Kevin mentioned yesterday that I recently had a kid. He’s the bee’s knees (my baby, not Kevin), but he certainly has thrown a ratchet in the old sleep cycle. For those of you yet to embark on the journey of parenthood (which I’m imagining is the vast majority of the expensive-jean clad, indie rock blog cognoscenti), it’s the greatest thing in the world. I look at the little dude and I feel about as happy as I ever have. But there is no sleeping. You know that feeling you get on the third day of Bonnaroo (or its equivalent)? It’s hot, you’ve seen twenty bands in the last two days, your body is coursing with chemicals, you’re equal parts stoked to see the headliner and completely ready to pass out? Being a dad is like that, but without the booze. I feel this constant sense of excitement for what the little dude will do next, paired with an uncertainty about my physical capacity to stay up one more minute. Mrs. Citizen popped the dude out on Wednesday. It is now late Saturday night. In that span, we might have slept four hours aggregate. I can taste colors at this point.
All that to say that I really haven’t had a second to sit down and write. I have discovered, however, that the littlest Citizen loves Megafaun. Since he’s been born, we’ve listened to Gather, Form and Fly straight through once or twice. It might be a coincidence, some sort of circadian alignment, but he seems to be the coolest cucumber when Megafaun is on the hi-fi. (That’s kind of a fib. He’s pretty mellow most of the time. He more fond of chilling out in Mrs. Citizen’s arms than he is of listening to records. All things considered, that is definitely a good thing.) I stumbled across a great show recording from January the other day, which nicely captures what the band is about live. My baby is particularly fond of “Drains,” which is probably genetic.
I’m not sure when you’ll hear from me again in this space; I’ll pop my head out of the cave sporadically, hopefully on Saturdays, hopefully on other days with some choice reviews. I’ll miss some days doing the dad thing, but I’m not ditching the internet completely. Until we chat again, this should tide you over. Enjoy.
