Have you seen this?

Over the weekend, Caroline and I stumbled onto Heavy, the Story of Metal. It was pretty good in a "VH1 as teacher" sort of way. I’m sure that they missed something in their history recap, but for the most part, it was a good.

I would like to submit for your review, some music. Some electronic 8-bit music. Have you listened to NINTENDUDE? Its cool and I like it a lot.

LOST was great, I hope you got a chance to enjoy it. Next season they are going to schedule the show like 24. They will air six episodes starting in November, then brake for a few weeks. Then air the remaining twelve episodes from February through May. Should be a great season. Any theories?

Question, what would you do during the summer, at night, if you only had over the air TV?

So as I stated in an earlier post, I pretty much don’t listen to the radio anymore. One side effect of this is that I slowly creep father and farther from pop culture.

I miss what topics are being thrown around as well as what musical trends are taking shape. Most of my musical influence comes from Nic Harcourt (the modern day Rodney Bingenhimer if you ask me) and the podcast of Morning Becomes Eclectic. Not bad, but I know I am missing something.

In addition, my at work podcast listening has increased. But since podcasting is an open medium and still being taken over by big media companies, there are a lot of listening options. I don’t know which shows to listen to.

It’s like cable, so many specilized channels, many of which I am interested in, but just too much content.

Any suggestions? What podcast do you listen to? What’s your favorite radio song out right now? What am I missing? Let me know loyal readers, let me know.

Living in Los Angeles, I do a lot of driving. I spend 30 minutes in the car on the way to work, 45 minutes on the way home. If I leave the office for lunch, it takes about 15 minutes of driving to and fro.

As I was listening to BuzzOutLoud (a podcast Toby turned me onto), they were talking about how much “real radio” you listen to on a daily basis.

Most of the time, I listen to my iPod. In the car, on the subway, at the office, etc. The only time I hear real FM is when someone is in the car with me or I forget my iPod, or I am driving to McDonalds and it’s such a short trip…

I didn’t really realize how little I listen to FM or AM radio until this morning.

So here are a few questions I ask the loyal reader(s) of NIMH:
1) Do you have an iPod or DMP (digital music player)?
2) Do you use it in your car on a daily basis?
3) If you answered YES for question 2, how often do you listen to the radio?
4) Do you enjoy your local radio stations?
5) Why do you feel the need to answer questions from some dudes blog?

One thing I just realized; if I forget my iPod, I usually listen to NPR via KCRW. It makes me feel smart.

Air pressure.

Today, as I was driving home from work, my tire disintegrated. Now as a long time motorist, I tend not to panic when things like this happen. In fact, I go into boyscout mode, turn off the radio, hit the hazard button, merge to the right and exit the freeway or pull off to the shoulder. HOWEVER, my tire busted up right as I got onto the 405 from the 90. And it just so happens that there is no shoulder for about a mile or so.

So my tire breaks up with the rim and splits and I enter Boyscout mode. But there is no place for me to pull over. There is no shoulder. And there is no exit, for a while. Now I could pull the car as close to the construction wall and change my tire, or just ride on the rim and tough it out to the next exit. I’ve seen people who stop in the middle of the road, and usually, they car has exploded, but in this case, I kept on going (but I slowed down a bit, of course).

And that brings me to the crazy lady in a white Geo Metro. As I’m keeping in slow (about 20 mph) and keeping to the farest right as possible, this Metro rolls up. And of course, in true crazy lady fashion, she thinks that she is the only person who knows that my tire has escaped from the car. She starts honking, a lot. I finally break my concentration and look at her to inform her that I am aware of the situation and I have it under control.

But this is not enough for her. She blows the horn more, and more, and more. “SLOW DOWN” she cries, and I look at the speedometer and agree, perhaps slower might be a little better. I drop the car to 15 mph, but to my surprise, so does she. Did I mention she was in the next lane, and there was no traffic? Not until this lady dropped her speed to match mine because she thinks I’m panicking. Well lady, you just created a traffic jam and the people behind her started laying on the horn. This is what I was trying to avoid, creating unnecessary traffic. I will sacrifice my rim, a little. And at the time, I was in no danger of any series damage to the rim. But now this person is turning a “not big deal” into an inconvenience to all drivers.

I finally made it to the Washington Blvd off ramp and pulled to the left (right shoulder was closed and there was dirt to the left). She drove away, but not before she looked at me in disgust for driving so long on the rim.