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Sunday, June 20, 2004

Ooh! They're playing the Cure!!

The Internet has provided me with yet another reason to never get anything done. (I think, if I haven't lost count somewhere along the line, that this is reason number five hundred and thirty-four). This new reason is that Yahoo Launch thing where you make your own freaking radio station. HOW totally cool is that, and why have I never done it before? This is only the kind of thing I have fantasized about since I was, oh, ten. I have always been a fan of radio -- all that music just coming to your ears for free, and you never know what's coming next, but if you find a good station or are open-minded it's a very happy thing. Then when I was an early teen the idea of "cable radio" was invented, and oh, I wanted it. No ads, no static, and a bazillion different genres to choose from. I never did get it. Also, just recently, the new stereo we put in our car when its stock one died is satellite-radio ready, and I'm just biding my time waiting to be able to spend the money to get that. I don't listen to the radio much anymore, except for talk radio, because I can't seem to find a station that fits my kinks; they either play too much heavy stuff or too much foul stuff or too much crappy new "country" or what have you. But now... my own radio station. I am fourteen again, and my IM conversations are peppered with "ooh! they're playing xxxx!" just like the letters I used to write to my friends in black fine-tip marker on peach-colored paper, with big circles for dots on the i's, and fold into ornate triangles or rectangles with a "pull here" tab.

Oooh! Now it's the new Alanis song!