Yesterday I wrote about my disdain for radio shows that basically program the same show every year for holidays or whatever, playing the same songs over & over, & how in a sort of reaction to that I deliberately choose to rarely if ever repeat myself with both themes & even holiday themes.
The reason I brought this up was because, for maybe the first time, I'm going to repeat myself for my wife's birthday show. I said I'd tell you just why I'm doing that on the blog today, & so I shall.
Reason number one: I've never done a birthday show in Portland before.
Yeah, that's true. Listeners here haven't heard the first fourteen or fifteen birthday shows, so they might be confused why I'd have a birthday show & not played a favorite - which I might have played over a decade ago. & the show has just been on the air for like two months - how the hell is anyone to know I don't repeat myself?
Reason number two: I haven't really been looking for new birthday songs.
This is also true. For some reason I just haven't taken the time to look for new birthday songs. I have a handful, & some from last year I didn't play, but I don't know if it's enough to program two hours. That's on me, I know - I certainly could take the time & dig for more birthday songs. But then there's...
Reason number three: Sleep deprivation.
As I wrote here on this blog a week ago, I haven't slept a lot recently. In fact, earlier this week I got very little sleep because I did three shows on three different radio stations within about four days. Sleep happened in snatched moment. My thought about basically re-running an episode of Self Help Radio - not really a re-run, more a clip show - was that I could perhaps get a little sleep this week.
Have I? I have!
Wait, did I just say "a clip show"? What does that mean? I'll talk about that tomorrow.
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