Archives for the ‘Travel’ Category

Camera Obscura – “Let’s Get Out of This Country”

By • Apr 20th, 2010 • Category: Jukebox

Travel Jukebox is a semi-regular series that highlights songs befitting a life in transit. It also ignores the obvious flaw in its metaphor, since traveling with a jukebox is next to impossible. There’s a presumed confidence that comes with globetrotting. It’s the idea that only people with a certain bravado and of a specific brazen […]



Free Energy – “Free Energy”

By • Apr 20th, 2010 • Category: Jukebox

Travel Jukebox is a semi-regular series that highlights songs befitting a life in transit. It also ignores the obvious flaw in its metaphor, since traveling with a jukebox is next to impossible. Few things sum up the optimism of youth more than Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused.” On the film’s tie-dyed exterior, it’s a vehicle […]



Prologue

By • Mar 2nd, 2010 • Category: Prologue

During the summer before my 21st birthday, my cousin flew to Chicago for a visit. It was something we’d been talking about for years, and a few months before we each legally could kick back with a nice glass of wine, he took the cross-country flight from Arizona. Growing up a few train stops outside […]