I was driving down the road yesterday when Indigo Girls’ Jonas and Ezekiel came on:
I left my anger in a river running highway 5
New Hampshire, Vermont, bordered by
College, farms, hubcaps, and falling rocks
Voices in the woods and the mountaintops
and I thought, holy crap, I’m on route 5 in Vermont, about to cross the bridge to New Hampshire. I’ve passed a few farms and am about to enter the college town. Wow.
The spouse and I still laugh about the time we were driving around many years ago with the radio on, pretty much as background noise. I asked him what time it was, and Elton John instantly replied, “It’s four o’clock in the morning, damn it!” (from “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”).
Very coincidentally (or perhaps unconsciously), I was listening to Liz Phair’s first album, Exile in Guyville, while on a plane, returning to Chicago, and the song playing on my iPod at the time was “Stratford-on-Guy”:
I was sitting in 27-D! It was nighttime too, though later than just sunset. I did watch the landscape roll out the window though.
Had to happen eventually. I love that album, I do fly into Chicago several times a year (often at night), and it’s not uncommon that I’m in that general seating range on planes. Plus I listen to my iPod pretty much continuously on planes, until they do the announcement where it’s time to shut everything down. It was a neat moment, I will say.