Asile 34 and 3/4

Asile 34 and 3/4 the Bargin Music Bin

Did a first run of my show "Dead Air." Went kind of well had a lot to play, some stuff to talk about. Felt as good as when I was working at the other station. I don't know I just love three hour slots. So much music. So much opertunity to switch into several genres and cover a hell of alot of musical tastes.

I've noticed that my musical tastes have changed drastically through out the years. When I was in highschool I would only listen to either ska or punk rock (old punk rock), oh yeah and the Cure, how could I not? I eventually let more styles in and turned into one of those "Oh I like everything except country and rap." Which was so wrong, for I liked Johnny Cash and Ice T.

Once I hit college (and even to an extent the last half of senior year of high school) I started to get into indie music, Magnetic Fields, Moldy Peaches and the like. I also started to get into some hard core/emo. The emo lasted about a few seconds. How could I stand all that whining? I whined enough about being single I didn't want to have to hear it in my music. So I went back into ska to hide from the current music.

Then something odd happened. As I was working my second year as music director at WSIN I got a few CDs that I knew no one would ever play (at least no one at the station) and the bands were so different than anything I had previously listened to. Junior Seinor, Hidden Cameras, became lodged in my stereo and then came the day I heard Gogol Bordello for the first time and fell in love. Since then I've run around looking for bands on the fringe and going back to bands my sisters would listen to, I even tapped into the world music that my mom played on her radio show at WCNI.

I love music. All types. I've been to concerts for just about every genre I can think of and have only been disapointed by a few bands. I'm not fanatical about any one particular band, nor any one style of music. I'm not a scenester, though I know some people who are. I'm as punk as far as my attitude towards creating art goes but to lable me as a punk just doesn't fit any more. No lable fits, and that's fine by me.

Mix tapes are my poetry. A concert gives me life. I'd love to go out to a smokey jazz club and drink a martini, or go to a dive bar and drink a guiness as an art rock band blasts a cacophony of sounds out to the audience.