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Originally posted by Ani You rarely see names like Pink Floyd, . . . in the headlines and yet, they still sell CD's. . . pink floyd? in the headlines!? in the headlines for political activism!?! being in the headlines for political activism leading to album sales!?!?!? never!!!!!! quoting wikipedia: "In the week after Live 8, there was a revival of interest in Pink Floyd. According to record store chain HMV, sales of Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd went up, in the following week, by 1343%, while Amazon.co.uk reported increases in sales of The Wall at 3600%, Wish You Were Here at 2000%, Dark Side of the Moon at 1400% and Animals at 1000%. David Gilmour subsequently declared that he would donate all profits from this post Live 8 boom in sales to charity,[50] and urged that all the other performing artists and their record companies should do the same." not disagreeing with what you're saying. just found the idea funny, considering all the talk about pink floyd just last year. i'd say that was as much, if not more, publicity than this dixie chicks story. (rightly so, of course. but still . . )

just because they're on the cover of time magazine, it doesn't mean that everyone cares about it . . . all i'm saying is don't blow the public attention out of proportion and then use that fact for criticizing the public. well, i mean you could. i shouldn't be telling you all what to do. just saying you're dumb for doing it.

having less stuff is nice, but there is also value to having empty space. right now i live in an apartment which has a whole extra room. it's a huge schock for someone who, just a couple years before, had a bedroom that literally someone else's closet. with usable space including a desk (with no leg room), a chair, about 3 feet of a shelf (one level), two drawers, and exactly enough room for a bed. so what's that, about 40 feet? (before that, i stayed in a room that was three feet high. hmm . . . )

my least favorite phrase is "mash-up". it's bad in so many ways. used strictly, it's fine. but the thing is that it's used for everything, all the time. and not even in a tongue-in-cheek way. another one i don't like is "f-bomb". it's just used too often by too many people who don't consider the fact that it's a cutesy pun on "a-bomb" (or "h-bomb"). if you're the type that likes to use cutesy puns, that's fine. but it shouldn't be a common term. one that cracks me up more than annoys me is, "and you won't believe . . ." as is used when introducing every single new story on shows like "inside edition". does it really make people more excited about the story? to hear it regarding every single story?