I did my Balance Ball exercise DVD and followed it with the 2 mile walk DVD. I listen to the Balance Ball tape because I need to hear instructions. As I’ve said before, I do NOT listen to my walking tape. Since then, we’ve moved the DVD player to the bedroom, so I don’t have the CD player in there, and I was stuck listening to the radio. I started suffering through NPR news and traffic, hoping to hear some catchy classical, but no, it was all DREARY, which is not conducive to marching like a dork in front of your teevee. So, I quickly flew through the dial, and it sounded like everyone was doing commercials. I even checked XPN and they were doing a fund drive. So I ended up on the Classic Rock station, because they were playing Solsbury Hill, which is one of those songs I’ll always listen to if I hear it on the radio. But then, Ugh, they played Truckin by the Grateful Dead. Oh man, I hate the Grateful Dead. It’s not just that I think they are boring… because I do like that one song… what is it? One that they play on the radio? Oh, it’s too forgetful for me to think of. I can’t even really put a finger on what I hate about them because I’ve hated them forever, but more recently, I do have a good reason: this guy I worked with was a Deadhead. Had seen the Dead dozens of times. But, he knew NOTHING about music. From what I gather, the dead do a lot of “covers”, right? And this guy thought they were all Dead songs. I had to go somewhere in a car with him, it was someone else’s car, and there was Willie Nelson’s Greatest Hits. And I put it on (I think the other choices were Songs from Titanic or something), and he kept saying “You’re killing me.” So, I guess I hate that the Dead breeds Musical Ignorance. I can’t really rant more about it, since I don’t listen to them. But, I will say, that I worked as a receptionist at a radio station when Jerry Garcia died, and I had to field dozens of calls of sad crying Deadheads, while I’m thinking, this guy killed himself, man, doing drugs his whole life– he lived longer than my momma who never even smoked a cigarette. Okay, so I get through Truckin’ and am treated to The Zombies, but of course it’s “Time of the Season” which, if you’re going to hear the Zombies on the Radio, it’s going to be that song more often than any other. I love it even though it’s overplayed. And I imagine Rod Argent’s manboobs jiggling doing the click click click ahh part. Next song is Killer Queen, which of course is a-okay in my book. Things are really looking up for the Rock Block. Then, the DJ comes on and does this thing where he dedicates a song to some poor working schmuck who needs an “Attitude Adjustment.” This woman wrote in to say that she was called into her boss’s office today because while she was having her allowed morning snack at her desk, she was banging her spoon too loudly on her dish. Oh, poor working schmucks. They should all quit their jobs just like I did. So, the DJ dedicates Joe’s favorite* song of all time: Hold your Head Up. Now, I don’t know if you know this masterpiece of a song, but it also by Rod Argent, and the longest 6 minutes of my life was spent seeing this song live in concert. Ooh boy, now all has gone to sh*t on this station. There were adverts and then I heard John Cougar Mellencamp, and now it’s “Glory Days” which is a pretty sh*tty Bruce Springsteen song, wouldn’t you agree?
The End.
*I think this is actually his least favorite song of all time, but you would have to ask him.