Reaffirming my hipster bona fides

[mr_bad_example]

I've been listening to The Current for a solid week. It's good. There are still a few kinks to be worked out with the format--I heard the same Tegan and Sara song twice in one day--but on the whole, it's sounding very good indeed. The format reminds me very much of the evening programming on KUNI (the night music that's on before "World Cafe." "World Cafe," by the way and near as I can tell, consists entirely of Peter Gabriel), which turned me on to an amazing amount of stuff. So, any station that plays anything besides the same three tracks from REM and U2 and that plays more local bands than just THE REPLACEMENTS UNTIL THERE'S NO FUCKING END is fine by me. I notice that nobody's yet been able to restrain Mark Wheat's self-important blathering, but I guess you can't have everything.

The whole Rev 105 thing was well over by the time I moved up here. It was the station I listened to on my trips up here and I liked it fine, but from what I gather, there were people in this town who were absolutely livin' it. I've heard The Current being favorably compared to Rev (and apparently their airstaff is basically The Old Rev Jocks' Class Reunion), so hey, it's a chance for me to catch up on the whole mid-90s hipster thing. Gimme an OK Cola and call Richard Linklater.

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[sxoidmal.livejournal.com]

Funny, it's Mary Lucia's misguided self-confidence that bugs the crap out of me: "There, two solid days of Postal System, and now I'm sure I've made them your favorite band." And her extra "The" in front of Pixies (mind you, I'm desperately grateful to hear Pixies on the radio at all).