Still in love with Rhapsody. All day I listen to as many songs by any artists I want to as many times as I wanted to. I even listened to us a few times just for the fun of it. all for ten bucks a month. Who the hell is ever going to buy a CD again when they find out about napster and rhapsody? As artists we are fucked. We are so fucked.

If we put the digital distribution of our music in the hands of companies like napster and rhapsody we are going out of the frying pan into the fire. From the record companies to the digital distribution companies. We are still being controlled by them and their business decisions and their bottom line.

One way to look at it is this: through napster and rhapsody people have a way of hearing about you. through advertising and promotions. More people discover you. but artists still have to be able to sell their own music; even digitally. Or else we’re still in someone else’s hands.

I know what you're thinking: Prince is God and he already tried it and failed miserably. But at this point for newer artists it just may be viable.

I'll tell you this though. CD sales are history. Just no use for them. unless you live on a desert island. With napster and rhapsody as long as we have an Internet connection we can listen to music all day long and never pay more than ten bucks. What's you like and want to take with you, you can purchase. What's you don't like you don't purchase. The end of traditional concept albums. Its quite disheartening as an artist. As a music lover of course its great. but man, just when we were starting sell good amounts of cds... I have good friends who have even told me that they’ve only downloaded four or five songs from our new album because they just downloaded the ones they thought they liked. I'm like ‘dude, you never even saw the artwork? We put so much time and money into the artwork.’ They're like ‘bro, c'mon, at least I bought some songs... I don't care about the artwork...’ crazy. crazy indeed.

Current read: The origin of AIDS by tom Curtis. Crazy stuff. explores the theory that aids came from the polio vaccines delivered in Africa. Traces it back. but all the researchers say that trying to determine what the origin of aids was is totally meaningless and irrelevant. The author disagrees; and I am sure so do aids sufferers and their family members.

Last screening: la notte. The old Italian classic from 196o starring Marcello Mastro.... great cinematography. Good use of b/w shadows and placement. Typical Italian intellectual film. lots of silence. Lots of cynicism. Lots of oh life is so boring and predictable so lets smoke and make love.

Current spin; songs from the harvest. Folk and world stuff. Good tunage.