Pinkness and horror:
I got into the office this morning (it was one of those rare days when I needed
to be at work in the morning), and switched on the radio whilst I checked
my mail (3RRR has a good show named
Sitelines on Thursday mornings, which discusses arts-related
events and plays some quite good music). Imagine my alarm when the music
faded out and, instead of the intelligent tones of the 3RRR announcer, there
was the artificially stimulated, rapidfire, mindlessly mercantile voice of a
commercial radio announcer, in full
shoving-Top-40-hits-down-the-listener's-throat mode.
It seems some gremlins came and retuned my radio to FOX FM (a commercial
radio station listened to by pinks, crowd-followers and people who prefer
their radio conformistic and predictable) overnight.
(I did change to 3RRR, though, and caught part of Sitelines; interestingly
enough, they interviewed Robert Reid of Theatre In Decay, whose latest play,
Drops in the Ocean, is currently showing.)