I hate the Radio

So I made a habit a while back of setting my alarm clock to the most vile corporate drivel i could find in order to force myself to get out of bed and turn it off.  Previously i’d had it set to classical music (because there are no radio stations that play independent, conscious hip hop music or folk or trip hip or any interesting electronica or pretty much anything else I’m actually interested in listening too) but as it turned out classical was just too damn peaceful and I kept sleeping right through my alarm.

At first the strategy worked pretty well but this morning it backfired on me, big-time, because i woke up to a Jonas Brothers song.  Something about time travel and how the singer went to the year three thousand and “your great great great granddaughter, is doing fine.”  I swear they must have repeated that same banal chorus 16-20 times, it was practically the entire song.  And now it’s stuck in my head.  Fuck.  double fuck. It’s times like this I can see the attraction of religion because if i believed in a god at least I could derive some small sadistic pleasure by imagining them slowly burning in hell.

It’s not up there with the wholesale rape of the planet and the wanton destruction of everything beautiful, but for the morning at least crappy plastic disneypop is ranking pretty high up there on my list of reasons to hate capitalism and the ruling corporateocracy.

Posted: March 24th, 2009 under culture war, music, personal.
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