5th
Rilo Kiley - Portions For Foxes
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Ahhhhh yeah. I thought I missed deadline last night. But the gods be smiling down upon me for summer jams week.
I used to date a girl who was super-into Rilo Kiley. I actually got her the album this track is from on my big roadtrip, from Montreal to Chicago and back again in 8 days a couple of years ago. Though I had heard the song before.
Any time I hear Portions For Foxes, I get taken back to the open road. The first time I listened to it, it was on a random drive from my place to Ottawa, then to the Laurentians (the mountains about an hour or so North of Montreal), then back home.
Well, I shouldn’t say random. My brother had called me, since he missed my parents and me while he was in camp, and I decided to go visit him since my parents were out of town. So I hopped into the car with my neighbour and then-best friend, and we hit the road… even though I told my parents I wouldn’t do this type of drive (a belated sorry?).
I left the CD my buddy burned with this on it in the car for a few months afterward, and this became my summer anthem of… it was probably 2005? That might make sense.
We obviously put it onto the Montreal —> Chicago CDs. We filled 40-odd CDs with music, totally randomized, and just hit the road. It was way better than iPod DJing it the whole way — mindless, but well-prepared and selected. And I brought along papers detailing the track list of each CD, and an index of where to find each artists and song.
And, to keep with the tradition, I put this track on when I drove with my brother from Idaho to Chicago. Of course.
