wherein i drop out of law school and become a professional music see-er

the next few months are ridiculous, musically speaking. if only i was a 3L with a job who, to quote eminem, just don't give a fuck. sadly, i have to continue giving a fuck a little longer. but check this shit out, i have to compile this list partly to make y'all drool with jealousy and partly to help myself decide what i am going to muscle it up to go see:

4/02 Derek Trucks Band (The Man who would be King of the Slide Git-fiddle--was playing that bad boy since before he could walk, the Scion of the Allmans, and if Susan Tedeschi ever kicks him to the curb, I would be willing to help him feel better about it)
4/03 Greyboy Allstars (lords of acid jazz who rarely tour and are coming too close to pass up)
4/05 Cracker [unplugged] (high school flashback, man!)
4/06 North Mississippi Allstars (Luther Dickinson is my super secret delta blues man boyfriend and we are going to have a million little babies)
4/08 Blackalicious featuring Fatlip and the Lifesavas (I have been told that they tore the roof off the mothersucka last time they came to c-ville and would really like to be there when they do it this time)
4/11 Neko Case (her voice haunts my dreams, the good ones and the bad ones. i have been sposda see her like four times now and never made it. this one is a must to me)
4/13 Ween (one of W's faves. i have come to like them some)
4/18 The Disco Biscuits (this one should be easy to pass up as it's sold out, but they do rule the school)
4/20 Robert Randolph (do y'all know how to march? don't worry if you don't, you can learn!)
4/23 Wilco (need i say more? i know we just saw them, but it was so breathtakingly, almost painfully beautiful that this one will be a hard one to pass up)
4/26 Particle (i haven't seen them since a very bleary but somehow wide awake 8am set at bonnaroo--the weird clowns from Galactic came and danced while they played)

plus there is a host of shit that i have already had to miss or will soon have to miss. i really wanted to make it up to alexandria to see jenny lewis and the watson twins, but that ain't gonna happen. in related news, blake sennett and the elected played c-ville earlier this week and i couldn't go. we missed the silver jews after we got back from FL (they played that thursday and we were too spent, both physically and financially, to make it to that one. plus it was sold out but that was the least of our worries. they rarely tour and apparently put on an incredible multimedia presentation type show. bummer)

and in other news, money woes are temporarily abated. i will try to post the screen cap i did of w's big win. it doesn't seem to matter how much money we have to throw in to the gaping maw of our life, it always demands more. but this should give us some breathing room.