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CHANGING MY TUNE

We used to keep our "local" classical station on all day. KUSC in LA. They have a local transmitter.

Little by little this got cut down. We were busy, it was annoying or something.

Then, during one of their awful fund raising sessions, we turned it off and never turned it back on.

The silence was nice for quite awhile but, lately, a side effect has kicked in.

The only real music that I hear on a regular basis is the canned stuff at the gym which repeats and repeats.

The result is that I am "hearing" one or another of these old rock songs in my head during the day. Not good. Spiritually thin. Repetitive.

So, for the first time since I had the iMac, I am tuning into some classical music stations. Today is the CBC classical station. It seems to have more excerpts than I like. This is fairly common now. Not many stations believe their listeners will stay with a full symphony or quartet. There is no choral music here. But that is for today. At least it is not some obscure one hit wonder who is eking royalties out of the bottom rung Golds Gym Network. Or the tired old Beach Boys who are still singing like there is no tomorrow. It makes for a curious experience if one knows what happened next but not for long.

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