Saturday I didn't want to listen to any of the tracks in my Mp3 player, so I put on the radio instead. I flipped through all my programmed stations, including Z 95.3, although I didn't listen for long. Little did I know, that saturday was Z's second-last day on the air. Tuesday morning at work, I saw an article in the paper talking about how their ratings had slid by about three quarters, parially because The Beat took some of their audience, partially because they couldn't shake their image as being a station for people aged 13-20. Makes sense I guess, I loved it when I was 13, I even had a Z95.3 hooded t-shirt from Off the Wall (maybe I'll find a pic of it to put on Facebook.) These days I prefer News 1130(totally bogus that my Mp3 player doesn't get am... dork that I am...), and yet I couldn't help but feel a little sad, I guess I never realized how much I loved that station back in the day. As it turned out, Z went off the air sunday, and tuesday it came back with a new format. It seems like every time a station changes format they go to "easy listening", because coma patients need their variety I guess, so I was a little concerned that we were about to get a new sleepy station. I wanted to listen to it on my breaks, but I had forgotten my Mp3 player at home, so I had to wait. And then I forgot.

So I just looked for their website tonight, and Z95.3 is now 95 Crave. Judging by the pink and white and powder blue page they got going, I'd say their targeting girls. They promise to play “Music That Moves You”. Definitely girly. Let's see what they play (they have a listing of their last 10 songs, so you don't even have to tune in): Enrique Iglesias, Bryan Adams, Ricky Martin, Justin Timberlake, Fergie, Nelly Furtado... Yes, it's technically their upbeat stuff so it isn't easy listening, but the whole damn thing turned into Barbie's Party Mix.

At least we still have Yorkies. That reminds me, if a girl gets food poisoning from a Yorkie, is the company still liable, given that the wrapper clearly indicates that it's not for her?

The CNL had a two hour sale on thursday, so I went out and picked up some DVDs. I picked up Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, and Secretary for Jenn, and got for myself episodes 1 and 2 of Star Wars, as well as season 3 of Samurai Jack. Last night Jenn and I ate some Kung Pao chicken and drank some booze (wheat beer for me, blackberry merlot for her), and attempted to watch a couple movies. Unfortunately, we had both been up for a long time, and wound up passing out during the first movie we put on. It's been a long while since we had a nice evening in like that though, so we enjoyed ourselves anyway.

I randomly was looking for Goon Show the other day, and I found a site with free streaming broadcasts of nothing but the Goon Show. It won't play with WMP, so I put a link to Realplayer on my desktop and bookmarked the Goon Show Radio, as well as Happy Hardcore Radio, found over here.