http://www.aardvark.at/blog/archives/2005/04/001121.html

Wrote this and only afterwards came here to discover mig’s article. Spooky case of synchronicity.

But anyway, I very quickly got sick of the all the music stations. I mean, when you listen to radio 10 hours a day, a station has to be pretty offbeat to give me music I haven’t heard 5 times already that day.

So I chased the word radios. Listening to features about obscure philosophers and the state of the dairy industry – usually not in the same feature, though.

Late at night, on those long drives, when I had decided that I didn’t want to stay in a hotel and drove down from, say, Rostock home to Vienna, the words grew sparse on the radio. It was usually easy listining until morning. dreadful easy listening. I still have that craving for Katja Epstein and Truck Stop sometimes.

Well, the car radio I had was one of the few that had shortwave. And deep at night, shortwave reception was actually quite good. So I surfed the shortwave and got stuck at Radio Tirana and listened to american evangelical preachers telling me about hellfire, damnation and the saving power of generous giving.

Fun. Most of all though I wondered why the most communistic, atheistic radio of Europe would yield it’s broadcast stations to *american preachers*.

I never found out why. But I did enjoy the various preachers. Got even good at telling different ones apart. Never remembered a single name, though. And I think the subliminal carrier waves of Tirana made sure I stayed agnostic.

Anyway, shortwave radio is cool. Just wanted to say.

Now I still get pissed when people ignore other people (and most especially when they ignore ME) to listen to some mass media instead..

I am aching to praise this post, but I don’t want to be answerable for personal injury.