THE RACKET : LIST 20 - Scattered Bag of Chips

We recently returned from a road trip. And to say the least, a road trip in a pandemic amidst life-altering climate change and necessary social upheaval is, well, it's a lot. It's terrifying, it's illuminating, it is freeing in all of the right ways and most of all, most important, it is a clear indicator that even if it feels like our world is collapsing in on itself, some simple pleasures - getting into a car, driving into the sunset with music playing and bags of chips scattered on the ground and the window down and the scent of a new place filling up everything - they never get old.

And seemingly, the movement, the energy, the pull of the open road found itself into our music, because this playlist feels like a drive across great distances. It feels like waking up on that first day, early in the morning, with the urge to go and be somewhere else. It feels like those first few hours when you and your companions are still getting up to speed, still feeling out the rhythms of the interstate. It feels like the moments when the destination is the last place you want to be and the road itself just carries you along in a warm cloud of movement. And when it's all over, the last song of your road trip, the first song of your re-entry into good old-fashioned life, always sounds a little off, but somehow it still captures what you're missing.

Maybe it'll help to get you out and moving.

Or maybe it'll do the moving for you.