A little over a week ago I took a vacation. I ventured into the Adirondack Mountains of Upstate NY to find respite from the Texas sauna and relax and breath in fresh mountain air. I thought, I’ll just take a few days off from music blogging. Nothing major. My vacation was going to end in NYC with the euphoric music delight of Dave Matthews Caravan on Governor’s Island. Dave Matthews! That perfection was only trumped by all of the class acts he had with him. I was going to see THE FUCKING ROOTS!
And then a hurricane hit...
Fail.
And then I came home to Austin to find mice had infiltrated my apartment in mass quantities...
Fail.
Were my life a Disney movie, the hurricane would have ended just in time for the concert and my prince charming (obviously the fiddle player in a band) would have called me up on stage to confess undying love and we would have ventured off into happily ever after underneath a post-storm rainbow. I would also possess the ability to talk to animals, which would have been convenient when I arrived home to find cute cartoon mice wearing ray ban sunglasses and playing in an indie pop band in my kitchen. I would have blogged about their music that showed promise if sometimes a little bit squeaky.
My life is not a Disney movie.
Caravan was postponed.
Mice are gross and caused me to develop very unsexy dark circles beneath my sleepless eyes.
So my absence can be explained by my wallowing in DMB disappointment, cleaning up mouse shit, and calling on a brave friend to bludgeon and dispose of carcasses. I also listened to old school Dave Matthews to make me feel better and then went about getting an actual good nights sleep.
I am refreshed and ready to catch up on all of the music I have been lack in writing about. My calendar is rapidly filling with concerts (Friendly Fires, MOE.! FUCKING ADELE!), ACL is a few weeks away, and Dave is streaming his Gorge Caravan this weekend. http://www.davematthewsband.tv/ Perfection.
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