Today I'm about 3 pages from finishing
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. This
book is so wonderful, I don't want to finish it.
I've also started "The
Search for
Truth" by Michael A. Singer. I'm not quite sure what to expect from this book, I know it's about
spirituality, mostly eastern related stuff, you know,
chakras,
mandalas,
mantras,
prayer flags, and so on.
I've been told that this book is on of the best overviews of spirituality, so I'm expecting more than just the eastern type stuff, but that's all I've encountered so far.
My
car's tape
player is still broken, so I'm forced to listen to the
radio.
Radio music is terrible. I'm so accustomed to being able to pop in a mixed tape with everything from
Bob Dylan and
Ani DiFranco to
Wu Tang Clan on it, or being able to toss some CD's in the car to listen to, that having no control over the music in my car really drives me insane. It wouldn't bother me so much if the music on the radio wasn't so terrible.
So in order to avoid the assault of shit-music, I've taken to listening to the religious stations.
(Before you downvote this, just read on.)
I live in North Carolina, right square in the
Bible Belt. So, naturally there are alot of
Baptists around here. I've found
two religious stations thus far, 106.3 WSKY FM (I've noted the
Christian radio call letters similarity to "
Whiskey", but ignored it as a coincidence), and 1230
AM "Inspirational".
From my experience, both stations are pretty bland. The
religious music is worse than anything I've ever heard, however,
sometimes, you
get lucky, and hear something
good.
What
I like is when they take a passage from the
Bible and tell all about different
translations, how the meaning of a passage changed from it's
original Hebrew state to the most common version of the english Bible, the
King James Version.
I've also noticed that
nothing on these stations is live. Nothing. It's all taped sermons, or taped music with taped DJ's between the songs. I know this because the date is never stated,
no news,
no weather, nothing... plus, sometimes you can tell the tapes are
worn out.
(The only time there is anything
live on, is sometimes when they are asking for
money they do a live broadcast.)
Once or twice I've
heard tapes being played at double
speed (or what sounded like
double), which was rather
interesting.
Anyhow, the
coolest thing happened today, I heard two
tapes being played at the same time. Two
simultaneous sermons playing over the radio.
It
was great.