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Last Monday, I left the house of a good friend in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles and started to head home to Merced, a drive that usually takes around 5 hours. After a pit stop at Two Boots for a few slices of Grandma Bess (I had to!) I was on the 101 North merging onto the 5, on my way out of Southern California. I've made this drive more times than I can count.
After passing the mountains that separate the counties of Kern and Los Angeles, the road looks pretty much the same. Flat as the eye can see, a couple of cows, the smell of manure, a few quick signs of civilization before another stretch of flat nothing. This is always the most difficult part of the drive because it can be so damn boring.
Just south of Visalia along a stretch of highway that was in construction, the road got the best of me. One minute I was behind the wheel listening to my iPhone and the next I was behind an orange pole with no time to swerve. My driver window was down so when the car began to spin all over the 99 freeway I got drowned in dust. I saw nothing but the inside of the car, jagged and blurry. Time started doing that Matrix-y thing it does in unusual situations and my every thought was a full treatise on everything from how my family would react to how to best brace myself for the climatic collision I felt was imminent.
Eventually the car and my mind both stopped spinning. To my surprise I was virtually untouched, there was no one else on the road and no one seemed to notice the crash. My car wasn't so lucky. After taking me up and down California too many times to count it moved on to Car Heaven, which I think is somewhere around Detroit. I sat on my car for an hour before the tow truck came. I was stunned but grateful to be alive.
What does this have to do with a Sade remix by a 19-year-old? I was listening to Tuamie at the time and though he doesn't have the edit of Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di" that I crashed to on his SoundCloud, he does have this Sade re-fix that is almost as dope. Crash your whip (safely) to Tuamie beats.
After passing the mountains that separate the counties of Kern and Los Angeles, the road looks pretty much the same. Flat as the eye can see, a couple of cows, the smell of manure, a few quick signs of civilization before another stretch of flat nothing. This is always the most difficult part of the drive because it can be so damn boring.
Just south of Visalia along a stretch of highway that was in construction, the road got the best of me. One minute I was behind the wheel listening to my iPhone and the next I was behind an orange pole with no time to swerve. My driver window was down so when the car began to spin all over the 99 freeway I got drowned in dust. I saw nothing but the inside of the car, jagged and blurry. Time started doing that Matrix-y thing it does in unusual situations and my every thought was a full treatise on everything from how my family would react to how to best brace myself for the climatic collision I felt was imminent.
Eventually the car and my mind both stopped spinning. To my surprise I was virtually untouched, there was no one else on the road and no one seemed to notice the crash. My car wasn't so lucky. After taking me up and down California too many times to count it moved on to Car Heaven, which I think is somewhere around Detroit. I sat on my car for an hour before the tow truck came. I was stunned but grateful to be alive.
What does this have to do with a Sade remix by a 19-year-old? I was listening to Tuamie at the time and though he doesn't have the edit of Slick Rick's "La Di Da Di" that I crashed to on his SoundCloud, he does have this Sade re-fix that is almost as dope. Crash your whip (safely) to Tuamie beats.
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