listening notes, weather

[elainegrey]

For somedayseattle: i was listening to WKNC, the college radio station of my college years, as i drove home. 80's new wave. "Yes, fine, a little retro." Then i thought about it, when i was at NC State in the late 80s, the comparable retro would have been --- the 50's?! No one would have played 50's music on 'KNC when Christine was in charge. I don't even think there was a specifically 60s show. There was a new wave show -- is this, i wonder, the same new wave show still playing? Surely not. Anyhow, more evidence the Triangle area radio scene is stuck in some deep mud.

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There was a bit of damp that came through, but we are back to mild dry weather. Inside, the dew point is 55°F; outside it is 41°F. It's times like this that i wish we had an attic fan to powerfully vent the house and pull in this lovely air. This wish occurs maybe 20 days out of 365, so i have no plans to do anything about it -- except i realized we have tiny little attic fans, the venting fans in the bathrooms. So they're on while i am out on the back porch, studiously ignoring the pollen coating everything. (The rains over the weekend cleaned up the outdoors.)

Comments

[tamena]

it's unnerving when you're walking through a store and realize the elevator music they're playing in from your late teens LOL

[gurdonark]

I think that's a good point about music. When I was in college in the late 70s, a 50s music revival was in session, but campus radio would have passed on all that except for perhaps Sha Na Na, which was immune to rational evaluation. On the other hand, I could imagine a campus radio station slipping in a fair bit of 50s jazz.

[elainegrey]

When i mentioned my observations to Christine, she noted she did blay 50's jazz on her jazz show. It's just led me to realize just what a cultural change occurred in the 60s.