yoooooooooooooo

sry for the delay in posting
3 day weekends are awesome.

Last nite I had a 3 act Mozart opera. Realllllly freakin long and boring. The plot was really simple, and the only thing that made it longer than the 20 min it took to gauge the storyline were the songs: which were in german. There were no translations or anything. Just prompts to tell the audience wat the person was singing about. (The small bit of dialog was in english btw) So a lady would walk around and sings. Prompt: Condenza sigs a song of woe. After 20 min of woe a guy comes up and sings. Prompt: (insert spanish name) sings a song of lost love. He sings for 15-16 min. Guess who comes on again! Condenza! yayyyyyyyyyyyyy. Prompt: Condenza sings again of woe.

WE GET IT shes freakin woeful. Good for effing her. Get on with the plot.

The dialogue was funny, and sometimes it was entertaining. But when u have no idea what the people are saying in the songs it gets kinda boring.

-- "Whats different than the woe of b4? isnt the same as the current woe?"
-- "Ur moms a woe"
--...

sooooooo yea. Back to school this week. yippee skippy. Im so glad i didnt go to florida.
im gonna go do stuff

-eliot

sweeeeet

1st post with PSP!!

i am currently at the library after a fun rendez vous with the orthodontist

yeah so its really hard to type with this thing

3 day weekend!! woo~hoo

im out ~ eliot

Id like to take this time to actually say something of worldly value.

The MPA (Music Publishers' Association) has successfully lobbied to ban guitar tabs and lyrics posted on the internet, stating that this is a violation of copyright law. I found this out when i decided to log onto mxtabs.net, but instead was directed to musicianforums.com.

Let me ask this question:
How the fuck are these ppl and these sites capitalizing off free tabs? I mean pirating is one thing, but trying to understand wat people are saying on songs, or trying to learn how to play them? How are these sites directly taking away money from recording studios or the artists themselves?

If the argument is that these sites are giving people the means to capitalize on playing these songs in public, they how come they allow movie rentals to continue? They pay for rental licenses, but how do they know that the renter isnt showing them to a huge group of people? There is about the same amount of chance for either situation to occur, so why all of a sudden are lyrics and tabs a problem? Its only copyright infringement when you infringe on copyrights.

If the argument is that artists want to sell their books of sheet music, it takes forever for these things to come out on the market, and many artists choose not to sell these things. If I decided to listen to a song over and over, and figure out a way to play it, then that is my intellectual property because I interpreted the song. These online tab databases are especially helpful when a new song is released by your favorite artist, and want to know how to play it. If there arent any books available of sheet music, then nobody is copying anything out of a fucking book. And even if there are people who copy them out of books and put them online, it cant be hurting the companies too much because, honestly, these sheet music books arent that popular, and hardly anyone buys them. Why havent the music companies set up an iTunes equivalent to free tabs then? Now I am left without a true alternative: something that is quick and fast and pertains to new songs.

If the argument is that the lack of sheet music sales is hurting artists, thats pretty much utter bullshit. The only sheet music books you see in stores are those of already successful artists, thus proving that only well off bands can market this type of product in the type of way an average person can go down to guitar center and pick it up. Small artists, supposedly squashed by these online tab forums, arent able to market their sheet music anyway. And if they are marketing it. Where? Obviously not in a place i can find it. Most bands dont even market their tablature on their merchandise sites. I cannot just go down to Foxes and get music from any obscure artist or even a popular band like SOAD. I cant get the newest System of a Down tablature when i hear a new song on the radio, because their sheet music hasnt come out yet.

Allowing people to be more involved with an artist's music should definitely not be infringed upon, it should even be encouraged by these fucking music conglomerates, it could potentially make them an extra few bucks by causing people to go buy more music. (like they need the money anyway)
I for one, would never have been interested in guitar if I couldnt have looked up, printed, and played the music that i heard off the radio, and so I believe that these companies are suffocating a good thing for a completely pointless reason.

If these companies are really worried about profits, then they should eliminate the cost of paying for these lobbying groups to get this type of bullshit legislated.

THE END

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If you see me talking to myself tomorrow. Its because im practicing my French oral.

Or

I havent taken my anti-demon pills: Exorcist (R) brand.

whichever.
I will be so glad when this week is over. Does anyone know why sulfur has a higher melting point than phosphorus argon and chlorine? I sure as hell dont. effing chemistry.

im out.

yeaaah
well i watched glory today. It was ok. Much better with critical comments from everyone else. Layer Cake, also a frickin amazing movie.

I would like to thank Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. for all that he did to non-violently try to obtain equal rights for everyone. With the violent struggles that occur today against suffocating racism in countries such as France, we need more leaders like him. Not to mention, it gives me an opportunity to catch up on hw. Thanks man.

This week is gonna be killa. IOP tomorrow, French oral on thursday, chem test on wednesday, physics test sometime idk, history quiz. Oh crap, gotta do that study guide. annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd thats an enumeration of all the fun torture this week.

So I had my first performance to usher at the Kennedy Center. Had no idea what i was doing, but I caught on eventually. 67 min first act of Wagner's Valkyrie. craaaaaaaaazy. Really, pretty easy work. Sitting and doing nothing for about two hours, and then stuffing programs for the other hour, and then getting paid for 4.

so yea. too bad about those redskins, but its good that they got that far.
im out. fricking history.

eliot

Lmao

My sister was resting her elbow on a butter jar, and she rested all of her weight on it, and she fell in and the butter went everrrrywhere.

hahahaha

Welll
Sry i havent updated in a while. I kno u guys were just hanging off a cliff on the last one.

Ummmmmm
Well the last two days ive basically spent all my time at robotics and the kennedy center. Ive been accepted for the job, and I had to report in for orientation. Robotics, ummm. we sit around and do stuff: which is mainly nothing at the moment.

I havent gotten to do my IOP yet, but I should be up tommorrow, unless a conflagration occurs. ;)

Ummmm. and three day weekend coming up, looking forward to that. Have my first day of work.
Oh shit
gotta do RRLs and french hw. 10 min oral coming up

(im fucking screwed)
sooooooooooooooooooooooooooo tired
gnite
eliot

Welllllllllllllll

This week wasnt too bad at all.
Redskins Won 17-10, very ugly game.

My parents have finally decided to let me drive. So cbass and I made a pilgrimage to elevation burger after robotics. Food was pretty good, but kina expensive.

The guy from the Kennedy Center finally called me back, and I have an orientation on Wednesday. My dad is still pretty unsure if i can handle everything plus job, but I think theyre gonna at least let me go to the orientation. I think itd be pretty cool to work there, but with soccer coming up: blahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Sooooooooooooo yea. This IOP is gonna make this weekend oooooooooooooo so much fun!
But I guess its time we actually had a veritable assignment for english.

so yea
lovely interesting provoking post: im exhausted from all that effort

-eliot

Dont Fear the Reaper.
Despite SNL, its a pretty good song.

ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm yeah.
So school this week. Mrs. Chincheck is craaaaaaaaazy.
Glad i did well on the math test. I was soooo tired that day cause of the history paper the nite b4 and i was dozing off. Looks like every1 mite do better too because she kinda effed up one of the questions.

Jan 3rd= John's, cbass', and my dad's bday. Crazy coincidences.

B days < A Days
IOP coming up, which is gonna be a killer.

RRL time ---- Eliot

muahahahaha

A toast to the other half of my audience.

this ones for you graham. haha

and will mebe?

1111 views. idk wat that signifies. make a wish?

oh, btw, ur clock is fast. hahahaha

The Redskins beat Philadelphia 31-20. So that means were in the playoffs. woo-hooo!

Assassins has officially started. Sooooo. Look over ur shoulder when u go into sketchy areas. and NEVER BE ALONE. lol

Pretty bumpin party last nite. SE7EN is one crazy amazing movie. Kinda dumb to be watching it on New Years, but watevs, we got to celebrate New Years in aculpulco. Does anyone know where the hell aculpulco is anyways?

RESOLUTION: Stop assuming that people will act predictably, because they never do, and stop bitching when people are hypocrites or dont act the way I assume they might. Oh, and to stop all the "ur mom" and "thats wat she said jokes" because they really arent that funny.

even tho its kinda become my epithet.

aight, im out.