Some things must be said and some things need never be said again, and the Death card is about the latter. A limited number of doilies to that effect will be for sale April 13.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

Show of hands, who else thought the word was “pants?” Because it’s not. It’s “past.” Just realized that upon looking it up and that is how Steely Dan won the contest of best-lyrics-to-convey-the-feeling-of-wanting-some-wrongs-to-be-made-right.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

The Wheel of Fortune says, there’s no such thing as good timing. It can look like that in hindsight, but in reality, it was just that you decided and then made a move and then kept going.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

Cranky from the lack of winter? The lack of catharsis? The lack of joy in rediscovering your spring clothes because hell you’ve been wearing them since November as if we live in San Francisco or some nonsense? Come on out April 13 and get that fixed. Steely Ann + Joe’s Garage will bury you in an avalanche of dense lyrics and too many musical notes. We will ice-dam the roof of your soul as if you’d lived through a hundred proper Februarys. And then, then, you’ll emerge from The Kato Ballroom feeling ready for spring and craving the sounds of non-wry non-cynical birds.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

Strength (the card) is about taking stock of the parts of yourself you’d prefer to erase + the parts you’d love to share and share and share, and then reconciling the two.

On a separate note, and possibly the flip-side, here’s a clip from Steely Ann’s harmony sectional earlier today. “Get along/ get along/get along Kid Charlemagne,” a favorite for its virtue as a satisfying song about unsanctioned activities. There’s that Strength idea again.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

The Chariot is that moment when you find yourself in the driver’s seat of a thing you previously thought was happening TO you. I couldn’t find a Steely Dan lyric that suited this card because in the universe of The Dan, everything is happening TO the protagonist. And what’s happening is mostly rejection and loss. Thank goodness for the Mothers of Invention weighing in at mild-sense-of-agency with these lines from “Trouble Every Day” (Freak Out, 1966).

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

Yeah so I tried to find a Steely Dan lyric in the vibe of The Lovers but “this is no one night stand” is about as good as it gets. On the upside, if you’ve ever been told you’re an emotionally unavailable acerbic asshole, you can come to the April 13 show and pay close attention to the lyrics and walk away feeling relatively good about yourself.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

xxx

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt 

The Emperor is about a sense of place, specifically how a place can pull you in or nudge you out. Sometimes both. This is probably a good time to note that The Kato Ballroom has ample parking, an on-site ATM, and the greatest exterior signage for miles and miles around.

STEELY ANN & JOE’S GARAGE Saturday April 13
Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m.
Kato Ballroom ticket link: http://tinyurl.com/55tnwpzt