I need a new computer. I'm having a blog marathon for donations. Actually, I'm getting one with my "bonus." So strange to say that. Moving on to music.

I'm listening to a mix by Philip Sherburne. I'm really enjoying it. It's over two hours long. How often do you get to sit down and make a piece of music your primary focus of concentration for several uninterrupted hours? Do you make it a priority to do this? If you get to do this, who are your go to groups? This is what this music started making me think about. And then my mind went over to how amazing the internet is, because I just found this very enjoyable piece of music by Sherburne called "music for the evening after" with minimal effort via a few calculated clicks. Which led me to thinking about Radiohead's "In Rainbows." Which somehow led me to sales of Britney Spears's latest record. the precipitous decline after one week, and her worst overall in some time. Something like that, anyway. No fact checking army here at imaddictedtoblahblahblah. And basically, I guess I just thought that the internet helps transit art quickly and cheaply, and different formats benefit differently, and quality varies greatly, but, what I mean to say, is that anyone who fears their art being transmitted somewhat is a questionable artist. And I don't condone any kind of stealing. I support artists sharing. Which got me thinking about early hip hop. I wish Rick Rubin the best at Columbia. I have no ill will towards Columbia. I want more good music out there. It's true Radiohead did their pay 99p campaign after they were on nearly everybody's list of the top 5 most important bands of all time, so they can afford people to pay zero and continue to enjoy fine dining and meet their mortgage. But good art rises in part through transmission. Some people blaze a trail and can do exactly what they want despite the inability of their time and place to fully understand and accept their gift. There are a number of ways; I'm not going to list them all. But many more people can do it if they just get a little additional exposure. And if you're one of the people who doesn't need the additional exposure, you'd be successful without more people listening to your stuff in more places, places they often otherwise wouldn't hear you at all, and maybe you feel like people are stealing your art, I guess (lot of guessing here) that what this mix made me think about was how the internet and simple technologies along with it really are an overall boon to the music industry. Adapt, people. Adapt. Let's transmit more music in a better way and share it with more people and all try to dance a little more and relax. So, that's what Philip Sherburne's "music for the evening after" made me think about, listening to a chunk of it for the first time. I suggest you get it, carve out a few hours, and listen to it and leave room for thinking.