Repeat function

Fourteen-hour road trip yesterday, and at many points, I couldn't help but wonder if long car rides were meant for listening to songs on repeat. With passengers scrambling to come up with entertaining/valuable/nostalgic songs, it becomes an auditory shitshow, and, though often a delightful one, sometimes it takes a number of playcounts to space out in the right kind of way on the road. It probably takes a particular kind of ear to appreciate 87 plays of one 3 minute song, but this is an ear I possess. Keep in mind that on a road trip, the song needs to be vaguely high-tempo, to keep the eyes open, lungs breathing, car moving, etc etc.

I have, in the past, appreciated 40-60 consecutive plays of songs such as:

Digital Love
My Love is like Wo. In no way am I kidding.
James Brown Live at the Apollo. Is this short enough to be considered one long [concert] track? Probably not, but Please Please Please has received its own form of worship in the form of consecutive plays.
Stay
Happiness is a Warm Gun
Beast of Burden
Polar Opposites

... and mostly whilst studying.



BAG OF CRAP
since I've been gone so long.
(that's a woot joke ... wikipedia explains for those not in the know)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ej84nN1WcE

• Gondry and oversized hands:

(From Be Kind Rewind website)

(from Science of Sleep)

(then there's the sequence with the large hands washing baby Joel in the sink in Eternal Sunshine, as well as the large boxing gloves in BKR...anything I'm missing?)

• and finally, here's a portrait of me drawn by Rachel Rose (my collaborator on The Picture Book, a project which will, contrary to popular belief, have its day... one day):