Life, on scan

So my cd player quit working in my 2 year old jeep. :-\

I don't have a favorite radio station primarily because the amount of talking far exceeds the amount of music any one of them play. I do occasionally listen to NPR but lately I've been in more of a music-ey way so I've lived the past couple months on "Scan."

"Scan" is a spot on your radio as much as it is a black hole in the entertainment matrix.

Living on scan gives you a wide variety of what is available. I've always been diverse in my listening pleasures so this isn't too bad for me, I like to shake things up. I've learned some new funny songs this way and for a while the ones I seemed to gravitate towards were country songs. I especially like songs with a story and very few non-country artists are able to do this. It seems there are two camps: Set up a scenario and Tell a story. I enjoy both camps but my bunk is in the tell a story one.

Recently I was in a large american city and I decided to try my scan tactic. I figured it would be mere moments before I found something so wonderful and enriching I'd never need to leave the station. As such was not the case. I found it to be a droll and quiet on the good music front as it is here in podunk. There was less static though, I'll admit that.