Podge of Hodge

1) Agreeing with Jake on the Fatty Tax idea. Now...does Jake agree with me on the Fairtax idea?

2) Because I live in Metro Atlanta and have only a radio and a broken tape deck in my car, I listen to 88.5 FM, which is a non-commercial radio station run by students at Georgia State University. I've discovered a lot of exquisite new music there, and the station generally just beats the piss out of 99X and Project 96.1 (or whatever they call it now) when it comes to playlist diversity and quality.

That being said, a lot of the DJs on 88.5 suck and should get out of the "biz." Yes, I know they're college students and not professionals. Yes, I know they don't get paid for it. The thing is, some of them are quite good - they have a passion for it and inject personality into the experience, making it fun and clever for everybody involved. This makes it all the more irritating when the lackluster DJs are on-air. I'm not asking to hear Radio Guy, but neither do I want to hear the pre-medicated cast of Awakenings.

I heard a chap this morning reading a "concert calendar" as if he were reciting tax code to a group of IRS trainees. Then, to make matters worse, he told me I could hear Performer X at "Smith's Oldie Bar."

Dude, it's "Smith's Olde Bar." Pronounced "old."

If you:

A) think the word "olde" has anything to do with 50's-era rock and you are in college, you should consider dropping out, and

B) have so little knowledge of prominent music venues in your area that you could commit such a blunder, perhaps you should reconsider the rationale of DJ-ing a hipness-defining college radio station. (Question: "Is taking part in WRAS a required course or something?" Answer: "No. It's not even a recommended course.")

3) I'm sneaking this in here at the end as a little joke to myself, regarding all the times I've talked about big posts. So if you're still reading, the joke's on both of us.

We are in the VERY early stages (can't emphasize that enough) of finding a professional producer to help us develop a new recording project. We have a couple of people in "talks" and we'll let you know if and when a direction is chosen. I just wanted to tell you that we still write, still want to be a "real" band, and still want to give you something cool to spin as you get fat and old like us. The time is right for us to take the next step and consider thinking about preparing to possibly make a record we can be proud of maybe.

We'll keep you posted.