So live my life for me while I'm away, will you? Thanks.

The unforseen trip to obligation to be in Boston seems to have produced some unfavorable schedule conflicts. Yes, I will be on mandatory leave to Boston tomorrow, where I am to be detained for several days. It's less of a vacation than it is a.. "hostage situation", as I've described to several people. I'll try not to sulk too hard. Although being in a town where nobody thinks I'm a nutjob seems a good opportunity to clear my head. Plus, I get a chance to enjoy the finer things in life: roadside fast food restaurants, spontaneity, hours of driving, hanging out on hotel lobby furniture... who doesn't appreciate a car trip?
I'm gone for Tuesday, Wednesday, and (most of?) Thursday. Thought I'd tend to my last order of business and leave you all with a request: attend my pre-empted engagements for me.

Tues.
Sufjan Stevens @ Bowery (given you were lucky enough to secure a ticket.. I just sold mine on CL.)

Wed.
Hula @ Tonic

Thurs.
The Diggs @ Sin-e

Especially that last one -- if for no other reason, because Autodrone is also on the bill and because it doesn't conflict with another DCFC show. (pshhhh. DCFC. mumblemumble groangroan.) They played a couple of songs I didn't recognize at last week's show: "You Don’t Listen to Music" and "Everyone’s Starting Over" -- they may be new, but I'm not sure. In any case, you haven't heard The Diggs until you've heard The Diggs on Sin-e's sound system. If you missed the one last week, they played with a band called Beat Radio -- who sounded like they could easily have been one of the early Matador bands -- and The Octagon, beloved within the elite inner circle of this city's bloggeratti, but I didn't care for them too much. (Sidenote, they look like a bizarre offshoot of The Fame, which I found amusing.) I left two or three songs in. Whoops.

Back on Friday -- maybe Thursday night... we'll see. Until then, miss me.