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Okay, so there's this radio station, KMTT in Seattle, known to people here as 103.7 The Mountain. (You can listen online at www.1037themountain.com .)
I'm on the air in the afternoon from 3 to 7pm. Sweet. The best part of my job is hosting the Mountain Music Lounge, where bands and musicians drop by to chat and play live in our studio.
I have to tell you, I've been doing this for a pretty long time and there aren't very many radio stations like The Mountain. The music's cool, the people on the air get to be themselves instead of talking in those smarmy fake DJ voices, and I think we all agree that our listeners are great. Many of us, including me, have worked at stations where you're literally afraid of the listeners and you would do anything to avoid meeting them face to face, especially when adult beverages are involved. That's definitely not the case with Mountain listeners. We've taken many trips with them to Mexico, we hang out with them at concerts and events like Bumbershoot, and of course we get e-mail and phone calls every day from listeners. Great people.
Is it possible that the more I kiss up to them, the more friends I'll have?

My Interests

My dogs, music, movies, TV, cars, photography, bicycling, travel, pilates, dining out, reading, writing and now . . . . surfing!

I'd like to meet:

Every person who listens to my show and give them five bucks and a big hug.

Music:

Whoa, there's Steely Dan of course, and World Party, Barenaked Ladies, R.E.M., U2, Cream Pony, The Shins, Elvis Costello, John Butler Trio, Ben Kweller, Spoon, Beatles, New Pornographers, Death Cab for Cutie, Soul Asylum, Def Leppard, Indigo Girls, The Long Winters, Nick Lowe, John Hiatt, Keith Jarrett, CocoRosie, Moby, the Finn Brothers, Van Morrison, Counting Crows, Bob Dylan, Sufjan Stevens, Dandy Warhols, Van Halen, Neil Young, Hard-Fi, Talking Heads, Beck, Led Zeppelin, Brandi Carlile, Smoosh, Joan Osborne, Gruppo Sportivo, the Cars, Beth Orton, Pete Yorn, Alanis Morissette, the Doors, the White Stripes, XTC, Midnight Oil, the Eels, Paul Simon, the Januaries, Fatboy Slim, Miles Davis, 10,000 Maniacs, the Clash . . . etc.

Movies:

Borat, Crash, The Artistocrats, Little Miss Sunshine, A History of Violence, Lost in Translation, Godfather (1 and 2), This Is Spinal Tap, Best In Show, Waiting for Guffman, Office Space, Some Like It Hot, The Day the Earth Stood Still.

Television:

Lost (big time -- kind of too much, really), The Office, 30 Rock, Project Runway, The Daily Show/The Colbert Report, Letterman, Sopranos, Big Love, Entourage (when they're new), CSI, 24 (I was done with it but now I'm back), that show on HGTV where people go house hunting -- oh yeah, it's called House Hunters.
And in the not-current-but-great category, there's Seinfeld of course, plus Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Larry Sanders Show, and those fantastic reruns of Match Game '71, '72, '73, '74 etc. on the Game Show Network.

Books:

Special Topics in Calamity Physics by Marisha Pessi, Middlesex by Jeffery Eugenides, Hollywood Animal by Joe Eszterhas, The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen, The Ground Beneath Her Feet by Salman Rushdie. But I don't have that much time for books because I read Esquire, Vanity Fair, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly, People, Car & Driver, Automobile, Popular Photography, Rolling Stone, the Sunday New York Times, Conde Nast Traveler, Cosmo, and all those skeezy tabloids in the QFC checkout line.