owns lots of cd's. So, okay...

But not before Sia announced she was dedicating every song that night to us . Every single song. Even when she forgot, she'd do a backwards dedication "...oh and that song was for Eagle and Talon, too..." SO nice. Very sia.

And I'd like to go on, but it's time to pack up my drums for the t's bowl gig tonight. Kim got back from Canada just a few hours ago! Eagle and Talon is whole again!