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Bravo tonight played the movie The Red Violin

I’ve never seen the movie before despite wanting quite a few times. I’ve got to say though that movie is one of the most beatiful, emotional, and greatest movies I’ve ever seen. I literally fell in love with the violin at each step in it’s history.

The only bad part about the movie is now it has me wanting to play the violin, one of the few instruments I know very little to nothing about.

For those that don’t know, I’ve played alot of different instruments in my life.

Guitar(6 string and Bass) and Trumpet are the two instruments that I studied faithfully in order of proficiency. Besides those two I have also taken lessons or experimented enough to know the theory behind the Saxophone, Clarinet, Flute(Although it takes me half an hour to re-learn how to play one), and even some piano(need to work on playing with two hands when the beat alternates).

I’m having trouble understanding the whole iTunes online music shopping thing…

According to the website, it’s $0.99 per song. So for me to download the new Marilyn Manson CD from them it would cost me around 15 dollars<15 tracks>. I can buy the CD from cdnow for only $13.99 and I’m sure I can get it from best buy or circuit city probably cheaper.

I understand that a lot of people will just go out there and buy the popular songs off of the albums and ignore the rest of the work, but for most people that really like music, an album is a piece in itself, the collection of related music is as important as the single piece.

For example, how good would Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy bee in comparison to the whole of the nutcracker suite??

So the point is, is iTunes really doing anything beneficial to the music industry when it’s just chopping up the works of musicians into popular pieces and bites and separating the works as a whole?

And is iTunes really worth it to the people who use it when they are paying more per song than a CD?? I thought the whole goal of the digital revolution was to lower the cost of music by removing the manufacturing and distribution costs?

The Poker night is over. Was alot of fun, Bought in with 10 bucks and closed out with 13.

For those of you that are interested, Stephen left with 20 dollars, I ended up with 13, Ricky Left with 10, Ian had 9, and Jarrod went home broke. We all through in 10 to start except for Ian who bought in with 12.

But anyways, was alot of fun, and alot of beer was drunk and everyone wants to get back together and make it a regular once a month game.

Now I’m going to sleep.

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1. Would you consider yourself an organized person? Why or why not?

I like to be, but usually the act of accomplishment and reaching the end keeps me from finishing the organizing of the parts.

2. Do you keep some type of planner, organizer, calendar, etc. with you, and do you use it regularly?

In times of intense panic I keep one and use it regularly. Normal life doesn’t require one. An example of a time when I needed one was when I started a new job, was buying a house, getting married, and everything else happening at once.

3. Would you say that your desk is organized right now?

Laugh.. I can find everything on it, but it’s all buried under other stuff I can find in an isnant.

4. Do you alphabetize CDs, books, and DVDs, or does it not matter?

I try to, but I have to many to keep it up.

5. What’s the hardest thing you’ve ever had to organize?

The Filing Cabinet. It’s still not done, right now we just through everything that should be filed in there in the hope that one day we will organize and file it all…

I am not a very good artist, as most of you already know.

But tonight I felt like being creative so I drew up the first strip for my intoxicated monkey. You can view the strip online at the intoxicated monkey’s website

While you are there, be sure to visit the sister site bald is good and shop for some monkey thongs..

I’ve wanted to put my wife’s artwork online for years now. She made an attempt to make a website once but came at it from the whole idea of an artist and it didn’t work out that well in application to the web. I guess that’s where us computer geeks get a hand up on artists when it comes to this web thingy, we are able to reprogram ourselves for form/function first and that is the most important aspect of a website. Artists have to worry about style/artsy first and try to fit the actual function in later.

Anyways, on to the point, I keep wanting to get the wife’s artwork online but she seems to have little to no interest in it. I guess it’s the fact that she has very little faith in her ability as an artist. It’s amazing though, I started going through her old artwork and came to the relization that even though it doesn’t have a single coherent focus, there are quite a few works that stand out as brilliant in my opinion. Unfortunatly, I don’t have many high quality scans of them online, yet. But I did put the ones that I like in their low quality modes on Far2wise.net in the photo galleries.

Feel free to browse on over there. If there is interest in seeing more of her work, I will break out the slide scanner and her portfolio and start making a high quality portfolio for her.

The pictures that are online right now are just the ones I had available. Not represenative of her best work and not even good quality.

I’ve come to the realization that I have too much time and geekness running through my body. The proof is in the fact that not only do I have a modded x-box to play old’school emulators. I also now have a Xbox with a cold cathode blue light for the middle logo…