Now I know you all know how much I love my Sirius Satellite Radio subscription, and I know you all know that for the most part I listen to Howard Stern (who I adore). The portable unit I have is actually my second one because they’re not very sturdy. The first one sort of fell apart-the wheel thing would only go in one direction and the headphone jack died. It became un-portable. Then I got a new one, it’s fancy and black, much smaller and then when I went to Montreal I took it and the cradle so I could charge it but I decided NOT to take the aerial because it’s a crazy long wire and a pain if it gets tangled. But when I unplugged the aerial, something broke. Now I can not get it plugged back in and that means that I can no longer get a feed which means I can’t do my regularly scheduled recordings-nightly of that day’s Howard Stern Show, which I listen to the next day. Now, I haven’t missed too much because I listen to the feed on my computer, and that’s fine because our tv remote’s kind of dead which means I barely watch tv during the day anymore, especially if I am alone.
ANYway. Sometimes I can’t get a live satellite feed when walking around in Toronto-when I am underground, or in a mall-so I have listened to old recordings several times. One of the neat features of the radio is that it does these automatic recordings of stations you listen to, they’re called Radio Replays, and because I occasionally listen to the Broadway station I happily discoverd a 6.5 hour recording of Broadway musical songs! On that station I love half the music, I’m familiar with a quarter of the music and the rest is new to my ears. Then I heard a song, near the end of the long recording, that I’ve fallen in love with and listen to over and over each day. It’s from the musical “Best Little Whorehouse in Texas” and was originally sung by Miss Dolly Parton in the movie. And, trust me, it’s a great version of the song. But the one on my radio is infinitely better. Times a million, I wish I knew who was singing it. The song’s called “A Lil’ Ole Bitty Pissant Country Place”…I wish I could find a decent version of it on youtube, but feel free to enjoy a little Dolly Parton.
One day I will be able to remember the words…
Howard Stern is the one thing I miss about living in Philly.
Seriously, I love him so much, he’s amazing. And obviously not every moment of the show is brilliant, but it’s so funny and great. And Ashley, you’ve missed the entire oeuvre of Richard Christie and Sal, there’s been times when I’ve thought I might pee my pants laughing so hard.
i’m from nashville, tn and love me some dolly parton! that movie is hilarious too.. saw it for the first time a few summers ago!
I have to think there’s something wrong with a person that doesn’t like Dolly Parton, I mean, really, what’s not to love??!? She’s kind of like the Prince of the country world!