Oooooo...

This was the funnest lesson ever...once we got past the legal stuff, of course. Legalese really makes my head hurt...a lot. I will say that I have been quite confused about all of the music downloading stuff, and I'm a little nervous about how I'll actually handle this once I have the pretty little gadget that comes at the end of the course. I can just see it...poor, innocent, well-meaning little me, just looking for pleasant little oldies songs to brighten my day, and suddenly the 3MPs (3 Music Police) are pounding on my door waiting to throw me in the slammer right across the hall from dear sweet Paris. (Lord, save me!!) Ok, now I'm afraid to do anything with the gadget at all...paranoia is such a drag.

So anyway, the music sites were totally a blast! I didn't like Grokker much, but LivePlasma was so pretty and even a little mesmerizing...kind of reminded me of my Lava Lamp. Oh, the colors, the colors...

LastFM was AWESOME!! A whole radio station of my very own, programmed with the artists I like and similar ones. This was especially fun for me, since Orlando lost its FM oldies station a few years ago (it went Spanish...don't even get me started.) There's an AM oldies station, but it's a little fuzzy at times. This could be a nice alternative if I'm at home and want a fix...of course I'll have to get out of my dial-up Internet phase in order to truly benefit from this, or it'll take 45 minutes to get one song. Maybe this can be my inspiration...hmmmm.

Honestly, I wish you could have seen Ms. Balogna and me as we sang and danced along to the fun music...truly a scene not to have been missed. Just ask half of the Circulation department! hehe

Oh, one more thing about the whole legal thing...all I could think about during that entire section of the lesson was Weird Al's "Don't Download This Song." If you haven't heard it, look it up on one of those music website thingys and give it a listen. It pretty much says it all! :)