New Car Smell

 

Our new car came with a free three month subscription to satellite radio. At first, I listened to a lot of old music stations until I realized that there really wasn't very much old music. Although there was a 'top forty,' hit list, many of those songs lasted week after week after week. As much as I liked songs like 'Deep Purple' and 'Sign of the Times' I don't need to hear them on a daily basis.

Another problem with old music is that the rights to some songs were bought by third parties and can't be played without permission. At one time Michael Jackson was collecting Beatles songs. That is a big chunk of 1964 through 1974. Dolly Parton isn't allowed to sing her own song, "Love is Like a Butterfly' which has nothing to do with this blog.

It took less than a week for me to get through the fifties and sixties. After that I kept switching farther and farther through the seventies and eighties. When I reached country western, I figured that we would not renew the subscription.

But I changed my mind when I discovered the comedy channels. There's about half a dozen of them. My favorite is the Canadian stand-up comedy, but the others are good also.

Sometimes after I pull in the driveway, I sit in the car listening to the end of a show. I listen to so much of the stuff that I've begun thinking in the rhythm of a stand-up comedian. I even have daydreams about being a stand-up comedian. Bellingham does have a large comic population, so it isn't an inaccessible goal.

Unfortunately, that would involve open mike night in front of a bunch of drunks who expect raunchier material than I could pull off. Maybe I could write an act for somebody else to do. I have lots of ideas that don't include squirrels or lawn mowers that start by themselves if you don't detach the spark plug wire.

I'll get back to you on this.

Nancy Sherer

 

 


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