Here's a little end of the week bonus posting for you.
A question popped into my noggin today on my way to work. And here's the question. What's going to happen to "oldies" stations on the radio? Is there a certain number of years old a song has to be in order to be considered an "oldie?" Kind of like what happens with classic cars. If thats the case then we are going to reach a point where Sinatra, the Temptations, and Huey Lewis are going to be compressed onto the same station.
Or I thought that maybe as old people die, their music becomes less important because there is a declining fan base, and there will always be "new" oldies because we just keep this cycle going. And this makes sense because we never hear music from the 1920s. So, at some point in the future the old oldies will be gradually replaced by the new oldies. Or is it possible that we will have mulitple oldies stations, with each one featuring music from a different era. Or is it just entirely possible that I have too much free time on my hands?
You be the judge.
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Here is the thing. Oldies will always be oldies, other stuff will be "classic rock" or "retro." Totally different genres.
Huey Lewis will always be the man. Apparently he has a giant rig. There is this groupie, her name escapes me at the moment, but apparently she has banged tons of rock stars and your boy Huey had the largest junk. I only know this because they were both on the Kiid Chris show, and he put them on a 3 way call. Huey was not amused, that douche. If someone called in to praise the size of my rig, I'd be all over that.
By the way, the Kidd Chris show is essentially Monday after 5, only it happens everyday from 3-7. He is the fucking man.
Ok, as for oldies, I completely understand. But our friends, or enemies, at satelite radio have simplified things for us. XM groups their oldies by decades, which is great if you know when the fuckin' song came out, but alas it eliminates the confusion of what is technically an oldie. In my opinion, a song is an oldie if this scenario applies. You are listening to a top 40 station on the radio and you hear a song and you think; fuck, why are they playing this song, it's so fuckin' old. I have this happen all the time; it isn't fuckin' 1999 fuckers, stop playing Third Eye Blind. Anywho, I have a question that will make your head explode while trying to think of an intelligent and logical answer. Not quite a if it weren’t for that horse explosion, but an explosion indeed. Why is it bad to take a life in the form of a embryo for stem cell research and ok to have the death penalty? This is the question I want to ask our retarded leader. I hate that fuckin’ religion has become a basis for governmental decisions in this country. Embryonic stem cell research could potentially lead to cures to hundreds of diseases and he is against it because it takes a life. Yet, he was the governor of the state in which the death penalty was carried out at the highest rate. Don’t get me wrong, I say fry the fuckers, but can’t we save some lives by killing of some unwanted leftover cells. Seriously, who wants three year old eggs and sperm or whatever they use. Isn’t throwing the shit away the same type of death and twice as wasteful. It seems as though he is being a bit of a hypocrite. I think it is time we take this separation of church and state thing seriously. What the fuck? The Chad
Couldn't agree more with the Huey Lewis comment. It's kind of like when celebs complain that the tabloids say that they are dating other celebrities. The horror! I'd have to call my attorney and threaten a lawsuit if they had the nerve to claim I was dating one of the Jessicas (Simpson, Alba, or Biel). Hell, who do you think would be out there starting those rumors?
Also, I was already to firmly plant myself in the multi-channel solution for this oldies thing. However, in the car yesterday I heard a multi-generational mix. On the regular oldies station, they threw in a Gloria Estefan "Turn the Beat Around" on me. (Couldn't tell if this was with or without the Miami Sound Machine.) Regardless, here was a classic case of compression. We really need to have some kind of Congressional hearings on this.
the chad:
here is my opinion-the more executions, the better. Abortions-get them early and get them often. Actually, a while back I devised an abortion policy. It goes something like this...Free abortions for all, with the caveat that after the third you are forced to be sterilized. I think it ends up saving the taxpayers a lot of money.
Stem cells: We can probably cure cancer with that shit. I fucking hate the religious right. They can suck a nut. Sadly, our fearless leader W has no idea what stem cells are. God told him they are bad. Fucking paranoid schizophrenic.
You have XM? Do you like it? I am thinking of looking into it.
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