I too have been negligent in my contributions to this wonderful site; it turns out I’ve been going through a transitionary period in my life. I married my longtime live-in lady-love back in September and have recently hit the one year anniversary of the start of my career. Big time recognition goes out to Pat for keeping this wonderful site fully loaded with content for all you inquisitive souls. He’s consistently hitting it out of the park with his posts and the attention we’ve been getting is all due to his efforts.
Anyway, those of you who have experienced anything at all resembling a Saskatchewan winter can relate to what I’m about discuss. We had our first real honest to goodness snowfall of the winter a couple weeks back, which inevitably leads to people forgetting how to properly drive in the wet snow and icy conditions.
Plenty of people are more cautious and drive a bit slower which I totally support, but of course there are plenty of people who don’t adjust for the conditions whatsoever and end up causing headaches for the rest of us. The main stretch of road that I travel on to get to work and back is Lewvan Drive, a three lane road that should get you most of the way across town in no more then ten to fifteen minutes. It’s just under 7 kilometers, so even that’s being a bit generous. I left the office at 4:45pm and arrived at my house over an hour later. The entire trip is about 13 km all together and for at least that 7 km on the Lewvan I didn’t even get the car into second gear. I spent at least 45 minutes in first with my foot on the clutch. I think I was limping when I took the dog for a walk because my left leg muscles were shot. Of course, someone was going too fast and caused a three-car pileup. This somehow caused 7 km’s of one of the busiest roads in the city to be bumper to bumper for god knows how long. Pretty sure that shouldn’t happen.
So what kept me from flipping out and losing my cool? A mix tape I recently put together for a friend I haven’t seen in a while. I put it together in a hurry but it had a great dynamic, a few short and loud songs so I could embrace the frustration but quickly move on into something mellow and upbeat to keep my spirits high while my speedometer was stationary. Below is a sample of these tunes with the hopes that one day they’ll regulate your mood so you can keep your head level too. And always remember, take it slow and let a couple cars change lanes in front of you. They have to get there eventually, and it’ll make you feel good.
Be back soon!
Joshua Radin - the One You Knew:
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Devendra Banhart - Lover:
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Vampire Weekend - Ottoman:
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Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine [3:37m]:
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Joshua Radin: itunes or webstore
Devendra Banhart: itunes, but he doesn’t have a webstore linked through his website
Vampire Weekend: itunes or webstore
Great Lake Swimmers: zunior or amazon
Jeremy entries
acoustic, Devendra Banhart, Great Lake Swimmers, Joshua Radin, mix, Vampire Weekend
