A few weeks before Christmas, I bought myself an XM satellite radio - the Pioneer Inno. I wasn’t too familiar with XM, but I noticed that a few of the venues that I work at had been using it for background music. I was also growing tired of my iPod, because I knew every song that was on it (even with 15,000 songs on shuffle mode, things got predictable). So, I found a great deal on the Inno, and I’ve been hooked on XM ever since. Great programming and DJs, and best of all, no commercials. Incidentally, my stress level has dropped considerably; I think it’s because I haven’t had to listen to a single Bob’s Furniture or Ernie Boch Jr. commercial in the past month or so.

My favorite XM station (and apparently, I’m not alone on this) is 80s on 8. Although I like just about every song that I heard in that decade, some of my most favorites come from 1985: Read the rest of this entry »