grimjack

So, Im back from Deutshebag-land. I've got a major headache, my arm is aching, and I'm in desperate need of a decent slice of pizza.

I'll post more later...pics, stories, blah, blah. For all three of you that read this tripe.

-Grim


***** I decided to add a bit to my little post. Here's a nice one about the new radio station in Philly.

As for 104.5 on the dial....Awesome! I get to hear Pearl Jam, Nickelback, and Marcy's Playground whenver I get in my car! Super Nifty Cool!!!

Can you just TASTE the sarcasm, folx?

OK, ok...Philly radio has been down the tubes for years upon years now. Yes, even the watered down Indy-Alt station that was Y-100 was caste into my 'sucks' bin. I even started listening to *gasp* WIP sports radio for a change of pace (until I rediscovered my love of NPR). And I fucking HATE sports. Understand that I spend almost 5 hours of day travelling in a car for my work, so anytime of music or radio distraction is lovely change of pace from staring at the backs of other cars, or talking to my asshole work partners.

But Radio 104.5 (yup, that's the ingenious name of the station for the time being) to a radio-black-hole zone like philly is analogous to giving a stale, nasty, moldy cracker to starving person. I'm sure it's the best damn piece of food that they've had, and are so glad to munch on at the time being. In the end, however, it's still just a shitty old cracker.

There's one really big reason why I can't get excited about this 'new' radio station (and yes, I have listened to it...1st day it was on, mind you). Simply put, its a CLEAR CHANNEL STATION. Not only are the chances good that it'll flip formats within a years time to fit whatever music style is topping the charts at the tim in order to make a quick buck on advertising, it's also well known that the evilly stupid entity that is Clear Channel has never been known to be forefront in radio programming. Ever. Even the most devout fan of mediocre Modern Rock/Alternative/Post-Modern/Indy Music will most likely more likely get bored with the already Vanilla flavoring of radio that this station is currently serving up. There are only so many times you're going to want to hear the same songs from The Toadies, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Eve 7, Everclear, Sister Mary Three, Fuel, Evanescence, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and the rest of the more 'radio-friendly-college-acts' before you go running for your radio's dial.

Sorry to be a 'hater'...but the radio and music industry helped nurture the beast inside me on this issue. Now, I'm going to switch on my stereo and pop in my copy of Grinderman and revel in the non-radio friendly aspects of Nick Cave.

-grim