I've been interning at Sirius for the past three weeks, and so far it's been pretty cool. I'm working in music programming, and they have roughly a thousand million different stations, so I've gotten to work with several different genres of terrible music to which I would never want to listen. I've seen celebrities like Jake Fogelnest and Big Pussy from the Sopranos, and I've worked on audio of Marky Ramone and Chris Martin, so it's been pretty star-studded too. Here are the highlights:
- Watching Jake Fogelnest accidently break a mailbin. He knocked one of the legs off, and then, fumbling to put it back together, basically ripped it to pieces. He was almost on the verge of tears. Not really, but he was more upset than a VH1 talking head should be over accidentally tipping over a piece of plastic.
- Listening to one of the Format Managers (who are basically, as far as I can tell, totally in charge of their station) trying to get someone to listen to his idea for a promo spot over the phone. He dialed them up, and here's how it went: "[in his best 'SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY' promo voice] Listen to Station X this weekend for our Fourth of July something or other! The fireworks go off here on Sirius whatever! Are you listening? Okay, listen to Station X this weekend for our Fourth of July something or other! The fireworks go off here on Sirius whatever! What about ignite? The fireworks ignite here? We ignite the fireworks here? How about 'set the fireworks off here?' ... Alright, let me know when you're ready to listen to me." Cue five minutes of him waiting in silence. Oh man, it was awesome seeing how much respect this guy didn't get.
- Segueing the Bluegrass channel. It was only cool for about two seconds, and afterwards it got incredibly painful and boring, but for one short moment, it was hilarious. Just picture it: me, sitting at a desk with big radio-man headphones on, listening to a dull, monotone Disc Jockey talking for a few minutes about some guy playing the guitar with a bottle, and then BANG! BANJO SOLO! It's one of those things that's awesome if you hear it once every three months, so you've had enough time to forget it exists, and any sooner and you wish everyone was dead. So, it was cool before that point. Afterwards, it sucked.
- Some girl working for the Cosmo channel ambushing me for an interview. I was doing music library work, which, by the way, is the most boring and terrible thing in the world, when she goes "Do you mind if I ask you a few questions?" I immediately thought "shit, it's a cop!" But then I turned to look at her, and it was obviously either a really well disguised undercover agent, or just an intern for the Cosmo channel. I was still a bit worried about incriminating myself, but I figured anything was better than labeling interview CD's and entering them into the database, so I said, "Uh... okay." I didn't really think about what the topic would be, so I wasn't expecting anything really, but then she started asking me all about sex. If she wasn't jamming a tape recorder in my face, I would've thought she was coming on to me.
- Listening to some music coordinator complaining about the night before to another music coordinator. "Oh yeah, dude, thanks, now everyone thinks I'm gay." "Well, you shouldn't have been singing along to all those Indigo Girls songs." "Dude, you were singing along to them, I was just doing it to make fun of you." "Heheheh, yeah." I love seeing an uptight guy get totally shafted.
So, as you can see, it has been incredibly exciting. Stay tuned next week when I talk about filing CD's into the library, making copies of playlists, and ordering food for everyone! And if we're lucky, maybe I'll meet another celebrity?
Seacrest out.
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