GABRIEL METRONOMY'S TOUR BLOG
Woo hoo! We’re back in the home of the brave! Gimme an MSG sandwich with a xanthium gum chaser, to go! The food here is so pervertedly more-ish that I’m like the dog in the experiment that keeps pressing the ‘deliver food’ button with its paw until its stomach explodes. This little morsel was served up at the Black Bear Café in Yreka, California, a stop-off on our brutal 20 hour drive from Seattle to LA. I should have held up a 20p to scale – that plate is about the size of my torso.
Seriously though, there’s been a bit of a sea-change here since last time we were here. There’s a new guy at the helm and now everyone’s friendly and you don’t have to pay for anything in shops and all drugs have been legalised. We were actually in Las Vegas for the inauguration, but it didn’t seem to impinge on anyone’s conscience there too much. They were too busy HIGH ROLLING!
Here’s lucky Joseph with the money he won. Me and Oscar, of course, lost heavily. Plus ça change, eh?
Vegas is basically everything everyone’s told you about - I don’t need to go into it here. It was the first stop on a trip up to the heartbreakingly beautiful Pacific North West. You go from the America that puts you off your drink by bragging to you about how many Spring Break titties he’s squeezed, to the America that you want to put your arm around and say, “hey, you were all right all along, weren’t you?” You go from this:
To this:
Now, call me a pussy fag homo liberal, but I’d like to buy this sign a beer.
Portland Oregon is rad. It’s where our driver, Sean, lives and it’s like a little stab at utopia nestled in Ewok-land style countryside. Vancouver, likewise. Seattle – ditto. Good times and thanks to everyone who came to the shows and made them so special. I think an honourable mention here should go our touring partners, the Mae Shi.
Hanging out with them is like going on a stag weekend with the cast of ‘Yo Gabba Gabba!’ It was so nice playing with another novelty band.
LA next – that gets a blog all of its own. Pip pip!