... and I just can't get the interest back.
I've tried only listening to old live shows ... I've tried learning some of the newer or lesser known songs on guitar ... I've tried snark and humor to get around it ... I can get a day out of it, but no more. I just don't care anymore. I got my Spotify wrapped list, and Jewel wasn't even on it this year. That's never happened before. I didn't listen to any of this Christmas albums this last season. It wasn't some conscious boycott - I just didn't care to put 'em on and didn't even realize I hadn't until my husband said something on Christmas day.
It's not hate! And I'd probably have kept chugging along, but my solid state hard drive that had all my Angelfood crapped out. Mister said we could take it to Data Doctors and they'd fix it up for a couple hundred bucks and salvage the data. I just didn't think it was worth it. I didn't really care.
Then I got an email from the NameCheap, the guys who rent me this web space, and they are increasing their pricing an extra hundred bucks a year. Data centers are in high demand right now! And I thought, "Why am I paying for this? Why am I contributing to the data market like this?"
And I'm not the only person who doesn't really care anymore. The Facebook groups are mostly dead, the subreddit has always been pretty dead. Jewel's social media content is as dry and lifeless as Mars since the backlash ... the fun of being a fan is over now. All this board is used for anymore is training LLM/AI bots to fool people into thinking they're human while draining entire reservoirs to get the verbiage just right. Why am I helping them? I actually do hate them, but that's another story...
The hosting here expires May 18, 2026. I've been thinking about pulling the plug on this place for years and years and haven't done it because my reasons would seem petty if I was in the right mood. But this time, it's not because I see the users flocking elsewhere and then texting/messaging me to provide info and files etc I've already put up here or anything like that ... it's because there are no more users. No one cares anymore - myself included.
If it hadn't been for that damn appearance and performance at the Trump inauguration in DC for RFK and Jewel's blatant expression of support and hope for Trump's second term, I would likely still care. But I just can't put my money into this anymore. Every time I see another godforsaken story about some horribly cruel thing Trump is doing, I think a little tiny bit about Jewel lovingly addressing the "hope everyone in that room was feeling" before belting Somewhere Over the Rainbow to a room full of publicly wicked and petty grifters hellbent on making a gazillion people miserable for their own personal gains. They all do it in broad daylight. It's not some revelation beneath the iceberg.
Since then, Jewel's coupled herself up with the Musks and Bezoses of the world - some of the worst people out there. Sarah McLachlan fed her an alley-oop to show she wasn't one of the grifters after all and all Jewel did with it is follow Sarah quietly, careful not to stoke any rage from MAGA.
For me, I think it's time for a thoughtful and tender undoing (lol get it? from the divorce blog?) of this parasocial relationship.
Grab what you can from the Angelfood radio if you still want it:
http://radio.edas.space/music/Here's what I had on my Mega account, including the movies and audiobooks. Some of it's been posted here, some hasn't.
https://mega.nz/folder/F4lFFADb#vm0jtOY2EY3-4g5odHnDgQ Grab what you can. If I get DMCA'ed, I'll delete it then.
As it says in the logo (if you're seeing this on desktop), so long and thanks for all the fish!
