OK, the digest version of the trip:
1. Three hours from home to Montvale, NJ. Five hours and change to the Delaware Memorial Bridge. I rock. And break speed limits.
2. Picked up my host for the two days, Beverly Wilkinson (imsonshyne) and we jetted to Baltimore.
3. I printed the new chapbook and headed back in to Xando for a fun reading (and got to see the miraculously unscathed Droopy and the more battered but still ok delrica after their car accident). Good time.
4. Zoomed back to Newark for the night, did a little sightseeing/antiquing the next day, had Indian dinner and good conversation with Beverly, azureoceanlight and caolinnshouse, and then headed over to the Arts Alliance, a great space, to the reading, which was packed and high quality — besides those mentioned earlier, Amy Eyre pelelawngoddess, Matt MacDonald (who has an lj here but I don’t know the name), and Megan blindlyinnocent among the folks I recall. Good stuff.
5. I ended up doing a 45 minute set! Totally shocked me, but the crowd was into it…included a reading of “Geodes”, which I haven’t done in a while.
6. I’d give you setlists, but I haven’t got a clue. Mostly stuff from the new book with only a few repeats. Know I read “Clinical” in Baltimore, “Cante Jondo…” and “Suicide Notes” in Delaware, but the rest is a blur.
7. I got a standing ovation. Wow.
8. Afterward, off to a karaoke bar for rounds of exquisite corpse and bad singing, with the exception of a guy who covered that Evanescence song — doing both the female and male parts, and nailing them both. Impressive, to say the least, and I don’t even like the song.
9. Ride home included a beagle jumping out of a Jeep window under the wheels of an 18 wheeler stopped in traffic (he survived) and a two hour back up in southern CT. It took me 8 hours to get home. Grr.
10. Finished the night by watching “Monster”, which I’d never seen. Holy shit.
Be good, y’all…
Dark Matter 
June 24th, 2004 at 1:42 pm
Welcome Home
Sounds like whirlwind tour Tony. Thanks for the recap. And welcome home.
Bob
June 24th, 2004 at 1:42 pm
Welcome Home
Sounds like whirlwind tour Tony. Thanks for the recap. And welcome home.
Bob
June 24th, 2004 at 1:42 pm
Welcome Home
Sounds like whirlwind tour Tony. Thanks for the recap. And welcome home.
Bob
June 24th, 2004 at 1:42 pm
Welcome Home
Sounds like whirlwind tour Tony. Thanks for the recap. And welcome home.
Bob
June 24th, 2004 at 10:34 am
Tony,
loved having you down. Try not to make it so long before you come see us again.
June 24th, 2004 at 10:34 am
Tony,
loved having you down. Try not to make it so long before you come see us again.
June 24th, 2004 at 10:34 am
Tony,
loved having you down. Try not to make it so long before you come see us again.
June 24th, 2004 at 10:34 am
Tony,
loved having you down. Try not to make it so long before you come see us again.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:40 am
“DIY” is the one you’re thinking of. And thank you.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:40 am
“DIY” is the one you’re thinking of. And thank you.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:40 am
“DIY” is the one you’re thinking of. And thank you.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:40 am
“DIY” is the one you’re thinking of. And thank you.
June 24th, 2004 at 9:38 am
You ended with “Punk” and then one about doing something with your life (vaguely, or at least that’s what it made me want to do!)
June 24th, 2004 at 9:38 am
You ended with “Punk” and then one about doing something with your life (vaguely, or at least that’s what it made me want to do!)
June 24th, 2004 at 9:38 am
You ended with “Punk” and then one about doing something with your life (vaguely, or at least that’s what it made me want to do!)
June 24th, 2004 at 9:38 am
You ended with “Punk” and then one about doing something with your life (vaguely, or at least that’s what it made me want to do!)