caroline_

This is exactly the right question, and you have put it so much more elegantly than I would've.

Hi guys. In 2009 I heard you (Jim) talk about your young son and who his favorite musicians are, and because of that, I became a sustaining member and have been ever since. I've attended Rock the Gardens, and Current B-days, and a ton of other sponsored events. I have friends at the station and it's always on in the background in my house.

That said, I find myself more frustrated with the day-to-day programming than excited. Used to be I could listen to The Current for only an hour and hear something I’d never heard before. These days the playlist is entirely predictable, and lacks any sort of variety. Is there a need to push certain singles from certain artists? For example, why play the same Beck or St. Vincent song 4 times a day, when they have such rich and detailed back catalogs? My understanding of The Current was that it’s open format. You will hear anything, and are more than likely to get a deeper cut every hour.

Now you are celebrating your birthday with 10 days of events. If you want my sustainer opinion, that is outrageous. A radio station that once had humble beginnings has transformed into (excuse me here) a self-congratulatory conglomerate, and a mold of a media establishment it claims to reject. What other radio station would throw itself a 10 day party?

For the record, there are things I love which I feel force the DJs to get creative: Time Machine & A-Z Weekends. I love New Hot,Transmission and Teenage Kicks and you ARE a major mouthpiece for local talent, though there's more to the scene than Doomtree and Jeremy Messersmith. I say all these things out of love for the station. If I didn't have so many warm feelings for you guys, I wouldn't feel so let down.

So, finally, will The Current, once a bastion of diversity in music, ever return to those more humble beginnings? Are you yourselves aware of this change in the station?

Hi Rob. I know it was a while ago, but how did you like being on Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast? Are you going to recommend it to any other American Comedians, since you're the only one so far by my count. And also, who would you say is your favorite working comedian right now?

Lastly, many parts of your stand up are just off and just wrong and that makes you weird and wonderful. Thanks for being so.

A good night here gets you a few constellations and Mars. Certainly never the milky way.