Filmmaker Harrison Boyce’s dreamlike depiction of his bi-coastal drive from New York to Seattle provides a timely counterpoint to the hectic season of catching planes, trains and automobiles back to wherever counts as ‘home’ in time for Christmas. Soundtracked by NOWNESS regularBoyce‘s brother Hamilton’s band, Song Sparrow Research, the video evokes the family spirit of the season; to accompany the piece, New Yorkerand McSweeney’s writer Kate Hahn dwells on how best to package the myriad feelings that the trip back brings out of us with her twelve-step guide to handing the pressures that familial saturation might bring. “Every holiday road warrior carries one piece of luggage,” she explained to us, before boarding a flight from Los Angeles to New York for the break. “It is called the emotional suitcase, and it is crammed with feelings associated with a journey home. It is heavy, awkward, musty, criss-crossed with the duct-tape of denial, and dented from being slammed into life’s many obstacles. Here are a dozen tips that will make packing yours much easier.”
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