last night was my last radio show of the semseter, and it went really well. we played good tunes and kept the foolish blathering to a minimum. and i have a story to tell.

my friend emily had called, and i was on the phone with her just about to hang up. i had also just put on the saves the day song “at the funeral” because i saw the video the other day (which i thought was cool save the fact that you hardly got to see the rest of the band, poor guys) and it’s been in my head since then. so as i’m trying to finish a phone conversation and pressing buttons and juggling a few cds to take out/put in the cd players, three young but older than us people come in the studio all excited, and say it’s the weirdest thing that we’re playing that song right then while they were walking by, because they had just directed the video. whoa. so sadly i seemed to miss the first part of the conversation, explaining to emily what had just happened then finishing that conversation, then putting the music in order to keep the show going. but once that was all taken care of i finally got to pay attention.

they told us a little story about how upon airing the really badly censored version that sounded like crap (which they didn’t get informed of until it aired…damn mtv), the vagrant guy–president maybe? i missed that detail, but it’s not important–called the appropriate power at mtv and complained angrily, listing several examples of similar lyrics that didn’t get censored as i’m sure you can all think of yourselves and apparently coming to the point where he said, “oh, we’re an independent label, so it’s okay for you to fuck us?” and hung up. that’s pretty punk, right? i guess they called him back and since he was such a dick they’re re-editing it so it doesn’t sound so stupid. rock.

they were around the radio station, we found out, because they’re scouting the campus coffee house (right next to the radio station) for a dashboard confessional video. not an enormous dashboard fan, but i think i’d still rather see his video than a “dave” video. for sure. i guess they were also the people who did the alkaline trio video for stupid kid. i told them i loved that one–which i really did, i’m not a suck up–and they were excited because it never got any airtime and they thought no one liked it, and they said they’d send me a tape. i thought that was awful nice of them. if they remember to send it, i’ll let you borrow it.

so that was my interesting radio story from yesterday. you should have listened, we did a good job. you’ll just have to wait until tuesday nights next semester now though, sometime in january when we start programming again. sad, i know.