Well I finally found my limit. I spent
the whole day after the Chicago show feeling totally drained.
Thankfully Milwaukee is only a short drive from Chicago so I was able
to lay low for a bit. The Milwaukee show at the Art Bar was plagued
by problems from the start. There were some massively confusing
miscommunications that basically resulted in the local headliner not
knowing they were supposed to headline and me having to scramble to
find a local with 48 hours notice. Because letting this stuff fall to
the touring artist is the best way to make sure it gets solved. But
the venue was really cool about the whole thing, and actually quite
accommodating. This is my lung being too tired to deal with this
crap.
Despite everything, the show ended up
being actually kind of fun. The audience participated during all the
audience participation parts and there was some really rad back and
forth about Scott Walker when I played “Thank You America.” One
audience member reminded me (while I was trying to explain exactly
that) that Wisconsin pretty much invented Occupy. (George Soros,
Obama, the CIA, The Loch Ness Monster, and Ben, but not Jerry, didn't
get involved until after the Madison protests last year, as we all
know.)
So not the worst show I'd ever played.
Far from the best, but you know, a show will have to really work at
it to be worse than the time I got a knife pulled on me in New Jersey
in the middle of a song when I was 19. Life lesson: when the
metalheads at the dive bar heckle you for playing a sad girl song
don't heckle back. No good can come of it. So, thankfully unstabbed,
we finished the unremarkable show and drove to Madison to stay with
an old friend of Joshua's. It looks like the similarly unnecessarily
dramatic show in Des Moines is falling apart, so we're now deciding
over a feast of pancakes and mimosas whether to take a day off or
not. This is Pen Pen being all classy and junk.
This is a song I wrote one time. You
should download it and share it with your friends.
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