Bad luck or incredibly bad timing?

You may or may not know this, but I like the Cure.  That may come as a surprise to you.  They are still incredibly good live in concert, as Sara and I found out earlier this summer, and every time we see them we assume it could be the "last" time.   

Last week I heard that they were coming to LA to tape episodes of Jay Leno, Carson Daly, and Jimmy Kimmel in December.  That got rumors going that they were going to headline KROQ's Acoustic Christmas.  This is a very real possibility because Robert Smith does not like to fly, so when the band does travel, it's usually by boat.  If they're going to come to Southern California by boat/bus/dirigiberbil/etc., chances are it's not just to film a couple US tv shows.  

Here's where the bad luck/bad timing comes in.

First the bad timing.  When I heard they were taping Leno, I thought this would be too good to be true because I have connections at NBC and could score tickets to the show, no problem.  In fact, just last year, I got hooked up with front row tix, so I figured I was in like Flynn.... until I found out the taping was on December 11th.  Why is this a problem?  Well, because 11 months of hard work is culminating on the 12th at a 9:00am meeting.  Thereby making it extremely unlikely that I would be done early enough to skip a 1/2 day to go trouncing around LA to see them play one song.  Okay, I'll live.  They're still playing Acoustic Christmas, right?

Here's the bad luck part.  Normally the AC concert is held on the first weekend of December, which would be a perfect excuse to skip my office's annual holiday party, but I digress.  Today they made the announcement on the line up and the dates.  ::Drum Roll Please::  The Cure is headlining and this year it's on the second weekend in December.  Guess what.  I've already got plans that weekend to go to Mammoth with friends for my b-day ski trip!   Now, I am totally stoked about the trip and wouldn't reconsider for anything... all I'm sayin' is today was a real bummer of a day to find all this out!  Aaaarrrgh!!!