I’m very excited to announce this. I’ve been looking forward to announcing this to you guys all week long…
Hear ye, hear ye! This weekend I, Smash, of this odd little blog, am coming to a city near you! Well, it’s actually only to a city probably/sort of/maybe near some of you. The city of brotherly love itself, Philadelphia!
That’s right gang, you’ve got court-side seats to a Dballs and Smash Road Trip Spectacular! We’ve got a set of wheels and we’re hitting the open road first thing tomorrow morning. And I’ll be detailing every glorious second of it for your reading pleasure.
A couple of weeks ago I was jamming’ out to one of my favourite bands, They Might Be Giants. I started thinking how awesome it would be to see those guys in concert. I pulled up their website and starting poking around for any upcoming concerts in Toronto. But sadly, there were none. Only a bunch of dates listed for a tour through the states. Usually under circumstances such as these, I would’ve just signed up for an alert to let me know when the band will be coming to my neck of the woods in the future. But this time was different. This time around the little hamster in my head that serves as a brain kept cycling around on his squeaky little hamster exercise wheel. And once that wheel gets to turning, fixated on the possibility of an adventure, it’s next to impossible to make it stop.
What if we went to one of their shows in the states anyways? A lot of these places are within reasonable travel distance… Boston, Brooklyn, and Philly. We could probably make one of them work. If I wanted it bad enough and was able to plead my case convincingly, I might just get that husband of mine to go along. I had my birthday on my side, too. It’s harder to say no to a birthday wish than if it had been some conveniently trumped-up bucket list wish. I knew it was gunna be a long shot to convince D, but I really wanted to go. More than anything in the world, in that moment, all that mattered was getting to a TMBG show.
When I pitched the idea to D, I pulled out all the stops. Begging, pleading, whining, wailing, justifying, and arguing him to exhaustion. He resisted at first, but then came around eventually. My impassioned plea for adventure swayed him in the end. Actually, it wasn’t even all that dramatic. He agreed pretty early into my spiel. But he was gentlemanly enough to let me think I’d worn him down, because he knows it’s more fun for me that way.
I ran into my old boss on the subway the other day and gushed to him about our plans for this weekend. He chuckled and said, “eight hours straight in the car with your new husband, you sure are eager to stress test this marriage of yours, aren’t you?”
It might be a little crazy, sure. But everyone knows that crazy = fun. That’s just a basic maths right there. D and I are very travel compatible, so I’m not worried about it at all. We always have lots of laughs together and are both really jazzed up about this trip. We’re married, but we haven’t been totally domesticated yet. Why not grab life by the balls? We’re young and we’re full of dreams. We gotta make these bold moves now while we’re able to without any worry. We don’t have any annoying entanglements to hold us back. It’s a slam dunk already and we haven’t even left yet.
Seriously, I am so fucking pumped! I’ve already made a fresh batch of mixed CD’s for the ride, I’ve got a supermassive 1000-page Archie comic packed, I’ve got oodles upon oodles of snacks stashed away, and I’ve got my doting husband in tow. It’s going to be so frigging rad.
We’re going to eat cheese steaks! We’re going to tour the city! Maybe we’ll even be so bold as to lick the Liberty Bell…
Whatever it is we decide to do on this journey of ours, I’ll keep you posted. So stick around chums, Smash is hitting the open road.
Never heard of that band BUT love anyone who gets to see their favorite in concert. Live music is the absolute best!! Have fun 🙂
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They Might Be Giants are kind of a quirky-cultish alt rock band. You might actually be familiar with a few songs but just don’t know their name. The theme song for Malcolm in the Middle is TMBG. and I’m sure you’ve heard the one about Instanbul too… It’s Instanbul not Constantinople, and it’s nobody’s business but the Turks!
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Sorry I never got around to making you a mix for your bday. I was hoping to get it to you before your trip, but, uh, some other things came up….so to speak.
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No worries dude, I’ve got plenty of mixes to keep me going! And yeah… in your state last week, I would have to be a pretty big jerk to insistent on a CD.
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Ps have the best time!
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‘But everyone knows that crazy = fun’
Sounds like you never met my granddad
When’s the world tour coming?
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lol, one city at a time my friend. But the UK is definitely on the list 🙂
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“We can’t fly like birds in the air
We could walk but we’d never get there
It’s just a full day’s drive away…”
Have fun! 🙂
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Thanks Dee!!! A full day’s drive is a lot more tiring than I thought it was going to be, but we made it. What helped was having lots and lots of snacks!
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enjoy ur roadtrip and make sure the Liberty Bell isn’t too cold so u don’t get stuck to it 🙂
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lol, thanks Rob!
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Stress test!!!
Road trips can be trying, but you guys will do great! Remember to be easy-going, decisive and compromise and everything will be glorious.
The most important thing is to (of course) anticipate the awesomeness and keep your positivity!!
Have such a blast!!!!!
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lol, thanks dude! You’re advice came in super handy. We were on team “make good time” and it was a good decision. Bc it took us almost 10 full hours to get here!
Also, the very first thing we saw when we did… Dilworth Park!!
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That city is near me! Meet you at Mac’s Tavern!
The Liberty Bell isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.
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That’s awesome!! Mac’s Tavern in sort of near where we need to be for the concert tonight. You got dinner plans?
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Why don’t you go ahead and come my way??? I’ll buy the beer!!!
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Aww man, I would totally love to extend the trip your way. But we have to hit the road back to Canada on Sunday 😦
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Hitting the open road sounds like such a blast.
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Thanks Vinnieh! I highly recommend it. Take yourself on an impromptu road trip! you’ll have such a blast.
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I may just do that.
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