During all four years of college, I was a DJ on the local college radio show. I recorded almost every show I did on cassette tape and lugged the huge boxes of cassette tapes from Virginia to Saint Louis to Los Angeles to Orlando, where they were placed in a closet to gather dust. Recently, however, I purchased a cassette-to-mp3 adapter and have started to digitize my brilliant deejay career.
Oh man I was horrible! And it's so embarrassing to hear that I thought I'd just share a few of the mp3s with you. Here's your small humiliating taste of Avitable as a freshman college student:
Sigh.
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Wow, animaniacs to beck to the Flintstones to nirvana without stopping. Those were big jumps between topics
Comments by Amanda
You are a DORK.
Comments by Poppy
(That's a good thing.)
Comments by Poppy
LOL well at least you still dared to share it with us… and I am glad you didn't end your post making us tell you if we had any similar youth memories… whew…
Comments by DutchBitch
Your personality is totally there - now, when exactly did your balls drop?
Comments by Carolina
Ahahahahahaha!!! That last song was hilarious! WTF????
And you were fired for inappropriate language? Why does that not surprise me.
Amanda is Greek now, btw. She's already in a sorority and is loving it.
Comments by BlondeBlogger
I am shocked and appalled that you were hired for inappropriate language. It's so unlike you.
Was this a paying job or was it a volunteer position?
My brother was a heavy metal DJ on the radio Arkansas (I know…hard to believe…heavy metal in Arkansas?) for a few years. He played me a few of his demos and if he hadn't told me it was his voice, I never would have guessed.
But your voice now is the same as then.
I don't think it was that bad.
Comments by Mattie
oops…meant to say "fired for inappropriate language"
Comments by Mattie
You sound so . . . cheerful. LMAO at Lords of Acid, they're one of my husband's favorites, 'cause he's a perv.
Comments by Honeybell
I didn't think you were so bad. I remember a lot of that music. You must be around my age. LOL
I bet the girl were all in love w/ you. :)
Comments by Elisa
*girls. ha ha!
Comments by Elisa
wow those are hot!
i didn't think your voice could go that high!!
Comments by ed
I don't think those were so bad.
Comments by Lisa
Not bad. Really. I remember you being a lot dorkier than that.
Comments by Faiqa Khan
A candyland of murder and mayhem?
Not a radio show but a murderer's ruse??
Comments by metalmom
The second to last show was hilarious! I'd totally have hung out with you. :)
But I have to say, your voice is damn near identical to an ex boyfriend of mine. It's really kinda creepy! In a good way. Really. We're still friends!
Comments by Sybil Law
Fired for inappropriate language? I'm SHOCKED. SHOCKED!!!
Don't make fun of Greeks, they make a mean salad.
Comments by Little Miss Sunshine State
I think you missed your calling.
Comments by Employee No. 3699
I just want to know, do you still keep in touch with Zack?
Comments by Janelle
I was a DJ all through high school. The end of the top 40 disco days. 30 years later I still have people quoting the crap I used to do back at me. When I started I was in news. My first story was ended in a bad tongue twister regarding replacing parking meter heads. The next story was about a local party that was described with a word I did not know and could only guess how to pronounce… BYOB.
I got a call from the owner every day telling me I was doing a fantastic job only there it is Dah-Moyne and please stop talking about the United States Marine corpse. The word is pronounced CORE.
I wonder how in the hell people remember things like that 30 years later.
Comments by cris
ooops! That was suppose to be zach, my bad.
Comments by Janelle
Ha ha. Ah, memories.
Comments by Robin
i do like the "superman" theme song.
Comments by muskrat
You sound so much like you do now, just a little younger! I think you were good, for a freshman in college. And you definitely have a radio voice.
Love it!
J.
Comments by Hoosier Girl
You want bad? Have you heard me on Karl's show yet? That's bad. ;-)
Comments by kapgar
Kevin you are SUCH a liar!
Comments by BlondeBlogger
i love that you still have all of that!
Comments by hello haha narf
p.s. i was the douchebag who was on your blog for like 18 hours. got distracted, then fell asleep. sorry if i fucked up your stats.
Comments by hello haha narf
By far, the 3rd sound bite was the best. The only way it could have been better, is if you'd have added a "… So you can all suck my fat, leg-length, animated cock", and immediately followed it with lords of acid.
Comments by Zom
I bet you wooed all the ladies
Comments by Beth
I did stand up years ago and some of the off nights are really, really hard to listen to.
Comments by DrZibbs
I had a 1984 Olds Cutlass Supreme. Naturally, as they all were, mine was stolen. Twice.
The thing I lost that I care about the most was a tape I'd made of one of my better on-air nights at a station I used to work at.
(I miss my ball glove and bat as well. But those were easily replaced.)
Comments by delmer
Your blog hates me, still.
Of course, I still haven't gotten firefox downloaded so maybe that's why.
Hmph.
Comments by Sheila (Charm School Reject)
Amanda, we were eclectic.
Poppy, I am very proud of my dorkiness.
DB, I knew most people would be mortified!
Carolina, last year. Wanna see?
BB, that doesn't surprise me. Amanda seems like she'd fit right in with those catty bitches!
Mattie, it was volunteer, and my voice is much higher then than it is now.
Honeybell, I love Lords of Acid - such a great band!
Elisa, I'm 31. But I have the music tastes of a 12-year old girl.
Ed, I was still becoming a man, apparently.
Lisa, you're too nice!
Faiqa, fucker.
Metalmom, it's from Natural Born Killers.
Sybil, friends with benefits?
LMSS, I do love some Greek salad.
EE 3699, me too!
Janelle, yup. I'm sending him some of these mp3s soon.
Cris, I think I'd remember that too. Heh.
Robin, did you ever listen?
Muskrat, it's my favorite theme of all time.
HG, girls did love my sexy radio voice back then.
Kapgar, I haven't had a chance to listen yet.
Hello, I'm nostalgic like that. Oh, and I don't pay attention to stats, so that doesn't matter.
Zom, hahaha - that's how I got fired!
Beth, only if by "woo" you mean drove by, waved my penis at them and said, "Woooo!"
DrZibbs, I can imagine.
Delmer, that would have made me sad, too.
Sheila, dammit, it only takes like two minutes to download!
Comments by Avitable
Oh hell no. I've already been there, done that. Although, I gotta say, he was awfully good…
Comments by Sybil Law
Alright. I did it. It took some extra effort with downloading some plug in thingamajig BUT I finally got to hear the clips. They were very educational by the way. For one, I learned that I pronounce your name very wrong. whoops.
Lords of Acid? Nice. The theme song suits you - it's a song I'd never heard by them.
Comments by Sheila (Charm School Reject)
I'm jealous you still have your files. I was a co-host for a ska show in college and it was baaaad.
Comments by Karen Sugarpants