More on Music

Right here is what everyone really wants from the music industry. You buy a license directly from online distributors. You get the original uncompressed music tracks directly from the studios in the highest fidelity available. The music is separated into tracks so that you can remix it yourself. This is way superior to any particular version of a song people could find online. You could tweek the sound of a particular instrument or voice. The dynamic range of the music fidelity isn't clipped off like it normally would have been in a final studio mix (which studios do so the music sounds louder when they play it on the radio). Text information about the song is all included in the file. The vocal track come with cues to generate a karaoke version of the song from lyrics also included elsewhere in the file. And finally it includes final mixing profiles for the versions of the songs we hear on the radio as other non bleeped out versions of the songs we would normally would find on CD's. If new mixes of a song come out you have a right to the mix and new sound track data.

As far as the license, it's an indefinite right to one copy of every rendition of that song. The licenses are electronic which you should be able to make printable receipts from for accounting purposes. You could delete all the data files and then go online and then redownload everything minus probably a minor service charge. But most importantly individual song licenses are tradable. Once you own a song, you own it, the producers can't come out with an enhanced version later to entice you to shell out even more money. If you change your mind about a song someone else could buy that one song from you unlike iTunes where you have to hand over the whole account. Songs would then become like stocks where they fluctuate in price. When the price of the songs fall too low such as six months after a song is initially released when people get tired of it, then the music producers themselves would buy back the licenses; kind of like the schools buying back your textbooks at the end of term in college. I can imagine paying as much as $10 just for a just released song. Later the music industry would probably buy it back once the priced dropped below $2, but still that is like an $8 profit on one song. This makes online licenses practical for music collectors and in fact I'd imagine the price of most of the good music to hover around $6 per song as no one will really want to give it up from their lifetime collection. How much would it be worth when you old and retired to listen to all the songs of your youth long after their popularity had faded. If the music industry did everything I described here their profits would blow up a hundred fold.

Too bad it won't ever happen.

Music on my Mind

A few years back I had a huge MP3 collection of stuff I'd downloaded off the net and then one day my hard drive crashes. I lost everything but my porn collection which I then deleted out of spite. I took a long hiatus from my computer but like all things I've came back. I've slowly been building a file server with a Raid 5 array so unless the house gets hit with a meteor my data is safe.

In the past couple of years I've really become obsessive about music. I'm pretty sure it's because of the freedom of MP3's, the Internet, and the recent advent of portable players. For those that don't know me very well, which is pretty much everyone, I'm a closet perfectionist, It's just that I want things so perfect that unless it's practical and a priority I don't even try, for instance keeping my bedroom in order.

Anyways I'm rebuilding my music collection but this time for the first time in my life I'm buying tons of CD's. I never really bought much music before as I am a real pop music fan and there really were only a couple good songs on a CD on average but it's was not so much the price that put me out as it was constantly changing CD's. I use to create play lists on my computer before but I'm a restless individual and need to get up and about quite a bit; usually I just roam stores looking for neat stuff. But with MP3 players I've been set free. Now I buy the CD so I can rip them myself to control quality and to get the titles and stuff correct and keep everything organized.

Me being new to Myspace you probably don't know that I'm also a programmer. Even though I do labor for a living I'm a really a nerds nerd. I have high IQ, no genius but like Salieri in the movie Amadeus I can recognize it. But for the past six months with all the music I've been buying it's irritating how many errors even new CD's have. Well being who I am I have been thinking about what to do about it. I came up with the idea of an error correcting point to point network. The actual music isn't shared just error correction information, titles and lyrics. If it works as well as I think it will then everyone will be able to rip music in minutes at high speed while the computer does all the grunt work of correcting, organizing and compressing music files while your off doing something else. Best of all this could even be applied to movies and other media like published computer data CD's like applications and games that always seem to get scratched.

A Lesbian in a Man's Body...

I'm not your typical guy. I think god messed up somehow. I think I was suppose to be a lesbian but when god was passing around souls he tripped and I wound up in the body of a linebacker. I'm just too emotional, sentimental and self aware to be a guy. Why can't I be like other guys and just think with my dick? I'd probably be a hell of a lot happier. Contrary to whatever women might say in all their complaining about men they don't really want a guy that looks like me to be sensitive and emotional or know words like introspective.

Here's proof. One of my leading sexual fantasies is a woman coming up to me nonchalantly in a bar and just hanging out with me until the end of the night. Then she smiles mischievously and suggests we get a room to sober out for the night. We find a room and without much fare we undress and the game is afoot. There is no sex of any of it's forms, just kissing, fondling and intimately pressing bodies against each other all night long, no climaxes, few words said, basically just an eternal night of trust and teasing and finally waking up in each others arms the next morning. We talk for a couple hours, shower, and finally go out for a late breakfast. You tell me, does that not sound like I've had my balls cut off or what?

My Type

I am a long term prospective type of guy. Show me an attractive older women and I'm always interested in knowing if she has a single daughter. I can certainly appreciate breasts, but I prefer women on the smaller side, least time takes it's tole too soon. I am primarily attracted to Caucasian women, the fairer the better. Both fair blondes and Goth brunettes turn me on. Unless she is unusually fair I'm just not into black women which evidently sets me apart from every other white man on this planet. Also I'm not much into Latina's which turns out to be half the population here in Los Angeles, I just find that Latina's age faster than other women and they tend to be on the short side. I definitely like tall women but there are a few tiny ones that turn my head. I'm an ass and leg man for sure. It's not so much about a bubble butt (which I don't always like) as just having a nice shape. I enjoy a little baby phat and tend to have an eye for thicker though certainly not fat women. For a guy of my size and strength a little extra padding is a good thing. It's all about proportions.

What I'm looking for in a woman is the same thing women typically say they want in men. Attractive but most importantly I want to find a woman that can see beyond what I look like and see the real me, want to know the real me. I am not a submissive man, I'm just quiet and laid back. I hate planning dates, I just want to hang out and go with the moment. A bad match for me would be a differential women. She needs to be intelligent and have a strong personality and also take a more aggressive role in the relationship at least some of the time and not play games. I need a friend, someone I can really talk to, not someone tight lipped and afraid to trust. Someone that can tell me when I'm full of shit. Someone that can push me when I need it and vice versa. And most definitely not afraid to trust or to open up right from the start. I'm not looking for a mother or to be someone's father, basically I'd just like a little healthy co dependence with someone that wants to spend a significant amount of time enjoying the good and bad times in the adventure of life.