salut du dordogne

Aug 18, 2009 03:33

hello again, LJ!

words are still not coming easily to me: i'm stupidly tired in the evenings, or more accurately most of the day, which i suspect is due to my imbibing less caffeine than i'm used to, & more alcohol. (the latter, i feel i should emphasize, is wine rather than anything stronger, & doesn't flow with quite this frequency except in ( Read more... )

food, summer 2009: france

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cerulean_sky August 20 2009, 17:05:23 UTC
When my dad and I used to take road trips (ok, driving from NJ to NM a few weeks ago might have been our last road trip ever, and doesn't that make me sad) he would always pack a whole box of CDs just for the trip. My dad likes just about everything, so there would be something of everything there, but the staples would probably be The Grateful Dead (which I can't consistently recognize) and The Oysterband (now my and my dad's favorite band).

Other than that? I think I heard Sisters of Mercy for the first time on a road trip. And possibly The Bangles, too. But that's all I got.

On road trips with other people (and in this case I mean the drive up to the place where we were camping) we listened to The Beatles, and as I recall I did a pretty good job of singing along.

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faeriemaiden August 21 2009, 19:23:56 UTC
CAVE PAINTINGS FTW. *anthropologist/storygeek flail*

I think I want to go on an eating tour of France now.

Hmm, car trip music; I suspect it was primarily the same stuff we listened to at home, i.e., Dad's music, which pretty much gave birth to my musical tastes, but I think a lot of our cars didn't even have tape players? (We have never had a new new car. In fact most of the time we had fairly old and rattley cars. Oh wait, we still have old and rattley cars...) And a lot of our real car trips, the actual long ones, were around Christmastime, so it was scanning the stations for something not crap, which, uh, didn't usually work all that well. (My family collects awesome Christmas music, so until I was about twelve or thirteen I don't think I even realised that most people think of Christmas music as kitschy, tacky stuff that they either loathe or take guilty pleasure in once a year ( ... )

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