NOW

starting again

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 23:00:14 -0800

the southern californian coast

Sat, 7 Aug 2010 10:06:57 -0700

i wanna live in paris

Sun, 25 Jul 2010 10:42:40 -0700

i wanna go back. with the husband, the dogs, the cats and the gardens. for goods.
dear america, you suck, xo, RB

d.o.n.e.

Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:47:29 -0700

and just like that, joensuu goes off without a hitch and the tour is over. the ups and the downs and the highs and the lows are behind me and i’m in paris. my oh my what one can accomplish in a 24 hour period. we’d forgotten about the finns. they’re an amazing audience for us. couldn’t have been sweeter. a beautiful cap to the newly anointed ‘best day of the tour.’
it started with a 3 hour charter plane from austria to joensuu. after a quick nap our friend junni picked us up and drove us to his parents cabin in Kunmasniemi. along for the ride was natalia, junni’s colombian lover (they call each other ‘dahling’) and hillary, a finnish man with a girl’s name. we picked up salmon from junni’s parents house that his dad had smoked that morning and set up a picnic while mike bordin chopped logs for the sauna. junni had remains of last night’s makeup on his face. he’s in a band that played the festival and they were dressed as clowns for their performance. his family’s house sits on a beautiful lake. i slipped in immediately. everyone else waited til after the sauna. hillary collected branches from a birch tree and made a whip that we used in the sauna to whack ourselves all over our bodies. it stung and smelled amazing. when we could bear the heat no longer we ran for the lake. absolutely phenomenal. we laughed and laughed and laughed. best day of the tour for sure.

...counting down

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 01:04:54 -0700

technically speaking, there is one show left in our career. it’s far up in finland amongst the reindeer and dirty rock trolls, so far in fact that we’ve chartered a plane to get there.
last night’s show in the indoor/outdoor tent of forest glade in wiese was spectacular. we all fit into the indoor and could see the rain coming down past the overhang. it was sweaty and muggy, our dressing room was in a trolley car next to the gossip. yeah, yeah, yeah... beth ditto but i’m totally into the rest of the band, especially hannah.