My Radio Thing

I've decided to use this entry to inform readers about a gift I've been hiding all this time. Very few people know of it, but I have a gift that may seem borderline magical. I admit, I haven't searched into this much, but if forced to give this a name, I'd call it "my radio thing".

The idea is simple enough. A couple of times, I'll be thinking of a song or singing a song. Then I'll turn on the radio. The song will be playing! But here's some more specific examples.

*Once, my brother told me about this SNL skit that I hadn't seen before. Now I know it well, but it was the one with Christopher Walken saying that more cowbells were needed while performing Don't Fear the Reaper. The very next time I hear that song, the DJ accidentally (or not) cuts into the song and starts saying "We need more cowbells!" Perhaps if the episode had just played, but this was four or five years after the episode made its initial run. Not convinced?

*I asked the same brother if he had heard this old White Zombie song being played on the radio recently. He said he had heard it once or twice over the span of a long time. But after I asked him that, he said he heard it many more times over the span of about a week. Still not convinced?

*One day, I mentioned in an e-mail to my girlfriend that I had been looking up the lyrics to Led Zeppelin's "Hey Hey, what can I do". That same day, I hear the song being performed by Hootie and the Blowfish.

Okay, if those haven't convinced you, then nothing probably will. This has happened a lot more than these times. Yeah, they're not played infrequently and, yeah, I'm not hearing White Zombie on the local oldies station. But still...

Fine, don't believe it then...I don't, myself. Just don't blame me that when you go home, you're going to hear:

Boston: More than a Feeling