We never got tired of listening to all of our mix cds though. I think this was definitely one of our best ideas ever, right up there with blogging and that time when I was holding a loaf of bread and Holly said "Why don't you slice it?"
--On the morning of my birthday as we were leaving PVS, Holly surprised me by downloading the Away We Go soundtrack on her iPod and having it all ready to listen to that morning. It's mostly by Alexi Murdoch and tends to be pretty laid back. I enjoyed it muchly. Now I just hope that I get to have a copy of it and my present wasn't just that I got to listen to it once.
--Matt Robinson, another one of our many friends named Matt (I think Holly calls this one Captain Quay) made us a good mix of 90s music.
--Our student April had a good mix with a variety of songs on it, from Beatles to more recent stuff
--As we left Big Sky and headed to Yellowstone on day 15 of the road trip, we listened to track star Michelle's mix. It started off with some interesting piano music and then had all kinds of things on it. Holly remarked that Michelle might make a good wedding reception DJ because there were a number of good danceable songs in a row on there.
--When we got to Yellowstone we thought to ourselves, what would be most out of place to listen to here? And the answer was Uncle Ed's Jimmy Buffett faves. We particularly enjoyed the final song on the mix, an unreleased song about Jimmy's thoughts on a driver that cut him off. We thought of this song later when we encountered a few not-so-great drivers ourselves.
--Amber made us a mix called 21 Female Vocalists for 2 Female Roadtrippers, which I quite enjoyed.
--Tina's grandpap made us several cds, complete with cover art and track listings, and we listened to one of his while driving up to the Old Faithful visitor's center. I actually sang along with a few of the tunes.
--Holly was getting a little sleepy at this point (not because of the previous cd, just due to it being her naptime), so she told me to put in something upbeat, so since it's hard to predict if someone's mix is going to be upbeat or not I put in a mashup cd I recently downloaded called Feed the Animals by Girl Talk. If you don't know what a mash-up is, go here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JBAxkZun3s&feature=PlayList&p=5D5E3471964CE94A&index=0&playnext=1 and watch the video for the first song on the cd. But don't watch it if you have sensitive ears and might be offended by the language.
--Then we put on Matthew's cd (how many Matts is that now...I've lost count). His wife Heather works with us at GHS. It had music on it that I recognize like Neutral Milk Hotel and that I think was new to Holly. It's kind of predictable which songs Holly or I will be able to sing along with. If it's country or rap, those seem to be Holly's domains. I'll take the alternative pop rock indie whatever you want to call it.
--This is getting to be a really long post.
--I guess that's why we should have posted before now and not waited 5 days to do it.
--We ended the day with GHS English teacher Matt's second cd, this one a themed cd entitled Travels, Transportations, and Destinations. It kept to the theme quite well.
--On day 16, our final day of driving, we listened to student Amber's mix, then student Kevin's disc 1 of 4, student Jenni's, student Daniel's, and finally student Laura's disco dos. They were all a little of this, a little of that, and all were quite enjoyable.
--I think we finished out the trip by listening to road trip mixes #2 and 3 by the Staabs. We were on #3 as we pulled into the parking lot of the Jamba Juice in Boulder, thereby concluding our road trip.
--But did that conclude the music? Why no, it didn't! As we speak I'm listening to Karen's Ridiculously Good Songs Vol 1, which was waiting here for me when I returned home. So it didn't make it on the road trip, but I can listen to it from the comfort of my own home or car. She included personal commentary with every track, which a few people did and I have found I quite enjoy. It's interesting to see what people have to say about the songs they pick, especially if you're as funny as Karen.
--So that's it. That's all the music we listened to. We got through at least one cd from every person who gave us one (a few people submitted more than one disc, and we didn't quite make it through every cd in the case). I think the only one I didn't list on here was Steve's screamo music, which he gave to me just so I could find out what screamo was. I did put it on at some point, and no offense Steve, but screamo isn't my new favorite kind of music. Oh, and I don't think I listed Megan and John's cds because they wouldn't work in the car. I guess something went wrong in the burning process. I'd say we listened to about 70 cds total though and can now provide people with killer road trip mixes for their future road adventures.
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