Gorehorn, the Adventure Pony

If you’re looking for an activity to soften a long drive, I recommend a Mix Tape Challenge.

Our trip was from Arlington, Virginia to Durham, North Carolina. The challenge was simple: invent two album names and assign them to other people on the trip. Each person takes the album names they are given, contemplates for a while, stirs up a vision, and creates the perfect mix for such an album name. The results can be stunning and add a whole new dimension to the music you once thought you knew.

While I can’t share our concoctions so easily, the album names should reflect how we made four hours speed by in a flash:

• Euclid’s Last Stand
• Genghis Kahn and the Band Wagon
• Goodnight Spoon
• Gorehorn, the Adventure Pony
• How To Dismantle a ‘71 Ford Pinto’
• Jeanne Kirkpatrick Overdrive
• Kind of Periwinkle
• The Longings of Seedless Watermelons

June 19, 2013