Woohoo! I finally got my title working!!! Even though I think it looks kind of plain, I wish I could jazz it up a little. I'll work on that.

Is there something I'm missing? I still can't get my title to come out normally. Look at it up there taunting me. I can only get it to work when I put the $ signs around it, but I don't want the $ signs around it! I think I erased something vital in the HTML. If anyone can help me, email me at mattisreallybadathtml@sopleasehelpme.com

I love downloading mp3s. Yeah, I said it. Is somebody going to come and arrest me now? I don't see the big problem with it. Okay, it might possibly hurt the artist, but no, I don't buy that. Anyone that's seen Cribs on MTV can testify that the artists are doing all right. It's the music labels that are the ones hurting. Oh, I'm sorry I can't stuff their fat pockets with more cash...*sniff*...*tear*...but lord know I've bought tons and tons of CDs in my time. I used to buy new CDs all the time, then I started to buy used CDs, now I don't buy new discs at all, I download the music. I mean, if I like one song on an album, but no others, am I going to buy the whole CD? I don't think so! Give me my mp3s, where I can get what I want, when I want.

And if the record companies think they can shut down the file-sharing programs, they got another think coming. These programs are user based. What are they going to do, confiscate everybody's computer? Long before the mp3 boom I knew computer geeks trading songs on the computer. I look at it as just a high-tech tape trading. You could always dub CDs on to tapes and then give it to your friends, but nobody ever cared about that. Now a lot of the new discs are copyright-protected, which is the scourge of my existence. It's useless because people always find a way to beat copyright protection. That's my view on mp3 sharing.

*Anybody heard the new Nirvana song You Know You're Right? It's so...1992. Nirvana was awesome...when I was 12. Now it sounds so passe and is a really bad song I think. They're just trying to make money by releasing a "never before released Nirvana song!" and I think it's dumb.

Shania Twain is a hack. I just offended all my country music fan readers with that, but it's true. She just put out UP!, her new album. It's a 2 disc set, one disc being a "country" album and the other being a "pop" version of the same songs on the country album. But I heard excerpts from both discs and the SONGS SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME ON BOTH DISCS. They're not different at all. The problem is that Ms. Twain has already blended her country roots with a pop sound so there's no differentiating between them. Why bother with 2 discs? Country music these days sounds like pop music anyway. I cite Faith Hill as another big offender of pop music masquerading as "country" music. IT SUCKS. Where are Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn to save us from the mediocrity of the current sounds of country music? Save us Willie Nelson!

And Shania Twain has some sort of infatuation with the exclamation point. Her album is called UP!, right there is one exclamation point. This is the track listing of UP!:

1. Up! (Country Version)Music
2. I'm Gonna Getcha Good! (Country Version)Music
3. She's Not Just A Pretty Face (Country Version)Music
4. Juanita (Country Version)Music
5. Forever And For Always (Country Version)Music
6. Ain't No Particular Way (Country Version)
7. It Only Hurts When I'm Breathing (Country Version)
8. Nah! (Country Version)
9. (Wanna Get To Know You) That Good! (Country Version)
10. C'est La Vie (Country Version)
11. I'm Jealous (Country Version)
12. Ka-Ching! (Country Version)
13. Thank You Baby! (For Makin' Someday Come So Soon) (Country Version)
14. Waiter! Bring Me Water! (Country Version)
15. What A Way To Wanna Be! (Country Version)
16. I Ain't Goin' Down (Country Version)
17. I'm Not In The Mood (To Say No!) (Country Version)
18. In My Car (I'll Be The Driver) (Country Version)
19. When You Kiss Me (Country Version)

That's NINE exclamation points in her song titles. Is she extremely happy or just psychotic? I think she needs some Ritalin to calm her down. There's no need for that many exclamation points in song titles, plus she's got FOUR songs with parentheses in the titles. What is up with that?

I've been kind of lax about updating this blog. I think I'm depressed because I look at other peoples' blogs and they looked so much nicer than mine. Don't get me wrong, I like the colorful aspect on this page but I'm so bad at HTML I can't make anything really cool looking. I have to refer to a chart for even the most basic tags. Oh, woe is me. Email me to cheer me up. I'm going to try and work on the look of the site and snazz it up. But it's really about the content, isn't it? I think so.