(This image, which is from here, is what one finds who one searches "too many kids" on the googla.)
Welp, it happened again. I picked a theme for which there were patently too many options. Just imagine! A theme like "kids"! What was I thinking?
That's something I guess I'll answer tomorrow (?) (probably not), I just want to whine. I want to whine because I have been doing this for almost twenty years & one of the reasons I do this show is to challenge myself, to discover new music & to play a cool mix of music that's not simply my favorite songs. It's hard. Lots of times I'm like "but I could play that song" but I don't want to. I don't want it to be easy for me. But then there's a theme where there are literally hundreds of songs that would fit - I'm going to naturally gravitate to the songs I know because I simply don't have time to listen to all of the ones I find.
This weekend - yesterday - I was at a memorial service for a neighbor who died a couple months ago. The brother-in-law, an affable fellow, was talking about how he was terrified to retire. Now he says, "It's the best job I ever had!" & he confided in me, "I don't really know how I ever did anything when I had a job. I have no time to get anything I want to do done now!"
& that's the weird thing - I don't currently have a job but I used to do Self Help Radio when I was employed full-time. I promise you, I will be scrambling to have the show done before I leave for KBOO at 11:30pm tomorrow night. How in the world did I get anything done back then?
Anyway, back to listening to songs. I already have four hours' worth saved up, but what if I miss something good? This is why I scramble.
That's something I guess I'll answer tomorrow (?) (probably not), I just want to whine. I want to whine because I have been doing this for almost twenty years & one of the reasons I do this show is to challenge myself, to discover new music & to play a cool mix of music that's not simply my favorite songs. It's hard. Lots of times I'm like "but I could play that song" but I don't want to. I don't want it to be easy for me. But then there's a theme where there are literally hundreds of songs that would fit - I'm going to naturally gravitate to the songs I know because I simply don't have time to listen to all of the ones I find.
This weekend - yesterday - I was at a memorial service for a neighbor who died a couple months ago. The brother-in-law, an affable fellow, was talking about how he was terrified to retire. Now he says, "It's the best job I ever had!" & he confided in me, "I don't really know how I ever did anything when I had a job. I have no time to get anything I want to do done now!"
& that's the weird thing - I don't currently have a job but I used to do Self Help Radio when I was employed full-time. I promise you, I will be scrambling to have the show done before I leave for KBOO at 11:30pm tomorrow night. How in the world did I get anything done back then?
Anyway, back to listening to songs. I already have four hours' worth saved up, but what if I miss something good? This is why I scramble.
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