TooMuchGreen

When I was a kid I used to listen to the radio when I went to bed at night, I loved it and would drift off into nights from the cutting edge alternativity of John Peel (at the wrong speed) and the drifting European bandwidth of Radio Luxembourg (I’m showing my age now) all through the tinny little speaker of an 1970’s clock radio set to 59 minutes of ’sleep’ , this has continued throughout my life and is still one of my favourite nocturnal activities (not that I have many apart from sleeping) and although the clock radio went many years ago I do vow to replace it one day, maybe when I have somewhere to live again other than a suitcase.

Apparently in the UK the top activity media activity is still listening to the radio and I’m obviously one of the contributing statistics as it’s a daily thing for me.  When I first moved to Leeds I never had a TV for a year and a half, just used to listen to the Radio on an evening, it was all fine and actually rather chilled out even though I succumbed (or regressed?) eventually to the wonders of  a PCI TV card, and after moving house further on to the confusing array of choice from an NTL cable connection.

Nowadays thanks to global cohesion brought into being by the wonders of the internet I can still latch on to Broadcasting House from Costa Rica with 6 Music being the preferred choice of rolling audio, recently however I’ve discovered further pleasure to enhance my tropical bus journey to work by jumping on the now distinctly well played bandwagon known as Podcast downloads (re previous post – I said I was slow to adopt).

Late adopter or not I’m really welcoming the new audio and although it does feel somewhat bizarre listening to the BBC on the local Costa Rican bus journey to work I am who I am, rhythmic as they are the distorted Latino beats belting out from the over-worked speaker on the bus aren’t as stimulating for me as Radio 4 comedy or informed comment and documentary, the spoken word is an equally enjoyable way to start the day as it is to finish it and it makes me feel at home in myself.

I was going to try and rattle on about why spoken word wins over the potentially mind numbing visuals of TV but I seem to have run out of steam today…..all I know is it’s something to do with the human mind and imagination, a bit like reading a book as oppose to watching a film….sort of thing…..feel free to expand, or extrapolate, or whatever……..or not even, maybe just get a can of beer out of the fridge (like I’m going to), chill out, and stick the Radio on.