I've been meaning to post this for a couple of days, but since I've worked overtime for the last three days (including over eleven hours each yesterday and today), I haven't really had a chance yet.

Any road trip is not complete unless there is music. Since I was the one driving to Ogallala and back, I put myself in charge of the music. I made 3 CDs of my own mix, resulting in about four hours of music. It picked up a good chuck of the trip, with trivia/radio ruling the rest. So here's what I made, in the order of which they're on the CDs.

Disc One

The Cure- Just Like Heaven
Michael Buble - Felling Good
Duran Duran - A View to a Kill
Audioslave - I Am the Highway
Pearl Jam - Do the Evolution
They Might Be Giants - First Kiss (live)
Fastball - Out Of My Head
2 Skinnee J's - Sugar and Candy
The Offpring - Defy You
Weezer - Undone (The Sweater Song)
Jet - Cold Hard Bitch
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm
Santana/Rob Thomas - Smooth
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
Maroon 5 -Not Coming Home
Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way
Nirvana - In Bloom
The Beatles - Why Don't We Do It In The Road?
The Hives - Walk Idiot Walk
Gorillaz - Dare

Disc Two

Crystal Method - Trip Like I Do
Everclear - Everything to Everyone
Garbage - Push It
Coldplay - In My Place (live)
Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
Matchbox 20 - Disease
George Michael - Freedom '90
Phish - Back on the Train
Evanecence - Whisper
Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
howie&scott - Blues or Astroblue?
The White Stripes - Fell in Love with a Girl
Rob D - Clubbed to Death (Kurayamino Mix)
U2 - Bad

Disc Three

All-American Rejects - Swing Swing
Cake - I Will Survive
Blink 182 - Down
Nine Inch Nails - Only
Faithless - Bring My Family Back
Jimmy Eat World - A Praise Chorus
Beck - Hell Yes
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go?
Robert Miles - Children
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Billy Joel - Only the Good Die Young
Daft Punk - Da Funk
Eric Clapton - Lay Down Sally
Puff Daddy, et. al. - Victory
Tower of Power - Diggin' on James Brown
Green Day - Panic Song
Sublime - Date Rape
Barenaked Ladies - Falling for the First Time
Linkin Park - PTS.OF.ATHRTY

For those paying attention, you'll probably have noticed two things:

1. These were all songs selected specifically for driving. I fell like I cheated myself by forgetting any AC/DC, and accidentally selecting Audioslave's "I Am The Highway" instead of "Show Me How to Live."

2. Each artist has only one song. I made that a strict rule, and I still ended up with over three CDs. Over three, you say? Left off were the last three songs on my list (which I missed greatly):

Incubus - Under My Umbrella
No Doubt - End It On This
Goldfinger - Mable (live)

All I did was select a song and put it on a play list, then I hit random on the play list and burned the CDs. Insta-DJ! Thus the three that were left off, because if I had my choice, I wouldn't have left them there. Oh well.

The music served its purpose very well. I didn't fall asleep at all, or even get anywhere close to tired. All around, a good trip.