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Yeah, I know I keep saying I will post soon. The first month of the semester is always busy with First Year Seminar instruction. I've also begun my new assignment as interim web coordinator for muskingum.edu.  So…I'm a bit busy at the moment.

However, I wanted to alert those in the greater WMCO listening area that I have my first Eclectic Radio show of the semester this Sunday night from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. I will be playing some of my favorite dance and techno tracks that I discovered over the summer. I don't have all of the songs picked out yet, but here is a partial play list:

• Complicated 3speakerhigh Extended Mix featuring Sabrina Gardner by Fiore and Inzerillo 
• Automatic by Ultra Nate 
• Break My Fall by Tiesto featuring BT
• Do You Feel Me by Tiesto featuring Julie Thompson
• Sweet Things by Tiesto featuring Charlotte Martin
• In the Dark by Maxi Jazz and Christian Burns
• Carry Me Away (Original Club Mix) by Chris Lake featuring Emma Hewitt 
• Cry for You (Extended Mix) by September
• Little Bird (Utah Saintsremix Edit) by Annie Lennox

I'm planning on picking up the 80's gauntlet thrown by the Faculty Executive Secretary in his remarks during Fall Faculty Conference. I'm going to have to see if I can find my Katrina and the Waves CD this weekend. So, take this post as your advance warning Todd! I'm thinking that my other show this semester will be some more tribal chant (e.g. Enigma and Deep Forest).

I will probably be walking on sunshine at work on Friday. My calendar for week three has been jam packed with instruction, meetings, and getting a handle on the web site.

Sounds like Maxis is not going to be the developer for SimCity Societies and the new game is not going to be "a realistic urban simulation". Bummer. CVG has the details. Found via Zonk's post on Slashdot.

Joystiq has the scoop. EA has confirmed that a new SimCity (working title SimCity Societies) is coming later this year.

My second (and last) radio show this semester is Sunday night. I'll be playing my favorite 80s songs from 7 to 9 p.m. Yeah, I'm old enough to have heard some of these on the radio in high school and college (sigh).

The songs I have picked out so far include:

• Animotion: Obsession 
• Bananarama: Cruel Summer and Venus 
• Blondie: Rapture
• Bronski Beat: Smalltown Boy
• Colourbox: Pump Up the Volume 
• Dead or Alive: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)
• Depeche Mode: People are People
• Dexy's Midnight Runners: Come on Eileen 
• Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf and Reflex
• Gloria Estefan: Rhythm is Gonna Get You
• Eurythmics: Here Comes the Rain Again
• Falco: Rock Me Amadeus [aka Eat Me Hot Potatoes to one of my friends from high school]
• Heart: Never
• Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better
• Human League: Don't You Want Me
• Information Society: What's on Your Mind (Pure Energy) [You Go Spock!]
• Madness: Our House
• Murray Head: One Night in Bangkok
• New Order: True Faith and Blue Monday
• Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls
• Tears for Fears: Shout
• T'Pau: Heart and Soul
• 'Til Tuesday: Voices Carry
• Soft Cell: Tainted Love
• Kim Wilde: You Keep Me Hangin' On

I've played some of these last semester (and summer), so you'll just have to listen to them again. I considered including Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood) and Peek-a-Boo (Siouxsie and the Banshees), but thought it was best to avoid angry calls to the FCC.

My first radio show of the semester is tomorrow from 5 to 7 p.m. I don't have a theme. All of the songs are sung by women. A potential sub theme in many of the songs is relationships, but isn't that of all songs? Some are repeats from last year. My plan is to start out with the Celtic/Gaelic, on to pop/adult contempoary, then freestyle, and end with dance/techno. Songs include:

• Tori Amos: Spark 
• Sarah Brightman: Deliver Me
• Corina: Temptation 
• Cover Girls: Show Me 
• Enya: Caribbean Blue; Orinocco Flow 
• Dido: Sand in My Shoes; Take My Hand
• Nelly Furtado: Say It Right 
• Imogen Heap: Hide and Seek 
• Whitney Houston: Queen of the Night 
• JoJo: Too Little, Too Late 
• Annie Lennox: Little Bird 
• Madonna: Forbidden Love; Impressive Instant 
• Loreena McKenneitt: Mummer's Dance 
• Sarah McLachlan: Posession; Vox
• Kylie Minogue: Come Into My World 
• Alanis Morissette: Crazy 
• Anna Nalick: In the Rough
• Karen Overton: Your Loving Arms 
• Heather Small: Proud 
• KT Tunstall: Suddenly I See 
• Ultra Nate: Love's the Only Drug 
• Carla Vallet: Streets of Tomorrow

Plan on tuning in if you are in the area or happen to be driving within 30 miles of New Concord on I-70 or I-77.