I HATE RADIO!

i don't hate radio.

i blame radio for my good taste in music. well, i specifically blame cjsr because those motherfuckers play some damn good music.

BUT my radio at work is old and doesn't pick up cjsr very well. this wasn't a problem before because i used to be able to stream it live from indecline but indecline is gone and so i am relegated to listening to sonic. and frankly, sonic sucks ass.

when they first started about a year ago i was pleased to hear a 'rock' station that didn't play theory of a nickle dead fault and provided a little break from the afternoons of post-rock on cjsr.

sonic may not play any of that horribly shitty cancon rock but really it's no better than the bear. boring music is boring music. i am fucking sick of hearing my obnoxious emo-tastic chemical romancen and rage against the machine over and fucking over again.

yes, they play nirvana and the smashing pumpkins and all that old stuff that makes me all nostalgic but it's mixed in with metric and other such shit...

and don't even fucking get me started on metric!

so i'm sitting here listening to sonic, checking out their website, too lazy to go get a cd from my car and wondering what the fuck is up with this shit.

right now they have this contest thing where listeners can co-host for an hour and in order to do this all you have to do is send the dude who runs the show an email telling him what 20 songs you'd play and then if he likes you maybe you get to go there and play them. so then i wonder, 'should i do this?'...i have good taste in rock music and i'd have fun on the radio. so then i get to thinking, 'what 20 songs would i play?'

i don't know...a little bit from the gossip, maybe something from social distortion, who knows...
the point is i'm pretty sure i'd never get on; i doubt an email stating the following would win me any friends at sonic:

dear adam thompson.

you want me to be your co-host for an hour if for no other reason than to allow the public to hear an hour of good music among 23 other wasted hours. i'm sure the majority of your listeners like bands beside gob and rage against the machine. TURN DOWN THE MOTHERFUCKING SUCK, sonic!

here are my 20 songs...

5 classic punk songs
5 local cool as fuck songs
5 songs from the mid 90s that are waaay too cool for sonic to play
5 songs NOT by the yeah yeah yeahs, the strokes, the white stripes, or any other 'contemporary' rock band...

xo xo michelle kennedy

think that'll get me on the radio.

fuck it! i am going home to tonight and i am going to compile the hottest list of rock songs i own.

god, i'm annoyed and i am sure this post is making me sound like a pretentious bitch who thinks she knows more about what is and isn't listenable then 'professional' radio people but i DO. listening to panic! at the disco and fall out boy interspersed with random alternative classics is not good programming...it's annoying.

RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ARE ANNOYING!

ok...i gotta stop because i could on forever about why listening all day to my chemical romance is going to make me want to kill myself.

and i know there's other music listening devices and usually i'll just put pandora on, type in something i like and chill the fuck out but as you're all aware i'm a bit of a masochist and i like to see just how far they are willing go to annoy me.

xo michelle.