Well, enough keep looking for the “Der Kommissar” post (which I’m too lazy to link to; you can find it in the archives), but I really haven’t posted anything since before the beginning of summer.

Just in case you were wondering — and if you were, God bless you — Project 42 Radio is streaming. Right. NOW!  There’s pop, rock and else I could find from the last four decades, with an emphasis on music that’s fun to sing along with, tap your feet to, or play your air instrument of choice.  I hope you’ll try it out.  You can request a song from the playlist (and it’s a BIG one), too.

Posts here may still be infrequent, but they should be a bit less infrequent going forward.  Expect to see more stuff from everyday life here, as writing about it helps me to sort things out.  I won’t be telling everything, though.  This isn’t Jerry Springer.

(Do you know how hard it is to come up with a clever title using the letter “F” without sounding obscene?)

So, it’s two weeks until Project 42 Radio launches, and the lists continue…

• Foreigner
• Fountains of Wayne
• The Four Seasons
• Franke & The Knockouts
• Frankie Smith
• Frankie Valli
• Franz Ferdinand

Might as well jump…

Project 42 Radio launches in 2 weeks.  Here’s more of the artists you’ll be able to hear..

• EMF
• The Eagles
• Earth, Wind and Fire
• Ebn-Ozn
• Echo and the Bunnymen
• Eddie & The Hot Rods
• Eddie Kendricks
• Eddie Money
• Eddie Rabbitt

(Don’t stop now.  There’s more after the jump!)

Fifteen days to the official launch of Project 42 Radio!  Here’s some of the artists you’ll hear…especially if you listen all the time.  Really, you should just implant the headphones now and save the wait.

• DC Talk
• DHT
• DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
• DNA
• Dakota Moon
• Damn Yankees
• Dan Baird
• Dan Hartman
• Dana Glover
• Daniel Bedingfield

Lots more after the jump…

Trying to decide how to build the rest of the Project 42 site is driving me nuts.  It’s been years since I put a site together on my own.  My HTML-fu is very, very weak…and not let’s even get into content management software.  That stuff makes my head spin.

I want to offer information on what’s currently playing, and let you all request songs.  I can get those pages uploaded, but they look so…1999.  This is where my struggle with perfectionism comes to the fore.  I can’t get it perfect, so I do nothing.  This means a lot to me, and I want it to be good…augh.

I can’t afford to hire a professional, so I have to do this myself.  I hope it’s not too ugly when I’m finished.

Project 42 Radio goes live June 30.  Here’s some of the artists you’ll hear.

• C&C Music Factory
• C.W. McCall (“Convoy”)
• Calloway
• Cake
• Cameo
• Camouflage
• Camper Van Beethoven
• Candlebox
• Captain and Tennille
• Captain Hollywood Project

More after the jump…

Here’s one from a band that should have escaped their cult status.  The Call earned many positive reviews for their 1982 debut.  Their literate, passionate works earned a small but devoted following throughout the 80s.  Let The Day Begin, released in 1989, was likely their most radio-friendly work. The rousing title track was their biggest hit, reaching number one on the album rock charts and number 51 on the Top 40.

The song’s insistent bassline and driving guitars combine with undercurrents of optimism and big arena rock hooks.  The result is a song that’s equally fun to listen to at the start of a day, or driving down the open road with the top down and the stereo cranked to eleven.

The other day, while driving to work, the hood of my car came loose and slammed into my windshield.  I quickly pulled over and brought the car to a halt.

I remember two distinct emotions occuring within seconds.  The first was fright, of course.  It isn’t every day you have a large piece of metal trying to slam you in the face.  Thank the Lord for safety glass.

The second emotion, which followed quickly on the heels of the first, was anger.  “Dang!  How am I going to pay to get this fixed??!?!?” That’s what occupied my mind until my dad and brother-in-law arrived to take the car home and to drive me to work.

It wasn’t until I finally got into work that it hit me.  The windshield could have shattered.  I could have been riddled with glass shards, like some grotesque walking cactus.  I could have been severely injured, or worse. Instead, my mind was occupied with how much my meager bank account would be drained.

I suppose I was due for a wake-up call.  I shared with some people what I felt in the seconds after the accident.  They all looked at me as if they couldn’t understand why I wasn’t happy that I was not harmed. Why wasn’t I happy about that?

That attitude, is, really, pathetic.  I’m pathetic.  It’s a good thing God loves me anyway, despite all that.

The accident, and the conversations after, helped me realize I’ve been focusing my sights much too often on those things I deem bad.  I’ve focused so much on them, I haven’t seen the good things that, to others, are as plain as day.

God help me to see the good in cirumstances, and in people, before I become a bitter old man yelling at the kids to get off his lawn.

• B-52s
• BBMak
• Bachman-Turner Overdrive
• Bad Company
• Bad English
• Badfinger
• Baha Men

When I haven’t been working or cracking the college e-books, I’ve been trying to get Project42Radio.com ready for the June 30 launch date.  I’m doing it all myself — music, website, publicity — it’s taking all my time.  Maybe that’s why I can’t seem to think of anything else to write.

Earlier, I tried to start listing every song in the Project 42 library.  There are thousands of songs there; it would take me way too long to do it.  So, instead, I’ll start listing the artists you’ll hear.  Some of them have several songs on the playlist, while others have just one. Remember that the station will feature songs from my lifespan (1966-on), so there will be some acts you’ll likely gag on.  But, if you’re a pop music junkie like me, there may be some you will enjoy…and some that may surprise you, I dunno.

Due to my database limitations, the lists are alphabetized by first name.  If you can’t handle that, you should get out more.

Here are the artists representing the letter “A”…

• A-ha
• ABBA
• ABC
• AC/DC
• Aaron Neville
• Abra Moore
• Ace
• Ace Of Base
• Adam Ant
• Aerosmith
• Afrika Bambaataa
• Afro Celt Sound System
• After 7
• After the Fire
• Aimee Mann
• Al B. Sure
• Al Green
• Al Stewart
• Al Wilson
• Alabama
• Alan Jackson
• Alan Parsons Project
• Alana Davis
• Alanis Morissette
• Alannah Myles
• Aldo Nova
• Ali Thomson
• Alice Cooper
• Alicia Bridges
• Alicia Keys
• Alien Ant Farm
• All-American Rejects
• Allison Moorer
• Allman Brothers Band
• Alphaville
• Altered Images
• Ambrosia
• America
• Amii Stewart
• Andrew Gold
• Andru Donalds
• Anggun
• Anita Ward
• Anna Nalick
• Annie Lennox
• April Wine
• Arcadia
• Archie Bell & The Drells
• Aretha Franklin
• Arrested Development
• Arthur Brown
• Arthur Conley
• Asia
• Atlanta Rhythm Section
• Audioslave
• Augustana
• Autograph
• Average White Band
• Avion
• Avril Lavigne
• Aztec Camera

One letter down.  25 to go.