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Music is important
*cough* Hello, long-time lurker, first-time poster. Please be gentle.

Anyway, living as I do in the vast northern wastes of Canada, road trips are an important part of life. I have a group of friends that I go on a lot of trips with, travelling in a beige Toyota Camry lovingly known as the Kegmobile. And over time, the car has collected a fair collection of CDs for in-flight entertainment, music that has led to some entertaining traditions.

We have a lot of movie scores, which can be fun on their own (there's nothing quite like passing a big group of trucks while the Jurassic Park theme blares), but there are certain tracks we reserve for certain situations. For instance, there's a particular place we tend to pull off for coffee and gas, as it's a few hours from home and on the way to places we want to go. As we pull in to this fairly dull chain coffee shop in a suburban strip mall (here it is on Street View, so you can revel in it's dullness), we always play Blunt Instrument" from the Casino Royale soundtrack. Preferably timed so that the last minute of it is going just as we're parking.

But the best of our traditions, I think, is when we return home, with another successful trip behind us. As we're getting off the highway, we put on the Ewok Celebration and End Credits from Return of the Jedi. Personally, I strongly recommend it at the end of a long trip, as it always makes me feel very triumphant, especially if we encountered hardship on the journey (flat tires when it's -15 C are not fun).

We have other traditions, of course, but these two are the best, in my mind.
(Tue 19th Jul 2011, 23:30, More)