i should be sleeping.

After chatting with Jessi tonight, I went directly to the Paradise Rock Club's website (or the Dise as some apparently refer to it...which has been the cause of some confusion.) to see about getting tickets for the Hotel Cafe Tour (with Ingrid Michaelson, Joshua Radin, Meiko, Carey Brothers, etc.). And that's when I realized, why don't I ever pay attention to the bands playing in Boston??? If I went to see every band I'm a fan of at the Paradise alone, I would be busy for quite a while. Matt Costa is going to be there on Friday. Gavin DeGraw and Landon Pigg are going to be there on Saturday. Sia is going to be there next Wednesday. A Fine Frenzy on the 19th, Drive By Truckers on the 22nd, Jens Lekman on April 4th, Minus the Bear on the 6th, AND rounding off my April picks are Tristan Prettyman on the 9th, Nada Surf on the 10th, and Rogue Wave on the 11th. And really, that's not all...those are just the top ones. And that's at one little rock club!

Sometimes I think I forget I live in Boston and there are constantly opportunities to see awesome bands. I need to start paying more attention/making more money/finding more friends who share my musical tastes, so I can go to all these shows. In other news, who knew The Presidents of the United States of America were still playing?? And The Breeders?? Wow, The Breeders had some good stuff. The Presidents? All I can think of are "Peaches" and "Lump" Ha. (OK, I just looked them up and they have a new CD coming out in a couple weeks. And have actually had albums come out in 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2004. Who knew? Not I).

In other news, what did everyone think of Quarterlife? I'm partly disturbed by it and partly intrigued. I hate that it came from Myspace, but I watched anyway and was admittedly entertained. The whole blogging aspect was pretty interesting, though I question the quote, "Why do we blog? We blog to exist, therefore we are...idiots." Oh well, maybe it's true.

The whole show was altogether very melodramatic. "I often cry for no reason, and then later it turns out that there was a huge reason that I was completely unaware of, which scares the crap out of me." I think I'm pretty melodramatic myself, so I could get into it. But then when I sat back and thought about it, it made me gag a little. Which my own thoughts quite often make me do.

Anyway, I was supposed to get to bed early tonight, but that clearly did not happen. It just might not be physically possible for me to go to sleep before 4 a.m. In any event, I've got to get up early since the water in my apartment building is going to be shut off from 9-5 and I'd really like to get a shower in, or at least use some water. Totally not fair for those of us who work at home, but whatever. I'm just hoping they really turn it off at 9 and not at 8:40 when I have shampoo fully lathered in my hair...oh wait, you mean like last time? Right.