"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
06/06/2015 at 12:03 • Filed to: None
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"TheHondaBro" (wwaveform)
06/06/2015 at 12:03 • Filed to: None | 0
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My car does not have an aux jack, so I make CDs for long-distance drives. My usual road trip consists of 500 miles from the south of Oregon all the way to the suburbs of Seattle. Most of the trip, I’m driving through the middle of nowhere. I blast up OR97 for almost 200 miles, go through OR26 for about 100 miles, then I near Gresham, a city just outside Portland, where I get onto the I5, the final stretch. My first time on this route, I had six CDs loaded in my CD player. I’m driving along and listening to these songs, then after I get onto the I5, after leaving the middle of nowhere and reaching civilization, this song comes up.
What does this song remind me of? It reminds me of the breathtaking Seattle skyline at night, just ahead of my windscreen. It reminds me of the first long road trip I’ve ever done by myself. It reminds me that my car is awesome, the route is awesome, and after a daunting drive through a pallet of geographical features, I’m almost there.
whoarder is tellurium
> TheHondaBro
06/06/2015 at 12:23 |
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Moving back to MN and the drive from FL to MN:
End of March 2013. ~1,300 miles. G35 loaded up with a bunch of belongings. Still on summer tires.
Cutting through TN mountain roads in the rain at night having fun with an S2000... then later getting pushed off the road by a semi-truck. Getting caught in a snow storm in Missouri as a reminder that I was moving back into the northland. Driving through desolate wide open farm country covered in snow.
What a trip.
X37.9XXS
> TheHondaBro
06/06/2015 at 12:24 |
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Yes
Came home from Vietnam, on my way to Oregon
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whoarder is tellurium
> X37.9XXS
06/06/2015 at 12:53 |
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Man, the SOUND was so great from that era. Nothing like analog and nothin like musicians layin it down live.
If only EssExTee could be so grossly incandescent
> TheHondaBro
06/06/2015 at 12:54 |
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For me it’s not a song but a movie. As a kid we used to take an annual trip to Florida, driving of course. It was 27 hours one way. To keep the three of us happy in the backseat my dad bought one of those VCR players that hangs between the front seat. One of the movies in our arsenal was National Lampoon’s Christmas vacation. We watched it endlessly every year. Now every time it comes on TV I can’t help but remember those trips.
Actually, there is a song I associate with a place. For some reason Fleetwood Mac’s “You Make Lovin’ Fun” makes me think of Chicago. I have no clue why though. I’ve only been there once and it was just a layover at O’Hare so I never even saw the city.
Funktheduck
> TheHondaBro
06/06/2015 at 13:06 |
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The first Audioslave cd. It was one of the few we listened to on our cross country road trip.
Svend
> TheHondaBro
06/06/2015 at 14:35 |
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Empire of the world - We are the people.
It had been playing at work for the last few nights. One morning one of the girls asked me if I’d go with her to a car auction in my city. As the auction wasn’t to start till 10:30am and we finished at work at 6am we went to McDonalds then hung around for a while. Went to the auction place at 9:30am and noticed that it was way too quiet then looked harder and noticed it wasn’t till next week. So thinking ‘nevermind what else was she wanting to look at locally’, I asked and she replied she saw a nice Renault Clio Mk2 phase 1 in Gateshead (60 miles away), I decided what the hell lets go. Both of us drove (sleep deprived) from one side of northern England to the next with this song constantly playing on different radio stations and the satnav constantly saying ‘bare left’ and ‘bare right’, which turned into a mad ‘thing’ with us saying ‘the bear is on the left, watch out!’, bare right, ‘oh hell the bear has crossed the road, I didn’t see it cross the road did you?’, etc... Eventually got to the dealership (satnav didn’t recognise the postcode), car wasn’t quite as described but she put some money down and we drove home and I get two hours sleep before having to go back to work.
Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero
> TheHondaBro
06/06/2015 at 15:33 |
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Whenever I listen to Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory I’m reminded of the vacation my grandparents took me and my cousin on out to Wyoming in their motor home. It was the only CD I had so it was always on repeat. That was back in 02 I believe