I'm impressed! Really, I am.

So, the story began with me getting in my car and listening to the radio as I always do in the morning as I make my way to work. I had a feeling of recognition to what was playing, but I couldn't place who it was, though I had a few ideas. So, I decided to call WPRK and ask, since I have their number in my cell now. Turns out I was wrong about who it was, but I was right that I had heard it before. It turned out to be a local band, Red Shift Mantra. Our friend, Rich, is friends with them, and he got me a copy of their cd for Christmas 2 years ago (except that it was a late gift so I got it sometime last year). So as I found this out, as usual, the dj asked if I had any requests. I asked what his "schtick" was and he said that anything goes, so since the RSM song was kinda international/world music sounding, I requested a few of my favorite international/world music bands...Scandinavian faves: Sorten Muld, Garmarna, Loituma, Annbjorg Lien (who I thought the song was by originally) and a Greek artist, Kristi Stassinopoulou. A song later, I heard the opening to 2 Sister's, by Sorten Muld. It's not every day that you hear a Danish band, singing traditional songs to modern sounds...in Danish, on the radio. Granted, it is Rollins College, and they're not your everyday mainstream radio station either. In my opinion, 2 Sister's is not the best song from their debut cd, Mark II, but it *is* the first song I heard from them, and it was enough to spark my interest in the band and to buy this cd. I'm just glad this dj was able to find it (he later said it was in the station's world music section since they have a world music show) and was willing to play it for me. I only hope he liked it. So I'm happy now. : )


Oh, and I forgot to mention that I heard a St Etienne song at the Old Navy store Monday. It's fading, but I think it was Nothing Can Stop Us from Foxbase Alpha, although at the time, I had thought that it was a track from Sarah Cracknell's solo b-sides cd. To hear Sarah sing, as part of St. Etienne or not, is a pleasure all in itself. That surpised me and made me happy too!

ARGH!!!

I hate Super Scout!!! This is a program that blocks websites from my/our work computer(s) because we are not really supposed to visit non work related sites. Ha! As if that would stop us for too long. And even if the websites are blocked, we will still find non work related things to do when it is slow. There is no rhyme or reason as to what sites it blocks or when, or for how long, and it always goes away eventually, if you try the sites persistently. But it is such a big pain in the arse until then. They have just now blocked my mac.com mail site. They've done it before and, *sometimes* I can check it from a third party pop mail site...unless they block that too. It's important I check my mail because sometimes Chas sends me important things to that account, and since he can't reach me by phone at work, email is important. Like yesterday, I had to go meet him somewhere instead of going home, and I found out about this via an email. I mean, I do have a cell phone, and he can leave a voicemail (since I can't answer it in here), but sometimes the voicemail doesn't go through right away, so I always ask that he email and leave me a voicemail message, in case I don't get one or the other. So this whole Super Scout block thing has me annoyed now.

Grrr....