last entry for the Miss D US tour

After a month and a half of Motel 6's and the 10 1/2 hour drive from Portland to Sacramento we were all really looking forward to staying at our friends and families houses on the west coast!! We stopped off at "Moriarty Mansion"  in Sacramento then we headed to a super fun bar  "Lost on Main" In Chico for our first show back in sunny CA-
the next night we were in San Jose,  at the Blank Club- where we met a bunch of cool people- Sonya Paz  who owns the  Sonya Fine Art Gallery, artist Peggy Perez


Death by Cupcake  one of Peggy's super cute pieces!
and a long time friend and Stanford radio DJ- the Big Chief- check him out sat 9-12 KZSU 90.1 fm


Girl in a Coma at the blank club- i wish my camera phone had a flash! i haven't been able to capture good photos of them live yet- they are crazy good and super cool!!


cover of  their new album trio BC

next day was Sacramento at the Fire Escape!- most of the guys grew up near Sacramento so almost  of our families showed up to this show and saw us for the first time! including my mom and sisters! thankfully they did not boo us!


sisters Sara Ruth me and my mom


statue in club i hate to think what would happen if you passed out here!

met up with some super cool people

Tattoo artist Gary Koblis, lil Chris of Legacy Ink Tattoo  and super cute  friends from reno

next up SF-
we didn't have to drive 10 hours to get there so we headed over to Sylvain's parents where his relatives from France were having a pool party!

Sylvains cousin Chloe and friend

  
 Lightning Bill Woodcock  takes time out to serenade them

we were all really looking forward to playing at bottom of the hill those guys rule!!! the sound guy cares if you can hear everything, and they feed you! plus all my best friends relocated to San Francisco about 15 years ago, and i miss them! (T-dowg, Eric, Jeremy, John sig) i got to meet up with all of them and also ran into Fashion designer Stacy Rodgers of She-Bible , punk rock icon- Blag Dahlia, good friend and awesome director/musician - Cecil b feeder   legendary rock photographer  Michael Zagaris    and many more- but the night got pretty fuzzy towards the end as i saved all my drink tickets from the whole tour for sf!!! we headed over to Nancy Katogo's  to stay the night  and pleasantly awoke to a full spread of breakfast!! thanks Nancy!!!!!!


lucky we were able to stock up for the long ride home!

Next stop Long Beach! Alex's bar in Long beach is always a good time!!! So many great artists musicians and writers are there! Also Alex's bar is where Fangtasia from True Blood is filmed, and even better Alex is one of the coolest guys around!
Adriane creator of  Lucky girl Handbags who made our awesome guitar straps was there-
we met up with Circus from the Shapeshifters  his brother Travis is an awesome sculptor -he sculpted my  Siamese bat buckle for monster buckles.
and Morgan Night from Devils Night Radio-, my good friend and favorite artist Helen Garber  and fiance/Gallerist David Desanctis  and just a bunch of cool people


Nicole, me, her step bro and artist John M Gill


awesome illustrator- M Fersner  her work above




Alex's bar has the best bathroom wall art ever!!!!!!!! sorry i don't know the name of the artist, but i love it!!!


and if you can get your hands on a copy of the Harbor Area "Rise and Fall"  there's a kick ass interview with Shepard Fairey in there!

next stop LA's Knitting Factory-
unfortunately, (or maybe fortunately since we were close to home) our van broke down . We had to take the bus over to the show in our full outfits. Our exit was on Hollywood blvd with all the Spiderman and Marilyn Monroe look alikes and though people didn't know what superheros we were supposed to be they took photos next to us anyways, silly humans!!
the knitting factory was super fun!!


GIAC from the backstage of the knitting factory, they rocked hard on  this night!!!!!

 it was good to see all our old friends again! Good friend & gallerist  Billy Shire whose also the owner of BSFA  and La Luz De Jesus   - Nancy and Spencer who have a super cool shop called  Brat-  photographer Miguel Jose (who was going shot crazy!!) Stylist and painter Roxanne Jitomore

painting by Roxanne

next stop- San Diego to Rock the Casbah (sorry couldn't resist)
we were just a few days before comic con and everyone you talked to was excited about it- the bouncer Ted Washington was eager to bounce out of the Casbah to prepare for his booth! SD

Donna by Ted Washington
we met up with Gitsie  and Glam  who are super fun!

Gitsie and Glam


Ricky and Ivana were in town to help awesome artist Roman Dirge at comic con

Viva Los Vegas

we stayed at the world famous El Cortez right across from the beauty bar where we were playing- i forgot how hot the nights were out there! The preacher from our wedding , bull rider and great artist Johnny Hansen  showed up with a bunch of peeps!


bassist sylvain , birthday girl and roller derby queen  Monica, Brent Engle, John Engle (aka) professor 8000%  photographed by Johnny Hancen.


Remember Wounded Knee by Johnny Hancen


art by john engle (aka) professor 8000% 

after the show we all headed over to the hotel to gamble! i won 20 bucks!!

It was a long drive to Phoenix the next day- we passed by the Hoover dam on the way there totally amazing!!!! it was far bigger then i thought it was the 30's style architecture was outstanding!



photos from the van window of the Hoover damn

Arizona has a really big art scene, and the people really come out to support it! We played at the Hollywood Alley in Mesa and it was super fun!!!

some super cool people who were there- Deisy, Danny, Kori, and Vince!

Amy owner of Arizona's best art gallery Perihelion Arts showed up, Morgan has a show going on  there now, and we'll be back in Phoenix next week august 7th for the after show party!

El Vaquero Muerto made me this super cool wrist cuff he hand carved it out of leather!!!!!!!!

 and we got to hang out with Aileen Duke- our good friend , back up dancer, and designer who had just moved to AZ a few weeks ago- with her Fiance Ryan and their baby Mason- the pit with the biggest smile! unfortunately my camera phone didn't get any good pics of them but here's one of her arm-

Aileen's arm with Miss D logo tattooed by Ben

the dessert is awesome, but really hot!!! we were super lucky that  The Mondrion hotel put us up for the last two days  because we did an Internet commercial for them , it was the perfect way to end the tour and leave us wanting more!
There were a bunch of cool shops and galleries all around the hotel- i love American Indian art- so much symbolism and tradition in every piece- i especially love Navajo and Zuni carved stone Fetishes and Katchina dolls.


not the best example of a katchina doll, but very cute!

our last show was in Tuscon and we were all super sad about it-   Girl in a Coma is like our family now,  Nina, Phannie, Jen and Ernesto you guys rule!!!! and we will be lonely without them!!!  if you haven't checked them out yet you really need to! so awesome!! I'm sure they will be coming to a city near you soon!


marquee for the last show of the tour :((

Well its finally over, so sad- but we all had to get back to work, where hardly anyone tells you your awesome on a daily basis and gives you free drinks.


40 shows and some live radio spots in two months!


we were very happy to see our two best friends- blue and king tut who gave us a very big welcome home dance!!!

I want to say a very big thank you to our awesome team -David Bason- Ray, Gary,  Ian, Joy, GIAC, Triple X records & Nickle and Dime records, and especially WC Moriarty whom we'd be lost without- also Schecter Guitars for sponsering us, or else we wouldn't have had anything to play on! thanks guys!!!!

Miss D and their Schecters

next up the Jared Gold and Joshua Petker fashion show-



sorry im a little late on posting these, this one took me sooo long to do to make sure i got everyone in there and i learned the valuable lesson of saving my files after crashing a bunch of times! the fashion show was actually last night and super awesome ill try to get a photos up by this weekend! and i promise it wont be so long!

thanks for reading this!!!
Liz