8:38 p.m.
Whew, what a drive. But now I'm in a homey setting: a Law & Order rerun on the TV, the air conditioning shaking the room, some of my excellent (if I do say so myself) Frisco Ginger Joy homebrew in a cup, and Chinese food on its way.
Come to think of it...my A/C at home isn't nearly this good, and my nearest Chinese restaurant (not counting the one at which I won't eat) is half an hour away. Hmmm. On the other hand, home has Rob and cats.
I had a difficult time communicating with the Chinese restaurant. I think I'm getting something called "Clacken Beef." It sounds like the usual dry-fried and spicy concoction.
Backtracking....I didn't get out of the house until nearly noon, having spent overmuch time trying to come up with a solution to my iPod-playing problem. I now have an inverter plugged into the Grand Prix, a boom box plugged into the inverter, the tape deck on the boom box (which I've never used before) jammed with the tape thingy that allows me to play the iPod through the speakers...It's silly, particularly since I also stopped at the library and picked up a bunch of audiobooks. I've spent most of the drive in the company of some Mary Higgins Clark "thriller" about rich pretty troubled girls. I have Augusten Burroughs, David Sedaris, and one other audiobook in line after this one. I'm not hurting for audio.
The drive was exhausting. I don't know what it is about West Virginia. You get 70 mph, and the mountains aren't that extreme, but it just seems endless. Then I was beset by some rain the likes of which I've seldom seen. For a while there, I could barely get the wipers to keep up, I could barely see, and there was no shoulder. I guess I should check the weather for Bonnaroo, but I'm inclined to dwell in denial.
Food's here.
I made up a Corncat hand signal in the car today. Not while I was driving through the rain or anything.
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Pam -
To play my iPod in the car, I use a Griffin Roadtrip: http://www.griffintechnology.com/products/roadtrip/
It plugs into the cigarette lighter/electrical outlet, and broadcasts through the car's stereo system over an FM channel. (I usually set mine at 88.1). No, they don't sell them at Walmart, but here's a list of their US dealers: Apple Store | Bed Bath & Beyond | Best Buy | Circuit City | CompUSA | Fry's Electronics | J&R | Micro Center | Office Depot | RadioShack | Sam Goody | Staples | Target | Tweeter
Oh, and remember, don't take the brown acid.
Hi Pam- Am eagerly checking your blog for news of the RT concert(s)... Hope you are doing well, over your beef, made it to the concert, etc. Perhaps you are away from a wireless network. I am fantasizing about if I had gone to Lexington: wander backstage, meet the crew, run away to be a roadie with the RT band...
Julie
Hey, Tony--I bought one of these things in Roanoke when I was visiting my mother. Walgreen's had it on deep discount (regularly 50 bucks, down to 13). It worked pretty well--the only catch being that the outlet in the Grand Prix faced the opposite direction of most such outlets, so trying to mess with it while driving would have been a death-defying proposition. "It appears the victim was trying to determine who sings 'I'd Really Love To See You Tonight' by reading her iPod upside down...."
Oh, yeah. No brown acid for me. Just antacid.
Tony, will you be at the 9:30 on Friday? 'Cause if you're the Tony I think you are, I owe you some vinyl.
Hey, Julie--I suspect that being a roadie isn't all that you'd fantasize it would be. I have the same fantasy...mine involves driving the tour bus. But then I'd probably end up being awake when everyone else was asleep, asleep when everyone else was awake, and changing the oil when Thompson was soloing.
I used to say that I thought being the band's travel-along laundress/wardrobe mistress sounded fun. But people seemed to find that faintly disreputable.
And being a music critic...well, there's my former life and there's Almost Famous, and they're two different things.
Frequent-concerter seems to be the best I can manage.
Sorry--I'm doing al the comments! I don't think I can edit my earlier one, so I just want to add that the iPod "broadcasting" device I bought was a Maxell product, not the one Tony cited.
I'll shut up now.
Pam -
I am THAT Tony. See you tomorrow at the 9:30.
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