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• Oregon
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• Andy

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• MS degree in Organic Chemistry
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• 1999
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• Cowboy bebop, Haibane Renmei, Samurai Champloo, Gundam Seed, Inuyasha
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myOtaku.com: satan665

Wednesday, August 3, 2005

Music Industry
Well, what Tony said on the comments for the last post sounds appealing. I had always been pretty adamant about not letting anyone copy my albums until fairly recently. I still don't much like the idea of giving away ripped copies of small label bands except as samples, but a battle cry of "bankrupt the major labels" sounds pretty good to me. We all know that they suck. They make way more money off the music than the artist does. They only follow existing trends, which makes you wonder how any new "genre" gets through. They also suck (so so eloquent). The cost of concerts for any fairly popular band makes me mad too, but thats for another time.

I think that in a way, pop music has become like commercial jingles. There were always these old timer guys who had a knack for writing super catchy songs. It didn't matter if it was really annoying or not, it would still stick in your head. There is a small part of my brain filled with bad commercial jingles, a testament to their effectiveness.

The most obvious example of this right now is the Pussycat Dolls song "don't cha". If you ignore Gwen Stefani's solo album, its by far the dumbest lyrics I have ever heard. They package it with some sexed up girls and send it out there. The worst part is that since I saw the video for it, now its gets stuck in my head badly like old Weezer songs used to. They just have perdected this formula for making these songs that stick in your head no matter how much you don't like it.

Blah, blah I've also had a lot of fun recently putting together my new website design. I have been tending to learn new stuff I can do with it, but then not really using any of those techniques and keeping it simple. Sounds and stuff are hard to use without making things annoying. I'm going to try to put it all together with a lot more added content before I toss it online, so I don't get complacent. Its easy to say that I'll do some comic and game reviews one by one down the line, but really it doesn't happen. We'll see how it goes.
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