Since I was young, Iāve been obsessed with the airport. Over the past couple years, Iāve been fortunate enough to be able to see a lot more airports due to shows and stuff. Iām currently working on a mental tier list of airports that Iāve been to in the United States. LaGuardia in NYC is kinda up there right now; I love the silly water feature. I also think the Salt Lake City airport is gorgeous, even if the way they handle transferring between concourses is kinda inconvenient.I flew in and out of Seattle for a show recently and I was super impressed by it. They seemed to have recently renovated the central terminal, so now thereās this super open food court. I went to one of the new restaurants there and got lobster mac and cheese (definitely a risk; donāt get seafood at the airport). Iām not proud of how much I spent on it, but it was realllyyyy good. Theyāve also got a really reliable tram for transfer between gates. SEA-TAC: A tier.
GORGEOUS interior design. Visited my best friend this weekend and cried with him on the drive home from Dave and Busters talking about how good it is to be loved by a soulmate while listening to Adrienne Lenker. Had some very needed creek and river time in the town that brought me this beautiful boy so I suppose it only makes sense that its airport is gorgeous too. I hate airports, almost all of them, to be clear. PDX is now the reason I say āalmostā. Not sure how I ended up living the dreams I had before I got my braces off but Iām doing it so I thank the light through the trees and whatever god is out there and Portlandās Terminal D
I love airports because they bring two of my favorite things together under one roof: people watching and āliminal spaces.ā The lounge access is also a plus, though they really do be letting anyone in these days.
I love the comfort of them. Essentially, you can literally stay in them for days if it was allowed. God I love them. I want to travel internationally one day to experience an airport out of the U.S. I JUST LOVE AIRPORTS WHAT CAN I SAY
Iāve got a big list of road trip movies that Iām tryna knock out. Thereās a lot of titular road trip movies I havenāt seen: National Lampoon, Almost Famous, Fear and Loathing, etc. I realized though that if the definition of a road trip movie expands to being about getting from point A to point B, then so many more movies can fit under that. Like itās not just Thelma and Louise, but like Mad Max: Fury Road, or Brüno. The SpongeBob Movie. I just watched Planes, Trains, and Automobiles for the first time; that might be objectively the best one.Another related thing Iām obsessed with at the moment: fonts designated for road signage. Highway Gothic in particular is incredible. Iām not crazy about the other font, Clearview, though; a bit too round for me. Those are both the American fonts, though. I just went to Europe for the first time recently, and Transport ā the font used for most UK/EU signage ā blows both of these out of theĀ water.
The first music I remember listening to was the trifecta of Madonna, Britney Spears, and Justin Timberlake. I remember being obsessed with all three of āem when I was like five years old or something. Iām on a Justin Timberlake kick right now because I had this realization while looking at the tracklist and song lengths for FutureSex/LoveSounds that the first music I was sentient for was kinda weird. That album isĀ weird, like just stare at the tracklist for a second. Like āMedley: Let Me Talk to You / My Love (feat. T.I.)ā? āLoveStoned / I Think She Knows (Interlude)ā? What was heĀ thinking?Heās also just this default guy, like youād spawn in as Justin Timberlake. And heās goofy. I think the reason FutureSex is so good is ācause it was just him and Timbaland, like, beatboxing at each other and being like, āYoooo, thatās hard, put it in.ā
This might just be ācause of the Justin Timberlake diet, to be honest. Me and my friend Gabby Start were hanging out last week and I think we had run out of things to talk about. We just started freestyling, but like singing as if we were members of a boyband trying to serenade the same girl.Like āGirl, just give me a cha-ance / May I have this da-ance?ā