Thu, 19 May 2005

the blind boxing the blind
Summerland has a few pirate radio stations, but the only one you can get out here is Strawberry Shortwave, which functions as a musical oracle, by which near-future tactical analysis can be gleaned by concentrating on the subject one needs guidance on and turning the radio on, where the first lyric one hears will hold the answer. This is an old game, which we used to play as schoolchildren during endless phone conversations which required some sort of third-party help, but that’s only so helpful when most songs are variants on you love me/you don’t love me/nobody likes me and I feel weird, so Strawberry Shortwave specifically bases its playlist on suggestive and specific lyrical content (at least during the day, which is the only time it comes in here; I know at night there’s an entirely different schedule), and while sometimes it’s too cryptic to be of much use, more often than not it’s dead on. there’ll be a time when i won’t remember what i was afraid of
(12:12.05.19.2005) [/ana] #