Road Trip
The eve before my epic plan of a road tip I stopped to consider a few things.
One was that this trip was very under planned! It is to consist of 11 key stops spread over 5 short days. We hadn’t arranged any official accommodation save for the friend-of-a-friend contact that Amy gave to me less than an hour ago. So four-out-of-five nights we are either going to scrounge, sleep in a tent, car, or hopefully meet a random friendly person willing to put two Americans up.
Two, we don’t have a map yet. This could be a major set back seeing how EVERY road in England curves, loops, and snakes it’s way in random unintelligible patterns of abstract M.C. Escher art.
Three, our hired car is a manual and Marcus doesn’t know how to drive manual yet. Yet being the key word here. I think a road trip in England is the perfect reason to learn.
Four, what little planning I have done has been thrown out the window with Marcus’ insistence that we HAVE to go to Scotland….Which I didn’t plan on going to.
But I do kind of like the idea of setting us for failure. It’ll be that much more of an adventure. It’s why I wanted the smallest car we could possibly find and why I reserved a manual rather than automatic.
I haven’t been completely unprepared however, the most important piece of the road trip has been carefully arranged. The soundtrack that is. You can feel like part of our adventure by listening to some selected tunes from the 162-song collection. Enjoy.
A-Punk: Vampire Weekend
Acrylic : The Courteeners
Broken Bones: Sons & Daughters
Circle Square Triangle: Test Icicles
Everybody’s Gonna Be Happy: The Kinks
Spanish Bombs: The Clash
Happy Hour: The Housemartins
Heavyweight Champion Of The World: Reverend And The Makers
Here On My Own: U.N.P.O.C.
Holiday: The Subways
Karma Police: Radiohead
Lady Madonna: The Beatles
Let’s Call it Off: Peter Bjorn and John
Love Will Tear Us Apart: Joy Division
Make Love A Star: The Poison Control Center
Midnight Surprise: Lightspeed Champion
Moving To New York : The Wombats
Radio America: Libertines
Tane Mahuta: The Ruby Suns
Slowly: M83
Bag of Hammers: Thao with the Get Down Stay Down
Who Loves the Sun: The Velvet Underground
May 20th, 2008 at 3:16 am
Sweatpea, !!!! What is this what a road trip with you is like????? When your brothers with you… a little more planning and a little less free spirit. Your suppose to be the responsible one, the cool head, the one to nix all wild ideas!!! Love you can’t wait to see you in Paris( doesn’t that sound fun) Love mom Don’t be worrying me. How is school, finals????
May 22nd, 2008 at 3:48 pm
I think hull has brought you out of your cocoon. Your adventures sound amazing, and the road trip fantastic! ~ Vampire Weekend, perfect opening song for the unknown road that lies ahead.
We love and miss you!
Jennifer
May 22nd, 2008 at 10:22 pm
brandon, i spent a month doing exactly that. have great adventures. throw caution to the wind, you’ll find it again.
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May 30th, 2010 at 8:39 pm
Have now got standard CD of St.Jude by the courteeners and guess what – Acrylic is on there as a hidden track! My CD player and my PC both detect 21 tracks, the first 12 are the listings you can see on all the usual websites, there are then 8 shorts tracks of silence, and track 21 is Acrylic – has anyone else spotted this????