Thanks Windsor! Debuting in the 21st spot on the #CJAM #Top30 is great news indeed. Plus, it's always flattering to see/hear the amazing company I get to keep when I'm lucky enough to chart anywhere.

Anyway, if you're curious to hear what they're hearing in Windsor, you can check out my humble #BedroomElectronica here:

https://compander.bandcamp.com/album/vivianite

#ElectronicMusic #Electronica #IndieMusic #DIY #Music #DigitalMusicWithAnalogFeelings #NoAI #Bandcamp

I'm famous, eh?

https://www.uwindsor.ca/dailynews/2024-09-20/student-media-launched-grads-career-communications?fbclid=IwY2xjawFhQCBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHcGg9nX9Ev_6HtlvCEWncfC50_ymhLb9YV6LG8BCJ9ZsT0KFfD_lpj2N2Q_aem_n5SYCQ-Y8xjkPsod3uTVgQ

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Listening to CJAM 99.1, college radio out of the University of Windsor (Ontario).

https://www.cjam.ca

Have not yet heard them in recent memory on RF - we get some Windsor stations in Ann Arbor, but they tend to be higher power. (CJAM has 2084 watts of broadcast power now).

"Your only true sound alternative in Windsor / Detroit"

There are a couple of shows on WCBN Ann Arbor that also play on CJAM, notably "Go Kay Go The Rockabilly Show".

#FMradio #CollegeRadio #np #nowplaying #CJAM

I've been doing some research on the history of my old student radio station #CJAM. I've been going through old issues of my campus' newspaper #TheLance. I worked at both in the 1980s. While researching the history of CJAM I encountered this series of classified ads a guy named Peter B. would run most weeks in our paper for 2 years running.

At our student newspaper we offered free classified ads. You came up to the office, dropped your ad copy in a little box and if we had space we'd run it. This guy Peter B. during the 1988-1989 school year would run that first ad. He just had to find "Jennifer". The next year he changed tactics. Possibly she didn't remember working as a postal scab? Maybe he felt he was coming on too strong with "I love you". So he toned it down a bit by just letting her know, and everyone else, he knew her plate number and, of course, contact him. Because important. I'm given to understand at the end of the 1989 school year he came up to our offices with an envelope stuffed with cash and handed it over insisting we then run the second ad the following year.

Our editor tried to impress on him the ads were free but you just had to drop off your ad each week. He was like "no, let me pay you to always run this ad". So the editor took the money and that paid for our end of the year bbq/beer bash and awards ceremony. (Where I won the "crown of thorns beer lugger award" but that's a whole other story.)

Apparently the guy, besides being in love with Jennifer, seemed to believe his god had a very, very important message for her (which might have just been "stop staying the hell away from Peter and have his babies.")
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Back when I worked at the office I used to keep a little picture of Rene Levesque on my desk. I think most people just assumed it was my father. No one really ever asked. It was a nod to a song I wrote back in the day for my comedy radio show on #CJAM in Windsor (@Alanisland).

Rene Levesque: Sex Machine
By Karl Mamer

Rene Levesque, you were a sex machine
Rene Levesque, you made all the women scream
Rene Levesque, you made the West see red
Rene Levesque, but now you're dead
Rene Levesque, why didn't you marry me?
Rene Levesque, because you know I voted Oui
Rene Levesque, what was it that they said?
Rene Levesque, you dressed like an unmade bed

(Rene Levesque shouting "Ou est mon Lucky Strikes!")

Rene Levesque, you were a sex machine
Rene Levesque, you made all the women scream
Rene Levesque, you made the West see red
Rene Levesque, but now you're dead
Rene Levesque, you had such political flair
Rene Levesque, you had long strands of greasy hair
Rene Levesque, we loved the cigarette
Rene Levesque, my love for you is now arrêt.

(Rene Levesque shouting "Je demandez un société juste!")

Rene Levesque, why did you leave?
Rene Levesque, when I shouted Vive Le Quebec Libre
Rene Levesque, I'd follow you even to Gaspe
Rene Levesque, I'd smoke five packs a day
Rene Levesque, you were a sex machine
Rene Levesque, you made all the women scream
Rene Levesque, you made the West see red
Rene Levesque, but now you're dead

(Rene Levesque shouting "Combien de cheese est ici!")