Completely Conspicuous Episode 113: Get in the Van

Special guest Dave Brigham joins me to discuss the fine art of the road trip.

 Topics:

- Dave used to do "big house tours"

- Dave and buddies bought a boogie van for big road trip

- Van broke down before they even left

- No destination in mind

- Diet of hot dogs, carrots and beer

- Got to Santa Fe, NM, but altitude was tough

- Went to Albuquerque, rented house and found jobs 

- Stayed three months

- "Eat, drink, work"

- Jay did a road trip to Montreal that same spring 

- Six years ago, Jay did another Montreal trip

- Jay was ill, decorated the breakdown lane all the way back

- Dave did long trip right after college graduation

- Saw Skinny Puppy play in Montreal, looked for Letterman's house in CT

- Dave and Beth drove to Toronto, then Madison, WI, then Chicago

- Jerry Springer sighting; then watched OJ Simpson chase on TV

- Jay and family drove to Disney few years ago; 22-hour drive

- Dave remembers family train trip gone awry

- Jay remembers family vacations to Florida in '70s

- Bonehead of the Week

Music:

- The Drive-By Truckers - Birthday Boy

- Spoon - Written in Reverse

- Future of the Left - The Hope That House Built

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The Drive-By Truckers song is on the album The Big To-Do on ATO Records. Find out more and download the song for free at http://www.drivebytruckers.com.

The Spoon song is on the album Transference on Merge Records. Find out more at http://www.spoontheband.com. The song is courtesy of IODA Promonet; download the song for free at http://www.iodapromonet.com. 

The Future of the Left song is on the album Travels With Myself and Another on 4AD Records. Find out more at http://www.futureoftheleft.com. Download the track for free at http://www.beggarsgroupusa.com.

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The opening and closing theme of Completely Conspicuous is "Theme to Big F'in Pants" by Jay Breitling. Find out more about Senor Breitling at http://clickyclickymusic.com and http://www.keepingsomedarksecrets.net. Additional music used in the show is by Me and Boris the Bull, which is the brainchild of the mighty Mark Campbell; find out more at http://www.myspace.com/meandboristhebull. Thanks to Bob Durling for the album art; find out more about his photography at http://bobdurling.blogspot.com/.

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