A vast majority of people may not fully realize the implications of the startling true fact that DJs at commercial radio stations do not choose the music. A giant robotic alien spaceship in the sky decides the top 40 hits based on record label interns' physiological responses to music videos. Combinations of songs are based on algorithms from reflex responses and data mined from FB comments, people's private jokes and focus groups led by reptilian newscasters. It's one of those things most people don't think about. Unless they dreamed they were on acid writing a Madlib and eating quesadillas with broccoli sprouts in their tighty whities at the somnambulatory witching hour. The hypnotic formula is chosen for them. Technicians run the show and a canned script is put in front of them, whereas DJs at community radio stations create their own entirely individual and eclectic music program, often spontaneously, while running the soundboard and all the festivities themselves. Real Radio for Real People. The Momlogues and Musings of Cape Cod here. If you click "station archive", next on the "22" square, followed by "Pop Life/Northern Trawl/Pandora's Jukebox" you can hear my Laryngitis show from Sunday. By midnight I was warmed up. It's a long cold ride to the station, and the Old School House ghosts can have a chilling effect. One tried to ride home with me, and if he didn't look like a shadowy Wolverine with talons resting on the passenger window, I would have been really creeped out. But superheroes are my friends. They are part of America's spiritual center, our American Psyche's answer to shamanism. Why should Wolverine creep out an American Psychic?
And in other news, The Goddess is trending. Everyone from Naomi Wolf to Christiane Northrup are in the know. Goddess consciousness is what people, and especially women need to be happy, healthy, timeless and fulfilled individuals. I don't care who likes it or lumps it, I'm going to finish my goddess book. Even if I have been embodying Grandmother Turtle, and only intermittently working on it, I'm okay with where I am. I bring a lot of invisible companions to the party. It's a kind of orchestration of voice/s, personal memoir, and comedy inspired by muses too numerous and improbable to relate here. I still have hope. My goddess book will see the light.
My Playlist. Click on 9-12pm Pandora's Jukebox for my playlist.
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