Third of five installments on one of my last and best weekends in the soon to be gone and missed Urbana Champaign.
Radios hardly ever play exactly what you want all the time, scratch that, they never do. And along with all the crap songs you have to listen to all the damn commercials promoting things you would never think twice at. Well at the suggestion of my friend Max, I jumped at the opportunity to rule the late night airwaves of WPGU 107.1, the student radio station at the University of Illinois.
We took over a little after the bars closed and signed off a tad past 3. It was unusually busy for a late summer night in campus town and the night owls were out in force. It's surprisingly easy to coax inebriated people into making fools of themselves in front of the fishbowl that is the PGU broadcast desk. Especially with the help of a friend whose blood was running thin that night and was all for dressing in a giant milk costume frightening unexpecting by-passers.
The night consisted of great music, Andrew Bird, Girl Talk, and Beck just to name a few. Of course we had to accept the phone in requests, but for the most part we owned 107.1fm for a little over an hour and a half of great music and absolutely zero breaks.
Here's to free commercial free radio. (only really late at night, and while the students are away from campus)
Reading: Nothing, finished EOME and didn't bring another book to Urbana
Listening to: Andrew Bird, Imitosis
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