XM Radio "Radio of the Future"

OK. Does anyone here have XM radio? Well, I do. When it first came to be years ago, I invested in a "Roady", which was a little device that enabled me to listen to XM radio in my old car. I loved listening to all the different stations...and never hearing commercials. I didn't even mind paying $12 a month or whatever it was. When people got in my car, they always asked what the little black box was. "Faris, what in the hell?...you've got more technology in this car than in a recording studio!?" Anyway, I had a lot of things, because, let's face it, I like technology. I like gadgets. I like iPods, computers, cars (they are technology, right?), scantron machines, projector screens, language labs (exciting blog on language lab to come), etc. So, I was such a happy camper. I never got the XM radio officially installed in my car...so I just ran the antenna thing up on my dash board. It was all very ghetto, but my boy at NalleyLexus in Atlanta made my cords all nice and neat, so I was happy.

Then things changed. I bought a new Honda Accord (see previous blog). It came with XM INSTALLED. How cool is that? I can actually see the song name/artist/whatever on my little screen. I can even control my XM radio as I control all my other radio stuff from my steering wheel.

THINGS HAVE CHANGED PEOPLE. XM radio, the "Radio of the Future" that they advertise...is...going to complete crap. It is full of advertisements that make me absolutely looney. Not normal advertisements. Like advertisements about how to discipline your kid or something. And I swear to the good Lord that I heard a McDonald's commercial yesterday. I paused for a moment of silence in remembrance of how amazing XM used to be.

-Faris