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I promised Jade that this morning I’d see her before I left. The plan was for me to wake at 4:45, head there, and have thirt minutes with her before I left. Unfortunately I slept until 5:12, because my dad, thankfully, woke me up. In a fury I hurried myself to head to her house. I got there around 5:25 or so, leaving me little time.

I miss her now, but I am glad I saw her. I had to head home, I packed the last few things. We headed out.

I slept most of the way, I didn’t feel like being awake. It was a cold drive, and I slept in a wierd position that left me irritable. Last night I had packed away my ethernet cord, so I couldn’t double check where I had to meet this morning for ResNet. Thankfully I remembered right, I had to go to 068 ResNet Office in the Debot Centre. The meeting started at 10:00am, but I was about 15 minutes early. We went over a few things, I accessed my account, etc,etc. My coworkers and managers seem like nice guys. One of the other two new employees was there. He seemed a little odd, I recieved a wierd vibe from him. The other new recruit, I forget her name, couldn’t make in into town until tomarrow, where we have another meeting at 9am.

After the meeting I called Jade, but she had forgot her phone at home. She was at an orthodontist appointment, then headed to pick up applications and was tied up.

I met up with my parents, and then we moved my stuff into my dorm. It wasn’t until about 10 minutes later that Gryffyn arrived. All of my stuff was unpacked and put away, we got the fridge, microwave, and coffee maker all set. I took a small video of it, I might put it live tonight. The only issue we have is that we don’t get our lofts until Saturday, we can’t do much organizing until then.

My parents left, I helped Gryffyn move in the rest of his stuff. He didn’t have everything, though. We had to head to his house, thanks to a ride from his girlfriend who dropped us off. We packed some stuff up in his dad’s truck, got a ride back. Unpacked, everything is set.

We decided to go for coffee, so we headed to The Mission Cafe. Gryffyn saw a few people he know, we chit-chatted. He soon found out one of his friends was moving a block from their previous residence, so we helped out. We helped move a little bit, then it ended in a game of hackey sack.

I got hungry, so I headed back to campus. When I got there I wasn’t very hungry anymore, so I went to our dorm. I read my book, tried to get my internet set up. I am now dreading working this weekend, it’s such a pain in the ass. There’s going to be a lot of angry callers.

I want to print out my schedule for work, but smart me forgot to pack printer paper. Woohoo!

Well, after that I just randomly went walking, smoke breaks, etc,etc. I walked to Taco Bell at some time to get some grub. Jade called me back. We talked.

I came back to the dorm and Gryffyn had come back when I was out, we sat and talked. He left not too long ago to go back to his friends. He invited me, but I’m a little tired, and not in the mood to be around a lot of people. I’m not really homesick, but it feels wierd not being able to just go see Jade, or hang with Mark, or Boomer, which has been my previous routine. I’ve spent almost every minute of the past two weeks with them.

I can’t sleep, behind me I have Al and Boomer passed out. We watched all the old videos, remembered old times, I really enjoyed this night, going to be a long time before this happens again.

I have all my clothes packed, they fit into one medium sized suitcase. I just need to do a bit more laundry, then all my clothees will be set.

Two more days and I’m leaving. I figured out space for the move would only allow two people to come with, so I think Brian and Al might help move me in.

Today is Sunday the 27th, scary. It’s getting closer and closer to moving. The whole move isn’t the problem, it’s just not being able to hang or see three very great people on a day-to-day basis. I guess I’ll live?

Tonight my parents are having a little cookout, leaving party, thing. Brian and his family is headed here, Jeff and his family, Mark and Liberty, and of course Jade.

I had an odd urge to begin reading again, I’ve nearly cleared out the rest of The Elegant Universe in one day. I had only finished one-third of it and randomly stopped reading. I also purchased the biography on Che Guevara, which is about 754 pages.

I can’t remember if I posted this before, but I don’t work in Labs anymore at UWSP. I work with ResNET, making $8.75 an hour at twenty hours a week, the whole semester. I don’t think it’ll be too bad, but I don’t quite know around finals.

Well I just woke up, don’t feel like doing much. Jade’s out to dinner with her Father and Grandmother until about 12:30, then I’m hanging with her, until about 4:00 when I’m bringing everyone back over here for the cookout thing.

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The music industry is suffering. The major record
labels – which rely on CDs for most of their revenue – are in decline.
CD sales in the US have dropped more than 20 percent from a peak of
$13.4 billion in 2000. But don’t be fooled: The market for music is
thriving. With the rise of peer-to-peer networks, the iPod, and other
digital technologies – plus a 100 percent jump in concert ticket sales
since 1999 – the world is awash in music. The industry now has more
sources of revenue – ringtones, concert tickets, license agreements
with TV shows and videogames – than ever before.

Record labels have always been the center of gravity in the industry
– the locus of power, ideas, and money. Labels discovered the talent,
pushed the songs, and got the product on the air and into stores. The
goal: move records, and later, CDs. “The labels were never in the
business of selling music,” says David Kusek, vice president of
Boston’s Berklee College of Music and coauthor of The Future of Music. “They were in the business of selling plastic discs.”

Musicians generally make very little from the sale of their records.
The costs of production, marketing, and promotion are charged against
sales, and even if they go multiplatinum and cover those costs, their
cut of any extra revenue is usually less than 10 percent. On top of
this, the labels typically retain the copyrights to the recordings,
which allows them to profit from the musicians’ catalogs indefinitely.
“It’s as if you received a loan for a house,” says Ed Robertson, one of
BNL’s lead vocalists. “But when you finish paying off that loan, the
label says thank you and keeps the house.”

WiredNews is reporting that a Canadian Record Label is finally doing what all labels should do, focus on the artist, fan, and music. Their company lets the artists run the record, but the company becomes management, publishing, and recording. It’s almost how I have setup NMD Records to run. All I do is try to help manage the signed bands, put out CDs, and just try to go the extra length the band may not have been able to. I keep a small profit off CD sales, but they make most of the money, more than I make.

I just got back from Chicago a while ago. I actually got back in town at 11:22pm, but I stopped over at Jade’s.

Today was very relaxing, until about 5.

I woke up around 11:30am, I don’t know why, but I haven’t been motivated to wake up lately. I woke up at went downstairs, got ready to go. I got in a little fight with my mom, then left to Jade’s.

I hung out with her until I left.

I went to Chicago for a World Can’t Wait meeting. There was seven of us, we met at Filter cafe. The ride was bad, I had to drive through rush hour, it was annoying. The organizer, Abbie, was already there with Andrea, and I can’t remember the other girls name for the life of me. Soon Clay, and this other girl with a very odd name, came up. A few minutes Keith showed up. The meeting went well. I’m going to help them with spreading the word via MySpace, and organizing their own MySpace account. I’m also going to help take charge in organizing around a few campuses in Wisconsin.

Well, I’m saving some new CDs to my computer, and I’m tired, and my hand hurts. Bye.