Here's a quick post, my final one for Christmas 2009. (Edited to point out -- hey, be a fan on Facebook!)Dan Bryk (official MySpace wiki AMG) is an Ontario-born musician, who moved from Canada to Raleigh, NC in 2003 with his partner Erin McGinn (they married in 2008, two years after this song was released). The reason I mention those specifics of his biography should become apparent when you listen to this song.
The Besotted family has a tradition called (I swear) "scooterpooping," which is where you leave the house with a modest amount of money and a full tank of gas, make a random decision to go one of the four cardinal directions, and drive a few hours until you get hungry, make a random decision to eat at a local nonchain restaurant, and continue meandering until everyone agrees to go home, stopping at any place that catches the eye. While this song details a trip with a more specific goal (the best scooterpooping song ever written is Lou Reed's "New Sensations," but that's a different post for a different day), it still has the feel of a classic scooterpoop.
As the fiancee and I prepare to spend our second Christmas together, and the last as an unmarried couple, I can't help but relate to this song. Sure, we're not moving thousands of miles to start our new life together, but it's going to feel like that all the time. The planning and logistics are causing both of us an awful lot of stress, but it'll all be over in 30 days. And every day after that, it will have been worth it. And, as the man says, that will only be the very start of a very long, very wonderful, very great adventure.
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I have done a few of these great adventures now, and this song captures the mood and events perfectly. Love it... top 10 of the year (even with the dig at US Customs).
hmm... sounds an awful lot like several road trips I've taken w/ Cr Swan. Especially having to sleep in separate bedrooms at the parent's house, falling asleep in the passenger seat, driving in snow, falling asleep while Cr drives in snow, ending up at the seedy motel, because that's what's open (12am? amateurs) and not being able to rest because you have to go out and get groceries. Great adventure, indeed.
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