I'm sitting here thinking about going home to do the Weird Newz, and for some reason, I'm dreading it. I've already got it written, I just need to record it.I have no excuse, I have no plans for tonight. But I just don't feel like it.
Does that make any sense?
Anyone have any encouraging words to talk me into doing it?
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I don't think this is going to be encouraging, but doing the Weird Newz should be fun. If you're dreading it I'd say don't do it. Hopefully it's just this one time. But if you start feeling like it's something you don't want to do on a regular basis it might be time to pull the plug.
A while back the station started feeling like an unpaid job to me. Too many people wanting music added. Too many software problems. Too many technical problems. So on and so on. That's what I realized I needed to simplify the whole thing and take a more laid back approach (listener ownership came out of that).
In the end this is a hobby. It's got to be fun or it just isn't worth it MZ.
Take a week off if you want, use this weeks for next week.
Really, I don't have anything. I understand the mood completely though. I am no help since I don't even have the opportunity to listen to your reports.
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Stop trying to be what you see. Be what you ought to be.
tell ya what. if you do it and are able to email me the sound file, I'll gladly air it during the sunday night live programs as well- give you more air time.
thats all I got.
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"And like Web, I enjoy throwing JR under the bus. Problem is, it's usually under the special bus that I ride every day". Ghostdancer 12-18-09
Actually, I didn't do it last week because I slept the night away after poisoning myself with corn starch. The week before that, I didn't do it because it was my birthday.
I'm still tending to side with JR here, maybe I'll just take a break from it for a while.
There's been a couple of summers where I didn't due live shows on sunday nights to take a break. I came back in September fired up to do it again. Now because I do them from home, I treat it as a break from the rest of the world, "MY time".
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"And like Web, I enjoy throwing JR under the bus. Problem is, it's usually under the special bus that I ride every day". Ghostdancer 12-18-09
I imagine you're suffering a bit from what JD & I have suffered from many times in the past.
Is it worth it? Does anyone listen?
We used to broadcast to over 100 people. I'll confess, I just can't get my enthusiasm up to broadcast to 12 people. It's just not there. I'd love to get on the air every day, but it almost feels foolish. Like I'm just talking to my friends.
I imagine you're suffering a bit from what JD & I have suffered from many times in the past.
Is it worth it? Does anyone listen?
We used to broadcast to over 100 people. I'll confess, I just can't get my enthusiasm up to broadcast to 12 people. It's just not there. I'd love to get on the air every day, but it almost feels foolish. Like I'm just talking to my friends.
I miss having an audience
Yeah, that might be part of it. But sometimes I wonder if I'm really doing it for only a few people.
How about this....think of the poor children in Africa sitting there with only the earphones on there heads just waiting to hear the Weird Newz so they can lay their little heads on the bamboo pillows they share with their 9 brothers and sisters. Do it.....do it for them....
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Sometimes, when i'm lonely... i crawl into a laundry basket and tickle my ears. But, Some times I don't...
That was touching Spark. I needed to grab my hanky. I don't have a hanky so I just wiped my eyes with my t-shirt, but still... touching. just touching.
I've gotten past that I think. I just am doing what I would be doing anyhow on most sunday nights- chillin out, havin a few drinks, cranking tunes. the fact that I can air that on the internet is still pretty cool and fun.
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"And like Web, I enjoy throwing JR under the bus. Problem is, it's usually under the special bus that I ride every day". Ghostdancer 12-18-09
I understand the mood completely though. I am no help since I don't even have the opportunity to listen to your reports.
