I will be headed to Austin for a show at Stubb's, and the Happen-Ins are opening. Always pumped to see the li' bro rock some faces. Friday Robin and I are heading to Nashville for one last trip as non-parents! Robin's got some business to do and she is keeping it a secret as to where we will be staying. We will be going to see the Randy Rogers Band and Robert Earl Keen at the Ryman one night while we are there as well. Still kind of crazy to think of myself as a parent. I think I'm ready...or as ready as you can be before the kiddo shows up, and all that entails. I've pretty much avoided all the self-help books on the dad subject. I did pick one up the other day and it mentioned pay phones and pagers, so I think it might have been a little out dated. I like to collect advice from all my friends, and just filter through all of it. I got some good advice from Amigo Mel last night. He said "just be sure to train them before they are five or else your screwed." He said the best thing to do is if they are doing something you don't want them to just make a loud noise like slapping a newspaper. This seems to be borrowing from the dog training side of things which I can respect. It's advice like this that I can relate to. Of course everyone says to go ahead and buy a shotgun now since you are having a girl. That sounds like fun, so I think I'll take that to heart. Another buddy told me to quit buying albums and start buying diapers. He also added that this diaper genie deal would save my life, so I'm going to research that one. Robin and I have been training the lil' aliens musical ear the past few months. Let's see...she's already heard these bands live:
Pearl Jam
Dead Weather
Mike McClure Band
Randy Rogers Band
Jonathan Tyler & The Northern Lights
Ryan Bingham
Todd Snider
Reckless Kelly
The Drive-By Truckers
Cross Canadian Ragweed
Matt King & The Cutters
James McMurtry
Ray Wylie Hubbard
Todd Snider
Robert Earl Keen
Midnight River Choir
Jason Boland & The Stragglers
...and a host of others I can't recall. I read her to sleep last night with a chapter on slavery from "The Peoples History of The United States." She should have a pretty good jump start on the whole cultural arts side of things. Other than that we are business as usual here. I'm about to take off for the whole month of April and should be able to add some stories from the road as that goes down. Than it is May, the whole month off!! May 18th is still the due date, so here we go!! I'll leave you guys with some I have found interesting over the last week or so...
Hah, Matt didn't read any parenting books, and I gobbled them up! I was so mad at the time, I never told him that though, anyways as it turned out, he didn't really need the books, he was a natural daddy, and most of the stuff I read, isn't what really helped me anyways! You and Robin will be phenomenal!
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