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..damn. Sweet.

I might as well do this, because my Novembers are burning a hole in my pocket: Anyone want a couple of November '07s that are unopened? Just tell me what you're willing to pay.

(Hey, I had them on reserve, but they seem to not be popular. I could vend them, but I figure that they'd do better with AGers, and Barty hasn't said anything to me, I don't think.)

I've been existing in a serious cloud of musical nostalgia the last week or two...

Back in 93-94, a Hartford area radio station, 104.1, switched over from an easy listening format to become one of the earlier modern rock stations. At this point, most of the stations you'd listen to newer stuff on either mashed em in with the general top 40 or slid em in between classic rock, hard rock, and some metal... but this new channel was more or less all newer rock, with little bits of older stuff to fill it out here and there. At first, like most new channels, it was just recorded bumpers here and there, with the occasional comment from the engineer keeping things running... but after a month it started picking up DJs (including Darkside Dave, the grave-shift engineer who got the greenlight from the higher-ups to just do the night shift with the help of an intern or two), evolved a few blocks, and got a name, WMRQ (Modern RoQ, get it?).

Sadly, after about a decade of being totally kickass on the Connecticut, Southwestern Mass scene, with a morning show hosted by Twisted Sister's Dee Snyder (and regularly visited by the likes of Dicky Barrett and Cici Diville, among others) a trio of annual shows along with the bevvy of smaller outings, and tons of fans, Sagget Communication eventually decided to switch the format to total urban hip-hop and rap... Literally overnight. Fans were totally surprised to tune in the next morning and find nothing but rap and taped bumpers... and many of the staff were surprised to find out they no longer had a job unless they wanted to sign on with new positions at this freshly minted s**t factory.

It seems that the market for rap and hip-hop is either too small or too loyal to the pre-existing channels to have switched over, because one day when riding somewhere in my sister's car I fiddled with her radio when she ran in somewhere to get something, leaving me the chance to try to find some decent music for me and the boys... and I heard some mid-90s modern rock... since most of her channels are dance and hip-hop, I checked the dial to see 104.1 beaming back at me. SHOCK.

In the two or three weeks since, they seem to still be in the taped bumpers and occasional commercial stage, but 104.1 is indeed back, but with another FCC callsign that escapes me at the moment. And they're playing some newer stuff, but mostly stuff that used to be on 104 all the ******** time... awesome s**t like Goldfinger, Filter, Candlebox, early Foo Fighters, and other great tunes from when I was in college.

And today I heard Suckerpunch by the Refreshments. So I looked them up on youtube for shits and giggles... and found out that while they had indeed broken up, the lead singer had went on to form another band, The Peacemakers... and they were doing some of the Refreshments' old tunes in addition to their own. It would also seem that they're even more awesome live than the Refreshments were when I saw them in Providence... http://youtube.com/watch?v=xj1wqg5cfO0


TL;DR: OOOOOLLLLLLLDDDDD~~~~ Hey, look, shiny music!

I'm going to go with ... Yes.

Started watching Louis no Zero again. I am making with the lulz.

Zero does not make cute noises in his sleep gonk
Maybe if I sleep in the hallway he won't wake me up.

To points 1-3> What can I say... my mojo is ******** fierce.

To points 3-4> Looks like you're developing some mojo yourself...

Why am I cringing already... at both parts of this?