For the past week, I have successfully not written/editted/spellchecked the final draft. I am a mere read-over from being done. And yet I just haven't.

Instead, today I ran way to Columbus and thought about a good soundtrack:

Chapter three, brother makes me promise that I'll go to college: "New Slang (When You Notice The Stripes)" The Shins

Chapter four, going to see a show in Milwaukee: "Anything can happen," Wyclef.

Chapter five, there's a band on stage, they will be The Faint and they'll sing "Worked Up So Sexual." (only not really, I don't mention band names, book titles--I refer to them as concepts)

Chapter six, driving through gray, flat-ass Illinios: "Cross Road Blues" Robert Johnson

Chapter seven, back in time, summer camp when I was young enough to get fucked up from a ghost story: "Summer of '69" Bryan Adams

Chapter eight, I sit in the backseat because I'm fucking sick of "Scott Hampshire" and watch montana blow by: either "Folsom Prison Blues" or "When the Man Comes Around" both by Johnny Cash

Chapter nine, there's a party in Seattle, the song played will be: "Fuck the Pain Away" by Peaches

Chapter ten, a lengthy reference to youthful poverty involving driving around, eating shift-meal pizzas, and renting the free movies at Blockbuster: "Juicy" Biggie

Chapter eleven, I get thrown out of a casino in vegas and can't find hampshire, freak out: The scene calls for "Long Dark" by Electrelane; but I would have to have in "You're Nobody ('till somebody loves you)" by Frank Sinatra.

Chapter twelve, driving through the desert. Everyone loves this. It's not that great: "Melodrama" The Moving Units.

Chapter thirteen, I drive for 28 hours straight (four corners to little rock) and get all melancholy and shit. "Open up your heart" The Rapture.

Chapter fourteen, we go to Memphis, to graceland. I honestly have no idea what to put here. It can't be Paul Simon's "Graceland" because this isn't appearing on VH1. And it can't really be an Elvis song. Maybe an original recording of Chuck Berry doing a song Elvis later would?

Chapter fifteen, on a farm in Kentucky, I talk to a girl, a specific girl, a reader of this very website, and one of the few people who actually are themselves. "I go out walking (After Midnight)" Patsy Cline.

Chapter twenty, Virginia Beach, surfing: was going to be "The Way We Get By" by Spoon, but then they played it on the O.C. last week.

Chapter twenty-one, sad ending, late at night, the night we sleep in the garden section of Walmart. "Champaign from a Paper Cup" Death Cab for Cutie or the Iron and Wine version of "Such Great Heights."