I have an aversion to radio DJ’s. It didn’t used to be so strong. There were a couple of morning shows I could tolerate, though I’ve never been a fan of talk radio. Then things changed. Serialized national radio shows became common fare in the mornings. The more popular stations were picked up by conglomorates until all that was left to listen to was one little independent station.
Except they started struggling too. Like three times now they’ve disappeared and then come back. But they split as well. One of the larger companies bought up their name, their frequency, half their DJ’s. Including the obnoxious morning and afternoon guys who can’t find jobs anywhere else in town because they’ve pissed off so much of the industry. (I don’t have to make these things up, my sister-in-law used to work in concert promotions and gave me all the dirt. She rocks like that).
So I don’t listen to the radio in the mornings anymore. Not local radio anyway. I used to make mp3 CD’s and listen to those all day. But one, my CD player in this newer car doesn’t work and two I got tired of a lot of the songs I owned. BUT there was hope because my phone is more awesome than my first computer and fits in the palm of my hand and, oh yeah, has Pandora on it ^_^
And sometimes it’s absolutely brilliant. I hit play and it knows exactly what I’m in the mood for, regardless of my eclectic taste. Sometimes I get lucky and it opens with Linkin Park or Tori Amos or Korn or Journey or Quiet Riot or Taylor Swift or…
Except sometimes I don’t get that lucky. It opens with something I am just not in the mood for that morning. Today for instance, I really didn’t want to hear slow, mournful love ballads from the 80’s. Just a mood thing. So it opened with Journey and I said ‘skip’. And then it went to Boston. And I said ‘skip’. and then it went to REO speedwagon and I said ‘screw this’ and shut it down and reopened it. And…it went to Chicago.
Which is why I’m listening to MP3’s now instead. If random fate won’t control my destiny the way I want it to, I will do it myself. On the player now – ‘Hero’ by Pop Evil.
I love this song. It evokes such amazing images of love, betrayal, past, future. Heroism. It’s the theme song for the novels I’m working on right now. I’d never seen the video before today. It might possibly border on cheesy, but it doesn’t defy the vision.
Because when you devote your entire life to a cause, only to find out you’ve been manipulated for what you can do and that costs you your friends, your loved-ones, yourself, suddenly you have to wonder if the cause…if anything…is worth it anymore.
wow…story lightbulb…neato
Anyway…what’s makes you socially acceptable in the mornings?
Sort of exercise + coffee. But nothing can really make me socially acceptable after getting wakened seven times in the night by various kids and then dragged out of bed at 5am because someone needs me to watch a NickJr. show with them. Like, the world will END if we don’t watch this show. I really hate NickJr., the way an addict hates heroin…sigh…
“Because when you devote your entire life to a cause, only to find out you’ve been manipulated for what you can do and that costs you your friends, your loved-ones, yourself, suddenly you have to wonder if the cause…if anything…is worth it anymore.”
Have you seen 13 Assassins? If you’re okay with violence, it’s a really good film that explores exactly that theme.
I’m dead until I get a shower. If, heaven forbid, I don’t have time to shower, I’ll probably end up falling down face first at some point in the day.
I only ever become really human after my coffee. I get up at 5.30 to write before the kids get up (and to read your blog…) and I’m always bleary and discombobulated until usually the school drop off.
Although others would argue that bleary and discombobulated is my natural state…