Last minute reminder: I'm on the air tonight, 10pm to midnight. 88.7fm for the locals, or the website for those so inclined. You'll also be able to check the playlist as it happens.
Earlier today the XDU listserv blew the hell up. In condensed form the message from one of my fellow DJs to the rest of the station was: why must you persist in being who you are instead of who I want you to be? In other words, the story of countless doomed romances. Which is not the say that XDU is perfect. Like all other people and institutions, it could clearly be a better version of what it is. And, of course, change is not only possible but constant. However, to me, there are few things more annoying than someone who gets involved with you (whether you're a person or a college radio station) only or even mostly because they want to change you, to make you over into their version of you. Better? For them, perhaps. For you? Perhaps not.
The other thing that horked me about today's farm-film-listserv-blowup was the claim that "unless I review 5 or 6 CDs a week, I can't do the kind of show I want and still make playlist." (For those who came in late, XDU requires 6 tracks per hour from playlist CDs, of which there are usually over 100). This to me is a really precious over-attachment to "my sound, my show." It's just 2 hours of radio, people. My show may be my expression but it is not me. If it sucks (Gang Gang Dance), it does not mean that I suck. Likewise, if it's great, I do not suddenly become personally great. I mean, I've been at XDU long enough that I could probably do weeks worth of shows playing nothing but CDs I've reviewed and still make playlist. And that would drive me totally batshit. How boring. How lazy. Grrr.. snarl... phoeey... get over yrself

(thanks, I feel much better now)