So I made the best roadtrip mix in the world. Here it is, with songs grouped by category. Songs that belong in more than one category are in whatever category I feel like putting them in because I am neither Melvil Dewey not Aloysius Decimal.

Super American Countryass Truckin'/Hoboin' Songs
Rock, Flag and Eagle - Charlie Kelly
Eastbound and Down - Jerry Reed
This is One Hell of a Truck - Parry Gripp
The Show is on the Road - Paleface
I've Been Everywhere - Johnny Cash
Big Mamma-Jamma - Parry Gripp
The Gambler - Kenny Rogers
Good Woman, Good Truck, Good Life - Parry Gripp
Nice Motherf@#*&g Truck - Parry Gripp
Girl on The Billboard - Del Reeves
Honk if You're Lonely - Silver Jews
The Road Goes On Forever (And the Party Never Ends) - Robert Earl Keen
Highway Halo - Old Crow Medicine Show
King of the Road - Roger Miller
Wagon Wheel - Old Crow Medicine Show
In The Air - The Handsome Family
Truck Drivin' Man - Parry Gripp
Truck Driving Man - David Allan Coe
The Righteous Path - Drive-by Truckers
Down That Dusty Trail - Robert Earl Keen
On The Road Again - Willie Nelson
Movin' On - David Allan Coe

Honky Tonkin'
Ain't Got No Home - Clarence Frogman Henry
Mess Around - Ray Charles
Amos Moses - Jerrry Reed
Jambalaya - Buckwheat Zydeco

Super American Driving (Non Countryass Division) Songs
Driving Song - The Jessica Fletchers
Big Big Road - Sam Means
Long Haul - Voxtrot
Rollin' Crumblin' - Tom Rothrock
Rollin' and Tumblin' - Bob Dylan
Goin' Out West - Tom Waits
Cannonball Run Theme - Ray Stevens
On Our Way - The Jessica Fletchers
Honk and Wave - Limbeck
Everyone's in the Parking Lot - Limbeck
Rockford Files Theme - Mike Post
Wheel You To Canada - Dan Bern
The Drive Will Do You Good - Sure Juror
The Golden Path - Chemical Brothers feat. The Flaming Lips
America! - Bill Callahan
Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
The High Road - The Feelies
American Highway - Ezra Furman & the Harpoons
The Wheel - Bill Callahan
Punk Rock Radio - Marah

Haulin' Ass
Tick of the Clock - The Chromatics
Roadrunner - Johnathan Richman and the Modern Lovers
4000 Miles - Blackalicious
300mph Torrential Outpour Blues - White Stripes
Beat the Clock - Sparks
Murdermile - The Kills
Making Progress - Electric Six
Rolling/Nectarine - Hooray For Earth
Running Out of Time - Hot Hot Heat
Need More Time - Epoxies

Places I Drove To/Through
San Francisco B.C. - Silver Jews
The Road To Bakersfield - Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash
Yosemite Theme - The Go! Team
Pacific Ocean Blues - Dennis Wilson
Sequestered in Memphis - The Hold Steady
88 Seconds in Greensboro - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
Nutbush City Limits - Ike & Tina Turner
Christian St. - Marah
I'm from New Jersey - John Gorka
Within a Mile of Home - Flogging Molly
I Love New York City - Andrew W.K.

Warren Zevon***
Mama Couldn't be Persuaded
Nighttime in the Switching Yard
I Need A Truck
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead
Backs Turned, Looking Down the Path
My Ride's Here

Tom Petty***
Running Down a Dream
You Wreck Me
Turn This Car Around
Time to Move On
Six Days on the Road (as Mudcrutch)

Pains in the Ass
The Wacky World of Rapid Transit - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Hard Road to Travel - Jimmy Cliff
The Road - The Kinks
Nowhere Fast - Blackalicious
Gridlock! - Electric 6
Long Line of Cars - Cake
None Shall Pass - Aesop Rock
Stop - Against Me!
Green Light - Jaime Lidell
Red Lights - Holy Fuck

Catastrophic Wrecks
Wrecking Force - Voxtrot
Drunk By Noon - Handsome Family
DUI - Har Mar Superstar
Tombstone Every Mile - David Allen Coe
Rent a Wreck - Suburban Kids With Biblical Names
Big Joe and Phantom 309 - Tom Waits
Accident and Emergency - Patrick Wolf

Windows Down Bumping Awesome
Situation - Making Friendz
Ya Lil' Crumbsnatchers - Del Tha Funkee Homosapien
Mother's Day - Ezra Furman & the Harpoons
Nighttiming - Coconut Records
Age of Consent - New Order
Lightsabre Cocksucking Blues - Mclusky
All Wrapped Up - Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark
Tunak Tunak Tan - Dahler Mende
I Can't Wait - Big Baby Jesus
New Soft Architect  - The Weather Machines***
Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

Blue Collar Bustin' Yo Ass Songs
Labor - Aesop Rock
My Name is Cheech The School Bus Driver - Cheech Marin
This Fucking Job - Drive By Truckers
I Hate My Job - Cam'ron
Mr. Blue Collar - Rhymefest feat. Malik Yusef

Runnin' From Johnny Law
Guilty As Charged - Dewey Cox
Nightcall - Kavinsky & LoveFoxxx
Thou Shalt Always Kill - Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
Dukes of Hazzard Theme
Alabama High-Test - Old Crow Medicine Show
Cops on Our Tail - The Raveonettes
Pacific Coast Highway - Kavinsky
Escape Artist - Sage Francis
Flashing Lights - Kanye West
Pop Shit - Dirt McGirt****

The Vehicle
No Brakes - The Bravery
Transmission - Radio 4
Dashboard - Modest Mouse
Rumble of The Deisel - Les Claypool*
The Waning Moon - The Hidden Cameras**
First Gear - The Rapture
Rental Car - Beck
Rearview Mirror - Pearl Jam
Jesus Built My Hotrod - Ministry
Bitchin' Camaro - Dead Milkmen
Go-Go Tech - VACo
Don't Stop Living in the Red - Andrew W. K.
Keep the Car Running - Arcade Fire
EZ Pass - Har Mar Superstar 
Radio Radio - Elvis Costello
Stuck Between Stations - Hold Steady

Fuel
Running on Nothing - Fucked Up
Running on Empty - Jackson Browne
Running on Faith - Eric Clapton
Running out of Turbo - The Sounds
Carbon Monoxide - Cake

The Actual Road
Endless Black Ribbon - David Allan Coe
Bridge to Nowhere - Sam Roberts
Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
Neighborhood #3 (Tunnels) - Arcade Fire
Blessed Highway - Home By Hovercraft

Too-Clever-By-Half Bits of Themework (First 3 and Next 2 To be played in order)
Prologue - Chains and Black Exhaust
Yeah Yeah - Blackrock
Epilogue - Chains and Black Exhaust
The Large Marge Monologue
Big Joe and Phantom 309 - Tom Waits
Nothing But Flowers - Talking Heads (Drive through Midwest America before you shit on this one)

The Greatest Driving Song Ever
Wicked and Wierd - Buck 65

*About boats, so what.  The lyrics work 90% for a truckin' mix.  Blow me.
**Wiperblades foley effects.  Pretty rad.  Also listen to Underage by them.  Awesome song about preteen sex.  Enough of these watchwords in our site and the misdirected pedophile traffic is gonna vault us to whatever happens to a popular blog.  I guess a book deal, and then a "Why give away the milk when you can sell the milk for more?" style immediate cessation in any new posts, Stuff White People Like Style?
***There's a lot of Tom Petty and Warren Zevon on here because they are the best.  There's a ton of David Allan Coe on here because he never wrote a non-trucking song, and some are pretty good.  The Weather Machines were the best, and that they didn't catch on in '06 is something you're going to have to square up with your God for at some point.  Most of the guys are now in the Mystery Pills, just as awesome, and I will cut your throat in your sleep if that band goes under.  Yes.  You.
****Nothing, and I mean NOTHING is better than playing a song with loud, sudden cop sirens in the background when someone who doesn't know the song is driving.

Labels: Best of all Time, Blog books are for Retards., Misdirected Perverts, Mix, roadtrip, Underage Fucking

[Editor's Note: Cleaned up because Quinn can't write]


Hello all,

I am in L.A. well actually the OC on business for the week but I am thinking of it as more of a baseball roadtrip, which rocks. Anyways I attended the Angels-Dodgers Crosstown Rival Weekend game on Saturday evening at Anaheim Stadium and I was pretty impressed with the park and the atmosphere.

Anaheim Stadium or the Big A, as its know because of the large red steel structure outside the right field wall. The structure no longer houses a score board nor faces the field due to the renovations on the stadium from when it housed the LA Rams. The Manager claims earthquake stability reasons?!? But it's still a cool defining feature of a stadium that is homey for its size.

I had to work until 4:45 and the game had an odd 6:05 start time which was never explained. Anyways I arrived at the gate around 5:35 with no tickets with a Dutch kid who was 23 and never been to America or a ball game. Now everything I had heard or read about Angels' game said "no tickets, no problem" but of course this was Angels/Dodgers and it was sold out. California has strict no scalping rules, so we wandered backwards from the main gate that has a great entrance (more later) into a parking lot that was surrounded by concrete walls which had loads of smoke rising from it and a constant stream of people coming from the gate. The other side of the wall contained a packed lot of coolers, grills, and rowdy 20 somethings tailgating up a storm. It was sweet! The Dutchman was amazed and impressed. There was a hot dog stand complete with hot dog guy in and Angels jersey that said "hot dog guy" across the shoulders. Tickets were scant but at the back corner after many "no's" and plentiful offers of beers to ease the pain we found a pair of tickets in left field along the third base line. They were front row of the upper deck and not a bad find for 20 bucks a pop.

Back to the stadium. The home plate entrance to the Big A is great, with two giant Angels' caps (New Era size 639 and a half) that bracket the front walkway which features a baseball diamond laid out in bricks which feature light up bases and pitcher's rubber as well as bricks at each positions (including the right handed batter's box for the DH) listing the starting player for each Opening Day from 1964 to 2007. Pretty cool. The inside is nice for a stadium with a capacity of 44,280. The interior of Anaheim Stadium was increased to 68,000 for the LA rams for like 6 years and then re-done in 1998 by the new cookie cutter "throwback" park architects KOH. The park looks good with sight lines to the San Fernando mountains and quite the display (on days when it isn't too smoggy) in center field. The fake rocks combined with waterfalls and a Corona Beach ad would be pretty cool if the rocks were A) real and B) they gave away passes to sit in the giant Corona Beach chairs every game. The large score board in right field is tall with grand stands above it reminiscent of PNC Park but just digital scores and no pitching info. The sight lines from most seats in the front few upper deck rows were good and seemed to be nice from all seats below there.

As for the crowd: they really brought it for this series! The Dodgers' fans showed up in full force and my accompanying Dutchman's first comment upon taking our seats was: "They let the reds and blues sit together? They would never ever allow that in futbal!" The game proved a perfect arena for some good natured yelling. [Editor's Note: COMANAYEEAAAHAAA!] It was a back-and-forth 3-2 game until the Angels blew it open in the bottom of the 7th with four hard earned runs. Hendericks pitched pretty well for the Dodgers and young Jared Weaver turned in an 8-inning gem for the Halos.

The Dodgers' fans made themselves known but Angels' fans fought back. There seemed to be strong contention added to the rivalry since the Angels' name change and neither side seemed to agree with the decision, as neither side wanted any association with the other. Though in true LA style the choosing sides was described to me as solely based on colors.

Me: "So is the Angels-Dodgers' rivalry a North/South or East/West thing?"
Guy Who Sold Me Tickets: "It's an East/West thing."
Guy's Friend: "No, it's a North/South thing."
Guy Who Sold Me Tickets: "Really it's all about color red or blue, just like everything in LA."
Me: "gangs?"
Guy Who Sold Me Tickets: "No just everything..."

So, I have no idea what the hell that meant.

Anyways the Dutchman's review of the game: "I liked the second half better." I have no idea what constitutes the second half of a game but the hollering did increase three-fold as the game went on and sweep possibilities were raised. The stadium was very nice and the crowd really cranked it up a notch. I was pretty impressed by a park which was a NFL field of 68,000 at one point. I would say it could make the top half of the MLB and top of the stadiums in baseball.

A few other points: [Editor's Note: Quinn's Audition for Zagat's]

Beer and food was not too impressive, but not cheap. The featured foods are California Pizza Kitchen and Panda Express. All the beer on tap I could find in the uppers was Bud Select @ 6.50 for 16 oz (boo), Corona bombers (22s) were available for 12 bucks and Bud and Bud Light aluminum bottles at 6.75. An all beef dog was 4 bucks and nachos were 6.

Tickets sound like they are available for all non-Dodgers and pennant race games at the door with reasonable gate prices for all tickets including field level. Around 29 bucks for baseline past the dugout and 12 bucks for uppers and bleachers. The Big A seems to have a great tail gate scene in the aforementioned concrete walled homeplate lot and behind center field where the over sized parking is.


Next: Chavez Ravine and some Dodger Dogs. See ya soon.

Labels: angels, ballparks, baseball, dutch men, love, reviews, roadtrip