Radio

One of my top highlights in life these days is when I drive home for lunch, and I get to listen to Nicki's Nineties Nooner on Q101 (during the "noon" hour). It's weird, I used to think it was so lame that people listened to stuff like "80's at 8" on the Mix or whatever. Actually, I still do. But now that I stop and think about it, we're well into the next decade, here in the year 2003, and an hour dedicated to 90's music probably sounds lame to the next generation.

Still, I think Nirvana, Pearl Jam, STP, Pumpkins, etc., is always gonna be cooler than the stuff like Erasure and Depeche Mode. Songs about killing yourself or doing hard drugs beats being gay any day right? Anyways, like I was saying, listening to the 'Nooner is really good stuff. It's not so much the actual music; I mean, I have most of the songs they play either on CD or mp3 already. But it's just a different feeling to hear the stuff on the radio. Takes me back to the good old days for a bit. Plus, I'll always still hear at least one or two songs that I used to love but totally forgot about.

One thing I noticed that hasn't changed since the 90's is Loveline at night. I remember listening to that show almost every night in high school. Not because I had any dysfunctional problems, but it was just very entertaining for some reason. Now, it's 6 or 7 years later, and I just started tuning in to the show again, once in a while before going to sleep. And surprisingly, it's pretty much the exact same show. Dr. Drew has not changed at all. Adam Carolla got a little more popular on MTV and Comedy Central over these years, but he's basically the same guy too. He's still a hilarious host, and does the same routines, even down to saying "Mahalo" at the end of every show.

Maybe the only difference is the callers - I don't know if it's my imagination, but it seems like the kids have more extreme problems today. Sometimes it blows my mind, the things I hear them talk about. Even listening back in high school, I thought the calls were so crazy, like "What the-- 16 year olds are having SEX??! What is this world coming to?" But the stuff they discuss on the show today goes beyond that. Makes me kind of fear the day I have kids and have to let them loose in this society. I guess for me, growing up in a church setting and conservative family really sheltered me from a whole lot of stuff. In some ways that might have been good, in some ways not so good. But that's a whole other story, whole different blog.

While I'm on the topic of radio, one of the negatives about being off overtime hours is that I miss out on my new favorite segment on WGCI. It used to be "Tony's Trippin" in the morning, but they repeat some of those too much. The news is still good, when he "alliterates". But this thing I'm talking about, they do every night at about 5:45-6 or so, and it's quality stuff. I forgot it was called, something hokey like "Rhyme on Time", I think. Anyways, it's basically people calling up after work, the Bad Boys putting on a beat, and asking them a bunch of questions that they're supposed to answer using lines that rhyme and go with the beat. Kind of like the Birthday Line, except people can be more creative. In case you have no idea what I'm talking about, it goes something like this:

Bad Boys: Are you workin?
Caller: Yeah, I'm workin yo' mama
BB: What you drivin?
C: A '97 Maxima
BB: Are your pockets fat?
C: Naw, you know they ain't
BB: What kind of gear is that?
C: Abercrombie pants with yellow latex paint

Some of the people who call up are pretty terrible (like my example), but some are pretty good. Either way, it's entertaining to me. Except I bet it will get old soon, cause there's only so many things you can do with those same 4 questions, so it's bound to start repeating eventually.

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My sister started a Xanga page. Please don't stalk her, but if you want to see some stupid webcam pics we took a while ago, you can see them here on the May 27 entry: http://www.xanga.com/junkfoodaddict

But seriously, don't stalk her.

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In other news, my computer died while I was eating lunch today. I'm afraid this time it might be for good. After rebooting a bunch of times, no luck, and I had to go back to work. I keep getting a scrambled screen, it's really weird. Don't know if it's something wrong with Windows, my video card, hard drive, RAM, CPU, or what. If anyone has any ideas on how to fix my comp, let me know before I have to order a new one.

Also, if I was talking to you on AIM during lunch and suddenly stopped, now you know why. And if you talk to me at night and I type really slow, it's because I'm on my PPC. Just a heads up FYI.