radio in cyberspace

it is a rare day that i can just sit on the computer with out the grim reaper of PC games, AKA austin young, hanging over my shoulder like a vicious vulture, waiting for me to leave what he believes is his personal domain. it doesn't matter that i paid for the damned machine. i feel like i have to beg for time on my own computer.

so it is wednesday and austin is with bebo. my one night to sit at the computer and become enlightened.

i discovered several years ago that you can sit here in front of a computer and listen to the world out there. it makes me feel very international to listen to radio broadcasts from chile or some other exotic place. i enjoy listening to live music from KKSF, a jazz station in san francisco. since i love that place, it makes me feel like i am temporarily there. i also like to listen to some of the smooth jazz stations and the new age stations. i also listen to bolivia radio, which plays the native folk music there, which is kind of cool.

http://www.radiotower.com/web-radio-bygenre.htm is one that you can click on and find an online station by country, genre or location.
radio locator also operates in a similar fashion http://www.radio-locator.com/
i also like bolivia web radio, which plays real bolivian folk music, which is very unique. there are no commercials or any talking going on, so it is just strictly streaming music. of course, it is in spanish, but i don't care what they are saying anyway. to listen to it, you have to download the winamp program, but it is free and easy. http://www.boliviaweb.com/radio/instruc_en.htm
i also like new age music and can listen to a wide variety of stations that stream it without interuption. http://www.live365.com/stations/tjw2001 is one link to something called internet oasis. i also listen sometimes to boston pete http://www.bostonpete.com/station002.html. the radio locators both have a wider variety of things you can choose from depending on what type of music that you like.

i can take a trip without leaving the cramped former closet that now is known as the computer room.