Day Eleven

Good ol' onety-one.

1. A song on the soundtrack of your favorite movieMy favorite movie is Treasure Planet. Being a Disney movie, and very much aimed at early teens, there were only two non-orchestral songs on the soundtrack: "I'm Still Here" and "Always Know Where You Are", both performed by Johnny Rzeznik(lead singer of the Goo Goo Dolls). I love them both so damn much.


2. Your familyThis is pretty open-ended, so I'm not sure quite what to say. So, let's talk about the time my dad accidentally went to Woodstock!
Dad was working as a bullganger, building water tanks up and down the east coast. He traveled hither and thither, welding things together, with a few days between to drive himself from job to job. Well one day, he was driving around upstate New York when he picked up a couple of hitchhikers headed to a music festival. It hadn't quite started yet; they were still setting up, so he decided to hang around and lend a hand. By the time he got back to his car that day, he was blocked in. And not just "there's a car behind me" blocked in, but a "there's a parking lot behind me" blocked in.

So began my father's three days of peace, love, and music. And a bad acid trip. There was bad acid being passed around at Woodstock(And you might be saying "Well, all acid is bad!" No. Trust me on this. There is good acid, and bad acid, and bad acid makes bad trips. Bad trips are, I've heard, potentially one of the most frightening things that can happen to a person. I'm talking flashbacks, people. It's bad.)

Dad, for a long minute, was under the impression that he'd taken some of this bad acid. He went to the Red Cross tent at the top of the hill overlooking the stage for the night. He didn't go in, but crashed on the ground under the tree. The next morning, he woke up to a primo view of Jimi Hendrix playing the Star Spangled Banner.