KDRadio Love

KDRadio is playing "Love Makes A Woman" by Barbara Acklin, which is a wonderful if fairly obscure Soul record -- I wouldn't recognize that except that it's on Rhino Record's Beg, Scream & Shout: The Big Box of 60s Soul, so I had to take that off of the shelf and look up the exact title -- I haven't been playing this set often enough of late, so I'll have to correct that.

(The DJ followed that with "Behind Closed Doors" by Tony Rich and a pretty song whose title I didn't get by Debbie Reynolds -- three styles of song that you wouldn't think would go together but blended so very well.)

I mention KDRadio and KMIN here quite often, which are real radio stations in respectively Thousand Oaks, CA and Grants, NM, which are both broadcast on the Internet as well. They are run by the same small company out of Grants, using the same incredible record library (much of it still on 45), and many of the same DJs, since KDRadio is actually all taped. Listening to it is an incredible pop music education, since the station really does play a vast swath of songs which don't generally get played anywhere, from all genres that were popular in the 50s through the 80s.

At home here, I have my iMac hooked up to the stereo here in my 'study' so that I can get it in surprisingly good fidelity. At work I listen to it on headphones. It doesn't always play stuff I like, but boy, just wait 3 or 4 minutes at most and something indescribably cool (like LaVerne Baker singing "I'm Saved!" or Yello playing "Oh Yeah" or the Chipmunks or Glen Campbell with "Galveston" (which is a song I've completely done a 180 on) or one of the really obscure but incredibly rocking songs by Freddie "Boom Boom" Cannon and the Clowns comes by, and all is well again.)

Cleaning Meme

1. What housekeeping chore(s) do you hate doing the most?

Mopping, but almost any involving water that doesn't involve a sink. I used to hate doing dishes too, but I discovered that hot water and a scrubbing brush makes it tolerable. Generally I don't like getting my hands wet, and really dislike getting them coated in disagreeable substances. Rubber gloves are all that stand between me and a life of total squalor

2. Are there any that you like or don't mind doing?
Folding/putting away clothes. Vacuuming. Putting away dishes and silverware. Stuff where it's easy to make order out of chaos, and the choices aren't too hard to make.

3. Do you have a routine throughout the week or just clean as it's needed?
I try to put in a couple hours on the weekend to do the big tasks. Get my wireless headphones out and hook them up to the computer so that I can listen to Talk of the Nation or This American Life while I work away, because I get B O R E D so easily.

4. Do you have any odd cleaning/housekeeping quirks or rules?

I'm real particular how silverware gets put into the baskets in the dishwasher -- knives point down, spoons and forks not nested. (Probably this is more like "organizing" than "cleaning.")

5. What was the last thing you cleaned?

Litterbox! Speaking of disagreeable substances.