Tuesday, June 3, 2025
Time: 9:07 PM
Song: Holiday Road
Artist: Lindsey
Buckingham
Mode of Consumption:
Listening to Alice’s Attic Radio show on 94.3 FM on the way home from Write On
meeting.
Link to song: https://open.spotify.com/track/38i0QcGQ9hu8PMk4QObUTj?si=6935f68698fd42fc
I’m driving through Sterling as Alice Cooper’s show begins on 94.3. I assume this is some syndicated show that the station pays some fee to run on a nightly basis. I don’t know how long it lasts, but I wager it’s an hour or two.
He mentions something about acting, and I hope he talks about his appearance in “Wayne’s World.” He does not.
A few minutes later, he’s introducing “Holiday Road” being in the original “Vacation” movie and asks if we know who performed this song. I knew it was Lindsey Buckingham. Really once you know, you can’t not know it’s Lindsey Buckingham.
The road ahead of me isn’t a holiday. It’s wet. Today, we’ve finally received some much-needed rain, and there’s a steady rain coming down on my twenty-minute drive home. Still, it’s not bad.
It’s been a night of talking about roads.
At Write On, we discussed portions of the opening chapter of Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” On a gray, stormy evening, it certainly fits. McCarthy’s tale is a bleak, dystopian tale, and it opens with a man and his son trying to survive as the travel a road on foot. There are multiple mentions of ash, gray, and dark, and an overall sense of hopelessness. It’s a study in how to use words to develop a setting and how to use a setting to develop characters.
We concluded talking about the flash fiction piece that I wrote last weekend for a contest. The prompt was that I had to write a ghost story set in a driveway – a kind of road.
About halfway through my reading, the electricity went out at Harvest Time. Such a perfect thing when you are reading a ghost story. Ha.
We finished the
story by the flashlights of our cellphones and then dismissed the meeting.
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