'We Play Everything'

Listening to the radio makes me sad. There was promise a few years ago with the iPod-style Jack/Everything format where they set the supercomputer to random and let it play. However, these stations have quickly devolved into your standard 'Mix' format where they only play music by white people (except Whitney Houston) from the '80s, '90s, And Today!

Luckily the car has an auxiliary input, and we can crank up the laptop. We just went from The Beatles to Wilco to The Mamas & The Papas to Jack Guthrie to Motorhead to Stereolab. Amazingly, on the way out to Colorado, the randomizer played two Wynonie Harris songs in a row, but this did not prove to be an omen of anything. Unless he really liked mountains.