I’ve been working a lot of doubles and overtime lately, today was set to be my day off but about an hour into my first taste of sleep since Saturday night I got called in. Sure I could rant about how I’m overworked and whatever but I chose to give up my day off to jump back on the hamster wheel when I easily could have kept from answering my phone or simply said no, I didn’t so in the end it was my decision.
As I’m piecing together this weeks mix I’m sitting on the patio at Epoch Coffee it is 80 degrees with a breeze, I have a triple latte and a Camel Light sitting in front of me, all things considered life is good… just one more reason I’m falling in love with Austin at an alarming rate.
[I'm posting this a few days after originally putting it together. Been busy]
Working in a bar has its ups and downs. The night before Thanksgiving falls on both sides of that line. On the positive it’s one of the busiest nights of the year so the environment is more intense than usual, a change of pace is always welcome. The negative being that the majority of kids are home from out of town and feel it necessary to act like they are three years old with complete disregard for anyone or anything around them. By the end of the night it takes everything I have left not to just take out all of my frustration on someone before the doors are locked. Tonight was no exception.
This is far from a typical playlist. This is one collection of songs I may only listen to a handful of times throughout the year. I apologize to anyone who isn’t into hardcore or screamo, there was a time when this music was my everything and there is something about each of these songs that whenever I put them on just sets my heart in a better place, getting me jacked up and motivated to forget anything that is negative and unhealthy from my usually positive optimistic self. Judge me if you want but these song I will always love.
There comes a point on any cruise where a pit stop stop is needed, a chance to stretch your legs and feel some movement. Most often in high school this would be either a haunted cemetery these are common in indiana…. (Stepp Cemetery is probably the best for a road trip), a pond in the middle of nowhere, or my favorite is this abandoned train depot in atterbury ( you drive along the tracks for a half a mile and drive right up onto the platform. Great place to relax and take in an unadulterated view of the night sky). Where you stop isn’t important just for you to be alone in the middle of nowhere while you are there is. We usually head from there to the nearest gas station to fill our hands with fountain drinks and sometimes more food for the munchies. Girls always get beef jerky which has confused me for years, i’m not really sure why this seems strange to me but it always does.
This is the point in any great cruising mix where the songs date back to a time when songs meant something as a collective for you and your friends. Even if you didn’t grow up together there are songs that are universal. example: i had a house party four years ago where one of my roommates (brooke) decided to play ohio is for lovers by hawthorne heights and i saw an entire house of (no offense) pretentious hipsters lose themselves in a nostalgic frenzy, i thought it was a joke for the first minute and a half. Songs from our past stick with us, you want to bring that along to make the road trip great.
