6 June
I was going to go in to work yesterday, but I looked outside and realized that that was the last thing I really wanted to do.
Instead, I went into the backyard and laid on the grass and lolled in the sun. I don't do that often enough. I mean, the grass isn't great, it's kinda sparse and scrubby, but it's still sweet to just lay there, keeping one eye on the cats as they gallumph around and the other eye on my book while listening to the little league game in the ball field next door.
Of course, later I started practically choking to death because the pollen was so high. I couldn't figure it out, why I couldn't breathe, because there was no humidity and it wasn't hot and there was a nice breeze, but then Stan told me about the pollen count, so that mystery was solved.
The show went well. The audience was pretty big and they laughed alot and nobody screwed anything up, though Gregg is starting to lose his voice in a big way. Good thing there's only one more performance!
Not that Tracing's coming to see it or anything...
I know I'm like the last person alive to get into this, but I have discovered the joys of music on the internet!
Last year, when everyone else was getting all excited over internet radio and RealAudio and stuff, I didn't have a fast enough or advanced enough computer to deal with it, so I wasn't interested, and even when I got the new laptop I didn't bother.
Until last Sunday.
Last Sunday, I logged on and there was a message from Mary Brunson Mak saying that the show she DJs on KYUH was available live online that very little minute if anyone wanted to listen.
So I did, and a convert was born. First of all, it's a great show and it's on from 3-6a on Sundays, but that's Honolulu time, which translates to 9-12p on the East coast. Second of all, it's really cool to listen to a local radio station that's so far away, and third of all, it's college radio which means that it's good.
It's terribly old-fashioned radio, the kind that I completely forgot existed--the kind where the DJs make the show and it's a different style of station every few hours, whatever the DJ is into. Great stuff.
The funny thing, though, the first time I heard it, was that I posted a message to Diary-L saying to Mary "You sound so cute!" and ten minutes later she played a song called "I'm Cute" followed by a song by The Mighty Mighty Bosstones.
I said "I'm getting secret messages from the radio!"
Anyway, be certain to listen next week, if you are in a reasonable time zone, because it's really swell.
And then yesterday I was sucked into a vortex from which I may never surface.
It's called Imagine Radio.
Anita had mentioned it a couple of weeks ago on Diary-L, and I thought it sounded interesting, but yesterday there was a link to it on Wendy's page, and I clicked on it.
The point of no return.
Imagine Radio is a site where you can program your own radio station! You can pick artists one by one (and there's a jillion of them--it's not just the usual suspects) or choose genres, or both and you can rate artists from 0-5, 0 meaning "I never never never wanna hear Janet Jackson, thank you very much" and 5 meaning "Yes! Lots and lots of Billy Bragg--as much as you can!".
What I did was I clicked on a bunch of genres and then went through the artist list and added and subtracted and rated and chose and was basically just as obsessive/compulsive as only I can get.
And I'm not done yet! I mean, there were plenty of artists that came with the genres that I had never heard of, so I'm leaving them on marked IR (meaning that Image Radio rates them itself) and as I hear them I'll dump or rate or whatever.
So, keeping in mind that it's not entirely done yet, I invite you to listen to Hedgehog Radio! And if you want to check out the playlist to see which artist I really mean to be there and how heavy they will be rotated, go here.
Today's horoscope:
Someone close to you is too hidebound in following the rules, or a bit erratic in breaking them. Seek a happy medium.
One year ago today:
"O, Kevin's here! That's okay, then!"
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