Worth getting up for in April: finally spring; sweeping Clemson at home and beating ECU in Greenville in the 9th; C & M’s wedding; gorgeous travel books; Ha Ha Tonka’s Death of a Decade and Slingshot Cash’s From Aftermath to Exile; sole possession of first in the AL East for the Orioles, even if only for a few days; shooting bands outdoors in the golden hour; the Mountain Goats, Wanda Jackson, the Old 97s, Cameron McGill, Dave Hause live; beach beach beach and the ocean; avoiding a government shutdown; more clean sunny cool rain-shiny mornings; certain people’s bedhead; our seatmates for the year at the DBAP; ANGRY BIRDS RIO; sucking it up and doing the grown-up thing and spending my wide angle lens fund, again, on car repairs; riot grrl shift; the Galactic Dog at Jack’s Cosmic Dogs on Folly Beach, and the existence of blue cheese cole slaw; white wine.