Sometimes Sunday nights are the worst. How can this be a school night? Sunday has all the stuff Saturday has — the sleeping in, the day drinking, the forgetting you even have a boss — and then wham it has all the stuff Monday has: Oh man the whole week's ahead of me.

It's worse than Monday. At least a few hours into Monday some of the week's already over. This is the whole ball of spaghetti ahead of me what happened?

I remember having this realization as a kid that around 2 in the afternoon every Sunday I'd get this kind of deflated feeling, this idea that most of the weekend, and all the best parts, were behind me. This sense that it was all slipping away, coming to an end. It was like a weekly junior midlife crisis.

I was too young to have weekend homework but I could feel thoughts of school coming back. And I even kinda liked school.

So yeah, Sundays. The worst.

But not this Sunday! This is the Sunday of Thanksgiving week.

Now, not everybody feels great about Thanksgiving. It's a pretty damn problematic holiday, but whether you like it or hate it, it exists, and it turns the whole week into a giant slack. Most schools have ended the charade of making students show up for the first two or three days, and even if you have to go to work, you'll be checked out before you clock in. Hell, you're probably checked out now why are you reading this get back to work.

Just kidding, keep reading.

Here's what I mean: This Sunday is a party night, and have I got the show for you! 
 

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It's an early show, a nod to the idea that even though you're going to be the most useless employee — or the most useless employer if you couldn't avoid becoming one of those — you do still have to haul your carcass out of bed at one of those ridiculous hours that only has one number to the left of the two dots, like 5:30 or 9:15.

So we start at 8 pm. The single numbers aren't so bad after noon.

I'll be the first musical act, but the show will kick off with a host, an emcee, the spoken word artist and poet Anna Weaver, who hosts an amazing monthly open mic in downtown Raleigh called Tongue & Groove that I'm loath to mention because I don't want it to get more crowded than it already gets. She'll start the show and perform between bands, so there won't be that downtime between acts.

I like that, don't you? I've always thought the entertainment should be constant, like vaudeville.

But I won't be the last musical act! Oh no, you'll also get Durham postpunk legends The Wigg Report, the only band I've ever seen that has both a stand-up drummer and a sax player.

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And Living Earth. In their own words: "Music for stoned group camping featuring the shortest, fattest, brownest and baldest lead singer in Durham, Vito Dito." They're somehow better than even that sounds trust me on this one. Vito somehow turns a classical guitar into a punk instrument. 

And it's all happening at the Cave, the best underground — like it's really a basement — dive I know.

Come on out! It'll cure your oh no it's the end of the weekend blues, without you having to pay a price during the work week, because who's really working next week. Not you, pal. Not you.

Living Earth
The Wigg Report
The King Teen
Anna Weaver
The Cave, 452 1/2 W Franklin St, Chapel Hill
Sunday, November 24, 8 p.m. 
$10 suggested, 21+

Thanks for reading and listening and coming on out.

Your friend,

The King Teen

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