short shameful confession

[rone]

Sirius and XM completed their merger a few weeks ago, and something that popped up on the Rock station in the last day or two was the ABBA channel — all ABBA, all the time.  Scary, i know.  But just now i had to listen to it because they were playing the Spanish version of "Chiquitita", which was my favorite song in second grade and is probably the first favorite song i can remember having.

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[vspope.livejournal.com]

ABBA makes me want to drown things.

As does Mel Karmazin. Since the hostile takeover^H^H^H^H^Hmerger, Mel has done everything he can to piss me off. Fuck him and all of his children.

Fungus permanently gone? Check. My Roady had Fungus playing more than everything else combined.
Special X permanently gone from the Online stream? Check.
Comedy 150 replaced by its Sirius equivalent? Check.
Rock stations mostly replaced by their Sirius equivalents? Check.

I'm astonished that the Joint and Deep Tracks survived, but I'm afraid to thank them for fear that they'll find out I like that and cancel it too.

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i was glad Deep Tracks and Earl Bailey survived, but they have douchebag DJs talking over the music on 1st Wave. If i wanted to listen to douchebag DJs talking over `80s music, i'd go to `80s on 8. And the Sirius "punk" station, Faction, has some English fuckwad and his cronies on afternoons who are completely insufferable tits.

They also tanked rotojeff's fantasy baseball show. So, yeah, fuck Sirius.

[vspope.livejournal.com]

There are douchebag DJs on 1st Wave. There is also The Cure on 1st Wave, which makes me doubly likely to stay away from 1st Wave.

(There are exactly two men in rock music who can get away with feminine makeup while rocking out. Fee Waybill and David Bowie. Neither gets 1st Wave airplay. Robert Smith is a Big Fat Girl.)

Faction is a hunk of shit.

Madison is a hunk of shit.

I will say that I was having issues with XM before the switchover and had problems finding ten stations worth presetting. At the moment, I have 10 stations largely because I have an inexplicable soft spot for Jimmy Buffett and Jam On, but some of my new presets are on double secret probation.