Jackson to Baton Rouge

It snowed in Jackson and made for a small crowd. Today we drove to Baton Rouge, saw Chris's folks place by a lake in Denham Springs, and did a radio show at LSU. Biggest football stadium I've ever seen.

Oklahoma to Arkansas to Mississippi

It snowed coming across Oklahoma, right up to the edge of Little Rock. The highlight of LR: we played some live songs on a public folk station, upstairs in a rundown Victorian house, with the coolest dude in the world, "Red." Truly wonderful guy, funny and kind.

Nobody came to the Vino's show.

We played anyways and drove straight down along the West edge of the Mississippi, through Louisiana and across to Jackson.

Oooklahoma

We drove into OK City, Jesse bought a new drum rug and gave the old to the drum clerk at Guitar Center. Everyone incredibly nice but bemoaning the city... "Nothing to do, gotta get out of here, coming to California, there's no scene here..."

Norman: small, sleepy, freight trains rattling past the OU campus. Like Omaha and other sleepy towns, it had a great music shop, and the manager beat Jesse and I at foozball. (2 against 1, he won 10 to 4.) The shop decorated with handmade recreations of great album covers..

A truck slowed down, addressing Jesse, "C'mon man, are you wearing your sister's pants?"

The son of a woman who sold us gas last night came to our Oppolis set, brought his high school buddy, and told us about their plan to move to Santa Barbara. We gave them a ride home after the show, gave them numbers, told them to call when they make it West.

Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma

Pretty quiet...