{"id":7241,"date":"2013-07-02T09:41:57","date_gmt":"2013-07-02T13:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/?p=7241"},"modified":"2013-07-03T09:32:17","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T13:32:17","slug":"road-trip-soundtrack-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/road-trip-soundtrack-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Road Trip Soundtrack, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I will <em>sell it. on the corner.<\/em> in order to avoid driving I-95 anywhere between DC and Boston, so on my trip south&#8212;sans <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/20\/im-too-tired-to-think-of-a-titlemy-dads-funny\/\">Dad<\/a> :( &#8212;I took a wide sweeping swing west down I-81 and Route 29.<\/p>\n<p>I pretty quickly\u00a0grew sick of my podcasts and turned to scanning through local radio stations, which is always a <em>joy<\/em>. Nothing&#8217;s better than when WARM 103.3 Today&#8217;s Hits &amp; Yesterday&#8217;s Favorites busts out &#8220;Take On Me&#8221; by A-ha.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I just learned he&#8217;s saying &#8220;I&#8217;ll be gone <em>in a day or two<\/em>&#8220;, which makes more sense than &#8220;I&#8217;ll be gone\u00a0<em>doo doot doo doooooooo<\/em>&#8220;. Also, &#8220;steadily learning the piper&#8217;s OK&#8221; (whew, I was concerned about him) is actually &#8220;slowly learning that life is OK&#8221;. Also too, &#8220;you&#8217;re all the things I&#8217;ve got to remember&#8221;. I always understood that&#8217;s what the line was, but I never got until Saturday that it&#8217;s the fucking loveliest song lyric ever.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;re all the things I&#8217;ve got to remember.<\/p>\n<p>Wow.<\/p>\n<p>Onward! Why are my local radio stations so\u00a0<em>lame<\/em> and everywhere else&#8217;s so\u00a0<em>hilarious<\/em> <em>and\/or<\/em>\u00a0<em>awesome<\/em>?<\/p>\n<p>Since I was trundling through Pennsylvania, you might guess Track 1 of our Road Trip Soundtrack: Stanley Pulaski and His Orchestra&#8217;s &#8220;May June July Polka&#8221;, a very <em>jaunty<\/em> little number. I can&#8217;t find a video for it, but it&#8217;s available on Polka Party Volume 2 on eBay. (Don&#8217;t make a mistake and order Polka Party Volume 1 or you&#8217;ll be disappointed!)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Polka-Party.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7242\" alt=\"Polka Party\" src=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Polka-Party-e1372703651929.jpg\" width=\"280\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Track 2:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/a3HemKGDavw\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Aw, YEAH. Ramble ON, man.<\/p>\n<p>Reminded me of my days riding shotgun in the old Sube, my brother at the helm. All his Led Zeppelin cassettes case-less and kicking about in my footwell, the writing worn off&#8212;we had no way of knowing what album it was until we threw it in the tape deck. And then we&#8217;d just ROCK OUT. And then we&#8217;d go to school.<\/p>\n<p>Track 3:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TsPh-EgH65M\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Just What I Needed&#8221; is in the top ten greatest pop songs ever.\u00a0Debate me.<\/p>\n<p>Track 4:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CaXdTe2TYhs\" height=\"315\" width=\"420\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Fun fact:\u00a0My sister is a Bee Gees fan. Like, not ironically or anything.\u00a0<i>Loathes<\/i>\u00a0the Beach Boys, but <em>genuinely<\/em> <em>enjoys<\/em> the Bee Gees.<\/p>\n<p>Next installment I <a href=\"http:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/road-trip-soundtrack-part-2\/\">hit the Top 40 stations<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I will sell it. on the corner. in order to avoid driving I-95 anywhere between DC and Boston, so on my trip south&#8212;sans Dad :( &#8212;I took a wide sweeping swing west down I-81 and Route 29. I pretty quickly\u00a0grew sick of my podcasts and turned to scanning through local radio stations, which is always &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/02\/road-trip-soundtrack-part-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Road Trip Soundtrack, Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,6,21],"tags":[137,138,136,139],"class_list":["post-7241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fambly","category-random","category-whats-making-me-happy","tag-bee-gees","tag-led-zeppelin","tag-polka","tag-the-cars"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7241"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7265,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7241\/revisions\/7265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}