{"id":568,"date":"2004-06-15T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-16T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chocolatemussolini.com\/cm\/default.asp?n=239"},"modified":"2004-06-15T23:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-16T06:00:00","slug":"rockityroll","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=568","title":{"rendered":"rockityroll"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy.<\/p>\n<p \/>I went to hear Mr. Mike Doughty tonight. I was planning on seeing him at Bonnaroo, but ended up spending his performance in my vehicle on the side of the interstate.<\/p>\n<p \/>So I bought my ticket around 7, and was told he wasn&#8217;t playing until 8:30. I decided to stay outside for a while, since I don&#8217;t see the part of downtown that&#8217;s not in the general vicinity of Luce very often anymore. It&#8217;s too bidness for me. Anyway, it was weird! I think I&#8217;m still stuck in travel mode, because I was wandering around like a tourist. In my own city! Completely surreal. And awesome.<\/p>\n<p \/>I walked into First Ave and there was a goofy bluegrass band on stage. They were playing full-on hillbilly instruments, and rocking out. Seriously, if I was going to start a band, it would be bluegrass. Because I have this fantasy involving the banjo, y&#8217;see. So I hung out at a table with a sad-looking boy, and then made my move towards the front in between sets. The awesome thing about going to shows by your lonesome is it&#8217;s <i>really<\/i> easy to get up close. I ended up about 10 feet away from Doughty. Sigh.<\/p>\n<p \/>The show was great. Whenever the drummer or pianist weren&#8217;t playing a song, they&#8217;d pull out a book and start reading. Halfway through the show, they presented Mike with cake and made us all sing Happy Birthday. He talked about riding on a Mr. T float in the crazy Bonnaroo parade. He did two encores. After the show, I went and got a CD and his book of poetry autographed. We talked about Bonnaroo. Also, I saw Minneapolis legend Dan Wilson.<\/p>\n<p \/>First Ave also has <a href='http:\/\/www.first-avenue.com\/DAMF\/DAMFmembership.htm' target='outie'>this deal<\/a> now where you give them $25 for a 6-month membership, and get free tickets for everything there until the end of July. That&#8217;s insane. I&#8217;m signing up, because the Shins are there next week. Not to mention pro wrestling in July. The Sexiest Man Alive and I are so there; he just doesn&#8217;t know it yet.<\/p>\n<p \/>I know I swore I wasn&#8217;t going to another huge-ass music festival anytime soon, but Willie Nelson is supposed to be playing at this Green Somethingorother festival in Duluth. Fucking Duluth. I might have to go anyway.<\/p>\n<p \/>And tonight&#8217;s very special non-sequitur: I have <a href='http:\/\/mirrorproject.com\/mirror\/recent\/?id=23990' target='outie'>another photo<\/a> up at the mirror project.<\/p>\n<p \/>The end.<br \/>Jenni<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howdy. I went to hear Mr. Mike Doughty tonight. I was planning on seeing him at Bonnaroo, but ended up spending his performance in my vehicle on the side of the interstate. So I bought my ticket around 7, and was told he wasn&#8217;t playing until 8:30. I decided to stay outside for a while, &#8230;<a class=\"post-readmore\" href=\"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/?p=568\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/po9qt-9a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/queenofsubtle.com\/cm\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}