*WARNING: THIS POST CONFUSES MATH WITH DESSERT AT POINTS.*

It’s your life. Do what you want on Pi Day. No one’s stopping you from taking liberty with the homophone nature of the holiday, so there’s nothing wrong with choosing between baking pie with grandma or getting wasted with the ol’ AP calculus gang. Both make for viable, circular, family fun.

HOWEVER, if you’re looking for something a little less involved than those options but a lot more active than this, we suggest hitting up Cursive‘s show at The Sinclair featuring Beach Slang and John Congleton & The Nighty Nite. It’ll be 360 degrees of entertaining, and you won’t even have to pass the Werther’s! Grandma will understand. So will your protractor.

That is…if you purchased a ticket ahead of time. The show is officially sold out, BUT keep an eye out for lingering giveaways on Cursive’s Facebook page. Day-of ticket drops are not at all foreign to the group, especially on its current tour.

In “math speak,” one could say Cambridge marks Cursive’s third quartile of touring. The Omaha rockers are making stops around the U.S. in support of an expanded, deluxe reissue of their breakthrough 2003 album The Ugly Organ. Formulaically, it’s both an indulgent move for loyal fans and a representative one for new listeners.

See? Everyone wins on Pi Day.

Tonally, Cursive is the black cherry and mysteriously discovered calculator function of pi(e)s. There’s a lot going on behind the scenes of their early tracks, with plenty of string instruments to misidentify and lyrics to angrily agree to. Yet even Tim Kasher’s emo vocals refrain from pushing the group’s sound into acquired-taste territory.

There’s something entirely relatable about Cursive’s sound after tapping into that “It’s okay to be harsh” barrier, and The Ugly Organ appropriately serves as a channel for that. We instantly get that “Art is Hard,” and there has to be some truth in any added song titled “Excerpts From Various Notes Strewn Around the Bedroom of April Connolly.” With this Nebraskan rock on hand, you’re set for times of, well…Nebraskan rock need. It’s like the pi key for those days when typing 3.14 is just too much.

Adding Beach Slang into the equation should only push this show’s into a delicious overflow of punk for punks. The Philadelphian trio is complimentary to Cursive both in genre and lyrical attitude. If the command “Turn the amps up to nine, I don’t want it too loud,” in their 2014 jam “Filthy Luck” doesn’t prove that, surely live listening will. And…(wait for it…)

Luckily for the ticketless, Beach Slang isn’t settling for any numerically average Pi Day. Their “going hard” Costco-vegan-apple-grab-n-go style, with a SECRET 2:00 P.M. SHOW WITH CHOKE UP AT FIREBRAND SAINTS ($5, 21+) before heading to The Sinclair.

With that said: Yes. Your calculations are correct. There is in fact NO reason to exclude them from your 3.14 plans.

BUT, we reiterate: like rounding off to a digit-of-choice, this Pi Day is up to you. Get derivatively drunk with math friends. Tell grandma you’re gluten-free just to see how she reacts. Heck! Type that life story of yours into a graphing calculator simply because you can.

Nobody’s judging…but our majority agrees that concert hanging is a better use of your time and energy this holiday. Just don’t succumb to this, when you can be an actual person.

For more Pi Day happenings, check out the Hassle’s events page!