Maybe It's Just the Stations I Listen To...

...but modern radio is nearly enough to make me suicidal. 

First you've got the fact that almost every song they play is some variation of a love song. The artists are either falling in love (mostly) or out of love (occasionally), but pretty much all they want to talk about is love. Personally, I'm not at a place in my life where that's a conversation I'm terribly interested in having. 

The songs would be bad enough, but then you've got the ads. I can't recall the last time I heard an ad break on a popular Seattle radio station that didn't include at least one ad from one of the local jewelry stores specializing in engagement rings. It's like they assume every freakin' person listening to the radio is some guy getting ready to propose. 

And if it's not the engagement ring specialists, it's the local cancer centers "turning cancer patients into cancer survivors." Of course the ads don't include testimonials from the families of cancer patients who were the exact opposite of cancer survivors, which makes for something of a skewed view. And as someone who's being told by that very cancer center that my particular cancer is incurable, it's an annoying omission. 

I really need to spend more energy trying to figure out how to get my computer to talk to my stereo so I don't have to listen to the radio.