The Soundtrack Game Vol 1 y Teimpos del Azules

Neither Lindsay nor I brought an Ipod or anything like that on our trip, so I invented a game that I thought would be fun* to pass some 8 hours on the bus ride from San Jose to Grenada a few days ago. I would list a series of questions and we were to figure out the song that best fit the answer. That´s the only rule. It could be abstract or decribe it well, open to interpretation. I thought when I got back I could make a mix cd or something.
Here are Lindsay´s answers:

Air Mexicana: ¨Leaving on an Airplane¨
The Airport:¨Do you know the way to San Jose¨
First Impression of San Jose: ¨It´s Getting Hot in Here¨
Drink of Choice: (diet coke) ¨Sugar Sugar¨¨
Taxi Rides: ¨Crashing CArs¨by period 3
Food: ÿummy yummy yummy¨ohio express
Bus to Nica: ¨long and winding road¨

Kyle´s Answers:
Air Mexicana: ¨spanish Flea¨herb alpert tjb
The Airport: ¨Kill the Porr¨Dead Kenedys
First Impression of San Jose: ¨Village Green¨Kinks
Drink of Choice: (coffee) ¨Damn Boo (i thought I knew you but I didn´t) ¨Matt Joyce
Taxi Rides: ¨Rockaway Beach¨Ramones
Food: ¨Beans for Breakfast¨ CAsh
Bus to Nica: ¨Mobile¨ The who

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Last night a group of American Girls and I gathered around our hostel pool and sang and wrote songs. I was blown away by the voices of two of these girls, it was amazing. One had a uke, I had a shitty shitty shitty guitar that I just bought and we played our originals and made up freestyle blues songs about bats in our rooms or geckos on our pillow or the sometimes uncomfortable experience of pooping in the countryside. It was awesome. Total freestyle jam that went around the room, each person taking a verse or building off the last.

I bought this guitar, the worst in the world after I played one of the best in the world. I went to a luthier in Masaya to purchase one, a handmade classsical guitar. He let me walk around his shop and was quite friendly. I found the one I wanted, the best guitar in the world for 100 bucks, and said I´ll be back with money. In the mneantime, I was convinced that bringing it along would be a bad idea because it would be wrecked so I decided not to. When I got back to Granada, all I wanted to do was play so I went to the streets and bought a shitty toy version of the same guitar. The worst guitar in the world. So that´s what I´ll be bringing along. Maybe I´ll go back and get that one later.

Today, I might convince my stubborn self to find treatment in a foriegn hospital. There is something terribly wrong with me, and otherwise I would have gone 2 days ago, but I´m kinda scared about 1) going to a foriegn hospital and 2) trying to comunicate with a doctor and 3) having surgery which I´m almost certain I´ll need. I ´have been in a great deal of pain for 4 days and things are getting worse at a rapid rate. So I hope that goes well. My spirits are still good, but I am scared as hell.

Otherwise, I´ll try to diagnose myself and find a holistic cure and ride the ferry to Ilse de Ometepe and try for a round two of the soundtrack game, this time Lindsay picking the questions.
* I thought this game would be fun but Lindsay hates it. HATES IT. So we´ll see if it goes on...