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I'm sitting here in one of my offices on campus, going through my own live journal and the 3 years of its' existence. It never ceases to amaze me how much things and people change; one entry to the next. On one page I'm griping about the band (which I am no longer in), and the next I'm worried about my acceptance into graduate school; something so seemingly inconceivable a page prior.
The phrase "where has the time gone?" rears its' ugly head more than once, reminding me that it goes much quicker than I wish it would.
I have been having a really hard time lately, mostly dealing with the radio station and the kids' opinions of my programming. I hate the idea of people disliking me because of the manner in which I feel an educational institution such as WDBM needs to be run; but I have gotten to the point where I am so bitter that I no longer talk or socialize with my staff. There has always been a certain degree of seperation because of my status as an outsider, but I fear it is growing worse. I wish people could understand that I have no alterior motives for doing anything, and that every single thing I do is anticipated to be the best thing for the station.
The more and more I think about it, the more I remember how I was there once, too. I hated the foundation of radio, even though I worked in it, and I thought that so much was wrong with it. For the most part, I still do. But one thing I hate over everything else is the fact that the kids biggest complaint is that we play too much mainstream music, when we should be entirely indie. That arguement carries little weight from those who know nothing about the market (Lansing couldn't carry an alternative station that played WELL-known modern rock as it was too edgy for most here), or radio for that matter...but it's the act of EXCLUDING people, an audience, that bothers me most.
For being supposedly liberal kids, they are some of the most closed minded people I have ever meet. They take music so seriously, when it is something that should always just be admired for what it is. A creation, a piece of art. Regardless of your opinion, no one is right. No one band makes better art than others; certainly some bands are technically superior at playing their instruments...but that's beyond the point.
Music is what it is, and is what you think of it...what it makes you feel. It is not what you think others should feel about it.
I don't particularly like a lot of music, but I can say that folks music that I abhor, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Nickelback, etc. is well produced and written. They are good at what they do, but I don't care for it.
That doesn't mean I'm going to go on a mission to tell people that they suck and tell them what they should be listening to. Leave people the fuck alone.
/end rant.
The phrase "where has the time gone?" rears its' ugly head more than once, reminding me that it goes much quicker than I wish it would.
I have been having a really hard time lately, mostly dealing with the radio station and the kids' opinions of my programming. I hate the idea of people disliking me because of the manner in which I feel an educational institution such as WDBM needs to be run; but I have gotten to the point where I am so bitter that I no longer talk or socialize with my staff. There has always been a certain degree of seperation because of my status as an outsider, but I fear it is growing worse. I wish people could understand that I have no alterior motives for doing anything, and that every single thing I do is anticipated to be the best thing for the station.
The more and more I think about it, the more I remember how I was there once, too. I hated the foundation of radio, even though I worked in it, and I thought that so much was wrong with it. For the most part, I still do. But one thing I hate over everything else is the fact that the kids biggest complaint is that we play too much mainstream music, when we should be entirely indie. That arguement carries little weight from those who know nothing about the market (Lansing couldn't carry an alternative station that played WELL-known modern rock as it was too edgy for most here), or radio for that matter...but it's the act of EXCLUDING people, an audience, that bothers me most.
For being supposedly liberal kids, they are some of the most closed minded people I have ever meet. They take music so seriously, when it is something that should always just be admired for what it is. A creation, a piece of art. Regardless of your opinion, no one is right. No one band makes better art than others; certainly some bands are technically superior at playing their instruments...but that's beyond the point.
Music is what it is, and is what you think of it...what it makes you feel. It is not what you think others should feel about it.
I don't particularly like a lot of music, but I can say that folks music that I abhor, John Mayer, Dave Matthews, Nickelback, etc. is well produced and written. They are good at what they do, but I don't care for it.
That doesn't mean I'm going to go on a mission to tell people that they suck and tell them what they should be listening to. Leave people the fuck alone.
/end rant.