No Soap, Radio

[rickps]

Some people work best in a quiet room.  No distractions, nothing to pull their attention.  They can focus on business and be brilliant.  I'm not one of them.  In my world, silence is death.  The hum of an airplane's jet engines is a lullaby.  A TV playing in the background is akin to a warm crackling fire.  In the office, it's a softly playing radio.  Classical music.  Minimum commercials, none at all if possible.  I’m an easy target as my ears never seem to tire of the classical "warhorses".

Living down here in the bottom left hand corner of the US, classical music radio stations are in short supply.  No, correct that, there's one station, that's it.  No options, live with it.  It's a schizoid little public radio station that straddles the border between the US and Mexico.  In an effort to appeal to all, they alternate from English to Spanish when introducing musical selections.  I have to say that you haven't lived until you've heard Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italienne pronounced in Spanish.

And so, the other day when static replaced the spot on the dial where my little classical companion resides, I was bereft.  Silence (well, except for the regular bitching by my project's administrative assistant).  No recorded announcement explaining the outage.  Nothing.  Nada.

Two days later, my classical buddy was back!  You'd think that they'd broadcast a "sorry listeners, a hamster died and we couldn't transmit" statement.  Same multilingual selection introductions.  You have to wonder if they just assume that nobody would notice their absence.  Well, I did.

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Be sure you let them know they were missed!

I'm the same way. Classical music, very softly played, is on when I work her at the theatre.

[animbear.livejournal.com]

Ray Dee Oh - is that what you call your iPod? When it stopped working, did you take it to the Apple store? I've had pretty good luck with Apple service.

[labeartorycub.livejournal.com]

Yep, I agree with billeyler. Let them know you missed them-- in both languages! :)

[mrdreamjeans.livejournal.com]

I've got three days ahead in the leasing office ... no music ... no construction sounds for the next two days ... Just the computer and me. Woooo.

I'm glad you got your music station back! Perhaps, you should get Sirius radio and then you can listen to show tunes all day! :)

Big HUGS!

[greatbearmd.livejournal.com]

Radio, except for a couple exceptions, it a total wasteland here. There's one classical "public' radio station that gets played quite a bit, and a couple corporate rock things, but that's it. The rest is syndicated corporate Clear Channel trash or dead-brained religious blather. Were it not for internet radio and my library of tunes, I'd barely listen to anything on a regular basis.

Plus, there are those times I enjoy some complete silence.

[abqdan.livejournal.com]

As long as I have internet...

I listen to radio whenever at my desk. Usually BBC Radio 4 streamed from the UK. I can highly recommend BBC Radio 3 though - the all classical station - also streamed.

And then there is the magical Reciva.com. I have found a Russian classical station on that that contains NO advertising or speech. Just endless music. Wonderful background.

I do still have a radio, but it's rarely on.