Day : On the road to Northampton
We're on our way to Northampton Massachusetts, where Bill Childs from Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child on WRSI is hosting us in the studio. We're excited! Then we're playing a fun outdoor show in the middle of Northampton that Bill set up for us. HUGE thanks to Bill. We are in your debt, sir!
Now, we begin this episode of "Recess Monkey of our Lives" with the most photogenic story we have yet that, sadly, has no accompanying photography: Daron walked through a carwash last night. He emerged on the other side a newer, cleaner Daron Henry. It was apparently a very picturesque experience, but you'll just have to imagine it.
We do, however, have a very nice picture of a woman reading a book while driving at freeway speeds that we can place in its stead. Don't even ask. |  |
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Next up, outside of Cleveland, Daron got some much-needed driving practice at the Oasis arcade. We're still trying to piece this together, but if I understand this correctly, there's a market for people to rest between driving segments by... driving. Nothing about this seems like a good idea. Also, it's hard to tell from the photo, but Daron is indeed racing a camoflauged Hummer with an American flag on the bumper.
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Daron and Jack loaded into the car as Drew opened up the back door to a sudden CRASH! If only the recorder had been running, this amazing sound of breaking glass would have definitiely been on our next album (we have a covenant that every Recess Monkey album must have both the sound of breaking glass and a shout out to John Vanderslice). This was breaking glass of a quality not heard since Billy Joel's Glass Houses.
At any rate, this audiophile's dream come true was nothing to celebrate: it was- GASP- Drew's French Press* coffee maker, completely exploding on the pavement!
Neighboring cars probably thought that someone ran over Drew's toe, but it was the promise of overly-ornate Seattle bourgeois handcrafted coffee.
It's gone.
Goodbye sweet, sweet dark.
Hello, coffee-scented water.
Question: are seagulls in Ohio really seagulls?
*there was some talk of renaming it Drew's FREEDOM Press but, alas, it's in a better place now. |
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Drew began the day with the pledge to drive us from Indiana into New York state. "You gotta have goals," we all agreed. And, though we thought there was no way he could really do it, we cheered Drew on.
Boy were we misguided: by the time we entered New York state, Drew had all but made up his mind that he was going to go for broke and take care of New York in its entirety too. That's right, he took the five state challenge! Drew did the WHOLE ENCHILADA: 804 miles, stopping only to gas up, eat roadside Oasis food and pound Sugar Free Red Bull.
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We told him that if he pulled it off, we'd have a plaque made in his honor which, by all accounts, he has earned. At left is a digital placeholder until the real beauty is milled.
WOW! Drew drove us through Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York and Massachusetts. He is now known as "Long Haul" Holloway. Please email him and congratulate his accomplishment!
We're bunking down in Northampton and Amherst now (the story behind why Jack is in Northampton tonight and Drew and Daron are in Amherst is WAAAAAY too crazy to try to recount tonight; let's just keep it at DON'T FLY JET BLUE). After five uninterrupted days on the road together, it's surreal to spend the night apart.
After a lazy morning, we're meeting up with Bill Childs at 10:30, then rocking out downtown at 2. What little of Northampton we've seen is great.
We wish Ellen could be here to see it with us! She had planned to meet us here but, well, Jet Blue ain't what it's cracked up to be :(
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