At this point, I don't think I have to explain anything to you. I have done forty-three episodes of songs I consider indiepop (or which influenced indiepop or emulated some aspect of indiepop) & now I'm going to do a forty-fourth & what else is there to say? I'm doing it for the same reason I've done the previous ones: I have a problem. I can't help myself. I've made a list of bands & even though I am just at the letter I, I continue. "You'll never finish," you say, & probably not (although I have a separate list now of bands I forgot &/or are new, for an "appendix" version once I've completed the letter Z) but I have to see something through some time. Sure, it may seem like it's a kind of achievement to have done a radio show for nearly twelve years that's been on three different radio stations in three different states (well, Kentucky & West Virginia are kind of similar, but they have different names), not to mention continuing it when it didn't have a radio station, & some romantic types may even note that I've been with the same woman for almost thirteen years, including four of them in a marriage. & that's true, perhaps I should be proud of these things. It's just that - I can imagine a day when I stop doing Self Help Radio. (It may be sooner than I think!) I can also imagine a day when my wife takes a good look at me & says, "What the fuck have I done?" & calls the divorce attorney which she has handily put on speed dial just in case. These things are easily foreseeable - some might call them inevitable. But I can't see this Indiepop A To Z thing ending. Ever. I do imagine I'll be done before it is. & surely that is something of a problem, right?
But please, enjoy the show!
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