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[cxwq]

It seems Hal waited for 24 hours in order to be the first customer of the new Apple store that opened Friday in Santa Monica, California. My morning drive time funny guys called him up this morning to mock him.

Best quote?

Hal: "Yeah it was really cool, I bought a new Powerbook and they were following me around taking pictures and I'm using it right now, it's really cool."

Radio guy: "You have an erection right now, don't you Hal?"

[JSkater]

Oh my god, that's great!

Getting dissed by the radio station.. Classic.

[mr box]

Bwahaha that is too much.

[rawray7]

good old Hal. at least now he won't have to preach his Mac-ism beliefs, everyone already knows he's crazy about them.

[neonerfer]

Hey, whatever Hal does with his powerbooks is his personal business! The radio should respect that and not exploit his "interests." At least he's happy...

[VACC]

......AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! oh god... wait.....HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[Groove]

OMFG! TOO FUNNY!!!!

PICTURE TIME!

[ItalionStallion]

Thats some pretty funny stuff.

What kind of radio station was it?

[cxwq]

What kind of radio station was it?

KROQ

They used to play a pretty interesting mix of 'alternative' music that you didn't hear anywhere else. Now they've pretty much sold out but they still play the occasional good song. Here's the current meat of their playlist:

1 Hot Hot Heat - Bandages
2 Linkin Park - Faint
3 The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
4 The Ataris - Boys of Summer
5 Foo Fighters - Times Like These
6 Good Charlotte - Girls & Boys
7 Jane's Addiction - Just Because
8 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Can't Stop
9 Trapt - Headstrong
10 311 - Creatures (For A While)
11 Audioslave - Like a Stone
12 Queens of the Stone Age - Go with the Flow
13 Staind - So Far Away
14 AFI - The Leaving Song Pt. II
15 Chevelle - Send The Pain Below
16 The White Stripes - The Hardest Button to Button
17 Deftones - Minerva
18 Radiohead - There There
19 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dosed
20 The Used - Blue and Yellow

[mr box]

Dammit, Kevin and Bean mocked Hal?!?! Of all the days not to get up and listen. Fuck.

[LDM]

Well, I guess that's "new." Besides, Macs are on the top of my throne. They rule over all . . .

And, the radio's playlist isn't bad. The Used is all right, and The White Stripes are good. But they play Good Charlotte ::grimaces:: Sorry to Good Charlotte lovers.

[Sandman]

And, the radio's playlist isn't bad.

It wouldn't be as bad if they played more songs that weren't made for the radio. I really like The Ataris, and AFI, but they should play more than their singles.

[cxwq]

It wouldn't be as bad if they played more songs that weren't made for the radio. I really like The Ataris, and AFI, but they should play more than their singles.

Precisely. Couldn't have said it better myself.

Unfortunately, at least in the LA market, there aren't any radio stations that play interesting music except the local college stations. With those, you just have to accept that polka gets the same size time slot as underground hip hop or downtempo and trance.

I attribute the enormous success over the last few years of online music trading software partly to the simultaneous bottoming-out of the largely Clearchannel owned airwaves.

[rawray7]

89.9 has good music on their show Morning Gets Eclectic.
103.1 is the new party station, and i get a kick out of that stuff, even though i hate most of the songs.

[cxwq]

89.9 has good music on their show Morning Gets Eclectic.
103.1 is the new party station, and i get a kick out of that stuff, even though i hate most of the songs.

Yeah, I like Morning Becomes Eclectic and Metropolis on KCRW. Jason Bently, the music director for the Matrix films, spins on the latter. Strangely, he also has a Saturday night show on KROQ called After Hours.

The only other station I listen to is KSPC, the Claremont Colleges' station. They seriously play everything under the sun and their DJs are laid back and funny.

As you can see from the following playlists, these stations are most decidedly NOT owned by Clearchannel... <g>

Morning Becomes Eclectic and Metropolis playlists here.

Current KSPC Top 35:
Artist, Title, Label

1 Forget Cassettes Instruments of Action Theory Eight
2 Animal Collective Here Comes The Indian Paw Tracks
3 Asobi Seksu Asobi Seksu Asobi Seksu
4 Ultra Dolphins Ultra Dolphins If And When
5 Various Artists Neon Meate Dream of A Octafish Animal World
6 Ten Grand This Is The Way To Rule Southern
7 Push Button Objects Ghetto Blaster Chocolate Industries
8 Franciscan Hobbies Masks & Meanings Soft Abuse
9 Various Artists Input/Output Cross Country Input/Output
10 Curse of The Birthmark Curse of The Birthmark Curse of The Birthmark
11 Vinicius De Moraes Days In Mar De Plata Circular Moves
12 Wobby+People Like Us+Matmos Wide Open Spaces Tigerbeat 6
13 Lisa Moore Which Side Are You On? Cantaloupe
14 Wives Wives 7" Post Present Medium
15 Pinback Offcell Absolutely Kosher
16 Bee And Flower What's Mine Is Yours Neurot
17 Loren Connors The Departing of A Dream Vol. 2 Family Vineyard
18 Monsier Mo Rio Bonne Chance S.H.A.D.O.
19 Cinematic Orchestra Man With A Movie Camera Ninja Tune
20 Danny And The Nightmares The End Is Near Again Cool Beans
21 Various Artists Well Suited for General Purpose Audio Work Schematic
22 Alexander McGregor Part One: Aquirre Returns Eskimo Laboratories
23 Comets On Fire Coments On Fire Alternative Tentacles
24 Various Artists Misanthropic Agenda Sampler Fall '02 Misanthropic Agenda
25 The Forms Icarus Three Spheres
26 Four Tet Rounds Domino
27 Colossal Colossal Asian Man
28 Unwed Sailor The Marionette And The Music Box Burnt Toast
29 Resplendent Resplendent Mixx Tape
30 Je Suis France Fantastic Arm Orange Twin
31 Sonic Youth/Erase Errata Sonic Youth/Erase Errata 7" Narnack
32 From Monument To Masses The Impossible Leap In One Hundred Dim Mak
33 Rusty Santos Outside Versus In Rusty Santos
34 The High Strung These Are Good Times Tee Pee
35 Fog Ether Teeth Ninja Tune


Recent After Hours Playlist:

Junkie XL w/ Robert Smith - Perfect Blue Sky Radio JXL (Roadrunner)
Coldplay - Clocks; Cosmos remix)
UNKLE feat. Ian Brown - Fear (Mo Wax)
Hybrid - Gravastar Morning Sci Fi (Distinctive)
LHB - From My Star; Amp mix (Telstar)
King Unique - Lighters (Junior)
Tori Amos - Don't Make Me Come to Vegas; Timo Maas mix (Atlantic)
Quivver - Daylight (Boz Boz)
Ladytron - (Emperor Norton)
16B - Doubt (Hooj Choons)
Playgroup - Make it Happen; Ewan Pearson remix (Output)
Porter & Blaine - Surrounding Darkness (CDR)
PQM Every Day; Chris Fortier Rmx (CDR)
Gene Carbonell - The Beat; Dub (Choo Choo)
Dave Gahan - Dirty Sticky Floor; Junkie XL remix (Reprise)
Timo Maas - Unite (Kinetic)
Moloko - Familiar Feeling (Timo Maas mix)
Chemical Brothers - Out of Control (Astralwerks)
Nalin & Kane - Nothing (Loaded)
Desert - Moods; Troy Roberts remix (promo)
Stereomovers - Skydivers (Addictive)
Moguai - U Know Y (Hope)
Jem - Finally Woke Up (Demo)

[ZATZAi]

Yah, that was pretty funny. I actually went down to the promenade ,(I work 3 blocks away and was down there for lunch for my Dad's birthday anyhow) and said hello. It seemed pretty pointless at first, but once the radio station showed up (I walked past again at 6:00pm) it became super crowded. The line to get in went down the block, around the corner, and around the next corner...



That's me in the red, I don't recal who took the picture Hal showed me the link to it, it's some old friend of his he said...

EDIT:

I remember, Hal was looking most forward to the response from Slashdot, needless to say, they didn't give a damn, and just made fun.

[VACC]

Lawn chairs: $29.99
Double Expresso Lates: $6.99
Pocket Protectors: A buck and change
Portable electronics covered in nerdcore stickers: $3k and counting
Greasy nerds: The promise of free doughnuts
No girls for 2 square miles: priceless

VACC
~Bitch!~

[NerfManiac]

That is so funny.