All right, oldsters. Indulge me for a sec by turning down The Current or, for all you true contrarians, the Jazz 88. Today’s offering comes in the form of a love letter to dear, little Radio K. Remember when?
Remember the dreary radio days of post-REV 105, when there was no such thing as The Current or even Zone or Drive 105? We were younger then. And the indie kids all directed their ears (and hearts) to Radio K. Cosmic Slop? Hell yes I grooved out to plenty of Helen Reddy! The Beat Box? Thanks to that show’s theme song, the K’s request line shall forever be burned into memory: “Call 626-477-Oh / We’ll try our best to pump it through your sterrey-sterrey-Oh.” This was a sun-up to sun-down affair, and it burned brightest in the summer months, particularly in June, when the sun stayed up long past the workday and kept our ears filled with “the K” until as late as 9 p.m. Radio K, we loved you despite your puny transmitter.
In any case, as part of their annual Power Surge fund drive, Radio K is boosting tonight’s cool-sounding Ink’d and Amp’d concert. One-part fundraiser, one-part DEMO (Diverse Emerging Music Organization) happening, the event is somehow supposed to combine live music by Mel Gibson and the Pants, These Modern Socks, and such with tattoo art–or something like that.
And speaking of tattoos, if I had to choose a line of text to have permanently etched into my flesh (see The Rake’s Literary Supplement for the reference), it’d be this from Theodore Roethke: “When small birds sighed she would sigh back at them.”
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