Sounder » Sun Apr 21, 2019 10:54 am wrote:The trouble is, they are all the wrong radio stations at the moment. For me,..radio free for over ten years now, but we are social beings and I need a signal from somewhere, and while the static can be ignored, it is still there, and indeed perhaps it will provide a positive service in the end.
My way to cope is to shut the computer and go play The Wind that Shakes the Barley on fiddle. It's a very pretty tune.
Russia-gate has stepped up the level of my fiddle playing several notches.
A very pretty tune, indeed.
I know what you mean regarding them all being the wrong station, I've not listened for over a decade now, too. If I'm ever forced to hear it - say in a friends car or workshop - I find it intolerable. Hell, I don't even need to hear the words... if, for instance, BBC Radio 4 is on in another room, the tone of the newsreaders voice alone burbling through the wall is enough to send me into a spluttering rage, you can just tell that they're lying. I know the tune, even if I can't hear the words.
I don't really mind that much what 'show' is playing, so long as it's honest. So long as it has fidelity and integrity.
So yeah, I filter. A lot. And sometimes I know I'm probably missing some of the signal as a result, but I also know I'm getting a lot more of the signal - and with better clarity - than I would with no filters present.
There's plenty enough good,
honest stuff to fill the meagre amount of time I have to spare for such things these days - especially here on RI. The rest, I literally have no time for.
That said, I very much do appreciate the efforts of those that challenge the bullshit, hold it's propagators to account etc. If nothing else, it's entertaining... and often most informative. So in that regard, a 'positive service'.