Top 5s

To follow-up my previous blog, here’s my Top 5
list of who I think are hot...

- Andrea Corr
- Ashley Judd
- Angelina Jolie
- Monica Belucci
- Salma Hayek


What about local celebrities?

- Anjanette Abayari
- Cher Calvin
- Donita Rose
- Cristina Gonzalez (early 90s)
- Gretchen Barretto (even until now)

Yuck!

Last week Louise and I were talking about these models on air…

http://english.pravda.ru/photo/report/models_anorexia-1460

I don’t know how anyone could ever find these women sexy.

Personally, I like women with some meat on their bones. I mean real meat. Not this “concentration camp” look.

How to keep your favorite station from reformatting

Recently I did some blog surfing. I found that some people were angry at the recent reformatting of a few FM radio stations. Almost all of the posts asked "Why?" Well, the answer is money. If they can't sell advertising time, they'll go broke.

So what can you do to make sure your fave station doesn't disappear from the airwaves? There are several things...

1) Listen, and keep listening. If you love a station and don't tune in often, then you could be contributing to their demise. If you listen more, and refrain from switching stations, their survey ratings will likely increase and they can earn the money that they need to survive. (Surveys are conducted quarterly, so you have to listen all year round).

2) Patronize products. If you want to help your favorite station, you must buy what's advertised there. If a company plays their commercials on your station, but their sales do not increase, it's more than likely they will never go back there again. (You might want to take note of products that exclusively advertise on your station. Also, stop buying when they stop advertising.)

3) Recruit listeners. Encouraging your friends, family and even strangers to listen to your favorite station will help increase the number of people listening. In the end, this will help their survey results. (One way to do this is by putting their sticker on your car/cellphone/notebooks/bag or by wearing their T-Shirt.)

4) Communicate. One way radio stations gauge listenership is thru texts, email and other correspondence from fans. If they get a tons texts every day, they can use this fact to convince advertisers to spend on their station.

5) Attend. Companies also put money into your favorite station's events. If nobody shows up, they'll think that your station is worthless. Who wants to advertise at a events with empty chairs?

These are just a few of the ways you can make sure you don't wake up one day to find our that your favorite radio station has disappeared. Remember, now matter how great you may think the music and the DJs are… if the station doesn't earn, it will reformat.

Why I don't like V-Day

That time of year has come and passed and now it's out of our systems.  That gives us good perspective to analyze Valentine's day.  

Over the past years I've boycotted it.  No, I'm not a lonely single person sour graping.  In fact, I'm in the best relationship of my life.  So why do I not like Feb 14?


#1 - It makes lonely people feel even worse.  Why do we have to do that?

#2 - It makes people who are not lonely, yet single, think that they HAVE to find a lover.

#3 - For people in relationships, it's just a reason to expect too much.  So there's more of a chance for a letdown.

#4 - It's too commercialized. Yet even though we know it, we still buy into the concept.

#5 - It's not even a real holiday.  At least Christmas is a real holiday.


It's not wrong to celebrate love.  But if an occasion's primary moving force is large corporations wanting you to spend more money, then shouldn't we think twice about it?

Drunk!

It's already Tuesday night and I still have a bit of a hangover from Saturday and Sunday.  I got intoxicated by all the great a cappella music of Kilyawan and The AKAFellas.  

Both groups were kind enough to swing by for live performances in celebration of the 2nd anniversary of my show The Blend. I couldn't be happier.  If you want to get drunk on the music also, I'm running replays next weekend.

I'm so thankful to all the groups who've helped and contributed to the program and especially the listeners who've supported (by attendance, text and email or whatever).  You're the reason why the program is still on the air.

By the way I just want to plug the AKAFellas gig this VDay. Check out details here...

http://akafellas.multiply.com/photos/album/20?mark_read=akafellas:photos:20&replies_read=1

HAPPY 2ND ANNIVERSARY!!!

Yesterday was the 2nd anniversary of my a cappella show "The Blend".  In celebration, I've got big plans for the next couple of weekends.

On Saturday I have KILYAWAN, and on Sunday THE AKAFELLAS! (Of course, both 4-5pm.)  The Live performances will be on Feb 10 & 11, with the replays Feb 17 & 18.  They'll be great performances, I'm sure.

Another way to find songs (follow-up to previous blog)

So, what if you know the tune but don't know any lyrics? Well, try this website... http://www.midomi.com

Check out the article about it, that I found while researching for my show...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070201/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_website;_ylt=An8h7NkaE0piVr9m.2vlzJCdk3QF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--