Zepparella

Nila shall Ramble on here:

2010-03-04T22:43:00.001-08:00

www.achzicherz.com

.colorado.wyoming.utah.nevada.california.

2010-02-28T20:11:00.001-08:00

Show in C-Butte was epic. Thank You mountain men for loading the monster box up the narrow icy stairs of death. You need to ride a snowmobile on a daily basis defeating avalanches and yetis to survive that one. My ears did not pop till Denver coming down the high miles with a cold. There we blew the house lighting rig but thankfully Jimanamals new, seperate LED Bonanza kept the show going. Nice screaming there to my right Ladies! ...and Claude...shiny Claude...we love him too.

(es war kalt, es war lange fahren, wundes Steissbein, 48 Stunden in 4 Tagen und viel viel Schnee, Spass hat's gemacht, laut war's, die Lichter gingen aus auf der Buehne in Denver, Sicherung durchgebrannt, aber wir haben gerade unsere eigenen gekauft und so gings weiter mit dem gerocke, meine Ohren waren dicht von der Berg Hoehe, pffff)

Crested Butte...gorgeous...

2010-02-26T16:50:00.001-08:00

Now this is the Partypad worthy of Deans 100th, 4 bedroom 3 level red Lodge for us with view of the Butte...sweeeeeeeeeet....and yes it's a cold...darn it...

(Party fuer Dean's 100te Show, er faehrt ueberall hin und hilft und ist prima)

Vail, 7000some feet, stuffed nose (god let that be altitude and detox)

2010-02-26T12:10:00.001-08:00

Dean's 100th show! Now owning the official Crewchief jacket, he is amazing beyong words, Thank You Sir G!
Here is to the next 100...in many more states and countries!

...so this sweet faced, 6 foot 9 awesome security guard called Jim Manimal...well said...he drives 23 hours, sets up, runs the lovely lights, keeps track on everything and everybody, briefs the crew, interfaces, wrangles, shuttles, packs, moves, shakes and looks hot doing it...yeah try that on for size...

Claude gave us a glass swan with a rose, looking at him is like staring into the sun (Buzz said that when a girl in London showed her underage boobs, worthy quote) somewhat painful but you can't help it.

Oh you wonderful peoples around us!

Laplunch, first class...

2010-02-25T13:09:00.000-08:00

...it's just a question of balance...

jaja die gesunde Ernaehrung auf dem Schoss balanziert waehrend wir die Autobahen langduesen

Lent, day seven.

2010-02-24T14:17:00.001-08:00

On our way to Vail, way up there in the Rocky Mountains, just passed the Sierras...now I am obsessed with the option off Clem force feeding me a chocolate Truffel when things get bad...she said it in an interview when asked about this catholic bassgirls withdrawl from earthly pleasures for 40 days, hmmm what can I do to make her...hmmm...oh I know tickle her...nah, she'll just punch me like usual. (Well she is the one right now still having yellow spots on the forehead from the Barney Rubble, I swear I didn't hit her, she did)

(ich bin ja man nicht vollkatholisch aber genug um 40 Tage alles aufzugeben was Spass macht, Alkohol, Schokolade und Kaese...ahhhhh keine Pizza)

Jim's state of mind...

2010-02-21T14:52:00.001-08:00

...in traffic, stuck, toiletpaper wrapped around his head, crying out he's injured and everyone needs to move over one lane...ahhh laughing, medicine for all...

(unser lieber Tourmanger und allgemeiner Held, er faehrt und macht und tut, hier sitzen wir im Stau und er hat sich Klopapier um den Kopf gewickelt damit wir was zu lachen haben)

Yeah, this will do nicely!

2010-02-20T19:15:00.001-08:00

Thank you gentlemen. Tahoe sound check happy moment, not quite my double amp wall from the studio, but it's big, it's loud...

...snow expected...

2010-02-20T15:54:00.000-08:00

View from Frank Sinatra ghost hotel....

8:14 first run...

2010-02-18T20:17:00.000-08:00

Yeah, I'm pretty happy with this wall, if only I'd get to play it again like this...sigh...
20 min breaks between takes to clear the fog out, looks lovely,
falling over the drum riser like it does here in this pretty town, fog rolling over the hills.
Wow 11:30pm done, now we pack up the van to go to Tahoe, play Frank Sinatras showroom, yeah...

(ganzer Tag im Studio, morgens aufnehmen, dann nebenan Video drehen, ich hab mal fuer Spass all meine lauten Kisten aufgebaut, laut und prima, leider lassen die mich nicht immer so spielen, zuviel des Guten)

Rollin...

2010-02-18T16:34:00.000-08:00

...ahh, those words that raise your blood pressure, make you forget your last name and basically produce suck on your instrument, all because there is no more brain left to play, it's all panic and doubt and you might want to breathe here and there...uhhh and all that on a couple plenty dollars and hour, no pressure, really

When the levee breaks take 3...
Meanwhile the heavenly crew is setting up across the hall to shoot video, rented red velvet and Jim build these cooler ghetto foggers for the dry ice...wow...what can he not do...

Barney rubble

2010-02-15T16:25:00.001-08:00

...that's what you get now there young lady for wildly waving wooden sticks around...

(hat die Gute sich selbst auf'n Kopp gehauhen mit den Schlagstoeckern, dickes Horn und blau war's, na wenn mann denn auch immer so rumwedelt...)

Oh no Clem just started the pre load empty club Discoparty...

2010-02-14T19:48:00.001-08:00

...holy moly what a rockin lovin sweatin fun this was, hung myself on the necklaces with my bass strap, the band left stage and I was stuck...ahhhh Help? Best rock bracelets I saw later at the merch, I used to make them out of my broken strings, these had a nice wire wrap to close the ends. I should really do that again, I have a lot of broken ones...Having the after gig Caspar Carnival debauchery headache with windy road carsick, but that kinda went away then with more head shaking...tomorrow we drive...then load, then Monday I work my undercover jobs...then Thurs we do it again...yeah
Lent starts Wednesday. Oh! the Horror. No Scotch, no Cheese, no Chocolate, I shall be so cranky without my comforts...aaaaarrrrggggg...I promise not to txt on the edge, shaking from sugar withdrawl...Pizza? do not mention that word till Easter.

Heavy (rocker's) thoughts on Love and Loss. Warning V-day spoiler.

2010-02-13T12:14:00.001-08:00

While standing on Caspars cliff overlooking the Pacific, big big waves today sun and it smells like cut eucalyptus, I think of the reasons people dance, scream and generally shake their heads till whiplash (that might just be me). I know I dance to remember trust and rock to forget death, so what ever their reason, last night I needed to be with others, rocking dancing and screaming. Because even if I were so lucky as to find my mate one day, that other day one of us will see the solemn doctors face coming out of surgery again delivering the blow to the waiting love of a life. But, what a life it can be...here is to my favorite spy Uncle who died with an open heart, full of love, to my art Aunt who showed me over the holidays how it looks like when two smile at each other who know love and a life oh so full of it.

Reibekuchen forever.

das ist hard zu uebersetzen aber ich versuchs:

Wärend ich an Caspars Klippe in Mendocino über dem Pazifik stehe (grosse Wellen, heute mal endlich Sonne, und es riecht wie frisch gefällter Eukalyptus) denke ich an die Gründe, warum Menschen tanzen, schreien und in der Regel den Kopf schütteln, bis zum Schleudertrauma (das kann natürlich nur mein Ding sein). Ich weiß ich tanze um mich an Vertrauen zu erinnern und rocke um den Tod zu vergessen, was auch immer der Grund, letzte Nacht habe ich es gebraucht, mit anderen zu sein die rocken, tanzen und schreien. Denn auch wenn ich mit viel Glück eines Tages den Meinigen finde, da wird eines anderen Tages ein Arzt mit traurigem Gesicht in den Flur kommen um einem von uns beiden den grossen Schlag zu versetzen das die Liebe des Lebens fort ist. Aber was für ein Leben es sein kann...ich hebe mein Glass auf meinen Lieblings-Spion Onkel, er starb mit offenen Herzen, voller Liebe, auf meine meine Kunst-Tante, die mir über die Feiertage gezeigt hat, wie es aussieht, wenn zwei einander anlächeln die Liebe kennen und ein Leben hatten, oh so voll davon.

Reibekuchen für immer.

DNA sang

2010-02-13T12:07:00.000-08:00

They messed up my mascara with the stars are blue duett. Nice. Go see them in SF...

Tampa, rain

2010-02-01T22:36:00.001-08:00

We all slept till noon, guess the travel vs rock ration on this trip is 127 vs 3 and somewhat tiring us...or the fact that it stopped being so dry and cold we had injured noseinsides...way to change climates...Clem and I had to make the hard movie pick decisions of: has Clem slept through it and will Nila kill herself after, 'Taking Woodstock and The Invention of Lying' then...

Ahhh, done playing the Party and now I'm watching a naked Girl on the sidestage in white, high platform boots and a renaissance hoopskirt (Seethrough) getting wax poured onto her lovely exposed body by her tatooed black Angel winged Boy...reminds me of times when Bottom had an opener in Detroit waaaay back at PURPLE rain princes venue that screwed a 9 volt in her HOOHA (see http://www.theonion.com/content/news/renowned_hoo_ha_doctor_wins_nobel) and then bit on it to make it glow, the naked skinny flexible one on a bed of nails folding himself into a Fellationial Selfmade-man (really, I saw it up close, I mean, would you ever leave the house?)...

Question of Morals, darn

2010-02-01T22:08:00.001-08:00

Dear Sushi Chef, thank you for wearing your Wedding band so I would only dance a few steps with you thinking of him...

Sunday Morning Rooming with Anna Revelation:

2010-01-31T09:23:00.001-08:00

...at least now we know who is wearing the (tight, tiny, white) pants in our relationship: while I was ironing my purple and yellow cotton handkerchiefs, she was watching some sports movie, that shows at least she's a girl, if it would have been a Packers (that's a team right?) Game...I might would have to check the gender...like they do with the Pope upon Popefication cause once the rumor goes, there was a woman on that Throne...

PS the Movie turned out to be Jerry Maguire, yep she's a girl

Snow, 4 women, Jim and a hot tub...

2010-01-31T01:00:00.001-08:00

That's what's in out future...right now! You, Hollywood people better not step into the sleet...the van is moving...cookies too...and we have two fireplaces in our chalet, drive faster Jim, hurry home...tomorrow we shall fly to the sun...

Don't question the Clem...

2010-01-29T08:34:00.001-08:00

...I should know by now...

Breakfast of Rockerdamen: Salmon and Rasberries, cut with the nailfile...ahhh we are living it up at 8 in the morning in Winnemuchas glorious Motel 6...on our way to Sundance (yay)

Funny

2010-01-24T02:10:00.000-08:00

...the things that become home, a suitcase bought in the snow in (yeah yeah again) Amsterdam that says LIV as in don't worry you are indeed still breathing...a lock and cable so your stuff is actually still there, the dressed up unicorn neck pillow in the front seat, the cute boy in the front row from last night with a nice tie that makes you miss the entrance to a song...

The far, tall chest connection made and remembered, cherished for it's onetimeness...now only virtual on the droid...as almost a promise for things to come?

I do hope so.

I got to rock. My neck hurt. Yeah.

Breathing?-check.

...the quest for thee aftershow activity...

2010-01-24T01:33:00.001-08:00

...emailing across the ocean? Making out? Vegan doughnuts? Deeptissue? Collecting nice shotglasses?

Oh I got it, loading gear!

Happy Newyear!

2010-01-22T13:29:00.001-08:00

...no really, there is nothing (even a post fantastic vacation blues) a good night of head shaking rocking can't fix...

well, some things unfortunately for sure, but its 814am and I am still in bed, early AIS (ass in seat) today to Seattle, so let's not think about the dark side of life shall (shan't?) we...(insert Life of Brian whistle song)

Clem is having a bath, hope she gets the whirls to work, I had a (still awesome as I got no tub) still one last night to smooth out the overworked neck muscles, the Applegate Lodge is oh so fine to spend the night in comfort and on a cowboy saddle for a chair as the childhood reminder, my Dad had made me one, I used to watch Hansel and Gretel opera version on a woodbock topped off by an English Saddle...

...the Duke sat in on Sax and I really liked it, nice fingers, Sean (Elko Soundmaster) came and Song got his darling candy front signed...now I'm sore and looking forward to the Coffee from somewhere. OUR POSTERS ARE AMAZING! Thank You Alan...

(PS the Droid did not work in Europe after I left England, so no travelnotes from oldcountry, it would only be about my love for Amsterdam anyway(s?))

Asscrack o dawn Travelday

2009-12-13T23:31:00.001-08:00

After 'Lightening Bolts' closing show there was nothing left to be done but shake my head in disbelieve and astonishment...two people taking the duo to another level, drummer sang through a mic somewhere in his mask during insane intense smashing all, Bass player player split signal Guitar lines whilst lowending it...so close to them I though I had a Tiger on it's Tail, had to go there... --- I behaved. (Der Not gehorchend, nicht dem eignen Triebe.) --- Part of me wishes to be doing this really big touring thing, part of me is glad to have somewhat of a little life with home...fun to see all the bands checking in at the airport with stacks of gear...ah the nightmare of instrument transport...will it make it? Another snapped neck? Lost? Banged up? --- Well, it's been a raging holiday, I now will switch to old home country mode and my notes will be with oldhome language. Can't wait to see the chocolate! --- Happy Travels Clem!

ATP last night

2009-12-13T14:50:00.001-08:00

Explosions in the sky-love them, sounded like the beachwalk looking over to Cardiff (hi Torchwood) felt. The order of the wristbands and laminates, it is nice to get around lines and cut throught to usable ladies rooms...ahhh after 20odd years of shlepping gear perhaps deserved for once. I might have to get a second load on Sunn, they made my eyelids flutter. --- Too much smoking going on for my delicate soul, despite the polite signage... --- Had a mobile massage, they need to follow me around.

Raging fun times

2009-12-13T08:34:00.001-08:00

Thankfully there's bubbely vitamin tablets to be drunk...

Sunn O)))

2009-12-13T05:54:00.001-08:00

Oh, so I thought I was loud...but those stonehendged wall of amps two guys in monkhoods win the price, I made it 15 mins in front of the PA, earplugs of course, considering it a full body vibrator it is enjoyable, but wow, no drums, no bass, if you are drunk enough...it's like wild, sweaty, regrettable sex (not that I would know)
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I think the peaty scotch that showed up up around 4am did me in, woke up with a thankfully unsent TXT in my hand that asked one courious question: why?
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Don't believe there will be an answer from the right long gone person, only mine.
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Now I hunt down coffee, see noise, do more.

2009-12-13T05:48:00.001-08:00

Porn set the best intro, I love the Mossman he does sound right, may I please play with you again before it's over? Double drummer delight especially with riffs I remember, smashing really...I get all sorts of ideas (and I am getting over the wrong ones, finally) then Melvins, rumour has it they practice a lot, I am jealous, they are so incredibly tight...bass player jumped in the crowd all that showed his whereabouts the cable like a fishing line...then 4 drummers on stage Clem reported...no boobs this time (like staring in the sun) --- Incredible Banoffee cake, whip cream banana chocolate and salty cracker, I overate, but when oh when would I have that again ever? (To quote the writeup: Anything worth doing, is worth overdoing) --- Back to cottage resting, got stuck on Shankshaw redemption and missed a couple of bands, Morgan Freedman and the story of hope sucked me right in...hmm ---backstage again, smelling like smoke glad I quit, stories of old friends from NYC told by Noel, he used to mix us at the Continental in Bottom times, this has been a rather introspected day (why do woman aim to please and men just do their thing...)...let's check out the mellow sounding 'The 4 Carnation'...

2nd day ATP

2009-12-12T13:09:00.001-08:00

3pm-first show of the day, Afrirampo, the girls from Japan we met in the van, they started the show by screaming into the audience, no PA, just top of lungs. Red bikinis with pink stuffed animals and glitter, guitar/drums...naked soul poetic heavyfunpunk...loved them and they loved us...at two points both of them stood on the bassdrum...Shellac just finished, backstage hiding to txt the update, Porn with a long set and then Melvins up next...what a festival...awesome catering, thousand(s?) of musiclovers living in an industrial worker summer resort, little rampage party cottages, too bad the waterslides are shut for winter...seagulls, so I assume the ocean is near

10 Years ATP, Minehead

2009-12-11T17:32:00.001-08:00

This is heaven, rocker Disneyland, 3 Stages, we have a cottage...3 days of bands and Ozzy drove us and the very sweet Duo from Japan (ginger, cold cold) in throwup speed through tiny tunnel streets...slept, and so far the head got enough food to do some interesting new things next year, favorite of the evening: Fuck Buttons, mindblowing two person live dancenoise, oh that and this section of ours? They stopped on a fuckin dime.

My grandfathers life remembered at our lill french cafe...

2009-12-11T06:52:00.002-08:00

Heritage combined, English rain

2009-12-11T06:52:00.001-08:00

Mogwai while staring at the foggy gray kanal next to the tracks...people live in long houseboats...do they smell moldy I wonder? I am so from Northern Europe only they speak my new language here, well sort of...

It takes two...hopefully soon!

2009-12-11T05:25:00.001-08:00

Clem has flem...train Paddington to Minehead

2009-12-11T05:22:00.001-08:00

3 sunny days in London, dancing in the katacombs with the incomparable Sir Jasek, Jewlery Museum extraordinaire, the Birdy Numnum Hotel with narrow staircase all the way up smelling like xmas goose, sadly unmusical Leaders, doubledecker tour and nightbusses, oh Hampsteads pubs, view over London (partial) [always turn the corner], lovely lovely times...and now we shall rock the ATP festival!

Holy Shit...

2009-12-11T05:15:00.001-08:00

Opening night of another kind of Swanlake...the only 2 tickets left an hour before showtime were out of the budgeting reach...so we just hung out and watched the famous ones getting photographed...Dawn French royaly sauntered right by us...oh sweety Darling! (Insert AbFab youtube video of Patsy and Eddy raging in the red convertible with Stoliboli)...3 minutes before the bell we decided against the bus and just asked on the wee chance if any tickets were returned...and see, there were two...in our pricerange...we ran up the stairs and I am so glad I did not go to Tango...instead I saw the best thing of my life on stage...male swans broke my heart...brilliant (as they say here)

Hehe

2009-12-09T17:29:00.001-08:00

London calling

2009-12-09T17:24:00.001-08:00

1am Soho, bluish danceclub with rather interesting moving of bodyparts...well, that proves what I heard about the dancers here, I had 3 quite non musical pushabouts at the local Milonga...such a not fun event...last night was much much better, the Melvins and Porn rocked my head bigtime...double drummers are my dream...sigh...the snogging delight with the tall dark curly double pierced boy helped matters tremedously...great chatting with new friend after that...pubs all over...ahhhhhhhh

Morning, Breakfast!

2009-12-07T09:39:00.001-08:00

Airportbar...alarmclocks set (just in case)...where is George Clooney?

2009-12-07T01:18:00.001-08:00

That's a lot of shh and tss and ckkkk sounds.

2009-12-07T01:15:00.001-08:00

Wow I am watching german stockmarket news and soccer on DW Hotel TV...I will have such an accent when I get back, I will think and dream in German again (and sneek in Hulu US TV episodes when newhome sick)...

Clem, let's not watch 'amazing wedingcakes'

2009-12-07T01:05:00.001-08:00

...305am...one more romantic comedy and I'm gonna slit my pillow...enough..hot shower...now...

Home sweet oldtime home

2009-12-07T00:24:00.001-08:00

...a month in Europe: I'll miss the fluffy straycat, my droidphone and yes, that one...but, there will be chocolate, gouda, my Aunts, friends and the people I started playing with...well, and dancing with 6inch plus strangers...Amsterdam here I come...

49 hours Milwaukee Hotelroom 1:50am

2009-12-06T23:48:00.001-08:00

...cold snowsmell, a firedancer (sigh), day of romantic comedies (arrrg)...insanely fast and intense drive byrocking...and finally the flight to London tomorrow...oh I so hope to forget, have a blast, dance and make out with tall dutch, heavy rockers and have oh so much fun with my dear drummer...it's been quite a year

2009-12-06T19:47:00.001-08:00

...never ever...weatgluten...bad bad for my belly...

Vegan Steak with Mushroom gravy, help me...

2009-12-05T19:20:00.001-08:00

We miss Jim...

2009-12-05T18:58:00.001-08:00

Cutest thing to hear gret read him the beerlist

Airport, to Milwaukee

2009-12-05T11:44:00.001-08:00

...well, that knife dealer at the ralley in Reno made for fun and a triple bag check as the lill toolset he promised is flyable, is so not. While they were at it they took the large threatening looking, deadly in the wrong hands nailfile...so I can now scare the pilot into flying me and Clem straight to London with a rough protruding fingernail...sweet...it's story time, Gretchen is reading to us from a Zeppbook...

18hourdrivehomecoming

2009-11-29T05:00:00.001-08:00

Oregon to SF all those torture thoughs and then we got to SF and I can only say it made my month above my B-day...the german Lebkuchen and musicbox is more than I can bear, really...wonderful indeed...what a rocknight...thankyou

The boys were at one point dancing on the bar...we are recapping the evening in line at Cafe Yumm! Absolutely worth the headache...

2009-11-22T10:39:00.001-08:00

2009-11-22T02:29:00.001-08:00

...at the hotel...it smellslike snow and ij gothickups frm cafe yumms tofu skewers my and Clem ravaged out of Annas hands...there ijs a fire...place in the lobbbby...geeeez its winter, yeahi xmas in Europe!!!!!!!!!!

Oregon...blllblblllblllb

2009-11-22T02:09:00.001-08:00

...ahhh, so I should probably not attempt to txt rightto now, but hwow...wht a night...I am locked@in the van and we are trying to get outtahere and guido did not let me sleep on stage on my basscase so I had to go back to th bar I thijnk anfd dance with my girls and hve yummy scotch...thanx to all to help us load in the rain...clem and I are going top be in England soon and I can't even think staighht okn how much fun we'll have but I so deserve it after al that breakup crap ehhh: emotional learning opportunities...anfd oh please someone do the dummy check rigth now...crosseyed and happy to be alive...thank you peopel of Eugene...ouch, more zonked out sleep tomorrow...9 hours I think...I won't remeber...so glad I am with my peeps...they'll keep me sane/fe...rain...drink...better drink than to to load wet...right?

Sheriff Smith love fest.

2009-11-01T14:51:00.001-08:00

If I could just show the photo we took of the most glamorous lawupholder I have ever seen and the so deserving happy happy Jim...stupendously beautyful woman. We stood in awe while considering going con for all her uniform clad 6 feet. No wonder they speed in Humbold county...

Halloween Rockvaganza!

2009-11-01T14:45:00.001-08:00

the costume contest was impossible to judge: the Jellyfish lady, the Guitarguy, Kali with all her hands, the orange clad road worker with the tire tracks, several Boobs, devils, flying monkeys, the Bee and the Honeykeeper, Faun with little tail, Peacock bartender...my head spun from all the amazing views. Sigh....and Malcolm Reynolds gave me a featherboa, oh I am so the Firefly fan, my smile went big.

Crewchief Dean is going as a Moonshiner...

2009-10-31T20:26:00.001-07:00

Happy Birthday Steve!

2009-10-31T20:10:00.003-07:00

It was way back in the Bottom Econoline Era nonstop Tour when our backaxsle went out and Steve, drummer of The Hitch took us in until we could get it back together...to play here today is such a treat.

We have been photographed so well, we would have a cigarette now.

2009-10-31T20:10:00.001-07:00

Arrived in Arcata in drizzle rain, car dizzy from the windy redwood road in the midst of the townsquare kid costume contest...rolled our bags into Terrence Photo Studio and got ready with Judas Priest on the speakers to overcome our photo phobia...2hours later...he had to escort us out begging for just one more...he really rocks.

Jim, the morning after...

2009-10-31T18:22:00.001-07:00

This what happens when you travel with 4 women.

(or as Clem put it: Everyone wants four women til they have four women)

2009-10-31T03:35:00.001-07:00

Oh yes and how strange to have no phone signal, but I can email out here...nice break actually...this lill Droid can sometimes rule me...shower and bed and Strawberry Mimosas in the AM...just heard the girls come in, we are sleeping soon, Thank You Caspar.

Listening to records on a true stereo in the studio down the road...champagne...pianos and late night snacking.

2009-10-31T03:31:00.001-07:00

So, Dean is at show # 91 and the countdown is ON, we better be getting the requested Dancing Days down for 100!

2009-10-31T02:08:00.001-07:00

The pumpkin strawberry and the unexplainable Joker...how he raised the bar for those things we dream off. We now have our own wine label. Unbelievable.

Swing

2009-10-30T21:41:00.001-07:00

...well and then I got pulled onto th dancefloor and oh what fun...I mean my first tapes were Glen Miller and Buddy Holly...

2009-10-30T19:38:00.001-07:00

Oh no..now they are dancing swing on this yummy woodfloor and I am getting homesick...nice, I gotta learn that.

I love Halloween!

2009-10-30T18:20:00.001-07:00

It's been 14 years tomorrow since I arrived at JKF...the Gorilla and Marilyn were there too (another tale)...tonight our dear Caspar Inn...lovingly scary decor...I shall play under a foor...it's mighty foggy out and the familiar weight is returning to my mind...never been a winter person.

Chocolate covered Strawberries...

2009-10-17T00:45:00.001-07:00

They do make me dream...you, my dear, have no idea...Thank You for raising the bar...oxoxo...

2009-10-17T00:44:00.000-07:00

Gretchen saying goodbye to the Danelectro...we shall miss you, but it's are going to a good home...

Ahhhhhhh.....

2009-10-17T00:33:00.001-07:00

I feel much much better now. I sometimes forget how much I need to rock to be happy...Thank You Mystic, you lovely lovely place...to lookout and see friends indeed...it makes my night...well and then I stuck my thumb in the one hole in the fan stage right...they heard it in the first row, I sucked the blood, wrapped it tight afraid to look how bad...all good...but what a scare.

2009-10-16T20:21:00.001-07:00

How lovely is that shirt?

2009-10-16T20:19:00.001-07:00

Roses...the one and only Scott...

Lapdance Armageddon...

2009-10-16T20:17:00.001-07:00

Playing right now and Gretchen and Jude are wearing camopants playing the accoustics like there is 2012 comingg for sure...rockin!

Oh that's why I've been so cranky...

2009-10-16T18:39:00.001-07:00

I needed to play a rockshow! The Mystic, oh how I love thee...backstage amazing Salmon in my Belly and remaking the lost necklace of rock for Clem...life is good.

I burned my thumb on the very hot black neck of my bass...that's a first.

2009-09-27T00:15:00.001-07:00

Rock'n'Scorch

2009-09-26T16:24:00.001-07:00

Well, the mall is pretty nice, outside, whitehaired ladies, kids and some Zeppshirts are rocking with us in I'd say 94 degrees...backtent with my feet in the cooler second set about to cook us up to 105...sun just arrived at my amp and me...sunburned at a gig...nice......my phone is really really hot...should I stick it in the ice bucket?

Ahhh and then I went out there and got knocked right in the face by Anna's flat hand, stars and luck for me the second amp caught me dizzy...teeth still in, yeahi...

Street Vibrations...Reno.

2009-09-26T00:04:00.001-07:00

It sure was loud and rumbling, the fireworks echoed and ricochet between the tall hotels, birds freaking, blinky lights, yellow moon,bikes cruising, warm, great crowd, they sang nice...figured out my amp problem by half show...yeahi nobtwisting could solve all my issues? Ha...I wish. Can I dial him in? 4 hour drive, salty snacks, same procedure...repeat tomorrow.

Denial...

2009-09-25T12:45:00.001-07:00

Is getting so seasick that I did not write anything so I would not remember how I felt...the loadin was a moving gangway...I now go to my happy place, a sturdy, unmoving one.

Sweat sweat sweat sweat...

2009-09-07T02:13:00.001-07:00

Sooo much fun! Hot and we were beached out, but fuuuun! Thank You Eureka! And I found the perfect food: Gopal's Raw Power Nori Wrap...halleluja! Home drive now and we shall play on a boat next week!
*n

Snoozerella...

2009-09-06T19:26:00.001-07:00

No more Nature...

2009-09-06T17:14:00.001-07:00

..so, Zepparella goes to the beach (one reson Jim had to drive overnight through forrest and fog and curves) and within 10 min half of us are conked out in the dunes...yeah we need our afternoon naps...a grueling icecream/kombucha trip to the local Coop later we are snoozing some more in the van before loadin...guitar twinggeling Dancing Days...

Fullmoon Rockazeppganza...

2009-09-05T22:44:00.001-07:00

Sweet! Now that was a delightful lill Rockshow with the intimate audience of 3000 and then some...very, very fun! Dazed gave me goosebumps. Thank you lovely people of Eugene!
(Now 5 hours to Eureka)
*n

Forgot..getting out of town...

2009-09-05T00:36:00.001-07:00

The City was cold and fog covered, getting out is like taking a breath of hope when sun is back...the bridge is closed and we got lost somewhere in Richmond? Oh I don't know I slept all drive/day...had to catch up.

Oh the Axe, the Fiddlel, the Grove...

2009-09-05T00:32:00.001-07:00

Yes, I admitt, the cookies have influenced me towards happieness...but how can a van sleepy lady resist? Perhaps that the kids and teens watch from the balkony of the bookstore next door? The fact that we seem to break some house gear every time? Well, I love it here...no reson needed.

2009-08-23T13:46:00.000-07:00

Mirrow in the Bathroom...yes I bought it...yes i am cranking it...yes it is that bassline... what a night...txt ing while under the influence of altitude and boxed wine...nice...I'm leaving the spellcheck ignored to amuse myself in times to come...

I think I blew mw speakers *n

2009-08-22T23:15:00.001-07:00

We arw having such a salt and fat pigout in the van right now....chips hooray...

Wow ij think some nice girl jus payed our tab at the gas station for yhe satty snacks...

2009-08-22T23:02:00.001-07:00

Thank you...I havet even wipen the make up off my fface off home w gogiggelijng *n

Holy crap!

2009-08-22T22:20:00.001-07:00

my face hurts from smiling this big...they had the place on stage and hoppin'....when they kicked into 'Mirrow in the bathroom' I turned 19 years old...just moved out for the first time...my SR500 yamaha thumper motorcycle was parked over winter in my room, gasoline smell...mattress on the floor, grandmas cafe red velvet curtains over my bed, germany, dirtpoor living in the hanseatic mansion and my upstairs neighbour played that song over and over and over until I went up to ask him who th F that bassline thumping through my ceiling was...if someone would have told me I would be playing. Bass in. Zeppelin Band with these guys one fine day after immigrating to another country...I would have flipped...little did I know then...ahhhh life...
*n

The English Beat...

2009-08-22T20:56:00.001-07:00

...ok I get it now...back when I was a lill punk girl I hated ska because the german Neo Nazis highjacked that music...now I am sitting on a rock sidestage bobbing my head to their very tight groove and vocal harmonies...nice... Love the peanut on the keyboard, he got moves...and red sox. *n

Tahot...after lunch slumporama...

2009-08-22T14:28:00.001-07:00

It is so pretty here and smells so good and we're going to play next to the rive in a park...but it is rather hot and on 2 hours of sleep this San Franny is not used to functioning properly...were is my fog...besides the one in my head...

Tikki bars in Alameda and Upright gigs...

2009-08-15T00:11:00.001-07:00

...not quite sure what exactly happened, but I have strange cococtions in my stomach and Elvis in a Flower shirt is on screen...first time playing the Upright bass and I so very very much loved it...noise and low notes to Herrn Grim's guitar looping over 5 video screens simultaneously thrown on a warehouse wall...all while the boy in the bubble played out his strange life on film...as much as I love JPJ (and I am wearing his symbol on my jacket now, Thanks to Dion's great iron-on-patch gift), just making sounds and bowing and improvising without structure is utterly joyful... (and really almost anything sounds fun through a distortion pedal)

These days...

2009-08-13T12:06:00.001-07:00

are the reason I don't mind so much paying the rents we have to pay to walk outside to see the fog roll in from the ocean and know it will be yet another perfectly temperatured day to bike around town.

Under the pink paper rose moon...

2009-08-09T14:00:00.000-07:00

I shall dream from now on, Clem got me one from last nights awesome bubble ceiling decor from a wedding the day before...that's my drummer, always got my back (and upper surroundings) *n

2009-08-09T03:48:00.001-07:00

Ahhh Portland, city of late night doughnuts...the loadout is not as frightening as crackalley Denver, but the bars are letting out all around and drunkhalf dressed girls stumble into the gear, obstacle course of bare legs...sweaty sweaty show with the baddest hair night in a long time, it glues to my face and I'm blind and guessing where to land on the frets, thankfully it all works out with much help from my dearest 'Rellas...at the hotel, missing the party, but I am done for the evening...PBS for the rescue, nothing on but weightloss, pimplecreams and such things you very much need...I'll fall asleep watching the eruptions of Krakatoa...
11 hour drive coming up...
*n

Wow, this hotel has a waterfall in the atrium lobby that smells like a pool, oh wait it is the pool.

2009-08-08T15:37:00.001-07:00

Seattle we love you!

2009-08-08T13:19:00.001-07:00

What can I say, so so much fun. Incredible audience, they sang from the first song and screamed and yelled and made me go total Ponie Party...ahhhhhh...nights like this make breathing such joy...(well and those others spend in good company too)...Clem and I replentished our salt with a hotel vending machine chips binge at 4am...yum
*n

Yiiiieahhhh, Traffic is so not moving...bad...bad

2009-08-07T17:37:00.001-07:00

(But we did get the long anticipated Cafe Yumm stop...that food is so good, please expand to SF, please)
*n

Heaven at the river...

2009-08-07T13:14:00.001-07:00

Yes, shirtless men ready to unload gear...that get's the day started quite alright after a sleepy drive...and the place...oh my...they call that a room? I'd call that a lucky find of a house in SF...more a logmansion, really...the food? Fireroasted mushrooms...yum...Duke said in on Sax and blew the roof of his home (oh yeah, he ran sound, cooked for us and brought my Makers, sigh)...they start them early, his son Miles played for us...what a show! Dancing of all sorts and a Beagle suddenly looked up at me from right in front of my feet, wow dog on stage, that's a first. The party was still going downstairs, but I snuck up to the gigantor Jacuzzi...oh I am one happy camper. *n

Mornin'sunshine...

2009-08-06T14:08:00.001-07:00

Woke up to pouring rain in the mountains, that's when you know you are back out again...I don't think I'll ever get tires of this...Eroll Jim is driving, Zepparella's all asleep...I'm going back under my coat...day dreaming.

Ahhh, and we're back...

2009-08-02T01:46:00.001-07:00

Driving home from a delightful show at the lill'Fox, Dean brought his great wine and goblets, the blue lights are twinkling and I am rather happy and content. They made me laugh hard looking at me with that grin in custard..."fool around all night long" sigh, yep, life is good...and Jim is just telling me that airplanes are so cheap right now that him and Gret could fly us around the country...my smile is cracking my lips it's so big...(Jim is noticing that the Goblets do not fit in the cupholders...aww shucks) we will work hard next year and I am so ready... *n

Home sweet Home...

2009-07-17T11:17:00.001-07:00

So glad my dentist was waiting for me...how his soft latex'd fingers caress my jaw and wipe the drool ever so gently...he knows how to numb with triple doses...I will think of him when I'm 80 and still have some teeth standing...I am his for the next three crowns...I will pay forever...*n

They made it in 47 hours...crazy kids...

2009-07-14T13:53:00.000-07:00

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Oh Boy, 6 hours, no Movie, no food and Middleseat...

2009-07-13T00:30:00.001-07:00

I so wish for my cozy comfy frontseat and the unicorn pillow... instead it's elbows and kneecaps to the seat in front...I'll keep the attendant light on...more libation...

Nila texting anna texting Nila-anna

2009-07-12T13:10:00.000-07:00

What the?! Just passing time till we roll on to the plane to take us home... And sleep for six hours or watch a cheesy movie