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[apocalypsos]

It goes to show why I'm willing to take Saturday overtime at all that I just spent the last ten minutes tweezing my eyebrows. *sigh*

Hmph. Maybe I should have another costume party tomorrow. I'll be working on Monsters of Moosic all day, so I might as well. :)

EDIT: *drums fingertips on desk* I should have brought my curling iron with me. Mmm-hmm.

ANNOYED EDIT: Dear stupid customer ... I respect the fact that you serve in the military and you fought for our country. Bully for you. That does not, however, give you the right to behave like an idiot by parking on the wrong side of the building and walking illegally through our warehouse, then acting like an asshole when you can't walk back through again and bitching about how you're "no goddamn security threat," THEN whining about how far it is to walk around the building. If my scrawny butt can not only walk around the building, but can walk two miles in the hot sun TO the building, your military-trained ass can, too.

Don't give me that "I served in the military and now I get a free pass at EVERYTHING" shit, because it does not go over well with me. It's behavior like that that makes good military men want to vomit, so shut it.

COVETOUS EDIT: Okay, that totally makes up for the sucky customer. I want one! *bounces up and down and wants to play with the new machine*

Also, I just talked to my vegetarian co-worker and now I want a steak. Blood-rare. In fact, I want two -- one for me, and the one he's not going to eat. Mmmm.

MUSIC-LOVING EDIT: You know what I want? You know how all of those stupid radio stations are saying they now play ... everything? (Sorry, had to put the ellipses in there. There's a radio station around here that claims that in every commercial, and they put this ludicrous pause before the word every damn time.) I want a radio station that really does play everything, damn it. Frank Sinatra followed by Marilyn Manson followed by Dolly Parton followed by Ricky Martin. I want to listen to something where I have no frickin' clue what's coming up next.

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[pie-is-good.livejournal.com]

And even that's not a sample of everything. In my music theory class in high school, for example, we'd listen to like, bulgarian folk music to emo music to the soundtrack of The Incredibles to heavy metal to bluegrass.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Exactly. That's the kind of radio station I want. This "We play everything" crap where "everything"="only adult contemporary" makes me want to hit things.

[swingangel.livejournal.com]

There is a radio station here in Oregon that is quite like that. I've heard(in the same hour) Kelly Clarkson, Beastie Boys, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies(not their punk, their swing)

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but that's still all popular contemporary music. I'm talking every kind of music. I want rap followed by old-time country followed by blues followed by African chanting followed by electronica followed by ... well, you get the idea. All of one genre is still not everything.

[swingangel.livejournal.com]

True, true. I was very impressed about the swing though. Not the sort of thing you tend to hear on the radio.

[akacat]

Check all the local college stations, especially on the weekend. You probably won't find that much randomness within one hour, but over the span of a day you could.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Whatever station (clearchannel?) that owns those damn "I sound like Steven Wright" station bougth out the decent hiphop/dance/rock station here.

Didn't even tell the fucking DJs until 4 hours before the change, which was a Friday at midnight.


Fucking dead weasel raping bastards.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

oh, and this was the radio station that had been here for about a decade. Or two. Hell, there's an ad for DRQ on the side of the bus in the opening of Beverly Hills Cop.

and it's ABC radio. Same with yours?

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

Don and Mike had a great rant about the whole thing on their radio show one day, making fun of the station I was mentioning before that's just a smidge up to the dial from them. The station was patting itself on the back (and still is) that they play the best mix of everything, and it's the same shit they've always played.

[paradoxymoron.livejournal.com]

ours was a total change. Hiphop urban, probably the 15-25 demographic, to Bryan Adams and crap.

BRYAN ADAMS! Oh, the humanity!

[pinkywundrgrrl.livejournal.com]

OMG! Bk vending machines?!?! That is the coolest thing ever. So must move to France...like now.

[catystorm.livejournal.com]

Gah, I hate Clear Channel with a burning passion. Besides destroying what precious few DJ jobs remain, it completely puts a chokehold on the variety of music out there. >.< That's what my playlist is for! It jumps from Disney music to hard rock to J-pop to Dean Martin within four songs. I never know what's coming up next. :D How do you tell I'm bored? I'm sitting there doing my own intros/exits to the music playing. >.>

YAY COSTUME PARTY!

[ficangel.livejournal.com]

I want a radio station that really does play everything, damn it. Frank Sinatra followed by Marilyn Manson followed by Dolly Parton followed by Ricky Martin. I want to listen to something where I have no frickin' clue what's coming up next.

We have a little station in Oklahoma that's almst as good as that. It's called Bob FM, and the Bob guy is the owner. He literally makes up playlists for his DJs of any song that happens to strike his fancy. I listened to "Sweet Home Alabama" followed by "Collide" on the way home.

[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

"We play everything" = slogan for one of two new radio station "formats," typically called "Bob" (newer leaning) or "Jack" (older leaning). It's the "new big thing," and I wish it would keel over and die, if only because of the stupid station IDs they run. (Not only do we have one of these evil "Bob"s here, but I work in market research for radio stations, so I get more than enough of it.) By definition it's all adult-contemporary, although I will give our station credit for pulling some interesting stuff out of its butt now and then. I'd much rather listen to the station you proposed, though.

[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I'd much rather listen to the station you proposed, though.

Honestly. That's half of the reason I'll put anything and everything on my Zen -- it's 40 gigs, so it'll hold everything and I have a better chance of a good mix. If I could find a good mix on the radio like that, I'd listen to something other than the talk radio station.

[guinwhyte.livejournal.com]

Radio is terrified of the idea that people can carry around all the music they want, so that's what this new type of programming is aimed at (being an MP3 player "substitute"). (They also tend to minimize DJ talk due to this aim.) Sadly, it's more often just a slightly wider mix of the same old crap everyone else is playing. I haven't opted for a real MP3 player yet, but I have CD players that can read MP3s and a CD burner, and that's preferable to the radio 99% of the time.

[clex_monkie89.livejournal.com]

See that's one of the few things I love about Phoenix, we have Edge, independent radio. That means the DJ's put on whatever they want followed by requests and whatever they want. I once listened to Hava Nagila with Coin-Operated Boy tailing it. Only problem is it has a relativly low broadcast range becuase of the lack of money and big-sponsers.