The '59 blog.
I had a really great blog planned out.
See, I took the Megabus from Cleveland to Chicago yesterday to spend the weekend with my beautiful girlfriend (it's our one-year anniversary!), and I grabbed the office laptop to take with me, as well as the neat little phone card adaptor thing that allows the computer to connect to the internet from anywhere, essentially. So my plan was to do a blog while flying down I-90, discussing the people on the bus, scenery, what I decided to have for dinner at the rest stop (a teriyaki beef stick, two Sobe-brand vitamin waters and a bag of Munchos, with a small box of Junior Mints for dessert, in case you were wondering), etc.
But this plan was foiled from the get-go, when I found out that the battery was completely dead (even though I had charged it the night before), After some text-message tech support from our director of new media, Rob, it was more or less determined that the battery had officially shit the bed.
Bummer.
So instead, I spun my iPod for most of the 6-hour trek, trying not to get too nauseous (man, that recycled air really is stale -- Ben Gibbard, you are correct, sir). Here was my in-transit playlist:
Brand New - Deja Entendu (Goddamn, does this album still hold up perfectly over five years later)
Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance (this one, not so much, but "Ender Will Save Us All" is still incredible)
The Decemberists - Picaresque (can you tell I was just going through my iPod's library alphabetically?)
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (interesting side note: While looking up the title of this record on Wikipedia, I just learned their drummer, Chris Hrasky, is from the same hometown as me: Rockford, Illinois. Small world!)
Family Force 5 - Dance Or Die (this record sounds like a mixture of Self, the Faint and Death From Above 1979. Totally serious. It's pretty awesome.)
Now I'm sitting around in my underwear at my girlfriend's house waiting for her to get home from work, killing the time by watching a bunch of Norm MacDonald clips on YouTube (what a brilliantly funny guy, seriously). We're seeing Maritime tonight, which I'm way stoked about, but I'm totally not stoked about having to put my pants back on to leave the house.
Bummer.
Your task, dear blog reader? Recommend me your favorite headphones-only road-trip album. Not the one you put on with your friends when you're driving to a show; the one you put on to drown out your parents when you're on a family vacation, the one that helps enhance the scenery outside the car window. I need suggestions for my return bus ride this Monday, so get to it!
See, I took the Megabus from Cleveland to Chicago yesterday to spend the weekend with my beautiful girlfriend (it's our one-year anniversary!), and I grabbed the office laptop to take with me, as well as the neat little phone card adaptor thing that allows the computer to connect to the internet from anywhere, essentially. So my plan was to do a blog while flying down I-90, discussing the people on the bus, scenery, what I decided to have for dinner at the rest stop (a teriyaki beef stick, two Sobe-brand vitamin waters and a bag of Munchos, with a small box of Junior Mints for dessert, in case you were wondering), etc.
But this plan was foiled from the get-go, when I found out that the battery was completely dead (even though I had charged it the night before), After some text-message tech support from our director of new media, Rob, it was more or less determined that the battery had officially shit the bed.
Bummer.
So instead, I spun my iPod for most of the 6-hour trek, trying not to get too nauseous (man, that recycled air really is stale -- Ben Gibbard, you are correct, sir). Here was my in-transit playlist:
Brand New - Deja Entendu (Goddamn, does this album still hold up perfectly over five years later)
Dashboard Confessional - The Swiss Army Romance (this one, not so much, but "Ender Will Save Us All" is still incredible)
The Decemberists - Picaresque (can you tell I was just going through my iPod's library alphabetically?)
Explosions In The Sky - The Earth Is Not A Cold Dead Place (interesting side note: While looking up the title of this record on Wikipedia, I just learned their drummer, Chris Hrasky, is from the same hometown as me: Rockford, Illinois. Small world!)
Family Force 5 - Dance Or Die (this record sounds like a mixture of Self, the Faint and Death From Above 1979. Totally serious. It's pretty awesome.)
Now I'm sitting around in my underwear at my girlfriend's house waiting for her to get home from work, killing the time by watching a bunch of Norm MacDonald clips on YouTube (what a brilliantly funny guy, seriously). We're seeing Maritime tonight, which I'm way stoked about, but I'm totally not stoked about having to put my pants back on to leave the house.
Bummer.
Your task, dear blog reader? Recommend me your favorite headphones-only road-trip album. Not the one you put on with your friends when you're driving to a show; the one you put on to drown out your parents when you're on a family vacation, the one that helps enhance the scenery outside the car window. I need suggestions for my return bus ride this Monday, so get to it!
posted by Scott Heisel at
5:33 PM
12 Comments:
Rocket From the Crypt's "Scream Dracula Scream" or Death Cab for Cutie's "Something About Airplanes"
Run Kid Run "This Is Who We Are". I've never actually listened to this album on a road trip before, but I imagine it would be awesome. It's just such a feel-good album.
And I sympathize with the pants thing. I am definitely anti-pants.
AFI's "Sing the Sorrows"- Also holds up well after 5 years.
Followed by Underoath's "Lost in the sounds of Seperation"- I really have recently went on a roadtrip, plus, this record is awesome regardless of where you are or where your going.
Then The Bronx's "The Bronx 2"- That's how I refer to it.
The Sass "Bleach Blonde" Super Super indie band who played a last minute show at PSU a few years back and blew me away. Kinda like Weezer Pixies type stuff. I think they still exist but last time I checked I couldn't be certain.
Also I almost always end up putting Baysides self titled disc when I travel places.
you really cant go wrong with coconut records
i just love it
also cold war kids - robbers & cowards
Ace Enders a Million different people. deff. that always makes me happy.
oh and "the Illusion of Safety" Thrice. that's quite good for tuning people out.
The last road trip I took was to a family reunion. The albums I recall listening to/would listen to during any trip are:
*My Morning Jacket "It Still Moves"
*The British Beat (3 disc box set of 60s Brit Invasion bands)
*Tegan and Sara "If It Was You"
*soundtracks to "Juno", "Once", and "Ghost World" (for a variety of everything)
Family Force 5!? You're not getting a ride home on Monday, now.
Oh, Joanna Newsome for sure. The album "Walnut Whales" or "The Milk-Eyed Mender". None of my friends or family can stand her music, but I absolutely love it!
scott! its brian bohan. i like your blog on here, fun to read.
here are some suggestions:
radiohead - kid a
aphex twin - richard d. james album
dntel - life is full of possibilities
godspeed you! black emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven
american football - s/t
american analog set - promise of love
the microphones - the glow pt 2
hope this helps! see you at a show sometime.
Anything off of Mojave 3's first four albums is great for a sunset drive.
Lucero - That Much Further West... over, and over, and over, and over, and over until I can't tell the difference between Ben Nichols' raspy voice and the sound of pavement flying beneath me at 65 MPH.
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