Good Show, Jolly Good Show

Things went rather well today. i actually planned for once! i talked about the Bible a little, which i thought was a nice touch. i had some great songs. and that's about it for now.

Overview on Wednesday's Show

yesterday my friend David came on my show. he actually did the radio show with me during the summer of 2005. but because during the summer of 2006 as well as this summer i was doing this for my Senior High Project, i felt it was better if i ventured out on my own just to see what i could do. but i realized yesterday how it felt for me to have help! it was great. i mean, i'm fine on my own, but it just takes a load off to have someone there who knew what they were doing. it was okay if i wasn't there to press buttons when a song ended, because David was perfectly capable. Also, apparently certain people really like to hear the two of us on the radio.... other than that, it was okay. we had a few moments of silence to commemerate the importance of...Promos. or not. and we played some songs that i don't normally play, because David picked them. but it was still good stuff. it was just stuff that i don't normally play. all in all a very productive two hours. and stay tuned for friday, because i've already started planning for that one! yes, i know, planning. when's the last time i did that? well, i need to get better with that.

The wonders of radio

Well, just 17.5 more hours to go. Yesterday's show went okay. well, maybe not. probably to the average person who realizes there's a 16 year old running the show, it probably sounded just fine. but i have a long ways to go before i'm professional. once again, i accidentally tried to play a certain CD in CD player #1, but that CD doesn't work in CD player #1. oh well, that gives me practice talking while preparing something to play. so i let all my listener's listen to Chonda Pierce talk about giving directions. so there were a few seconds of dead air. and i've been so good at not having any dead air too. i guess it's like driving stick shift. when i first began, i stalled out all the time. but then it finally got to a point where i only had problems with hills. now, i'm pretty much okay on whatever kind of road. but i still stall out once in a while. even my parents stall out, but that probably doesn't even happen once a year. so as i keep driving stick shift, i'll stall out less and less each time. same goes with radio, when i first started i had dead i haven't here and there. but now i've been doing this for awhile, so i know how to keep things going and not have dead air. the show before last, on last wednesday, was cool. i was kinda in a bad mood, and when i'm in a bad mood, i need to listen to some Chrsitian rock, and that makes me feel better. so i decided to make my show mostly rock. it was awesome. and it helped get some energy out because i got to bounce around the control room while the music was playing. i could swish around my hair however i wanted, and none of it really mattered. i haven't really done something like that in a long time. i just don't play any screamo stuff, that's the limit i have. even on friday, i played some more rock stuff, but not as much. but i still had stuff i needed to get out of my system.

How I feel

I feel like i'm more confident in how i present myself on the radio. That seems to be very good for me. If things go wrong, which last friday everything seemed to go wrong, i'm better at trying to talk to the audience while bringing up another song to play. i just need to work on saying the name of my show, the name of myself, and breaking more in between songs to let people know what has been playing. i also find that people start IMing me, and then i start going crazy. and then i get nothing done. i guess that's good to learn now before i'm thrown out into the real world.

fun with T-shirts

For the past few days I've been waking up early in the morning to go to Hershey, which is a half-hour drive, for a conference. It was for the Arthritis Foundation. My younger sister has JRA, which you can learn about by going to her blog. Just click on the link to the side of the page. This morning was the last morning. I'd been hanging out with the 16+ group since Monday morning. They are a great group of people. some of them had arthritis, like my sister. and then some of them were like me and had a sibling with arthritis. I hear your questions: what does this have to do with the Squeaky Show? Shouldn't you be posting this on your other blog? well, this morning had everything to do with the Squeaky Show. there were some t-shirts that we could decorate, and have people sign. i decided to make a Squeaky Show Shirt. So on the front it just said, "The Squeaky Show". and on the back it says, "Only On WVMM 90.7". My brother knows someone who's dad is into graphic design, so i could get more sophisticated shirts made for a relatively low price. but i'm not sure how many people are going to want one. so i'll just wear the one i made. i had fun making it, and that's what matters. plus, i decided i'm only going to have the Squeaky Show for as long as i'm on WVMM. if for some reason i get a show on a different radio station, which won't happen for a very long time, i will not call my show the Squeaky Show. it will have to be called something else. i still could have been on the air today even though it's a holiday. but because of the conference, i decided i didn't want to rush getting home, so i wasn't on today. but i will be back on the air on friday.