Monday
Mar122007
think I'm going to turn my ticket in...
Monday, March 12, 2007 at 09:40AM
Random bits about the past few days from a sleep-deprived songwriter waiting to board a flight home at Midway in Chicago…
- Omaha and Lincoln both share a wonderful street-naming structure. North and South roads are numbers, East and Wests are letters. This is wonderful for a guy with no sense of direction and a rental car. As I’ve said before, I’m fascinated with cities and how they become what they are. I couldn’t stop wondering how you go about starting this. Do you start at A and 1? Cities grow out in all directions unless there’s a natural border like a river or a mountain. Do you make the initial center of your city the intersection of M and 25th? I think I would. But what do I know?
- I got a great deal on a Priceline rental car. It was a little Chevy Malibu. I don’t think I could ever drive that car for longer than a few days. It’s so tiny that I had a hard time seeing around the rearview mirror. Weird, I know.
- I still really love The Cardigans. The second half of Super Extra Gravity is just wonderful.
- You know the girl who was famous for the Dorito’s commercial where she did flips or something?
I sort of do. But she was right behind me in line at the Nashville airport a few days ago. I googled her to find out why she was famous (which probably means she really isn’t…) and discovered that she married the guy who played Slater on Saved by the Bell for like three weeks. I always hoped he’d end up with Lisa Turtle, so maybe it was all for the best...
- I just sat on a plane next to a fellow from Ohio named David. He reads this here blog and is currently on tour with Jars running the Blood:Water booth. I’d never met him before, though we had recently traded e-mails about some pretty cool t-shirts. We had a little ipod switch, I heard a couple of his songs and he got a sneak listen to some of the in-progress Caedmon’s tunes. It was nice to have a good conversation on a 6 am flight.
All right, we’re about to board. Tootle-oo!
- Omaha and Lincoln both share a wonderful street-naming structure. North and South roads are numbers, East and Wests are letters. This is wonderful for a guy with no sense of direction and a rental car. As I’ve said before, I’m fascinated with cities and how they become what they are. I couldn’t stop wondering how you go about starting this. Do you start at A and 1? Cities grow out in all directions unless there’s a natural border like a river or a mountain. Do you make the initial center of your city the intersection of M and 25th? I think I would. But what do I know?
- I got a great deal on a Priceline rental car. It was a little Chevy Malibu. I don’t think I could ever drive that car for longer than a few days. It’s so tiny that I had a hard time seeing around the rearview mirror. Weird, I know.
- I still really love The Cardigans. The second half of Super Extra Gravity is just wonderful.
- You know the girl who was famous for the Dorito’s commercial where she did flips or something?
I sort of do. But she was right behind me in line at the Nashville airport a few days ago. I googled her to find out why she was famous (which probably means she really isn’t…) and discovered that she married the guy who played Slater on Saved by the Bell for like three weeks. I always hoped he’d end up with Lisa Turtle, so maybe it was all for the best...
- I just sat on a plane next to a fellow from Ohio named David. He reads this here blog and is currently on tour with Jars running the Blood:Water booth. I’d never met him before, though we had recently traded e-mails about some pretty cool t-shirts. We had a little ipod switch, I heard a couple of his songs and he got a sneak listen to some of the in-progress Caedmon’s tunes. It was nice to have a good conversation on a 6 am flight.
All right, we’re about to board. Tootle-oo!
Reader Comments (13)
Larence, Kansas has an awesome street naming system too. E-W streets are numbered, and most of the N-S streets are named for states. They're in order they were admitted to the union. Sounds complicated, but it's pretty easy to figure out that if you're on New Hampshire st. that Iowa st. is a couple miles to the west, but Vermont is pretty close.
Color me green, for two reasons:
1) I'm wearing my cool ilikeandy.com tshirt
2) I'm totally envious of this David guy... anytime you wanna trade iPods for a while, I'm game. :-)
I'm digging the nods to the Crows. Good stuff, man.
I hope your band puts together the Omaha cover for next time you are here. As you would assume, there are many Crows fans in Omaha because of that song alone.
Thanks for making the weekend memorable.
Why did you want Slater to end up with Lisa, what about Jesse, they always had the on again, off again, relationship that kept me on the edge of my seat.
I'm wearing my ilikeandy.com shirt too...
Every time I fly (6-8 times a year on business) I hope that I'll get to sit next to someone cool on the plane. Not necessarily famous, just interesting to talk to. After 5 years worth of travelling, it's yet to happen.
hmmm. andrew covering counting crows could be the most amazing idea i ever heard.
Andy: A lot of cities that do grids like that base them on a central E-W and N-S street pair, and then it's 1st Ave N, etc. north of the main E-W drag, etc. Huntsville has a modified version of this; the city is divided into quadrants. But that only made sense when the city was first laid out; now, NW and SE are way, way, way bigger than the other two quadrants.
1. I love the song "In The Round" by the Cardigans
2. I was at your show in Lincoln, and it was awesome. My friend Leslie convinced me go to with her (I had never heard of you or Caedmon's Call... simply because I'm new to my faith and listening to Christian music). You were awesome. We really enjoyed the fact that your songs told stories, and your lyrics had meaning. Thank you for doing what you're doing, we really enjoyed the show, I'm glad you liked our street system, and please return! :)
God Bless!
toodle-oo? Really?
Really.
Ali Landry?? It's not everyday you meet a D-list celeb. You must've felt extremely indifferent.
The WHOLE Cardigans album is good! (and so is the last one)
sorry about the hat-----