News on the hour…who cares?
Posted By KJ / 14th January 2011
Routines. They’re hard to break but once broken, then you don’t really miss the old way. Or at least I don’t. Of course your results may vary.
My morning routine of late was to fire up the computer first thing, get a cup of coffee and sit down for a long read. I’d open up iTunes and put on KCUR for the news, not really paying attention to any of it, but it was good background noise whilst I woke up and tried not to drool my coffee all over the laptop.
One day, I didn’t turn on KCUR and you know what? I found that I didn’t miss the news. Seems as if it was nothing but foreclosure notices, stupid political infighting news and more budgetary downfalls for pretty much everyone, everywhere.
I did find it comforting, I think, as background noise. It was there you know? Not really in the forefront but there. A solid something to wake up to/with.
And with this break I’ve pretty much broken all ties with broadcast media.
In the car there’s no reason any longer to even have the radio on. With the various iPhone apps you can listen to music until it runs out of your ears, drips all over the new seat covers that you just got at Target and puddle on the floor in a mishmash of tunes.
KEXP from Seattle happens to be my current favorite. They play a really eclectic mix from Johnny Cash to A Tribe Called Quest, they’re all over the place but in a really, really good way. There’s also Indie 103 from Los Angeles. Not quite as good as KEXP, I think due to the quality of the DJ’s really. Seems as if the jocks on Indie 103 like to think they’re still terrestrial and on air. They do tend to run off at the mouth a bit more than the people at KEXP. Also the music mix on Indie 103 is really not quite as eclectic. Not as mixed up, still decent though, especially on Saturday morning for Retrograde.
Alas, thanks KCUR for the good times but people move on, you know? Nothing personal and I’m sure that you’ll find a new listener in Blue Springs. There has to be at least one other person out there who will listen. Good luck, really.
Note: on second read this hasn’t been the strongest post in the history of everness. Well, we can’t hit every pitch out of the park then can we? Every now and again a slap single over the 2nd baseman’s head will suffice. This is very definitely one of those times.
