Today KUMM made me happy.

KUMM, for those poor suckers of you deprived of the glorious experience, is UMM's student-run alternative radio station. There were four separate instances when I was driving somewhere and heard a unique/bizarre/wonderful song.

The first came when I was en route from my piano lesson to play rehearsal. They finished playing a song from the musical "Hair" and moved right on to the song in "Rocky Horror Picture Show" sung by Meatloaf. Three cheers for obscure musicals and even weirder songs.

The next came as I drove home from rehearsal...or rather from the Common Cup. I turned up the radio after dropping a friend off at home to discover a sort of grunge-rock song playing. Pretty normal, pretty expected, right? On a college radio station? Except for the fact that it was being sung in Japanese by a soprano. It was CRAZY and DELIGHTFUL.

About an hour later, on my way back to pick up the same friend to head to Bad TV Night at yet another friend's house, I had the strangest audio experience of my life. It began with a woman saying "There were many, many of them. They all stood in the same room, and they had arrived at the building at more or less the same time. And they were all free. And they all had the same question on their minds: "What is behind that curtain?" At that point a few assorted percussion rhythms started and the woman said "Because you were born, you are free. Happy birthday." Then the violins kicked in.

I don't know what it was, but it was scary.

The last little surprise came on my way home for the last time this evening. A rock version of "I'm Just A Bill". You know, the School-house Rock song. It was really happy. :) I would listen to that all the time if I had it on an album.





I just thought I should share with you the bizarre tastes of today's KUMM DJs. You never know, I guess. They could have been theme shows.