Internship: Six episodes down, three to go

Today at my internship, I finished and edited two more radio show episodes and will record them on Friday.  I hope to have at least one more written by then, leaving me two more to finish up for next week.  One of the two that I finished today was the third episode of my series on Irish music.  This episode centered the emergence of groups from other genres in Ireland.  I started off with The Pogues, who invented the genre of Celtic Punk, and then talked about the Young Dubliners, a Rock/Celtic Rock band formed by two Dublin natives in Los Angeles and whose sound is influenced by its mix of Irish and American members.  I then moved on more broadly and discussed Van Morrison, who has by this point transcended any kind of genre label.  Pertinent to my discussion, however, was the fact that his early and mid-to-late songwriting was influenced by his childhood in Northern Ireland.  I also discussed U2 and Thin Lizzy, rock and hard rock bands respectively, both of whose members come from Ireland.  I finished by talking about Brian Brody, a master performer who I saw when I was in Dublin over winter break.

I went to my class this afternoon and discovered that I was one of six Americans who decided to show up.  I can’t really say that I blame those who chose not to come, the weather was nice and due to the situation in which the paper we already submitted could be counted as the final grade, there really wasn’t much of a point to go.  I stuck around anyway.  If nothing else, I can still claim to never have skipped a class. 

Tomorrow after class, I am going to try to find a barbershop and get a haircut.  I desperately need it.  I haven’t had a haircut since December.