Happy St. Patrick's Day (observed)! One more week of tour means one more tour blog post! In the last week, we rocked Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Fredericksburg, and Charlotte. Tonight, we're playing a special outdoor St. Patrick's Day extravaganza here in Atlanta, and barreling straight into our final three shows: Nashville, Memphis, and Little Rock. We are having so much fun, but it will sure be great to be home!
Just being in the south again has been great, especially because we drove straight into the onset of Georgia spring. The weather is beautiful, I've traded out my cowboy boots for sandals, and it's hard to imagine that just a few weeks ago we were slipping on snow and ice in Montreal.
The sky seems to stretch far here in Georgia, in a way that reminds me almost of the "big sky" out in Montana. Maybe it's just because we were driving in on the tail of a big storm system, but it just was one of those skies of epic proportions that makes me feel like I'm standing on the deck of a ship and looking up into the wind. The wind hasn't stopped blowing since, and the clean southern air has reinvigorated me. We've even started talking about the next tour (if we survive the rest of this one...).
Music wise, we've been celebrating being in the south by listening non-stop to Chappell Roan's "The Giver" and being plum hog-tied by her barn burning brand of country. We're eating nothing but Waffle House (when we can get it), and Catherine is even playing the banjo. I guess Saoirse Dream's an alt-country band now?
Outside of all that boot-scooting, my sister and I have been listening to the Piranesi audio book in the car since Virginia and are completely enchanted. The story itself is fascinating - we're only about halfway through, and I'm driving on the edge of my seat - but I also am captivated by the world of the house. The descriptions of the endless rooms full of statues make me think of the Eyewitness intro; I can only assume that it was filmed in a similar type of world. It's all very scholastic utopian in a way I can't get enough of. I can imagine the Myst-like, open world game of just exploring hall after hall of statues, seas, and stars. I want to write another post about how maybe you could do that with generative AI and interactive fiction, but I'm still marinating on it.
Friday I go back to my "normal life", although it's unclear what normal means after this, especially without a job. My calendar is free except for heading to the Sphere in April, but I'm pretty excited to work on filling all that time. So - if anybody has any ideas (or wants to take the Pan-American Highway to Dead Horse, Alaska...) then give me a call!
so many good things in one post!!!! all I can say is: come start a new 'normal life' in ann arbor!!!!!