Something I often do, but haven’t mentioned before: I sing in the car. Yes, I’m one of those annoying people you see in traffic, sitting at a light that’s just turned green trying to hit the note AND remember the words AND get it in gear AND get their ass moving. That’s me. It’s how I gird up on my way to work, or de-gird on the way home.

I often think that good songs at the beginning and end of my day act like bookends. I usually listen to WBEZ for news, but WXRT for music. In fact, you can listen to X-R-T online, but I have to say: their online music channel on Radio@AOL/Radio@Netscape totally SUCKS. They play these snippets of not-real songs for commercials that can’t go out over the air nationally. Also, I think they snippet out on-air announcements and concert listings. They always use the same ones, 30 seconds at a time. And there usually seem to be 8 or 10 different snippets together at a time.

So although WXRT is a great radio station, I can’t recommend their online channel unless you’re really desperate.

Oh, God. During the course of typing up this post, I waited through 10 snipppets to hear just TWO songs, and the snippets have started again. Maybe this is too frustrating.

Musical Bookends for the day:

• True Love Is Hard To Find by Toots and the Maytals, with Bonnie Raitt on backup
• Racing Off To Nowhere, by Peter Himmelman