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February 05, 2004

11:57 a.m.

Dim Sum

Here are some random notes I jotted during the Florida tour:


Awesome sisterhood vacation with Rose, in Disney, before tour. Spent way too much money but got some beautiful sushi dishes in the "Japan" section of Epcot. We also saw Cirque du Soleil, which was breathtaking and stunning and profound and so beautiful I cried through some of it.


Driving around bad part of Miami looking for a hotel � really scary dreadlocked homeless types squatting on the sidewalk. They weighed about 80 lbs. and looked really beaten up. A mile and a half away, antique shops and fancy hotels and posh restaurants.

Frequent fighting with "Magellan," a borrowed GPS system which sometimes had us going in circles.

Things we consider "houseplants" growing wild and huge in Florida

Abandoned orange groves, now sequestered amid pine forests, still producing fruit

Fruit all over people's yards. Even one tree produces too much for a family. How many grapefruits can you eat? We came back with about 90 oranges and 60 grapefruits, given to us by fans.

Outside the Sailing Squadron in Sarasota, where we had an outdoor concert: Next to the Squadron building is a large area where people store their boats up on trailers. Maybe hundreds of boats, in long rows. I walked out there alone to warm up before the show. It was a terrifically windy night and the wind whipped through the masts and empty riggings. Made an eerie noise like sea sirens. Frightening but compelling; I asked myself, if I were a sailor, would I have the urge to follow this? Yes, without knowing why.

At Cape Coral, our host was opening for us. He was playing some song that had my name in it ("Pretty Little [name]"), while the Gomer (with the smoked pork butt) was chatting me up in the kitchen. I forgot to mention that in the previous entry about this fellow. Added to the snickering irony of it all.

WMNF - We had a great radio appearance in Tampa, played a few tunes, talked about how music changes people's lives, all this profound stuff. We took a few calls from listeners afterwards. You know, they want to know how to get a CD, or how to get sheet music, etc. I got on the line and this guy says, with a heavy southern accent, ''You ladies do any yodelin'?''

Conversation with Chris - ''Guess which people go to heck? Those who don't believe in Gosh!" Me: ''Yeah, and they're darned for all time.''

Woman, dressed as nurse, collecting for charity at stop light in Tampa; turns out it's not medical, it's a Christian fund of some sort. We thought that was pretty shifty.

Road toothbrush wore out so I bought a new one, which dog promptly chewed up in Lutz

Slept in soundproofed studio - best night's sleep I've had in months

Saturday - set list frustration in Tarpon Springs; allegedly "great" Greek food that tasted like ASS

SO done with this tour.

I'm sleeping in a kid's bunk bed with 18'' of clearance

Everybody's house now smells like unbathed dog

FL tap water tastes like ASS

Our host in Tarpon Spgs makes wine - Pole bean, cherry, mango & mead, among others - grows lemons big as grapefruits

Nice host, but the girlfriend has the loudest, most raucous laugh - puts Fran Dressler to shame. I kept thinking, ''What's the attraction? Must be the sex."

And her comment after the show. By this time, Blond & Buxom was pretty drunk on all that homemade mead. Carol commented on how sharp the crowd was, getting all the jokes, and girlfriend replied enthusiastically, ''Yeah, we have a very CEREB-RE-AL audience!'' Cerebreal. Mm.

Later, C&C told me (I don't know how I missed this) that host & girlfriend had sat in the back row and necked through the whole concert.

Sinuses hurt, nose stuffed up. Was a wee bit testy today, owing to homesickness.

Carol & Chris are in teenage son's room; bed so uncomfortable they had to put the mattress on the floor. When they lifted the mattress up, they found porn stash underneath. Centerfold looked a lot like host's girlfriend.

Despite girlfriend's offer to make us her fabulous potato pancakes, they were still sleeping it off when we left at 10:30 the next morning.

Got to do ALL my laundry in Floral City before leaving for home. What a relief.


One further, current note: Go to bindyree and read today's entry about the flag. Read all the way to the end.


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