Hey, I LIKE drinking seven tenths of merlot & falling asleep with a cat on my head. Well, maybe not so much the on the head part...

I just love reading your blog! Love songs on the coast.......how stupid is that!!

Hi Bob! I love the ones on Kasey's top 20.

Dear Casey,
I live in Virginia and my best friend from 2nd grade died the other day before I got to tell her how much she meant to me. Please play "Every Rose Has its Thorn" by Poison because that was totally our song.
Sincerely,
Jody

We get up extra early on Sunday morning so we can make fun of that shit!

And by the way I live in Los Angeles and am familiar with the show....... and I think it is so lame.

I can't even get the cat to fall asleep on my head!

Drinking wine and falling asleep with the cat on your head is not a bad thing...it's called comfort in time of need. Don't worry, dearie, your life is on the upswing! Oh, and change radio stations!

Would I be considered "bitter" if I thought radio stations like that should be shot? Probably, huh?! Sigh. Ah well. ;)

On a less bitter note, you mentioned my home town! West Covina! (well, actually ... Covina ... but whatever!) :) Whoo hooo!!!

I listen to DELILAH http://www.radiodelilah.com/home/home.html
it is sappy love songs for the love sick and hopeless romantics among us.
beautiful kitty.

I totally heard the DJ's "soft silky smooth voice" in my head!

Okay, so have you heard Delilah (okay, maybe I cannot spell her name)? Well, the gals at work LOVE her show. No biggie, they are all in their 30/40/50s. The play that show in the nice part of the office, where mostly women work. I am not so big a fan. What kills me is usually I can hear the butt rock ripping through the warehouse, the other part of work where the guys deal with all these big pieces of freight. But there is one guy who manages to get this Delilah show booming through this 10 acre warehouse. It even echoes then. I think that is kind of weird.

I prefer to listen to Dr. Drew and Adam Carolla on Love Lines.

I cannot stand Delilah. For one thing she says the same thing to every caller -- well, OK, maybe not, but it sure sounds like it to me -- and for another she talks way too much. Delilah? Hon? I really don't WANT to know the details of Evan's breakup with Kasondra, nor do I want to know how God figures into this (see yesterday's comment re: barely able to mind my own business, never mind other people's). Please just shut up and play the music.

In lieu of Delilah I recommend 1) shitkickin Beethoven 2) knitting socks for self.

When I was in college in Boston, I used to religiously listen to Bedtime Magic with David Alan Boucher. It was the same sort of show and for some reason, it was like crack.

the best night on that station was the night the Bitter DJ was on the air

hand to god, i was listening one night and someone called in and wanted to request a song to let his girlfriend know that he still loved her, wanted her back, blah, blah, blah

instead of the usual, supportive crap they spew, the Bitter DJ said, "well, maybe she's moved on already?" and kept going on and on aboout how this girl had probably cheated on him and really, wasn't he better off without her?

i have a feeling that was the Bitter DJ's way of giving her 2 week notice

it was the best night EVER

OMG.. how funny is this. When I was in HS I used to listen to David Allen Boucher and Delilah (I live in NH) at night when I was up late doing homework. Isn't it funny how you can't seem to Shut.It.Off.?

Is it me or when you listen to Delilah do you notice this odd quirk in her show?
Delilah: Hello Caller this is Delilah what can I do for you tonight?
Caller: Well Delilah I just broke up with my boyfriend of 3 years
D: ooooooo that's too bad [insert more of the like here]
C: Can you play a song for me?
D: Sure
[insert I got you babe by sonny and cher which is majorly inappropraite for the caller]

Am I the only one to have noticed this?

Here, our 'soft hits/dentist office music' is KBAY - said with a lot of air flow..Kahhy Bahhyyy, and when I used to work nights, I'd drive home listening to Delilah (syndicated love requests)
..in hindsight, it's just torture (justifiable only by emotional release) for the love scarred... Maybe your cat was just trying to save you from soft-rock self-destruction.
p.s.
My dog sleeps on my head too

I was listening to 80's pop on the dish, drinking scotch (none of the sissy cab stuff) and falling asleep with a cat on my head just a couple of nights ago. Man broke my heart? NO! Men took down 4 old wild cherry trees in my front yard! Cried for an hour. I knew you'd understand. *smooch*

Oh, gawd....

And about kitty... mine always seems to win the entire pillow by morning and I end up with a crick in my neck... Grrr...

So you're coming tonight, yeah?

I think I want you to be my platonic girl friend.

Love reading your stuff!!
Anita

Love Songs on the KOST is one of the greatest/hilarious radio blocks EVER. It never fails to make me laugh.

I cannot confirm nor deny that I have played "Love Songs on the KOST: Junior High School Version" in my head while thinking of my adolescent crushes. Of course, the only songs in that rotation were Tiffany's "Could've Been" or Debbie Gibson's "Foolish Beat." Good times.

When I get broken hearted and turn to rock (cause no matter how much I'm hurting, Celine STILL sucks). Like as in "Here I Go Again on my Own" by Whitesnake. Or maybe a little new wavey Bizarre Love Triange if I'm really feeling put out.

But here's a matter of opinion. Wine of any kind doesn't really go with synthesizers and big hair. Any suggestions on what I should be drinking?

(Cats are ALWAYS appropriate however)

Perhaps Delilah is DA Boucher in drag? At least he's quieter.

What is it with cats sleeping on heads? Our sphynx cat (sphynxbreed.blogspot.com) George, can't get enough of sticking his cooley way to close to our eyes! Dude, give us some space!

Can I say again that I really, truly detest your ex?

Oh my god, KOST is so creepy! Turn it off!!

Awww, cat on head is so warm and comforting. Good times. My 11-month-old kitten hardly ever sleeps on my head anymore, and I miss it, even if she is about 9 pounds now.

And all of us married folks certainly aren't getting it on EVERY time it rains. . . I mean, c'mon, it rained 30 out of 31 days last month. Who has THAT libido??

Helen

If I get into a KOST vortex, a little Bon Jovi always perks me up.

I know there is some kind of oddity in music library when the New York Dolls sit next to Barry Manilow and Gil Scott Heron shares shelf room with Janis Ian, but thats just how the music rolls in our house. In SF we used to have KOIT -- so shameful to get busted leaving that soft rock love channel on the car radio.

I particularly love the DJs dulcet tones on those stations. Its super creepy and greasy smooth. Like that aerosol nail polish 'drying' stuff at nail parlors - which by the way are always tuned to the 'love' channel.

Wine plus cat next to head on pillow = my life.

When I moved out of the Valley and moved, oh 3000 miles away, I thought I had escaped the KOST.

I was wrong.

There's a station EXACTLY like KOST.. like down to the DJs "soothing voices" here in Philly. No matter where you go, they will find you!

My cat can't be bothered with sleeping on my head... He is a legs guy!

When I'm driving through Nashville, I listen to "Cryin', Lovin' or Leavin'". It's the same concept, just a country music version with way more redneck callers. True hilarity.

Hilarious! We have something similar in Chicago. I can't even listen because it so depressing. "I'd like to dedicate a song to my man. He cheated on me when I was in the hospital with my heart condition, but we're back on now. And better than ever. I want to let him know that I love him and forgive him."
Yuck!

Awww, Bob! You have to give him points for seductiveness. And I agree with previous posters, you should really switch stations.

Hey, listening to Adam & Drew on Loveline might make you feel BETTER. Just listen to some of those chumps. Eek. 'Tis better to be single & picky, IMHO.

Hey at least on KOST they are not asking "plumbing" questions... Ya know - "I wanna get it on but my thingy don't work - what should I do?"

Nine Inch Nails' Pretty Hate Machine is the antidote for Soft Music Love Songs (got me through my first real heartbreak - my housemates ended up hiding it from me. I bought another copy.)

It's like that saying "April's Showers bring January's screaming babies."

I am in LOVE with the KOST. I only wish I could get it out here. Delilah is OK, but the local shows are always so much better (I grew up falling asleep to Pillow Talk on WOMC in Detroit).

I wouldn't mind Bob on my head. Or {{I am so not worthy}} Soba. But I end up with the wee MonkeyGurrl on my head. You think *you* got a stinkin crick in your neck?!

BTW, that is also proof positive that not everybody is out there gettin' some-some.

I loathe Love Songs on the coast. A few months ago, my hairdresser and I got into a conversation on how it induces nausea. They have it on in her salon because its the only station that comes in clearly. Bob's looking awfully cute today.

This is the reason I never went into commercial radio, and only did college radio. I just couldn't do the Cooing into the mike schtick. But once, because I am evil and cynical, I did an Alternative Valentines Day show (well, it was alternative radio!). Instead of the usual gooey dedications, I encouraged listeners to call in and dedicate something to that Special Someone who they wanted to Eat Bauffalo Chips and Die. The phones lit up all night. We played "Your Love is Like Nuclear Waste," "Respectable" "She's So Dull" "Bad Boys get Spanked" etc etc. The prize-winning dedication went to the guy who called and said he hoped his former partner's dog would die from "gastro-intestinal pressure." Ouch.

Here in the Boston area we have David Allan Boucher. Prounced in the breathiest, low, smoothest male voice possible . . . d a v i d a l l a n b o u c h e e e e e r r r r r . . . I have to admit that I like his voice. But if I ran into him in a park I'd run: check out his pic.

http://www.bedtimetonight.com/

What's under that coat??

LOL!! We have that here on a station called Sunny 98 and they tell everyone to "Have a Sunny Day!" I want to call them up so bad on a rainy day and ask them if their mediocre job honestly puts them in a room with no freakin windows. It's raining outside for crying out loud!!!

When I was in high school, the America's Top 40 thing always cracked me up because (1) Do you think the other person is really listening? (2) They probably aren't the only Ted/Julie couple who broke up because he went out one night with his friends and you were jealous (3) What guy is going to call up a girl and openly admit that he heard your long-distance letter thing on America's Top 40, sees the error of his ways and wants another chance?

I'd like to dedicate the song "Catscratch Fever" to Bob. He can sit on my head any time.

I used to date a dj on that station so y'all can only imagine how much I hate it.

Those hush-toned late night DJs always remind me of The Fog (the John Carpenter version), and my mother's divorce. She listened to them ALL THE TIME and my sister and I would make fun of them in our rooms. We had yet to discover heartache...

Oh, Stitch-dom: Try Scotch. It's not called Scotch on the "rocks" for nothing.

I wish my kitty would sleep on my head.

Looked at the KOST web site -- it has a picture of Alan Thicke!! -- how SoCal is that?

>PS love your blog, am also a cat-owning knitter.

Oh the wine and the drizzling rain and the soft hits make me feel all maudlin and moody, too. I think it is universal. And God-forbid it be "that time of the month".

long ago, and far away, i endured a period of heartbreak that caused me to *completely* understand and relate to journey's "wheel in the sky" tune.

scary times.

i like listening to the rain which is a good thing because we get a lot of it here.

Can someone please tell me where I can listen to Love Line on the internet. I used to listen to it all the time when it aired on this rock station here in Boston. That show is a scream!

You have got to find a different radio station! :)

(Love the cat, love your post.)

Wow, that takes me back! Love Songs on the Coast got me through every bad jr. high and high school breakup when I was growing up in OC. That and large tubs of cookies and cream ice cream. Every now and then if I'm in LA I'll tune in just to laugh, it's terrible! But I can still hear that voice in my head. Thanks for the morning chuckle Laurie. :)

Well hell I'm obviously doing something wrong. I sleep with a cat on my head everynight and I don't even get the damn wine.

o.0

Note To Self: Buy More Wine.

*GRIN* Yeah that's a good excuse.

How could you not love it when Bob falls asleep on your head? :) Sweet Bob.

UGH hate the KOST (coast)!!!! Come on over to the dark side, 95.5 KLOS classic Rock Baby, never lets you down!

This is kind of gross, but oh well:

I always knew when my mom and step-dad were "getting it on" because they would have their bedroom door closed and KOST soft hits woule be blasting from their room.

Needless to say, I cringe when I see or hear the words "soft hits".

Back in the day, when I was young and sowing my wild oats/hops/barley. Someone dedicated Freddy Fender's "Lonely Days and Lonely Night" to me. Thank goodness I didn't hear the dedication but I have wondered all these year who it could have been. Sadly enough that is how I spend my time these days and nights. Maybe it was Nostradamus?

Pat Benatar's "Harden my Heart" got me through some tough times.

Hi Bob, You're the Head sleeper.

When I'm driving the 5 I like to find the local coast-like stations and get my wistful on. My two favorite soft hits are from 9th grade, when I was dealing with first painful real love -- "Save the Best for Last" by Vanessa Williams (sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes round the moon -- lyrical genius!), and "One More Try" by Timmy T. AWESOME.

How funny! I was totally gonna blog about how much I hate sappy songs today after I saw the list of the worst songs ever that was on CNN yesterday. It was so funny. #1 worst song according to the list - She's Having My Baby by Paul Anka. Ewwww.

Just have to comment on how much I HATE HATE HATE Delilah's show. I don't know why I hate it so much, except that she seems really condescending to me. And fakey. And annoying. Did I mention that I hate her show? A lot? The songs I don't mind - after all, I am a cheese queen, but her...makes me shudder!

here we have Magic 106.7. and after 8 o'clock you can tune into the Bedtime Magic show with David Alan Bouche'. and he's got this soft slightly creepy voice that lulls you to sleep....zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

The comments about music at work reminded me of my job as a dental assistant. The dentist was a "soft jazz" (read: Kenny G) kinda guy. Me? Bruce Springsteen. So there were some issues around control of the satellite radio remote. Finally we agreed to let the patient in the chair at the time pick the station. So one day, this little old lady comes in and chooses "Show Tunes". Dr. G and I are rolling our eyes thinking "How much is this gonna suck?" Next song up? 'Sweet Transvestite' from Rocky Horror. The little old lady is like, "I'm not familiar with this song. What are they singing about?" We are suppressing laughter to the point of crying behind our masks. That? Was priceless.

As are cathats when you're sleeping. But not in the same way.

Oh, Crazy Aunt Purl, and when I read "soft hits" in the first paragraph thought it was such a poetic way to describe the rain outside.

Dude, turn the radio off and slowly back away...

Hey, better a cat on your head than a parrot. Ancient Chinese proverb say "she who fall asleep with parrot on head wake up with parrot $#*@ in hair." I tell ya, the bird was just lucky there was enough food in the house that day because he was DEFINITELY headed for the stewpot. And yeah, I know about the nightly "heartache on the KOST" fest. Can't listen to it because it reminds me of that Clint Eastwood movie "Play Misty for Me." Creepy.

If it makes you feel any better some of us came home cranky yesterday, mad at the rain and the world and made their boyfriends make them frozen pizza and drank beer and fell asleep halfway through Wedding Crashers. Is that what you meant by “morally compromised”?

I don’t know if you can hear Loveline on the web or not, but it just isn’t the same without Adam. I love Dr. Drew but Adam was really his perfect counterpoint. I have to get my Carolla fix during my morning drive now. I like his show, it funny.

My iPod took place of the radio...seriously.

I was awake until 4am last night thinking the same thing. I don't punish myself with KOST music though. I like to let my head make it worse on it's own. Wish I had a cat on my head to make life better, or a nice Texas girl. Can I choose?

Somebody go rescue her now!!!

I don't think I should be allowed to post any more comments because I always screw them up. DAMN. Song title should have been "Wasted days and wasted night". Life outcome still the same. Whaaaaaa. No wonder I drink.

Aw man, we need to wrestle that bottle of Cab out of your hands, bury your radio at the bottom of your garbage can under all of Francisco's shrub trimmings, and send you back to Trader Joe's!

Rain + Soft Hits + Wine = Wallow, and that formula is bringin' you down, Laurie.

You deserve better. So much better.

I *wish* my cats would sleep on my head. Instead they JUMP on my head with glee to say "Goooood morning! Time for some Friskies seafood buffet!"

I think the same goddamn thing when its dark and raining outside. That everyone on earth is having fabulous relations and I am sitting here lonely and bored.

Whatever. I am KEEPING THE CAB and drinking it with you Laurie! I think Mary in VA is subconsciously thinking "You deserve better.....wine."

we all deal with things in different ways. And mine is champagne :)

Thanks Dena ;) This cab is for you!

i love that mary AND dena can both be right at the same time.

:)

^..^

Friday is my LAST DAY AT WORK at the place I've worked for 8 years ..

weird.

I wonder if I can leave early.

I think you are ready to move on.

yeah, Laurie, who wouldn't love waking up with a cat butt on their head?? Poor Bob.

Well.
That pussycat is a handsome devil.

Oh! look!! a new ad! and the bags are so pretty!

Oh, it seems like 5 p.m. will never come...

It's not wallowing, exactly, it's just love songs on the coast LOL. But I do appreciate the concern. Especially for my headwarmer, Bob.

Bob has started doing this new (and annoying) thing lately where he's become very jealous, and he will actively attack any of the other cats who are snaking some attention from mama. He's finally discovered he's a Big Cat, I guess, and he's throwing his weight around. Well, except with Soba. Nobody messes with the Soba.

Have a good evening. To the cats too.

thanks psychomom :) those cats are in for some serious cuddling tonight ... no fur left behind...

ahhh, slobbering on the monitor at the Bob pic. I love me some cat breath and whiskers.

You need musical healing, girl. I prescribe the soundtrack to "Bend it Like Beckham" interspersed with '50s Harry Belafonte calypso and Muppet Movie songs. (seriously, a friend just burned me a roadtrip CD like that.)

Cat is merely attempting to exert mind control. Same as my terrier, who likes to paw me in the eye in the morning. "You will wake, and realize that my attempt to dominate the world is invincible. Or you will at least give me double rawhides."

Anyone remember Alison Steele, the Night Owl? I think you had to live in the NYC listening area 15 or more years ago to have heard her. I'm pretty sure she was local & this was before the big companies took the "local" out of radio. Now she was a DJ -- philosophical but never sappy. She passed away maybe 5 years ago. I'm horrified to know that Delilah is inflicted on the rest of the country . I thought she was a home grown horror in our parts alone.

You are freaking hillarious. I just found your log from a random link from another random blog I stumbled across--and it's great! I just moved from LA (yes, I know that radio station, can't say I listened much, but think your example call in from West Covina was funny as hell) to Raleigh, NC (yeah, cultur shock), so I think I'll be enjoying living LA vicariously thru you!

Those radio announcers suck!! But please hear me when I say you are not alone. I can definitely relate. Take care!

Sooo, you might want to be careful with that whole coast thing. I saw this movie (The Fog) with Adrienne Barbeau where she was a DJ in a lighthouse and she played sappy songs, and talked like she was pretending to be Kathleen Turner, and made dedications; but then these creepy ghosts with leprosy (they were kinda pissed about being sent off on a leaky boat) snuck ashore and killed her kid's babysitter and some horny teenagers and some rednecks; and nobody, not even Jamie Lee Curtis, got any loving at all.
PS. There's a remake too, which I haven't seen even though Smallville's Tom Welling is much better eye candy than the dudes in the 80's version. He probably gets some booty before the lepers get all pissed off.
PPS Elton and Celine in the same night? I think the lepers on the leaky boat are better off.

Ok, so I HATE Delilah and that other love show that is on here in Chicago, but in 1997 i got married and spent my honeymoon in the hospital (long story) and I called Delilah and GOT ON THE AIR.

"I'm spending my honeymoon in the hospital because my heart doesn't work right." is a lock.

So here's the deal --when I said "I love [my husband] to death" she said she doesn't use that phrase and i had to say something else for the air (we were being taped).

And they totally pick the song they play. She informed me of what the song would be --and it was something I had NEVER heard of. Ever. Totally sucky too.

so the hubby heard my dedication which he thought was kinda silly and then the song was totally meaningless which defeats the purpose.

OK, so "giving head" doesn't always mean the same thing, right? Move over to Indie 103.1...no syrupy heebie-jeebies!

Delilah is in my neck of the woods too, and somepeople just love her, and call her and tell her all about how they screwed up their relationship and blah, blah, blah. Cracks me up while I cringe.

Harden my Heart was my theme song during my first divorce, but it is by Quarterflash, not Pat Benatar.

Laurie, I missed your comment about the bag ad because I was busy looking at the site and trying to figure out the closest place to me that carries them. I think I have now found my birthday present for this year.

Hey, speaking of random dedications and people being mentioned on air...if you're not a podcast fan, you may not know about a knittin podcast called "It's a Purl, Man" done by some guy [Guido Stein or somesuch]...anywho, he often reviews other podcasts or blogs or books he likes [knitting related, bien sur] and on his most recent 'cast he did this, like, 5 minute bit on how much he LOVED Crazy Aunt Purl. He seems to have some sort of platonic internet-crush on you. You must check it out if you haven't yet...it's much better than some dorky soft hits radio show shout out.

Don't worry, you're not missing out. It rained here he other night. The curtains weren't drawn, and if I remember right, my husband spent most of the evening next door in his office trying to catch up on paperwork. See how the hurt heart distorts things?

If it helps, I didn't get any last night.

When I got to Afghanistan I was in KHOST.
There's NO radio station there.
What were we talking about??

Check out the movie: Play Misty for Me.....starring Clint Eastwood as the DJ.....and the stalker.....stalks...scary but sooo good....and right up there with the whole DJ/songs thingie......

Hey, that sounds like the night I had last night.. only difference is I was about "this" close to throwing the damn radio across the room... ya just gotta love/hate those romantic/idiotic songs and it isn't it weird how they just get better as the level in the wine bottle goes down?

Oh man. Delilah! Back before I had a car and had to walk to and from work, whatever radio station Delilah was broadcast on was the ONLY radio station to come in clearly on my walk back. And so I'd walk along, listening to the drivel, and muttering back to the radio because the callers were SO STUPID. Good thing I was in the woods...
(Can I just recommend "Title of the Song" by Da Vinci's Notebook? It's a parody of all the boy band stupid love songs and it is EXCELLENT.)

Thanks Ginnie.
I am so confused.

K-Mozart (KMZT) has a show from 10-11...it's called "The Romantic Hour with Mona Golabek." It is a somewhat more upscale version of Love Songs on the KOST (ugh, I need to keep my Egg McMuffin down), minus the sad listener call-ins. I listened to it once for five minutes, and I swear I wanted to _kill_ Mona Golabek. Yes'm it is THAT annoying.

I'm having one of those shitty all-day cry fest, "my life is never going to get better" days, and then I read your entries from the past few days. I feel better--you made me laugh, and feel like there's someone else out there who has the same kind of feelings as me...which is good especially because my boyfriend completely doesn't understand that it's perfectly acceptable to occasionally want to crawl under a rock and die because you feel like your life is never going to get better. So, thanks :-)

FYI, the radio is completely making me cry lately. Songs that wouldn't normally do it to me. I mean, Springsteen's Thunder Road causing a quivering lip?? It's a sing-a-long song, not a cry-a-long song! I think it's definitely time to go back on the meds!

Yeah, we have Delilah on one our stations in the evening too and after a couple of songs, I'm driven to drink.

Tanya

I can't handle "soft hits" stations in any form. El-Yuck-O. I try to live Smarm-Free.

A cat that sleeps on your head is not so bad. Mine sleeps next to me and puts one hand on my face, then falls asleep. Then, in the middle of the night, if he is awakened by anything (like, me looking at him, for example), he'll stretch that arm out and clench his fist, and act which amounts to a one-handed "biscuit making" session with my face.

Aaaaah, love....

OMG I hate Delilah. Nothing will cause me to switch a station faster than Delilah! Not to mention reach for the butter knife for SLOW KILLING.

I am so with you Laurie...I used to listen to Air Supply (or sometimes Barry...) and just cry my eyes out after a fight with a boyfriend...still do it sometimes if I'm having a bad day! Something about purging makes ya feel good.

Happy Friday!

In Nashville, in addition to "Cryin', Lovin', or Leavin', we also have a radio station that plays nothing but sappy, horrible love songs - 99.9% of the time. I was trapped in a car with a co-worker who sang along the entire time. I've come up with a new slogan for them - "Music to slit your wrists by".
I was so depressed by the time I got out of the car that I went home.
But, on the up side - in the midst of heartbreak and trauma, Sheryl Crow would come on with "All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun" and all I could think of was, "Yeah, me too."