What else can I say?
Besides it’s about time!
KROCK is back. WXRK has stopped being WFNY - 92.3 FREE FM. As of 5PM today.
Thank goodness.
Now they need to hire me (in a timeslot not filled by guys who want people to WOW) so I can play some music and talk to New York and New Jersey residents who missed the station more than they are going to miss The “jumped the shark three seasons ago” Sopranos.
You see, KROCK and I go way back.
Over a decade ago, new DJs had just joined the station and one of them hit on me while I was at one of their movie screenings with my best friend (who later was hit on by the lead singer of Stabbing Westward – that in itself is a whole other story). Mr. DJ, trying hard to impress me, gave me one of the free dinner for two at Planet Hollywood gift certificates. (Hey, big spender!) I took it from him and never called him. It’s a good thing, what I didn’t know then was that he was dating someone I would years later work with and find to be super sweet. Quality guys I meet. I know.
On another occasion, one of the DJs let me read a poem I wrote about Dave Navarro on air. A friend of mine called in and said she knew me and he connected us both on air. It was cute. Too silly girls, one with a silly school girl crush on a guy who didn’t even know she existed … until years later … embarrassing ourselves for the entire tri-state area. Ahhh, those were the days.
And then the last time I can recall without fully embarrassing myself; I asked another DJ who worked there to play a song not on the play list. I guess I was super sweet – I swear, some people find me to be sweet — because he did something he was definitely not supposed to do. He played it. And then he lost his job. Ooops.
Welcome back. I’ve grown up. I promise not to make any trouble. (Just as long as you promise to play “Waiting Room” by Fugazi once in a while.)
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