Speck Tour!!!

Hi Folks, Linky here. Alexa and I are touring across the West Coast from June to August to promote Alexa's shiny new cd, "Speck". We'll be sharing stories and pics from the road on this here blog. Alexa, Anders, and I hit the road in Vwan Foodwink (the vanagon which is our home for the summer) on June 11th.


This is day 3 of the tour and, so far, we've experienced:

• a lovely kickoff show in Austin with Raina Rose, Rebecca Loebe, and Datri Bean at Cafe Mundi

• a coolant overflow in the back of Vwan Foodwink (the vanagon we're traveling in)
• a stop in a basically abandoned TX town called Ballinger where we found kind of gross but authentic Italian food and cool looking walls

• a smoking ignition that induced panicked fleeing out of Vwan
  
• a hitchhiked ride from Santa Rosa, NM to Albuquerque with a kind man named Jay who reminded me of my Stepdad, Jim, and who I inadvertently offended by telling him so (an age thing I guess...)
• a massive giggle fit in the Olive Garden where we were dropped off by Jay brought on by unexpected drunkenness off one glass of wine and my horribly butchered attempts at speaking Danish. (my favorite phrase so far is "fucked up på sne", which means "fucked up on coke!". I like to end all of my Danish conversations with that now.
  
• a really frakkin scary commute with Carlosaur and Eva to the site of the secret show in the laundromat. He picked us up at the restaurant, fell out of the car as he came to a stop, and told us that he'd just drunk gasoline and poured orange juice in his eyes. He then proceeded to speed like holy hell down the hwy while braking sporadically and dodging between cars. When we got off the hwy, he ran every red light at full speed through oncoming traffic. I just kept muttering in Danish "I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared" to Alexa in the backseat. When he ran the 4th red light while a truck was speeding towards us she cussed him out and he apologized but then made fun of us for the rest of the drive.
• a secret show with a bunch of hipsters in a laundromat

• a night's rest in a total stranger's house that Raina Rose hooked us up with via text after announcing at her gig in Roswell that we needed help!

Those are just a few of the highlights. Alexa may elaborate more. Needless to say, it's been exciting so far. Vwan is in good hands in a shop in Santa Fe and will be there until Tuesday. For now, Anders has rented a car and we're planning to stay in a hostel called the Abominable Snow Mansion in Taos for the next few nights. Right now, we're sitting with the lovely Raina Rose, Rebecca Loebe, and Trevor Smith at the Santa Fe Brewery. We're full of good food and beer and have a great view of mountains and a cool breeze is blowing through. We're fixin' to go play some tunes. howwwwwl!