A piece on Noelle Tan in this week's City Paper. Writing this piece made me realize that I desperately badly need to take a road trip. I'm more of the summer/desert driving sort than the Vermont/autumn turning kind, as evidenced by my affection for America's "Horse With No Name." The research is vigorous, the methodology beyond reproach: It has been proven absolutely that only those people who really get off on the idea of driving around in an El Camino in the glare and the heat will tolerate that song. The point being, I'm planning a road trip for next summer, and you're going to read this article now.
Posted by Kriston at September 21, 2007 4:14 PMI'm pretty sure there's a correlating law of the universe stating that if you are planning to drive around in an El Camino in the glare and the heat, you are REQUIRED to have America's "Horse With No Name" in rotation on the soundtrack. That and "Radar Love".
Posted by: Cecily Whitworth at September 21, 2007 9:14 PM"Grammar police" would sanction the lyric: "In the desert you can remember your name,'cause there aint no one for to give you no pain" ?
Posted by: scuppered at September 22, 2007 10:16 PM"Grammar police" would sanction the lyric: "In the desert you can remember your name,'cause there aint no one for to give you no pain" ?
Posted by: scuppered at September 22, 2007 10:16 PMWhoops. I tend to stutter.
Posted by: scuppered at September 22, 2007 10:18 PMWhat? No love for Kerouac? Overplayed, maybe, but if you're going to be pulling and Neal Cassady in an El Camino, it's almost redundant.
Posted by: Sarah Moffett at September 23, 2007 2:52 PMYou know, I've never actually read anything by Jack Kerouac. My wanderlust was informed by William Least Heat Moon's Blue Highways at around the age at which I should have been reading On the Road with everyone else. At that time, I had the snotty opinion that Kerouac was déclassé, probably because kids I didn't like loved him so much and because I've always been a bit of a wet blanket when it comes to illegal drugs. A snotnosed prejudice and also inconsistent with the fact that during eighth or ninth grade I devoured every word Allen Ginsberg ever wrote.
I see that previously unreleased Kerouac in all the bookstores these days and think that maybe I should read it, if only to put it out of mind forever, but meh. On the Road might be the most popular book that's a gap in my knowledge.
Posted by: Kriston at September 24, 2007 1:17 AMDo not a lot of cash to buy a house? Worry no more, just because it is possible to get the loan to work out such kind of problems. Hence take a bank loan to buy all you want.
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