La la la la = Music...

Ok,
So there is the coolest websiet that was made just for me... LaLa.Com.

This is a site you log into and list old CD's you have that you don't want anymore (You're NOT selling them) you're trading them to someonbe else who wants them. For a CD you want to have. No burnded CD's we're talking originals & hard to find gems.

From what I've gathered you list you CD's (Over 1.8 Million listed so far) they (the website) send you postage paid envelopes to send them in & find what you want. Your cost is $1.49 for processing & postage.

Here is a message by one of the founders of the site.

The founders of 'la la', John, Billy, Anselm and I are devout music fans and created the service for the benefit of artists and fellow music fans.

I'm writing this message to encourage you to do right by the artists you enjoy through our service. Despite what is depicted on MTV's Cribs, a wonderfully entertaining show, most musicians don't live large with a big house and five cars. Rather, the majority of musicians struggle to make a living from their recordings and must depend on other income producing activities such as performing concerts or selling merchandise.

I'll be the first to advocate that artists should make a lot more from each CD. 'la la' is taking the unprecedented action of giving artists 20% of our revenues from used CDs, no used record store or online site does this today. I'll also promise to work tirelessly (only sleep four hours a night anyway- this is being written at 3:31 a.m. so pardon my punctuation) to reduce overhead in marketing costs across the industry, so artists can make more from selling their music.
I ask you to do your part by doing the right thing: remove songs from your iPod or PC if you've agreed to send the CD to another member.

If you want to listen to that CD again, just add it to your Want List and help us support that artist you can't get enough of. You'll have access to plenty of good music to enjoy in the meantime. We'll make sure of that!

Respect the artists and Karma will be on your side.

Regards,Bill Nguyen




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'la la' Returns Variety to Music and Gives Back to Musicians

The Most Extensive Music Catalog Available for Trading and Purchase Goes Live
Palo Alto, Calif., March 7, 2006 -According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) nearly 30,000 album titles are released each year. With nearly 3 million available titles, the largest reseller, Wal-Mart, stocks only about 5,000 titles per store or less than 1% of available music. With choice quickly disappearing, 'la la' opens the largest, most diverse music store on earth with 1.8 million album titles available for trade at $1 each - same price as a song download except the extra penny buys the rest of the album.

While there is no obligation to do so, 'la la' is setting aside 20% of trading revenues for musicians.

The name 'la la' comes from some of the first words said by Bill's son.

"Stick to your guns if you believe in somethin no matter why cause it's better to be hated for who you are then be loved for who your not"
- Van Zandt

He looks like my uncle Oscar....

Hey I’m baaaaack! Did y’all miss me…

So much to say & so much already forgotten…

I have had such a weird week last week, both good & bad. I shall choose to ignore the bad.

As far as the good stuff… The boyzzz all gave their testimonies and got baptized it was awesome. It was all about their relationships with Christ and it made me proud. To quote one particular statement “I’m luckier than a billionaire”. It was awesome….

That was last Sunday, NOT yesterday.

On Monday my Mawee came home (And brought the Texas flu with her). But at least she came back to me.

Tuesday was a hurried up day. I was given almost ZERO notice that a member of my favorite band was going to be somewhere that I could go meet him.

Yes, David Bryan from Bon Jovi, was at Mawee’s work. He is the keyboard/piano player for those of you NOT in the know. I have been a fan of their for over 20 years!! I was worried that them being so BIG and popular that David could be snobbish. I was greatly surprised he was awesome & super nice. He signed everyone of my CD’s (That’s nine folks) I think there is one album I do NOT have from 1992ish.

I have since learned David has his own website & a solo CD project (Which mawee ordered for me) it will also come autographed.

On Wednesday we had our youth group meeting and discussed a pretty serious topic & the amount of feedback by students who want to be accountable was incredible. Proof they are growing and don’t want to be viewed or treated as just “little kids or just students”.

Thursday I went to a Kings game with James. It was his first Hockey game. He did go see the Ducks once BUT this is his first REAL game (HA!) He agreed it was greatly different & he enjoyed it. Now that makes me want to go with all the guyz in the “Loser’s Club” James said he would gladly do again, BTW the Kings won that game to secure our 7th place position in playoff standings (They also won Saturday) so we are now 1 win out of 5th place Colorado & Vancouver must go DOWN!!!

Mary has been sick all weekend so it was mellow (Which I needed).

Last night I decided to watch the Oscars (That neighbor girl came over too ;) so I spent most of the night pleasantly surprised & quite joyful when Brokeback… didn’t win best picture.

How was your week??


"Stick to your guns if you believe in somethin no matter why cause it's better to be hated for who you are then be loved for who your not"
- Van Zandt