Slog - Comments on Dear John http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john Is John in the Morning doing okay? I started drinking my coffee to Nine Inch Nails, and now we're on to Public Enemy, "I Wanna Be Your Dog," and motherfucking "Helter Skelter." John? Something you want to tell us?... Copyright 2008 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:43:08 -0800 Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:36:43 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Matt I was rocking out to that Head Like a Hole, man!

Ah, to be teenaged again...

]]> Matt http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140008 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140008 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:48:02 -0800 Comment by sucky U2 "with or without you" yesterday.

]]> sucky http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140009 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140009 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:49:54 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe Better than "Dear John" by Aimee Mann.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140014 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140014 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:51:26 -0800 Comment by uncle baggy he's most definitely not OK, which is why he's great. But I think moving to NY is messing with his head, which it should.

]]> uncle baggy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140020 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140020 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:56:38 -0800 Comment by max solomon what, he's playing music with blood in its veins? where does he think he's working, KCMU? someone cut his salary to 100K!

]]> max solomon http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140021 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140021 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:56:44 -0800 Comment by John Bailo I listened to KJR this morning driving to work.

They played Heart of Glass, Sister Golden Hair and Centerfield.

Guess we exurbians are just happier...

]]> John Bailo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140022 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:56:56 -0800 Comment by uncle baggy @6 - enjoy that empty head! Please stay out there for us, will ya?

]]> uncle baggy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140027 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140027 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:58:47 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale Classic rock.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140028 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140028 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:00:29 -0800 Comment by Mahtli69 @5 - My thoughts exactly.

]]> Mahtli69 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140030 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140030 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:02:22 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale And by that I mean fuck Classic Rock.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140033 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140033 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:03:28 -0800 Comment by Jeff Something is up with John. He had a wierd interlude on the air earlier this week in which he talked briefly about being depressed and then was off the next day.

Troy has been filling in, hopefully it's nothing serious. Talk all the shit you want about KEXP, but John is a nice guy and deserves the benefit of the doubt.

]]> Jeff http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140041 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140041 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:07:53 -0800 Comment by art hinderman Living in NY is heavy.

]]> art hinderman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140045 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140045 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:09:17 -0800 Comment by Too $hort Life is to some people unbearable
Committin suicide and thats terrible
Was it much too much or nothing big?
If ya live my life, youd be fightin to live
Life is to me my main asset
I be doin all right and keep it just like that
Chill out at the house and pump that bass
Im tryin to get rich as I rock the place
Everybodys got that same old dream
To have big money and fancy things
Drive a brand new benz, keep your banck right here
Never hear me stutter once because I talk real clear
Its on you, homeboy, watcha gonna do?
You can take my advice and start workin, fool
Or you can close your ears and run your mouth
And one day, homeboy, ya soon find out

]]> Too $hort http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140057 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140057 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:17:41 -0800 Comment by tomasyalba If he's like me at all - and this is probably the only way in which I approach being like the hardworking John - he gets a little glum about the receding hairline every now and again. Hope it passes soon for both of us.

]]> tomasyalba http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140059 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140059 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:19:01 -0800 Comment by CommonKnowledge I woke up to Sinead O'Connor's "The Last Day or Our Acquaintance" yesterday. hmmm....
And today, "Letdown" by Radiohead....

If song titles were signs of something, then....

]]> CommonKnowledge http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140060 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140060 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:19:35 -0800 Comment by Porkchop Sandwiches! @6 - KJR. I never would have guessed.

]]> Porkchop Sandwiches! http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140063 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140063 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:20:00 -0800 Comment by Original Monique Brendan get out of my head! hahahaha. I was just thinking this today, wondering why Troy has been subing for him, why he rarely is talking on air...I hope he is ok. I love John so much, and respect him tremendously.

John Bailo not only has bad political taste, he has crappy radio station taste too. Go figure.

]]> Original Monique http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140070 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140070 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:24:34 -0800 Comment by Bellevue Ave god forbid theres some early 90s eclecticism. Maybe you were 5 during the early 90s?

]]> Bellevue Ave http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140088 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140088 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:40:53 -0800 Comment by Old John Fan The Morning Show is just not the same since John moved to NY. The banter is anemic, the music is more programmed and John takes large numbers of days off the air. I also really miss the old on air plugs by local Seattle people.

I never thought I would miss hearing John talk about his son being in the studio or Greg Nickels plugging water conservation...

]]> Old John Fan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140123 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140123 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:58:07 -0800 Comment by Feyerabend John wants to tell us that he's sad he only makes $120k/yr, he's upset that he mans a corrupt and ill-managed piece of poop (KEXP, that is), and he's sad that the move to New York was a bad idea (very few in NY give a fuck about KEXP -- among those that even know what it *is*) and the move has turned out to be a huge waste of money -- money that KEXP *begs* its listeners to cough up. To, uh, pay John's salary & finance his & his family's move to New York. For why did he do that?

And now he'd like the UW to revoke KEXP's charter.

He might be depressed. Wait -- is booze a depressant?

]]> Feyerabend http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140162 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140162 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:18:06 -0800 Comment by Mike of Renton @15 You have your alarm set for 7 too?

]]> Mike of Renton http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140166 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140166 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:18:21 -0800 Comment by what she said @ 19 - I agree 100%.

I'm starting the campaign to make Troy Nelson the new morning DJ!

]]> what she said http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140167 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140167 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:18:32 -0800 Comment by Feyerabend John wants to tell us that he's sad he only makes $120k/yr, he's upset that he mans a corrupt and ill-managed piece of poop (KEXP, that is), and he's sad that the move to New York was a bad idea (very few in NY give a fuck about KEXP -- among those that even know what it *is*) and the move has turned out to be a huge waste of money -- money that KEXP *begs* its listeners to cough up. To, uh, pay John's salary & finance his & his family's move to New York. For why did he do that?

And now he'd like the UW to revoke KEXP's charter.

He might be depressed. What are some common causes of depression?

]]> Feyerabend http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140169 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140169 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:18:59 -0800 Comment by STJA For you guys whining about KEXP... try living in a place with no good radio. Try living in a place with 4 classic rock stations in range, and another 4 quickly audible with a 15 minute drive out of town.

Seattle is spoiled.

]]> STJA http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140196 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140196 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:33:44 -0800 Comment by Lloyd Clydesdale STJA - That's kinda what KEXP is.

]]> Lloyd Clydesdale http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140229 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140229 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:52:18 -0800 Comment by Eric John has got to go!

Oooooohh, and fuck you Original Monique!

Have a nice day...

]]> Eric http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140278 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140278 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:16:08 -0800 Comment by Jessica Yesterday we woke up to Velvet Underground-- that's not much incentive to get out of bed, more like incentive to lie in bed and shoot up. More Public Enemy in the morning, please!

]]> Jessica http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140280 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140280 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:17:00 -0800 Comment by Jessica @26: WTF? Did Mo shit in your coffee this morning?

]]> Jessica http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140286 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140286 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:18:26 -0800 Comment by Fnarf I second Lloyd's emotion. Fuck Classic Rock.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140340 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140340 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 12:44:28 -0800 Comment by Old John Fan Feyerabend - Why does John want the UW to revoke KEXP's charter?

]]> Old John Fan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140375 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140375 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:03:13 -0800 Comment by itchy not scratchy #22...yes yes yes - some new blood - or new older blood - in all of KEXP's daytime people would be refreshing. if not troy, get chili (sp) or rachel coz' the afternoon's on that station just blow. and blow hard!

]]> itchy not scratchy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140402 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140402 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 13:20:39 -0800 Comment by monkey Yeah, I was rockin out this morning too and thinking to myself that Head Like a Hole is pretty much the best NIN song every made.

That's probably not true if I were to really think about it but this morning with my sunroof open and my stereo blasting I was sure thinking it.

Public Enemy was just a bonus.

]]> monkey http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140501 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140501 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:10:41 -0800 Comment by nicole @23 you know, I have to admit I'd never heard of KEXP and I've lived in nyc for 10 years. But I basically gave up radio when I moved to nyc and realized the following:

1- most radio here was unbelievable terrible. Really not on par with the quality of everything else in this city. Seriously, I had way better radio in the middle of fucking nowhere, South Carolina in the early 90's.
2- whatever was not terrible couldn't be received on my radio because there was so much shit jamming the airwaves anyway
3- most of the time you can't listen to radio anyway, because you are underground.

of course then came internet & sat radio which solves all but #3 but by then I'd gotten out of the habit. Wonder where this John fellow is in NY? The weather sucks today but September is usually beautiful... Tell him to buck up, its a nice city but it takes some getting used to.

]]> nicole http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140516 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140516 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:22:25 -0800 Comment by treacle Pardon me for being absent and out of town, but WTF? John & the Richards Family moved to New York? boo! When did I miss that?

]]> treacle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140613 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/09/dear_john#c1140613 Music Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:36:43 -0800