" Grey Anne Tour Diary" Archive
Grey Anne: Winding Down in SF (San Francisco, CA)
0 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
Day 7—SF
Gator & Pigeon
I choose my friends in ones and twos—I don’t amass them very fast. But there are four people I need to visit in San Francisco. There’s Sylvan the magazine writer, Ed the Sims programmer, his wife Corrine, and Lindy, my former bandmate.
Our two days in San Francisco will be a logistical meetup [...]
Grey Anne: Getting Out Of The Way (Napa, CA)
0 CommentsPosted on Friday, June 26th, 2009
Day 6—Napa, CA
Subheadings. Why didn’t I think of them before? I was road-weary and distractible. Forgive me.
The Falafel Pun
I know you’re dying to know the circumstances that generated The Best-Ever Falafel Pun. So I won’t make you wait any longer:
The guy we’re crashing with is a major bachelor, and he lives with all guys, too. [...]
Grey Anne: We’re On a Frequency (with free mp3 download!)
2 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009
You super-sleuths have probably already surmised that at this point, I’ve been back in town for some time. Why does the tour keep posting, then?
Well, even though I wrote most of it from the road, Casey and Michael are men, not machines. Reading and posting all my stuff over—and culling from the depths of the [...]
Grey Anne: Eleanor Must Be My Go-To Fake Name (Oakland, CA)
1 CommentPosted on Thursday, June 18th, 2009
Day 5–Oakland
Last night, I tried to grocery shop for today’s long-ass car ride. I found myself at a listless loss, wandering the aisles. That wouldn’t keep, this has wheat, this would wilt, that would crumble. And none of it looks good. I ended up with a bag of potato chips, then chomped them all down [...]
Grey Anne: A Tea and a Burger Bender (Bend, OR)
6 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, June 16th, 2009
Day 4—Bend, OR
I made Stephanie stop. I don’t think she wanted to, but I spotted the most ornately gorgeous metalcrafted gazebo, mid-road between Eugene and Bend. We stopped to see it closer, and in the back garden there was so much more. Bigger gazebos. One with a giant stained-glass ceiling, and a pond in the [...]
Grey Anne: Saturday Marketing (Eugene, OR)
23 CommentsPosted on Monday, June 15th, 2009
Day 4 part I, Eugene part II
We woke up in Eugene, and went straight to Eugene Saturday Market, which is massive. It’s a farmer’s market and an artisan fair all in one. So much stuff to look at. Russian batiked egg ornaments. Soft-sculpture dolls. And I’m that one who wants to figure out how every [...]
Grey Anne: Anti-materialist meanderings in Eugene (Eugene, OR)
0 CommentsPosted on Friday, June 12th, 2009
Day 3—Eugene, OR
PWRFL Power is playing as I type. Kaz is hooting like an owl and diddling the guitar in artistically dissonant jazz chords. He’s flipping his bangs in rhythm. The lights are dimmed, which they weren’t for me and Cap Lori. I imagine that he requested that they dim them, and it’s sure an [...]
Grey Anne: I Felt Vaguely Like a Cougar Who Keeps a Houseboy (Portland, OR)
0 CommentsPosted on Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
Day 2—Portland, OR:
Hey, golly. Back in town already. Like the person who leaves for work, and then walks back into the room five minutes later because they forgot something. “Good workday?” you say. “Yeah, very productive,” they reply.
Without saying more than I’ve already mentioned, I’ll admit that there was some stress in Seattle. By the [...]
Grey Anne: Somewhere in Seattle, Between Heaven and Hell (Seattle, WA)
1 CommentPosted on Monday, June 8th, 2009
Show number 1, Seattle, WA:
The Comet Tavern is a bar’s bar. It’s where bars would go to drink for cheap. The ceiling is covered with wadded dollars, and the bathroom ceiling with wadded TP. So don’t look up—the Comet deflects all help from the heavens.
A woman dressed like a girl said, “I’m a lildrunk. [...]
Grey Anne: Some People Think It’s Gimmicky To Play Shows With Fake Animals, But To Me it Just Feels Like Company (Portland!)
9 CommentsPosted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009
Sweet Jehoshaphat,
the tour is so soon. It shimmers on the horizon—and it looms.
I am marshaling my mental energies like never before. I have to do all the things, take care of all the business, and prepare to share myself with the upper US west coast. The sharing is, I think, the hardest, and the most [...]
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