why can't democracy now be 8-hours long?

i'm in that really annoying phase where i hate all my music. no matter how many times i flip through my shiny pirated cd collection, i can't find anything that doesn't immediately cause prolonged lapses into the patented Disgusted Face. this means that i have resorted to listening to npr, because the music radio stations in baltimore tend to fall into one of two categories: oldies but Definitely Not goodies, and We Will Maintain A Maximum Of Five Songs In Rotation At All Times. folks, diane rehm is going to drive me certifiably crazy. today's program was entirely about florence nightingale. i'm not trying to hate on flo, but there is No Reason to talk about her for a whole hour. if it was five minutes, i would be with them the whole way, but c'mon, do we really care whether or not her nanny was too strict with her? i'm going to take a stand and say, 'no. no we don't.' i'm fully aware and sympathetic to the fact that thanks to our current economic conditions, the only people that can afford to financially support npr are on average about 3 times my age; and regardless, i would take issue with the argument that npr is routinely interesting to that demographic. are they really doing an extended interview with the guy that does the voice of spongebob? oh yes, yes they are.

someone, please, send me some new music.