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Well, I appear to have acquired more readers from the last couple of posts, and didn't lose anyone...so. I check periodically. I know, I know, how incredibly narcissitic of me - but there it is. One wants to know how many people are reading...even if, I know for a fact that at least the first 20 or so aren't even online any longer or are defunct lj's (you'd think lj would get rid of them?). And haven't posted in ages. And there's several people who read but don't friend, so you haven't a clue if they are there or not. In short? You can't really tell how many people are reading your blog at any given time - unless you get a paid account and allow access to statistical data, but even then? You only know the other people who did the same thing - those who didn't (all access not get paid accounts) - won't be counted.

The internet is a weird thing. Must give the evil marketing and advertising people a head-ache. Wait it does...why else would we have Sopa, Ipa and ACTA...which sort of sounds like a musical act, doesn't it? Hee. I can just hear them - I know how to track what people are doing on the net - make the governments pass a law that forces someone to track it and they sell us all the data! Go Team. And you thought I was just joking when I said evil marketing people rule the world.

Good news? The bathrooms are working again. YAY!
Bad news? I updated my ipod touch last night (because I wanted to download music from my computer on it and it wouldn't let me do it without the stupid software upgrade). But forgot to enable wifi and redo the stupid settings.
So I can't use the thing today - and I really need my music to focus. Damn it.
(Wifi network is at home - and only one I can connect too. There's none at work I can connect to. Don't need Wifi to listen to music, but do need it to download music from itunes at home and elsewhere - such as parents house.)

Music...it makes the tv show, film....a pseudo meme

As a kid, I used music to relax. Would go up to my room and study for hours with the radio playing, often made mixed tapes of the songs. We didn't have DVDs, CDs or MP3 players back then. I played records, 8 track tapes, and cassettes - which had a nasty habit of degrading over time. Remember reading American History to the Rolling Stones or the Beatles or...*cough*Air Supply*cough*. My taste has always been incredibly eclectic. I loved Rush - favorite song in Junior High was "Tom Sawyer".

TV shows and films are often more memorable if they have a really good musical score. Songs that hit home, nail the feeling or plot arc. Not music videos - although we became a video world a long time ago. Back in the age of MTV - remember that? Dire Straits song Money for Nothing, Chips for Free...I Want My MTV - a defining moment of the 1980s and the beginning of the "video revolution". It was so long ago, and yet it sometimes feels like yesterday. Odd that. Where did the time go? I wonder if that's why people have kids - to track time - you see it as they grow and age...no most likely not.

No...a good song, a good band can make a show that is okay amazing. Buffy the Vampire Slayer is amongst the few shows that had an excellent soundtrack. I'm not sure I can give you a favorite song. But I own both compilations. And there are songs on that show that I still can't find. One is from Crush - the initial scene, in the Bronze, I can't remember the title and I can't find it anywhere.

My favorite? It changes. Right now it's a four way tie between Ballade for Dead Friends, Pavlov's Bell, Key, and Lucky. All ballads. Although I love Pain and the Teenage FBI. God, whoever decided on the score - was a genius. But we also had a musical fanatic behind the show-running duties - who turned one episode into a self-mocking, fourth wall breaking musical - which was by the way the episode that got the Momster's attention and was when she understood, finally, my insane obsession with the series. I showed her The Body, but you just can't get that episode unless you've watched all the episodes that came before. The other series that had a marvelous soundtrack was The Wire - which I also own the soundtrack too. It's songs furthered plot and resonated. It hammered the themes of that series home. TV shows with good soundtracks - I tend to get fannish about, I remember them long after they've left the air. This was true of Battle Star Galatica who turned "All Along the Watchtower" into a plot point, and True Blood - who has the best credits song on the planet..."Bad Things" and oh god, the great Nick Cave cover She's Not There! There's
also Farscape's soundtrack, although they didn't have many songs, unfortunately. But a good soundtrack.

Anyhow...I need new songs. So I've a favor to ask to anyone who comes upon this post...and you can link to it, if you want:

Please provide...

1) Your favorite song for this year - the one that you listened to the most, that made you the most happy, that made you dance at your desk
2.) Your favorite tv show song - whether it be from Buffy or some other show.

See easy. Just two things. If I get five responders? I get five new songs...or maybe two, in case they pick ones I already own.

Oh and if you wish..the song you wish was nominated for a Grammy or already was...since they are coming up.

As someone told me a few weeks ago...music is like a lifeline to the soul. When people sing, you hear their soul. When they play the same. I can't sing, tone death, but the woman who told me this believes everyone can...they just need to learn how. I wish that were true. Sometimes I think it is.

U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA and well the State of the Union Address

[Well I signed the petition for whatever good it will do. Broad copyright infringement laws...worry me. It will cost us millions to put into effect and could cost millions for internet providers and jobs, and cut into free speech. I'm sorry but there's a better way to protect intellectual property owners than this. Oh currently watching the State of the Union Address (that is until it flipped off, because I had scheduled Lost Girl and Justified to tape at the same time)...love this comment: "Most of the people watching are thinking nothing is going to be done in Washington this year or next year or the year after. [Pause] Can you blame them? Last year the biggest argument we had that lasted for months was how America was going to pay its bills on time." LOL! (He's not wrong). Also the applause meter is interesting.
He got thunderous applause for a lot of things, but not for that bit and not for: "No longer are going to let Wall Street abide by its own rules and go unrestrained" - the applause for that was decidedly tepid. And we wonder why people no confidence in government?]

Originally posted by lk737 at U.S. Petition to prevent ACTA

Kosmonaunt on Tumblr just posted this link to the U.S. Petition to stop ACTA. Here is what was said about it:

Americans, this is a link to the White House petition to End ACTA and get the Obama Administration to withdraw its support! This petition needs 25,000 signatures by February 20, 2012! Please, Please take a minute to sign this petition!! I'm sure the more signatures we get, the greater chance the Obama Administration may listen to us.

Please pass this along!!

https://wwws.whitehouse.gov/petitions/!/petition/end-acta-and-protect-our-right-privacy-internet/MwfSVNBK?utm_source=wh.gov&utm_medium=shorturl&utm_campaign=shorturl

Please check it out and Retweet if you're on Twitter (hashtag #ActAgainstACTA). Here is the shortened link for Twitter -- http://t.co/suHDHx8K



Thank you to everyone on my flist and twitter for talking about this and making us so aware! You guys have really filled my flist with so much information! *massive hugs*

[Yawn, not about the address, I'm just tired. As an aside about all this copyright law stuff? I am so glad I'm not in that field any longer. Confusing is an understatement. And I thought the DMCA, World Copyright Act and Internet Act of 1999 was a pain. Good times. Or the Napster Case and the Tasini cases were annoying.
Or that...the Sono Bono Act was well irritating. Apparently those were the good old days. Can't say I'm all that surprised...it was only a matter of time, before they started to do something about it. The TV/Film and Publishing industry has been
paranoid about the internet for years now. Heck, the Actors Strike and the Writer's Strikes were mainly about the internet.]