Winning the Race of the Day

Today for Father’s Day, I was originally doing a coffeehouse DJ set, but they asked for alternative music. When I dug down deep, what they really meant was 90s alternative, which means--I don’t know how alternative became a buzzword. Maybe it was MTV. But as I wrote in the description of the playlist, this is college me sitting around, watching MTV, doing nothing. Austin, where I live, is a super exciting town now, but as I love to tell people, there used to be not jack going on at all. And I mean nothing. So you would just sit there and listen to music, go down to Waterloo, maybe buy a CD, turn on the radio, or watch Channel 15 Access TV. That was it. Again, with what seems like this week’s theme, the impact of digging through all these songs has been huge. When the venue gives you Sheryl Crow, John Mayer, and Hootie and the Blowfish as guidance for an alternative set, it is technically true. By today's standards there is certainly nothing alt sounding about. BUT being able to dig…