From kragen@dnaco.net Wed Aug 26 12:47:20 1998 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 12:47:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Kragen To: kate@erinet.com Subject: WMMX broadcasts Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Keywords: X-UID: 1458 Status: O X-Status: You know, I like listening to WMMX (especially when you're DJing -- is it my imagination, or do you just have better taste in music than the other DJs?) but there's one thing that drives me up the wall! I'll listen to a beautiful song, and want to find it elsewhere, so I wait for the end of the song to find out who the singer is, and what the song is called. Instead, almost invariably, I hear that you "play the best mix of the 80s, 90s, and 70s", that you're my "cash-call jackpot radio station", hear about your listening-at-work program. (The other thing that drives me up the wall is, of course, when you cut off the last three to five seconds of a great song so you can talk over it.) I don't know if I'm in the minority here, but I listen to WMMX because I like listening to the music. Not because I like you (although you're pleasant), not because I hope to win money (I don't), and not because I want to know what three-decade span of time the music comes from. I want to (1) hear the music (from beginning to end, except for those songs that slowly fade into nothingness -- you can cut those off half a minute early, for all I care), (2) know about the music. I'm sure that if you continue to get email, you'll find out whether I'm in the minority or not. Kragen (hoping his mail is going to the right place) -- Kragen Sitaker We are forming cells within a global brain and we are excited that we might start to think collectively. What becomes of us still hangs crucially on how we think individually. -- Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the Web