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Orlando was fine, a little blah. I got some bras that fit me, at Lane Bryant (where everything else is too big). Nothing else. A very boring trip. Read a manga called Peach Girl for a while but didn't have time to finish it. Decided that I want the new BeneFit "Bathina" stuff but took no action in that direction. Couldn't find the new Placebo cd for a decent price (might exch'g my unopened new Depeche Mode cd for it). Generally a long drive for an unexciting result.

My stomach is in knots today and I haven't had much appetite.

I was thinking of profound things to say earlier but I am afraid they've quietly slid out of my head, and not through my mouth or hand, either. Oh well.

There is a radio station in my area that bills itself as "Generation X Radio" and plays mostly 80s. They do play some decent stuff mixed with some total crap, but for some reason, they play a disproportionate number of Journey songs. Like, one every hour or so. I cannot turn on that station for long without hearing "Seperate Ways" or "Sherri" or "High On You". It's like a train wreck... I just can't look away. Is the station manager or program manager obsessed with Journey? Is it a private joke among the djs? Do Journey's reps do payola to get their music played on 80s and hard rock radio, given that they've been touring lately? This is really starting to bother me!

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[jet.livejournal.com]

girl, you just don't KNOW!

journey rules!

i like journey. me and the choobs listened to journey and reminisced over teenagey stuff. twas fun and dorky...

journey was the first song i ever slow danced to...

open arms!

tony price...7th grade.

[verbminx.livejournal.com]

I don't mind Journey that much, and there are certain times I expect to hear it (for instance, nostalgia-hard-rock radio, the same stations that play a lot of Skynrd and Eagles and Black Sabbath and stuff). It's just that it forms a disproportionately large part of this station's playlist! but you know, 'cause we already talked about it. hehe.

[xp85goblin.livejournal.com]

I have a strained relationship with the music of my youth. I really can't stand nostalgia rock stations and feel vaugely offended that the stuff I used to think was so rebellious and cool is now so much corporate Muzak to be piped into department stores. Plus, that stuff was cool the first hundred (probably no exaggeration) times I listened to it. It isn't Mozart. Enough repetition sucks the life out of it. Not having industrial sized drums of hormones in my system probably has something to do with it as well.

I still have a collection of MP3's of 80's metal boiled down to what little of it was actually good. I use it mainly as auditory caffiene for when the kitchen needs cleaning or some other task requiring a little extra motivation comes up.

Other than that my tastes run to earlyish Classical, New Age, and Medieaval/Rennaisance. I don't think this qualifies as being any less cool than hanging on to the 80's stuff until I am senile.

If I wanted to be "cool" I would emulate the tastes of the current batch of teenagers and keep doing so until I looked utterly ridiculous. But then, that kind of youth worship is kind of pathetic in my opinion.