I grew up in Canada. My radio memories are full of great songs and bands played at top volume… (maybe rose-tinted memories) and also lying on friends’ floors listening to vinyl for hours… I feel this brilliant stuff was really accessible.

But there would be lots of airplay. You would be able to hear this incredible stuff with your friends (and could go to each others' houses to listen). And the artists would be paid for it. Seems incredible now.

This puts so much into perspective.

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Still reading Greyhound by Joanna Pocock. I’m on page 239. Reading slowly…I don’t want to get to the end of the book. I love Greyhound. In 1981, at the age of 17, I rode on a Greyhound bus from Detroit to Los Angeles. It was an experience of a lifetime.

I’ll take the first option. Nevertheless, a beautiful shot.

Thank you!

See below. I don't think you can listen in the US though?

I thought of you this morning, Andy. The wonderful Sally Mann was on BBC’s ‘Desert Island Discs’. Not sure if you can get it over there? She is is just so brilliant.

I don't really believe in Hell, but if I did, it would look like this. We are being disembodied from every part of what makes us human.

...what to do and where to go, and it's based on my algorithms, my previous searches. It's based on advertising. It's based on where they want me to go again. I just I find that terrifying.” (3)

Photo taken from a Greyhound somewhere in New Mexico, 2006

#nonfiction #memoir #travel #greyhound

Here's a snippet: “I hate being told what to do,” says Joanna; “I like just exploring. I like allowing life and exchanges and coincidence to somehow influence how I travel and how I move through space. The minute it becomes digitised, someone is telling me ...(2)

There are no humans involved. I know this is the way everything is moving, but it’s destabilizing."

The experience was not enjoyable, but not for the usual reasons; but simply because humans are not designed to be zeros and ones in a digital travelscape. (3)

#Sonder #travel #Detroit

to take you to your floor, but the place had a strange in-between feeling to it, akin to watching a cleverly made advertorial – you sense something is off but it’s hard to put it into words. All communication with the Sonder is done via the app or via email... (2)

I have a longish section on Detroit's Sonder where I stayed when I was researching GREYHOUND.
"It is odd staying in a building that is not a hotel, nor an apartment building. One feels untethered in these spaces. There was a security person at the front desk and elevators... (1)

I was thinking more towards Amsterdam and the boudoir aesthetic. But they both work!

Let’s not give them ideas!