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senna
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Music in the Morning
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Sep 10 23:52 UTC 1997 |
Does music get you up in the morning? Are you awakened by the classical tones
of WQRS, or do you eat breakfast to the soft music of Mariah Carey? It's
pretty common. Alarm clocks almost never occur without radios. Some even
have tape decks built in. What do you do?
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senna
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response 1 of 49:
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Sep 10 23:57 UTC 1997 |
I'm one of those losers with the tape deck in his alarm clock. Every night
I cue up one of my hard rock tapes and set to full volume (this is quite loud
with the speakers in the thing). I carefully have it set in a position where
I have to get up (out of a loft bed), get down, and turn it off. And I
usually do it pretty quickly so I don't wake up the rest of the house (which
is to say, everybody two floors above me. It's been known to wake them up
before me.) Right now I'm in the middle of Grind by Alice In Chains ont eh
tape. That song is *very* effecitve at waking me up.
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bruin
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response 2 of 49:
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Sep 11 00:08 UTC 1997 |
I remeber when Junior Walker died a couple of years ago, and the news
anchor began this segment by saying "This ought to wake you up" before
playing the intro to "Shotgun" followed by the report of Walker's death.
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omni
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response 3 of 49:
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Sep 11 06:06 UTC 1997 |
When I need to be up and alert, I usually wake to WJLB at maximum volume,
which usually does the job.
On mornings when I just get up leisurely, I usually have the radio tuned to
KOOL 107, WQRS, or WJR.
My uncle was the one who taught me the WJLB thing, since he felt that it
was the most obnoxious music he could find. That didn't work because he was
one of those people who could sleep through a nuclear bomb and an air-raid.
Needless to say, he was impossible to wake. I miss him, because he passed on
about 3 yrs ago.
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rcurl
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response 4 of 49:
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Sep 11 06:16 UTC 1997 |
We wake up to WUOM, usually 'Michigan Morning' or something like that. I
prefer an alarm, and use one when I have to get up before the family.
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void
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response 5 of 49:
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Sep 11 08:29 UTC 1997 |
i'm remarkably difficult to awaken. the only thing that'll get me
up is to set my clock radio to a talk station at full or almost full
volume and have it on the other side of the room so i have to get out
of bed to turn it off. this method doesn't always work, but it's gotten
more effective since wjr started carrying dr. laura.
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scott
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response 6 of 49:
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Sep 11 11:07 UTC 1997 |
I do the NPR thing, but I also have timer (X-10!) driven lamps that go on a
few minutes earlier than the radio.
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mcnally
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response 7 of 49:
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Sep 11 15:27 UTC 1997 |
No wake-up music for me but I usually hit the "play" button on the
CD-changer when I'm getting out of the shower and listen to whatever's
left-over from the night before while I'm drying off and getting dressed.
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rcurl
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response 8 of 49:
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Sep 11 17:49 UTC 1997 |
We have morning X-10 controlled lights too, but they seem to have lost their
effectiveness in awakening us.
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orinoco
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response 9 of 49:
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Sep 11 21:41 UTC 1997 |
Phish, if I have time, is great wake-up music. "Harry Hood" from A Live One
to wake up, and "The Squirming Coil" from the same album to fall asleep.
Alternately, if I'm really in need of energy, Ashley MacIsaac, Kula Shaker,
Dave Matthews' Band, or Blues Traveller.
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anderyn
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response 10 of 49:
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Sep 13 00:26 UTC 1997 |
Usually have the radio set to the oldies station at Domino's Farms.
I snap to attention when they say the time, normally. Of course,
if Gareth and Rhiannon are getting up on time, I get a very
loud bang and a "MOM! UP!"
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senna
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response 11 of 49:
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Sep 13 02:39 UTC 1997 |
Hmm. I should look into morning lights. They'd help me quite a bit. After
my musical brain drain (anybody remember the scene where "Darth Vader," or
Marty Mcfly in a radiation suit visits George Mcfly and puts a Van Halen
guitar solo through headphones? My wake up call is louder and worse) I don't
listen to any music until I get in the car, where I listen to the radio for
about 30 seconds before I pop in a tape on the way to school.
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lumen
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response 12 of 49:
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Sep 13 06:35 UTC 1997 |
I haven't been awakened by music for years. I'm not fond of most of what I
hear on the radio, and I prefer a higher quality sound than what I get on most
clocks. I don't do mornings, either, so a simpler buzzer does fine for me.
This will be the case until I can afford a BOSE Wave radio, or something
approaching that (on what I now earn and will earn in the future? Hah!).
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orinoco
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response 13 of 49:
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Sep 13 14:20 UTC 1997 |
Well, I don't like to be *awakened* by music, but once I'm conscious, it helps
my brain wake up.
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snowth
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response 14 of 49:
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Sep 14 06:25 UTC 1997 |
I don't like being wokedn up by music, but it's better then the the buzzer
on my radio, so I do it. I used to listen to music obsessively in the mornigs,
but now that I'm downstairs, tha's where my music is, and I'm always upstairs
in the morning.
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omni
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response 15 of 49:
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Sep 14 07:05 UTC 1997 |
hey void-- Ever consider waking up to Rush Limbaugh? Now THAT's obnoxious.
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bruin
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response 16 of 49:
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Sep 14 14:32 UTC 1997 |
RE #15 Ditto for Don Imus and Howard Stern.
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orinoco
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response 17 of 49:
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Sep 14 22:55 UTC 1997 |
Talk about waking up on the wrong side of the bed...
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void
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response 18 of 49:
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Sep 14 23:51 UTC 1997 |
hmmm. sorry, omni, but i think rush limbaugh would put me in too
foul a mood to deal with the general public all day. either that or
i'd start getting (more) paranoid and developing weird conspiracy
theories. :)
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senna
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Sep 15 06:07 UTC 1997 |
Paranoid void doesn't like to be annoyed :) Sorry, couldn't resist.
I don't mind Howard Stern as much as I mind the commercials for the network
carrying him.
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lumen
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response 20 of 49:
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Sep 16 06:16 UTC 1997 |
No kidding. What's wrong with Dr. Laura?
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omni
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response 21 of 49:
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Sep 16 16:34 UTC 1997 |
Nothing in my book. Doc Laura is OK with me.
She is really heavy on being moral, not shacking up, being responsible.
It's a love/hate thang. Nobody half likes her
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senna
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response 22 of 49:
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Sep 17 03:52 UTC 1997 |
Yeah, she's pretty hardlined. I think she was on one of the lat night talk
shows tonight, but I didn't check.
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lumen
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response 23 of 49:
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Sep 17 05:49 UTC 1997 |
That's too bad. Someone's got to speak up for responsibility and be heard.
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void
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response 24 of 49:
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Sep 17 12:56 UTC 1997 |
thing is, dr. laura says some incredibly rude/arrogant things to the
people who call in. the other day, i heard her tell a caller: "don't
argue with me. you can dismiss my opinions later, but you didn't call
in to argue with me."
nothing wrong with being responsible et cetera, but there's also
a *lot* to be said for politeness.
i'll stop before this item gets completely hijacked.
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