My life has been mostly taken up with our new car, Rosie O’Donnell, The Ford Taurus Wagon. She just has so much…character. She shows us new little quirks every day- like she revs her engine ferociously and acts like the transmission is going out, when we’re only 600 miles into our West Coast journey. And only after 6 days after buying her! She also likes to turn on her windshield wipers about every 9 seconds for no reason. I had a little talk with her to let her know we’re relying on her to take us to San Luis Obispo, San Fransisco, Sacramento, Fairfax, Palm Springs, LA, and San Clemente these next couple weeks
Every summer for the last 4 years, I basically join the witness protection program. Except I haven’t witnessed anything brutal. So henceI don’t need much protection. BUT it feels like that when I come off the road after spending time in NYC and traveling the country meeting a million people and , bam!, come April, I travel all the way to the edge of the earth; Baltimore Ireland.
It’s freakishly small. It’s so rustic, I have to ask if I can get cell phone coverage out here. Or if wireless internet exists out here. (I can, and it does) It’s the farthest south and west you can go in Ireland where there are dramatic cliffs and yes, abslutely everything is green. Green and Grey. It rains (present tense).
Tessa takes off her cool scarfs and jackets that she wears at our gigs and trades them in for chef whites. Now she’s “Glebe-Gardens-and-Cafe-Tessa” and she cooks up lovely organic, homemade yummy things that are picked out of the garden or hatched out of the cute free-range chickens out back. I’m still the same Liz though, so when I’m not trying my hand at being a bad watiress, I spend my time taking walks and playing my guitar, writing songs-I’ve got a LOT of time on my hands. Which is more than most people can say so I’m trying to appreciate it! “Liz, you better eat all that time you have left on your plate! there are starving business people in Manhattan!”
I follow Tessa here for love, but also I think it’s a great way to get my head together after trying to be such a little mildly famous rock star all the time! If any of you are in Ireland, I have a bunch gigs here in the next couple months and I’ll be back stateside in July so I can do things like wear a bikini and swim without freezing my balls off (like happens in Ireland).
It’s almost been about 3 months since I gave up my little apartment in New York and hit the road full-time. Everything is going to plan, I feel like- although now that I’m home, my parents and my responsible older sister keep wondering, “yes, but Liz, what are your REAL plans?”. I guess I do seem a little touchy-feely in that regard, but I’m totally livin’ it up. On our last trip to the west coast I got to stay in a custom-built, adobe-style, jillion dollar home in Utah with some new friends, I got to see the Beatles Cirque De Soleil “Love” show in Vegas and basically cried because I miss those guys so much, I got to spend the elections in L.A. and watch Barack Obama win, I made new friends in Seattle and got to play a house concert in a freakin AWESOME loft where everything is, including the kitchen table, is on wheels, and I got to meet my sister-in-law’s new baby, Eddie in Vancouver.
I just had my birthday the day after Christmas and all I really wanna do is read books and knit and watch Lord of the Rings. Soon, this will all come to a close and Tessa and I will pack up my purple Jeep named Carla and head down to Texas to play more gigs and play with our old friends from Austin. I’ll keep you updated…
