I’ve meant to do this much sooner, but of course with things having been so busy, it’s been tough to find a moment to write. I’m sitting in the back of our van, careening down I-94, returning from Minneapolis, our furthest point West on tour.

I played at a thirty lane bowling alley last night, which was pretty fun. The middle four lanes were closed downm and had a stage in the middle of them. This allowed for both satisfying my constant desire to walk onto bowling lanes, and for a really bizarre and unusual show setup. I mean, it was me playing music in the middle of a bowling alley with bowling flanking me on both sides! Crazy.

Milwaukee was really fun; it’s been the only show so far with only dancy bands. Opening the evening, Daniel slinked up to the stage underneath both his cape and the entire audience in two lines, with their hands held up across from each other. Allison and Lindsey of Dites Donc did a sweet sweet set involving 1983 prom dresses, and Show Me the Pink played I think my favorite set from the five shows we played together.

There was definitely a little start of tour hump we just got over recently. A lot of the shows so far haven’t really had a ton of people at them, or have had many slightly interested people (like at Slutfest and at Memory Lanes, the bowling alley). But I’m thinking that’s all right, because some of my favorite places to play are coming up and Daniel and I are totally ready for them.

I’m pretty bummed that we’ve split ways with Show Me the Pink. Their performances are always so much fun and inspired and the little hanging out we got to do was always totally rad.

And the best story from tour so far, I totally wasn’t there for: while I, Daniel, Nickey, and Jess were driving to Minneapolis, Show Me the Pink were headed there as well in their van and had to stop for a tire change. Some guy had a tire shop in his backyard SMTP randomly came across, and were waiting for him to show up forever, and during that time Emmy wandered off and found some horses in a fenced in area on dude’s land. She tried to get a horse to come over for some petting, and after a little while one finally did. Emmy pet that horse, and it was liking it, and felt like she and the horse were having some sort of interspecies transcendental experience. Upon leaving to find somewhere to wash the horse dirt off her hands, she noticed the horse, which she’d assumed was a lady horse, had a total horse boner!

Daniel and I have been getting along really well, and since it’s just the two of us on tour, we’ve been able to bring a bunch of people to and fro and it’s been really great to have new people riding with us every once in awhile. From this point, we’re headed East for the next little bit, until we get to Providence and start headed South and then back again. I’m a little nervous about finances, but still considerably hella psyched about tour.

Oh oh, and here’s a sweet video of Daniel shooting a boba ball into Jes’s mouth: