June 3, 2009

Even Damnation Is Poisoned With Rainbows (Baltimore, MD)

Most tours in my memory are filled with sun. This one was filled with rain. Rain, indefatigable rain. Thread-soaking rain. Rain every day. Rain into May. Rain across the Southeast. Rain in the Northeast. Rain in the Midwest. Rain across the nation. Rain in Philadelphia, PA. Even in the Motor City. Ooh yeah. There was no outrunning the rain. When we were driving east we consoled ourselves by saying, “Well, we’re traveling in the same direction the weather travels, so we’re just unfortunately keeping up with the rain.” Then we headed south and still it rained and we said, “Well, we’re just cutting through the storm. Fierce storm. Wide, too. It’s a bummer.” And then we headed northeast and still it rained on us. “Again we’re traveling with the weather. Who booked this tour anyway?” and I would slink down low in my seat and change the subject. But then we started heading west and it. Kept. Raining. Which just seemed like bad luck. We just couldn’t drive our way, play our way, pray our way out of the rain. And so it was a month of rain. Rain almost every single day.

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