its summertime, lots of roadtrips.
you need music that accentuates the ride, and also keeps you awake.
its been awhile for me -- but i was always a fan of Screaming blue Messiahs for driving music.
but for driving around town upstate, i usually have something like Nightmares on Wax or Kruder & dorfmeister, because its got a groove and the lyrics are almost non existent.
my favorite song for late night driving is Pale Green Ghosts by John Grant.
there are dozens of remixes and they all make it that much more spooky.
the song feels like its achieves its opening lyric:
"Back then I often found myself
Driving on the road at night,
And the radio was broadcasting the ocean."
listen to this song, and you'll wish you were driving
what do you find to be your best road trip music and why?
Cant just be your favorite music - has to be what makes driving more enjoyable
(especially at night)
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Early morning bird song is one of my favorite parts of being up early, and this morning's songs did not disappoint -
Spring (Again)
Michael Ryan
The birds were louder this morning,
raucous, oblivious, tweeting their teensy bird-brains out.
It scared me, until I remembered it's Spring.
How do they know it? A stupid question.
Thank you, birdies. I had forgotten how promise feels.
About this poem
"In an uncollected early essay called 'Vorticism,' Ezra Pound wrote that things juxtaposed 'create their own relationship'- a technique which poets since have taken to the bank and sometimes robbed it blind. 'Spring (Again)' presents a pretty straightforward narrative for three lines then spends the last two lines in the speaker's mind. I hope the relationships are clear. The speaker is, as Emily Dickinson said, 'not me, but a supposed person.' I hope he's a little funny as well as sad. After a winter like the recent one, people may need cheering up." -Michael Ryan
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