Something weird happened today on the Radio. The DJ at Live 105 must have gone nuts or something cause he actually stopped playing what he was supposed to play and put on what he wanted to play. And I know he wasn't faking it because after he played that song by the Hives (which I love), he played a few seconds of the new Chili Peppers song (which I like too), but then stopped it after a few seconds and announced that he wanted to hear more from the Hives and put on another song by them. He did the same thing later that night with the Offspring, where he started one song, stopped it, then put on another, less popular track.

I didn't even know you could do that on radio anymore. I thought it was all handled by a computer somewhere in Dallas or something like that. And is he even allowed too? You just can't do that on the radio anymore. Everything's so preprogrammed and market tested and locked in. Doesn't he know he has to play every popular song over and over again until we're all violently sick of them?

For some reason, I get this vision of the DJ sitting there, switching songs for the third time, when all of a sudden, the DJ booth gets overrun by the Radio Station Secret Police, coming into the booth all SWAT team like. Once in, they shoot him up with tranquilizers and drag him off to some kind of DJ re-programming booth to brainwash him back into playing only what they tell him to play. "Ve have vays of making you play that 'I Know You're Out There' song all day and you must pretend that you like that, yah'"

Anyways, for what it's worth, I love the new Elvis track, "A Little Less Conversation." Uh-huh.