To resist despair cause you can't change everything- to resist despair in this world- Is what it is, what it is, what it is to be FREE

There are two things that distract me from the crazy/depressing/appalling day-to-day- television shows and KALX:

Specifically the new 90210 and Jesse Luscious' show Thursdays from 6-9am.
Both of these things have come to an end.

Jesse after a gazillion years on KALX is moving away and the new 90210 season is over.
What am I to do?

I think the reason I like both of these things has to with the feeling of nostalgia.

Some younger folks I know scoff at nostalgia and that is fine, they are young and don't have enough experience to understand that there is appeal to nostalgia. Well, there is appeal for me. I am a heady person who keeps journals and creates personal soundtracks in my head for life events.
I don't want to go on an all 1980s cruise and even though my hair style has remained fairly constant for many, many, many years I do freshen it up. I attempt a vintage vibe, but most of my clothes are new. Also, I don't loooonnnng for the "old days," I do appreciate them and try to live life with no regrets.
 Visiting my past occasionally  feels like catching  up with an old friend. Music has always been "my thing," so most of the time I visit through music.

Jesse Luscious' radio show gave me bursts of nostalgia almost every week. I use the term bursts, because it was typically punk rock tunes that clock in around 2:25.
Driving to work he would play a tune from Adolescents, Op Ivy, JChurch, Buzzcocks, and I really could list a thousand other bands, and for those few moments the song would remind me of a place or person or feeling of something from my past. Great way to start the morning.

90210 is a little different. Wednesdays at 8pm were an event at our house. Ridiculous things happened to these West Bev students and I loved every minute of it. Seeing them older and in some cases super botox'd was super fun and for 47 minutes I could not think about the gross, crazy world we live in. Their self- absorbed heavily makeup selves were a breath of fresh air.

I know. I know. I should watch "Game of Thrones," but Jason Priestly isn't in it!!