college radio

i talked to corinne tonight for the first time since ripley’s party at the very beginning of the summer. she’s a dj at hopkins radio station every wednesday from 10-11. there’s a live broadcast stream and a studio web cam! her show does not have a title, which i think it should, b/c she’s obviously creative enough to come up with one. maybe she’s just holding out for inspiration. she played cemetery gates by the smiths which made me an automatic fan. also a plug for one of my favorite books, the perks of being a wallflower by stephen chbosky.

hamilton college radio stations, whcl, is okay, i guess. i don’t listen that frequently, but they do have some interesting shows. sometimes i wish they had a show that just had no theme whatsoever. i hate committing to a genre for any extended period of time. maybe they do, i guess i wouldn’t know. but looking at the schedule, i am pretty impressed at how much air time is filled by student shows.

anything would have to be an improvement on wmhc, mount holyoke’s radio station. when i think about those shows, i just remember continuous foreign and/or bizarre music, interrupted very infrequently by dialogue. and when the djs did speak, they spoke like the had just woken up. some even sounded heavily sedated. maybe they were just waking up from an indie-music induced coma. there was a certain student manager of mine who played a gospel hour, and there were a couple of really big sir mix-a-lot fans. i did tune in when holly played rhcp and jewel during her brief wmhc airtime, but otherwise, i avoided the airwaves. ok, i should have listened more frequently, i don’t have enough experience to base such a strong opinion on. but i’m just telling you what i heard.

afterglow, sarah machlachlan’s first new album since 1997 came out yesterday. that’s just shocking. i was in 7th grade then. mirrorball was released in 1999, the summer that chelsea and i went to the third and final lilith fair. since then sarah had her first child, a daughter named india, but she says that she needs a lot of time to process stuff, so her motherhood material will be on the next album. hopefully that won’t actually be five or six years from now.

my psych professor’s left retina is detaching, so he has to have surgery on friday and cancel class for a week. the man is a professor, he practically reads for a living and he can’t read at all for the next week b/c the involuntary muscle contractions make the damage worse. i’m obviously appreciating the days off, but it’s hard to feel lucky when it comes at the expense of such bad fortune for someone else! i can’t imagine having to think about such substantial damage to my eyes before i’m 30. can surgery actually repair that entirely? i don’t even know. i hope so.

quote of the day: “three, two, one and the world’s not falling apart, the world’s not falling apart because of me” – dar williams

love always, em locke