It wasn’t last night, but the night before. I had another radio station dream.

On another subject – did you ever see something you wanted but had no real reason to get it? That’s me recently with this device:

It’s the Zoom H2 portable digital recorder. It’s a palm sized stereo recording device that a lot of podcasters. They say it’s great for doing on-site interviews and mobile recording.
I really have no use for one, but I am intrigued by the concept of having one. Kind of like always carrying your camera with you even though you hardly ever take a picture.

Anyone who knows me knows that I am a rock and roll guy even though I did work a stint (3 years) at a country music radio station. Even though I don’t own any country music, I am familiar with the name Charlie Daniels. He keeps a blog of sorts where he posts thoughts on his “soapbox”.

And, I tend to agree with the man. I thought the entry today was great.

Here are links to the Charlie Daniels Soapbox. And the current entry in particular entry – Total Stupidity.

I’m sure a lot of people aren’t familiar with the name Yngwie Malmsteen, but he’s quite the guitar player. And he has a new album coming out October 14.

The reason I mention this is because os comments he made in a recent interview. As anyone who knows me is aware, my favorite group is Deep Purple. In this interview Malmsteen cites Purple as a major influence on his music. Here are a couple of comments:

I can sit at home or anywhere and hear something and grab my guitar and start working with it. It was like when I first heard Deep Purple’s Fireball. My sister gave me Fireball and I was like, ‘wow’, and I went out and bought In Rock. I was eight years old and by the time I was ten I could play note for note Made In Japan. In fact I heard Made In Japan before I heard Machine Head. When I did hear Machine Head I thought ‘mmm this sounds quiet you know’.

When I heard some of that early Genesis stuff, you know Selling England By The Pound, I could hear all these classical progressions. You know it was the symphonic stuff that I really wanted to do and the hard rock of Purple, In Rock.

The full interview is here: Yngwie Malmsteen interview

I am one of those people who dream every night.

I also have two recurring dreams. Well, they’re not actually the same dream; just the same theme.
One is flying and the other centers on working at a radio station.

I understand the radio station dream – it’s based on stress and frustration. I find myself at the controls of a radio station and nothing has been prepared for me. I’m usually standing at the controls listening to the current song running out and not having anything ready to play after it. I’ll go searching for another record, look for a commercial to play or try to bring up the network news audio. I’m usually unsuccessful. And, the interesting thing is I am never in the same radio station.

The flying dreams are some I have been having most of my life. I really like these. I had one last night, but today the details are sketchy. However, it was exhilarating as always.

….considering I goofed off more than I should have.

I whipped out a quick Batwing’s Beat podcast and got it online.

I also watched the season 2 premiere of Chuck. I don’t know why I like this one, but I do. And I managed to watch last night’s episode of Fringe. I think the show gets better as it goes along. But it seems to raise more questions each week than it answers. I won’t spoil it if you haven’t seen it, but I just knew that was how this one was going to end the minute I saw Agent Dunham going into her residence at the end of the episode. This show is getting kind of creepy.

Oh, don’t fret. I did manage to get some chores accomplished. But speaking of podcasts, it’s going to be harder to do the recording since I rotate back to dayshift at work next week. That always seems to limit my time at the computer. But on a positive note I get to walk to and from work – more time to listen to podcasts. I might actually get caught up.