Entries Tagged as '89.3 The Current'
Let this be a lesson to you
If you go to a liquor store in Shakopee, MN at 9 a.m. and buy a six-pack of beer they will look at you a little askance. When you try to explain how you need it to pay off a debt you have with your co-worker Dougs*, they will flatten their mouths into a thin [...]
Read moreHappy 2nd Currentiversary
Today marks the second anniversary of the second best thing to ever happen to me musically. Two years ago today 89.3 The Current was unleashed on the airwaves.
Though I am not nearly as giddy in love as I was in the beginning. I still love The Current, only with much more maturity.
I [...]
Some kind of hangover-like malaise has overtaken our fair heroine
Holy buckets, do I feel hungover today. I have no idea what my problem is because I didn’t even get drunk last night. Two Newcastles are hardly enough to get me drunk. But today my head is filled with sand and I can’t seem to focus on anything for more than 45 seconds. It might [...]
Read moreThe Current & Billy Bragg remind me of magic
When I jumped into ol’ Ruby tonight after work at 4:53 p.m. I flipped on 89.3 The Current and was greeted with Billy Bragg’s “A New England.” The clouds seemed to part suddenly, the sun shone, my eyes glimmered and I hit all the lights green on the way home. Or at least it seemed [...]
Read morelove, thick and dark as Alaga syrup
there’s a scene in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye where Pecola Breedlove goes to stay with Claudia’s family. while she’s there Pecola drinks like a gallon of milk, which pisses off Claudia’s mom. Pecola drinks so much milk because she’s totally and utterly enamoured with the Shirley Temple cup.
that’s me! i am so in [...]
for UH, stinky nakedness and some more about my favorite radio station ever
it’s no secret that i love 89.3 The Current more than a lot of people i share a gene pool with.
so when i arrived home tonight (incidentally wearing my 89.3 baseball cap because i didn’t shower today) to see a box from MPR, i was giddy. giddy! all my 89.3 The Current schwag was [...]
minnesota is dope if only for simply not what we have but what we don’t
like i mentoned over on the left, today is the first anniversary of 89.3 The Current. as any regular reader knows, i love The Current with a passion that probably borders on creepy. this station is the best thing that happened to Minnesota Radio in a long, long time. the music i’ve discovered just by [...]
Read morehappy currentiversary.
today is the first anniversary of 89.3 The Current. i still remember getting goosebumps when it went on the air with Atmosphere’s “Shhh” and i think they played the ‘mats about three songs later.
Read morethe glorious mike doughty love never ends
you can listen to mike doughty on 89.3 The Current. he was in the studio with Mary Lucia yesterday.
Read morewhat i don’t like about you
ok, (sorry UH) but i was just listening to the Klosterman piece on The Current, and while it hasn’t made me fall head over heels in love with Klosterman, it has made me believe that Mary Lucia and i are soulmates. really. she asked ol’ Chuck if he had one song that he would ask [...]
Read moreit’s a sticker, no, it’s a window cling.
dear amy
my beloved keepin’ tabs calendar is now properly adorned with the 89.3 sticker you sent. and, so you know, it was a bizarre sticker/window cling 1-2 combination.
listen cracker, that’s enough of that nonsense
last night my body and my brain ganged up on me and said, “enough!” enough of the not getting to bed after 3 a.m. and then going to work. enough of this. enough. enough. enough. so yesterday afternoon i hit the sheets at about 5 p.m. and didn’t rouse until 8:30, only to go to [...]
Read morethe love ‘em and leave ‘em girl
today, on my way home from work, i fell in love. it was love at first site. i was getting all prepared to do my passive-aggressive minnesota swear and say bad things about him, when the little black s10 passed me on highway 18. but then i got a glimpse at the back of the [...]
Read morei just never got past your little rock and roll ass
they are playing st. paul westerberg’s “Someone I Once Knew” on the radio. this is regarded by most as one of pauly’s very worst songs. it’s not his strongest.
but the song will now and forever remind me of my friend promo joe. he hated that name, but he was stuck with it. promo joe and [...]
minnesota becomes eclectic
pitchfork media does a fabulous write up of my new BFF, 89.3 The Current (thanks darlingjason), which is currently playing a live version of Soul Asylum’s “Somebody to Shove.”
(p.s. that’s their headline, not mine. because i really hate the word eclectic).
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