Music: Holly Williams
Book: How to make love like a porn star - Jenna Jameson
Jenna's autobiography is fascinating...but I don't recommend reading it during lunch at Perkins in Lincoln, Nebraska. People look at you funny.
About tour: The first time I played Hastings, NE - it was wonderful. Kind audience, beautiful day, CDs sold etc...This time around, there wasn't an empty seat in the venue, but there was a table of teenagers who laughed, cackled, yelled and shouted during my entire set. The room was silent save for the occasional coffee steamer in the background and the shouting match happening in the front of Blue Moon. I mention it because the rest of the audience was so kind and attentive that it was so distracting and embarrassing for the venue, for myself and the other patrons that so few could ruin a show for so many. I left very upset, but still plan to return for their music festival over Memorial weekend in May of 2005. For those nice people who stayed and clapped and expressed gratitude for my coming back to Hastings...thank you, thank you and thank you again for the warm welcome and quiet curtesy. It was a very rough show and your support stopped me from throwing a coffee mug across the room and screaming like a banshee before quitting the show all together. Believe me...I wanted to - that could be the sole benefit of being one's own employer.
Omaha was an entirely different story! Mick's Music and Bar is extraordinary. Great room, unbelievably sound and ...well...it's simply an electric vibe! Theresa opened (wonderful rhythmic guitar playing) and everyone in the audience stayed for my set - even though it was late on a Sunday night and no one had ever heard of me before. I was charmed and absolutley grateful to be allowed the opportunity to play there. I was so hyped about it that I sailed home - 6 straight hours - only stopping once for gas and a bathroom break. I was wide awake when I rolled into the Twin Cities at 5:30am this morning. Music is better than caffeine. Tonight I will probably dream of Omaha.
On a side note: one of my books on tape this weekend was "Holy Fools" by Joanne Harris. I definitely recommend the read. It's full of witchcraft, gypsies, church scandal and murder all set at an French abbey in the year 1610. Quite an engrossing tale!
