10:25 p.m. - 2004-09-17
Rolling and Rocking
So after I worked mandatory overtime on my one-day-off-this-week, I sucked it up and went down to the lake with my rollerblades. Erm, inline skates. We're only supposed to say rollerblades when we're referring to the brand. I digress.
I took the wheelie things down to the lake and skated around it twice. I didn't fall (yay), and I wasn't completely tired (yay), but I was terribly annoyed by the sun being in my eyes for the hill part (boo), so after being blinded a second time I just gave up.
I had such a feeling of accomplishment, I went out and got a new helmet. One that (hopefully) has a strappy thing big enough to accommodate my giant wad of hair and keep it off my neck while I'm skating. I also picked up some new laces and a pair of small wristguards, because the ones I have are extra large and are quite floppy.
97X (bow! the future of rock and roll) is no longer 97X. It's X-97, and it's not in Oxford anymore. I only bring this up because if you've ever seen Rain Man you'll remember the part where Dustin Hoffman's in the convertible saying, "97X. Bow! The future of rock and roll," over and over again until Tom Cruise yells at him.
97X was the radio station for University of Miami in Oxford (Ohio). The reception was iffy, even if you were in Oxford, which is close to nothing. But that was the only station that would play The Cure and They Might Be Giants for me back in the 90s. In May, the station switched over to some big conglomerate internet radio thing, and now they just play sorta new stuff and lots of old stuff. I like being able to hear Modest Mouse on the radio.
Today, I noticed that every single time they play the station identification that says, "Playing today's new music," they immediately play something not-new. Like The Clash, or a Beastie Boys song off of "Licensed to Ill". So far, this has happened every time I hear that blurb.
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