My magic ability

Warning – This entry is long and rambling.

Ever read any of Piers Anthony’s Xanth books? Everyone has a magic power, sometimes it’s something small, like being able to dim a candle, other times its powerful, like controlling the wind. More modern pop analogy would be the X-men, where mutations can be great or small. Anyways, whether these things really happen or not is immaterial, but for some reason I’ve found an inexplicable pattern in my life, in other words, for years I’ve been suspecting I’ve figured out one of mine, but it’s difficult to explain precisely. Also, reverting back to the Xanth books, my documenting this may result in the fates smiting my server or website. But.. might as well tempt them 🙂

One sentence summary – My presence in this world results in life altering events for those who know me, I am a catalyst for events that don’t involve me.

Note – Emily says everyone has this magic power, so .. damn. I’m still gonna document this as best I can though, even if it’s all for naught.
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Radio Thoughts

For those of you who don’t know, I do a monthly “folk” radio show on WERU FM up here (sorry, no streaming yet, working on that). I’m at the station as I write this, ripping mp3’s off new stuff and cool stuff from the library while a mix of songs I’ve ripped from here and my library in the past (now at 11000 whoo hoo) is playing in the studio (now playing ‘Dar Williams – Christians & the Pagans‘.

It’s a strange thing being a DJ. Last night I was listening to a musician I like, Jamie Anderson live on KXCI in Tucson, AZ (they are streaming, I’m jealous) she mentioned that being a DJ is a very selfish thing, very attention seeking. Deja vu to my earlier post about web pages and journals being ‘look at me’ type things.

But again, is that what being a DJ is all about? I hardly like to talk on the air, so I’d like to think it’s not about me, it’s about the music. But then again, it’s me picking the music, it’s me foisting my opinion of what’s good music on the unsuspecting public listeners. What’s my reason for doing this?

Hmmm…