Know who you are.
Know who other people are.
When you try to reason with me
know that I don't care, first and foremost.
Know that your concerns are not mine.
Just because it matters to you
doesn't mean shit to me.
The simple fact is this:
no one cares.
Fuck off.
Get out of my life.
Get off my planet, asshole.
Now to address the cause of your symptoms:
know who you're fucking talking to.
"Meaningless!
Vanity!
Meaningless!
Vanity!
Meaningless!
Vanity!
All is meaningless!
All is vanity!"
These are the words of the teacher
if you choose to argue with them
know who you're arguing with
know what they're saying.
Seek first to understand
then be understood.
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It's tawm, your loveable desktop support hero, shooting you my first blog evah! A couple of days out of the week I don't fix computers and servers here at meebo. One of those days, Tuesdays to be exact, I work for the San Jose State University's radio station 90.5 FM KSJS. In case you haven't checked out my bio at the team page, my radio personality is Garlicjack and, sadly, I no longer have a pink beard.
On my radio show, Cuttin' the Cheese with Garlicjack, I spin what we call Subversive Rock; indie, punk, metal, progressive, shoegaze, psychobilly, electro-pop, I could go on and on but it is pretty much anything with drums and a guitar. We have so much music I can't go an hour without finding some new band and three old ones that I love but had never heard of before.
And yes we literally spin. We don't prerecord our shows like the current trend in mainstream radio. We sit in our 15x15x10-ft room surrounded by thousands of CDs, crates of vinyl, and towers of electronics to shoot out music to our lovely listener(s). Live radio is exciting but hectic. You have to stay at least 2 steps ahead of yourself but shut all of that out for when you talk on the air. You need to know what you've played, what you are about to play, any interesting facts you want to mention about bands, upcoming shows, worthy news, traffic, weather, and cram that all into a short and interesting 30 to 90 seconds.
The Subversive Rock department gets about 50 new CDs a week. I help out and review a few each week. This is really cool because I end up listening to music before it's released to the public. Often times I've reviewed and played a new album on my show before I see it appear on pitchfork. The pretentious part of me likes this fact, then I realize they have a bigger audience than I do and my ego goes back in check.
I do other things for the radio station, namely: take part in promotional events like acting as a guest performer at a local improv comedy club, win donut-eating competitions, and handle lots of paperwork. I'm a manager in the traffic department (not car traffic). We setup the paperwork for the public service announcements and promotional pieces all of the DJs will play. Then we review what the DJs actually do and hunt down the people who messed up with our trusty chainsaw. Don't worry it's a fake plastic one. It does have a red button that makes a really annoying sound.
While the two jobs, Meebo and the radio, don't seem very synergistic, I am picking up some Django programming and database management skills at Meebo that are helping me automate some of the paperwork tasks. This helps keep me focused on what I really enjoy about the station, the music.
Tawm