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We headed out to Space View park early this morning.

Go Discovery!

Booster sep

Boosters tumbling away after separation

Video of launch:

Discovery Launch from wRitErsbLock on Vimeo.

So Pink Floyd songs may soon not be available on iTunes and other stores that offer downloads of their music. Why? Well it seems that they won a lawsuit against EMI concerning their record contract. Their contract states that their songs can not be sold as singles and since at online music stores you can buy their songs individually that is a breach of contract. so only online stores that sell just the full album will be able to sell their music and not may of them would likely do that.

I have been reading comments on sites that are reporting on it and some people are upset at them for even bringing the lawsuit. Most say that they should have no control how their music is sold, that people that want just one song will not buy their music, pirate just the song they want, or just listen to only the song they want to. Some say that people should be able to buy just the songs they like. They seem to think that artists shouldn’t be allowed to dictate how they buy the artists work.

I think most people will agree that music is an art form. now looking at most CDs that are out are mostly full of songs that stand alone, each an individual on it’s own, kind of like a short story and the album a collection of short stories. Well then considering this, you would think that buying a song is the same as buying a short story, you can read it anytime you like without needing to read or buy any of the other stories in the book. This works great, but would this plan work for a novel?

‘I’d like to buy chapter 10 of War and Peace please’

Yes I could read just chapter 10 of War and Peace or just one chapter of any book. It may make sense, it might even be satisfying, but do you see the full picture, do you understand the full story? Could you truly say you had read it? How about movies? Most have chapter stops, you can jump to your favorite scene and watch just that, But if you buy Fight Club having never seen it (you’ve never seen Fight Club!) and just watched chapter 4, would you know what the whole movie is about? How about just watching one chapter of Terry Gilliam’s Brazil? How about just one chapter of a David Lynch movie… oh wait, David Lynch movies only have one chapter because… He wants you to watch the WHOLE movie. I guess you have to fast forward to the scene you want (unless you have a copy released before he made the studios remove the chapters stops)!

So would a writer or director want the publisher/studio selling individual chapters of their book/movie? I admit that I have read just a chapter of a book and watched just a part of a movie, but I had already either seen or read the rest of it. Sure, music is different, each song has to stand on it’s own, while a chapter of a book might make no sense if read on it’s own, the same with a movie,

So what is so wrong about Floyd, or any other artist, wanting you to have the whole story? Money is a great song, but in the context of Dark Side of the Moon it is brilliant. Mother is made clearer in the whole story told within The Wall, the same could be said of most of their albums. They are also not the only artists that paint a broader picture with the album as opposed to just a song.

Being an artist, I can understand wanting you vision to remain the way you want it to. Hell, even as a photographer I want to print the photo as I want it, and if the viewer just focuses on one part of it, I at least want them to see the full photograph as I wanted them to.

In case you don’t get the joke, THE ONE pronounces nuclear er I mean Corpsman as corpseman. Of course since he can do no wrong, he must have been using the politically correct term for Zombies!

I got a LEGO VW Bug for Christmas

Here we started, it has 1600 pieces and two instruction books

Dashboard

inside, I knocked off the speedo and when I put it back I didn’t notice it was sideways, I’ll have to fix it

Coming along

Engine

finished

How about a little story?

Bob lives in a modest cookie cutter house with his wife and two kids. Him and his wife work hard and have a good life together. The Bob family is in perfect health. Bob is in peak condition, he jogs ten miles to work and back every day. He eats healthy, works out and gets a physical every year. He eats meats, seafood and vegetables in moderate healthy portions, he only occasionally drinks wine and has never ever smoked. His body inside and out is prefect. His heart is strong and beats like a perfectly tuned engine, in fact, every organ in his body is in peak condition. his wife and kids are in similar condition

Frank is Bob’s next door neighbor, almost everything about Franks life is the same as Bob’s, he has a wife and two kids, lives in the same type of cookie cutter house, works for the same company, does about the same thing as Bob. The differences are mostly personal, Frank doesn’t jog to work, he takes his car when he does go in, but he mostly telecommutes. His body is in no where near the condition that Bob’s is. He is twice the weight he should be, he sits all day on his couch and works on his computer, all the while eating snacks and twinkies, his lunch is usually two large pizzas that he has delivered and dinner is whatever greasy fast food that his wife picks up on her way home from work. Frank smokes a pack of cigarettes a day and drinks heavily. His arteries are severely clogged, his liver resembles a little black rock and his lungs are black with cancerous growths.

Bob works hard to take care of himself and it shows, Frank doesn’t care and doesn’t even try.

Sadly Frank’s lungs and liver are failing, his heart is working harder then it needs to to pump blood around his large body. Frank is not going to last much longer. You see, Frank doesn’t need money, that won’t help him, Frank needs new lungs and a new liver. It’s wrong that poor Frank has no way to get the things that he needs to continue living, it’s criminal even. Then there is that horrible Bob guy, he has his perfect body while Frank wastes away. But this isn’t a sad story, don’t worry, it has a happy ending. You see in this world, there is government healthcare, Everyone gets cared for. So if Frank doesn’t have what he needs, that’s OK, you see, Bob has what Frank needs. So we’ll take a prefect lung from Bob, he does have two, and we’ll take half his perfect liver and we’ll give them to Frank.

Yay, now Frank can go back to eating his Yummy greasy burgers, and his ciggies and booze, and Bob, well he’s fine too, so what if he doesn’t have the lung capacity to jog to work anymore, that’s what cars are for! Hmm, Frank’s wife and kids are not looking good, maybe we need to get Bobs prefect little wife on the table…and when do his kids turn 18?

David Swensen comments that the government should examine their profiles and lifestyles before helping Frank, but there are no ‘death panels’ in this story, everyone is treated equally! Thanks for commenting David.

i am posting this from my new cellphone! Now i can not blog while away from a computer.

Yea I know I haven’t been blogging much lately, but in my defense, I have been working on my screenplay/novel. It is mostly written in my head, now I just have to get it typed out. if you know me then you know that I type really slow. So far I have maybe 50 pages typed up, just a couple of hundred more to go! maybe I’ll post some of it here for you guys to read, though I think most of my regular readers have given up on my blogging!

I have repositioned the webcams from the vacation security mode they were in. only the first two are working, the others are off for now.

Happy Birthday Boo, love you so much.

North Tower…

Shanksville, PA…

South Tower…

Pentagon…