Another radio station proving that the problem isn’t technology, it’s content! I found out via Milk & Cheese’s creator Evan Dorkin how to get this unique thank-you gift if I donated a chunk of change to WMFU, a great station nested in the public part of the FM band. Like so many other indies run by non-profit entities, it has more balls than those owned by universities. Sure, I generally enjoy KUTX but in the end, it remains a refuge for Austin’s has beens when they get canned by our wasteland of money grubbers; the terribly boring Jody Denberg of K-Geezer fame namely, “Boomer, I don’t care how many times you’ve seen Paul McCartney, it just makes my point on how your generation needs to go away.” Plus universities both public and private still carry NPR’s Centrist luggage, crap shows and cower whenever some Right Winger bitches.
WMFU is closer to the spiel I used to hear from other Marquette clods on what WMUR should be. “We should play anything! Jazz, Blues, Rap, blah blah blah…” Firstly, I always saw through their argument as cover for, “It’s why I should get to play the same fucking Led Zeppelin songs we’ve all heard a million times, making my show just a clone of the three terrible Classic Rock stations in Milwaukee.” Secondly, we staffers would use verbal judo on them by asking, “OK, so you’re good with being the host for this hypothetical three-hour Jazz segment we should be airing?” Marquette being a school filled with mostly Black and White middle-class teens from Chicago and Milwaukee, we knew the response was “Uhh…well, no. Not me but someone.” Being a know-it-all 19-20 year old, I followed up with the coup de grace, “Alright then, when you find someone who really knows their Jazz as well as 60-year-old aficionado, call us. Otherwise, we don’t need to be generating more ASCAP money for Robert Plant and Jimi Page.”
However, I just love the idea that there’s a DJ keeping Polka alive with sincerity and conviction, not to be an ironic Hipster. Before you ask, I have listened to Stashu’s show. I was a tad bummed to hear non-Polka tunes creep up occasionally yet it’s her show and as someone who also likes to make mixes via KMAG, you gotta’ do something daring to break up the routine and surprise the audience! Besides, if Evan Dorkin endorses Dance with me, Stanley! I trust his suggestions, he has always been kind to me on Twitter and if it helps out a friend or something he loves, I’m all in.