Wow. Speechless. I am. Yet also. Emboldened. To use words, from now on, exactly as I mean them.

This DVD documentary is LOADED like a van of 4 women artists touring for a year. In fact, that's exactly what it is.

Alix Olson is an internationally touring folk poet and progressive queer artist-activist. A year in the making, this documentary chronicles life on the road with Alix and her road manager/filmmaker Samantha Farinella as they tour the country, connecting the dots from a high school visit in Lincoln, Nebraska to a CD release party in NYC. This DVD highlights spoken-word performances from around the country and a plethora of behind-the-scenes glimpses at the search for independent thought, grassroots defiance, passionate connection, organic food and clean laundry.

Some of the best aspects: intergenerational insight, performances (that you'll want to watch multiple times), integration of music with spoken word, reflections on art as activism, the energy that overflows the screen, buddy scenes on the road, women's music festivals as backdrop, poetry workshops, t-shirt wardrobe selection, and nearly everything is expressed in complete sentences.