November 7th, 2006 by The Bosphorus
This morning, while I was reading comments and visiting some of our many vistors’s pages, PBSKids was going. Lugnut loves Curious George and it was almost time for George to come on. I’m sitting here at the computer when I hear this White Stripes song. I’ve heard it a thousand times, but this time it reached my ears and pulled me under.
Three years ago Radiohead was touring in support of their amnesiac album. [edit: It was the Hail to the Thief tour.] We’d seen them down in Atlanta which was one of those moments that you set your clock by. Things clicked for us in some metaphysical way. We were going to see Radiohead again.
If memory serves me correctly AT, GAC and two other folks went to see Radiohead at some other show but it was rained out by a storm of biblical proportions. I think they’re still jealous of our Atlanta experience. C’est La Vie.
We all decided to ride up to Cleveland together. AT and GAC had a van so it was a road trip. We stayed in an Embassy Suites (free happy hour, woot!), ate cheap and listened to music the whole time. That was when I was introduced to the White Stripes. I’d heard of them before, but just never gotten around to listening to any of their albums. The Stripes have one of the best anti-anxiety songs I’ve ever heard. Just take a listen to Little Acorns the next time you have a big project looming. Wonderful medicine. However, the song that stuck in my mind was, We’re going to be friends. Something hardwired that song into to my memory of the Cleveland roadtrip.
Then this morning I heard it all over again. Just a short fragment coming out of tiny TV speakers and I felt that trip all over again. I was right there in the van with AT, GAC, Eaves and our friends.
Get well, GAC.
(from left: Thing #1; GAC; AT; Bos; Thing #2; Mrs. Eaves[impersonating dead jedi] )
November 7th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Sounds like good times Bos. I’ll be near there in a year, which means we’ll need to get a bigger van or something. I guess it would be worth all the hippy stuff for free happy hours.
You’re an angel to that little family. Thanks for taking care of my big brother, his beautiful wifey, and their bratty little boys.
November 7th, 2006 at 6:27 pm
Thanks, Bullet. Our two families have pulled together in the time we’ve lived in O.R. We have take care of each other.
I want to thank you for how you all welcomed my family into your home. I really appreciate that.
November 7th, 2006 at 7:33 pm
LOL at airbrush remix!
Great picture! That was such an awesome time. We have always looked back on that as unbeatable. Thanks for reminding me, Bos. We’ll do it again.
November 7th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Yeah, when’s Radiohead going to tour again? Kick myself for not being a rich hippy and going to bonnaroo.
November 7th, 2006 at 10:38 pm
Ah - the rained out trip to radiohead. so AT and GAC went up with a large group of folks including mojofilter and I to D.C. to see radiohead. we were SOOOO pumped. We camped (mistake #1), because it piss poured, none of us prepared, and as I recall AT and GAC slept in their station wagon (I don;t think that was very comfy), so the next morning we get up, and yeah! the rain had stopped!. We all happily drive to the site of the outdoor concert. And start seeing cars pulled over on the side of the road with many unhappy hippies sitting stunned. Turns out all the rain had tipped over the public portapotties and the health department had deemed the concert grounds unsanitary. We all went home very inhappy that day. Mojofilter is still especially bitter about that trip due to the fact the he acquired pneumonia that weekend that took him almost a month to get over. Anyway, to make a long story short, a while later GAC and AT had the opportunity to go to another Radiohead concert. We were not able to go, but the night of the concert we did come home to find a message on the answering machine from AT and GAC. It consisted of a screaming crowd and AT/GAC screaming intelligble words into their cell phone. Although it took us listening to that message several times to realize that AT was holding his phone up to the crowd in the middle of the Radiohead concert, it was several days before we deleted that message. . .