As often as not
I turn the radio off on my way to work. I have a long drive and a lot of talk radio invariably leaves me wanting to shoot the radio.
Most music stations anymore play either abject crap or moldy oldies, and while I have no objection to moldy oldies, at least play the ones I LIKE more than once an hour.
The hour and a half of silence in the morning is good woolgathering time. When most of your career involves pulling manufacturing solutions out of thin air using powdered unicorn horn, butterfly farts and unobtanium, the more time you spend woolgathering the more likely you are to be able to provide meaningful solutions.
Sometimes, though, I use one of the functions of my magic Elf box and play youtube videos of songs I like through the stereo in the car. This morning was one such time, and one of my ‘Drive” playlists involves the lively rhythms of “Solsbury hill” and the crunchy guitar of “Locomotive breath” and the driving chord progression of “Riding the storm out”
So today, instead of arriving beaten and bruised and ready for another day of torturous abuse, I arrived beaten and bruised and ready for another day of torturous abuse but with a couple good songs running around my head.
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I never listen to the radio in my vehicles. Always music off my phone.
Never listen to radio. I plug the iPod into the radio and listen to my music.
I don’t do apple products. I have an Ipod but it hasn’t even been charged in two years.
Three good tunes that I like.
Life 107.1..so I like christian radio, sue me.
I walk in the backdoor every morning singing a different song at the top of my lungs. Employees think I’m nuts. This morning I was belting out this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=-nmPdUiT5ks#t=55s
I thought I’d never do Apple products either until I finally broke down and bought something big enough to put my whole music collection on….an iPod Classic. I’ve got 80gb of jams on it with plenty room for more. Hate to admit it… but that iPod is the shit. I hook it to my receiver in the Man Cave and rock out.
80 gig> I have the entire storage capacity of youtube at my disposal, and I don’t have to limit my listening to stuff I own. As I am always in internet range I never lack for new music.
As much driving as you do you’ll prolly appreciate this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=5PWSmMuBNK0#t=1m22s
Add it to your “driving” playlist.
Lol. That’s a good one, I will remember it.
I walked into the office this morning singing this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=pZjJdc7xRWU#t=2m
My personal theme song.
Flying to Maui a couple years back we had a movie I bought on iTunes ready to play instead of the garbage on United flight #35 – but at 30,000 feet and 1,000 miles from the coast there was NO f*ing Internet, AND the little netbook could not get AUTHORIZATION to play what I OWNED. I’ll never BUY another anything off Tunes, and I now have Handbrake to smash DVDs into MP4s.