365 project "and i'll be ready on that evening/when you're starved for my attention"

149.

artist:Copeland
album:beneath medicine tree

everything about this album is beautiful. the songs are beautiful. the artwork is beautiful. the memories associated with this album are beautiful. even the vinyl itself is pretty damn beautiful.

see?

i was trying to decide what exactly it was i wanted to say about this album. because its been around for so long, and its such a favorite, the stories that i have that go with it are pretty vast, as well. i remember going to see them with Chris and nearly falling apart when they played coffee. i also remember that Mandy couldn't make it to that show so Chris used the extra ticket so that he could go outside and catch a cigarette and be able to get back inside. i still think of him every time i hear coffee, actually...if its not too late for coffee/ill be at your place in ten/we'll hit that all-night diner and then we'll see...

but the story that really stuck out the most is a silly one from a few years back. chelle and i decided that we were going to surprise the boys and show up at their gig in Michigan, but they kind of figured it out, so we needed to distract them. we made up a story about her dropping me off at the airport after purple door that summer so that i could fly out to California to interview for a job out there. (when i was a senior in college, my roommate Danny and i had talked a bit about moving to California together to get jobs in the industry, but right before graduation he started dating some chick and decided that he no longer wanted to go to Cali.)

at any rate, we took this plan to the extreme, so much so that chelle actually called an airline while we were on the road to ask about flight information from Philly to LAX. we had the whole thing pretty well orchestrated, and it was a lot of fun to try to trick the boys.

we ended up showing up at the bar in Michigan a few nights later, and wore fake mustaches as "disguises." we blew our cover because we were morons and parked right behind Martha Plimpton (the band's trailer) and one of the guys (maybe Tim?) caught us because he came outside to get something.

our attempt the following summer to surprise them in Tennessee worked out much better.

I miss those road trips, and every time i hear the song California, i think of that instance.