Ouch. At least when I was fat and lazy I wasn’t so sore. Has this ever happened to you, Monday you work out, Tuesday you’re fine, then Wednesday is almost the worst day of you life? I’m living it right now I’ll tell you what. Except today is Thursday…. but it’s early and I’m not fully functioning for at least 3 more hours.I think it’s because we did a new ‘get rid of your fat belly’ exercise which consisted of situps, situps, and then some situps holding a 10lb weight. I went to get out of bed this morning and was forced to roll out. That ain’t right.

I suppose it will all be worth while this summer, when I’m not that chubby kid on the beach with a sweater on, but still I wonder whether anything that feels like this can be good for you. Besides, I like sweaters.

My buddy Mr Humbleguy recently did a blog about how much he hates radio. He focused particularly on Edmonton’s rock radio (or lack thereof). You can read all about it here. Anyhow, it was a good post, and I had a good laugh, but then I realized that he missed the worst radio of all. I mean the Bear is crappy and annoying, and juvenile to a point of embarrassment, but it can’t hold a candle to college radio.

Seriously, does anyone actually like CKUA? A radio station so terrible they couldn’t think of a name beyond their call letters. There’s no way anyone can enjoy the music, I’ve actually made an honest effort to listen to that station to see why people enjoy it, but whatever the reason, it’s lost on me. And do they let just anybody in there to host a show? Are there no prerequisites? Like charisma? Or decent musical taste? Where do people find bands that obscure and terrible, bands with names like “Mystery Tuna” or “Harkin’ for Some Shnoodle”?

I can only assume that the only reason people listen to that station is so that they can tell people they listen to that station. Seriously. Then when people like me go to see what all the Hot Fuss is about we think to ourselves “this makes no sense to me, I must be stupid, retarded or both”. I would go so far as to say that people who listen to that radio station don’t like music, they just like being different. They’re the same people who read ‘Red Meat’ cartoons in See Magazine and laugh. They ain’t funny, and it ain’t good music.

Finally, I’ve noticed one more thing about college radio. With the exception of the occasional Police, or Clash tune, they will not play any cd that has sold more than 20 copies worldwide. I knew a kid who loved System of a Down. Thought they were the bee’s knees. Bought all of their records and listened to them religiously. Then their album went platinum and he stopped listening to them, get this, because they sold out. That guy is part of the problem, and I guarantee his radio dial never strays far from CKUA.

There’s nothing wrong with liking popular music. I really liked the first two Limp Bizkit albums. They weren’t genius, and they aren’t my favorite albums of all time, but they’re cool. If you forget that the band members are retarded and just listen to a couple of tunes you’d realize they aren’t near as bad as they’ve been made out to be. Plus, when they first came out, way back when, all of you CKUA kids thought they were cool. Don’t say you didn’t, because I remember. You know what else is really good? Stupid Justin Timberlake’s album. I hated that dude, then he put out this album with all of these super catchy tunes that were all good and stuff.

I suppose music is a personal choice, and who am I to judge. I did once play in a hair metal band, tights and all. My right to judge went out the door the first time I played “Talk Dirty to Me” live.