Below are the 8 most recent journal entries recorded in victoria_sparda's LiveJournal:

Saturday, November 24th, 2007
5:18 pm	heehee (Comment on this)
Saturday, March 17th, 2007
8:33 am	Back and getting stable OK, i finnally got the hell out of louisiana and man am i glad to be away from that state, i'm looking at this real nice apartment, nice but affordable which is a rare find and getting everything ready to settle in, oh is this a releif!! (Comment on this)
Monday, February 26th, 2007
3:13 pm	ello peoples I have limited net right now but should be able to post regularly in about 2 months. i have a few journals ready to post on my home computer but i forgot to bring them (Useing the library internet right now) take care every one ++hugs++ (Comment on this)
Monday, August 7th, 2006
6:45 pm	The Cost of Sound. I recently read an article about the major record labels suing LimeWire for millions due to "lost profit" because of file sharing, I have complied a list of why people use peer to peer file sharing in the first place and why the record labels are quite full of it and should in no way win the case. 1) The price of a CD now days is 15 USD, that's the same price as my internet service, half the time on albums there are only one or two good songs, lets say an album has 12 songs on it and is priced at 13.95, say that only three of the songs are worth a damn, that would mean you'ld be paying 11.62 USD for ten bad songs, basicly wasteing enough money for two meals on songs you might hate, is that worth it? Exspecially if you live off a low income? I don't think so. 2) Artists today don't seem to be trying anymore, sure, there are some damn good ones out there that do it for the love of doing it, but 90% have really only one motivation for producing songs, and that motivation is cold hard cash. The artists have enough money to buy 3 houses across the country and have 10 cars in their garage and their own privite jet, yet they want more money from the hard working public, including people who live on low income and can barely afford to eat. 3) Target market: The target market comes into play a lot too. The target consumers are normal everyday people, lets run through the list shall we? >>>>>>>>>>>>A) The middleschool/highschool student: When you are young money is hard to come by, it's hard to work and go to school while keeping your grades up, yet the people who listen to music the most fit into this catagory. Do they really expect a student to be able to afford buying a CD and running the risk of the senerio mentioned in #1? The averange income for a student working part time is 30-50 USD a week, and that's the lucky ones, do they expect a student to spend half thier week's pay on a CD that might only have 3 good songs? >>>>>>>>>>>>B) The collage student: Many collage students work their way through school, not everyone is lucky enough to have rich parents to put them through school or to get grants. Think about the choices: Pay for tuition, food, dorm and books so I can better my life and get an education or buy that new CD that just came out. Well there's a no brainer. >>>>>>>>>>>>C) The Single Mom: She needs something to listen to while she cleans/relaxes/works from home/etc. A new CD that just came out is said to be great and she really wants to buy it, but what she needs to use that money for is bills, food, cloths for the kids, school supplies, home/office supplies, doctor visits, fix the sink/door/shower/etc. Now tell me, what's more important? Makeing the rich guys even richer or taking care of the family and home? >>>>>>>>>>>>D) The Disabled: Disablity benifits barely pay enough for a person to survive as it is, many have the internet because without it they would have no interaction with people period, it helps keep them busy so they don't sit thinking "I wish I was like everyone else and could go out and enjoy things", it can drive a person crazy to be alone all the time. Many use music to sooth themselves and in the case of those with disorders like bi-polor and PTSD, music can help calm them down. But how can they afford to go out and buy a CD if they can barly afford to make it month to month? >>>>>>>>>>>>E) The Average Working American (or whatever country you are in): Like the old song says "You work hard for the money", So why waste it on a CD with only a few good songs? Or worse, on a band you aren't famiar with, maybe you heard one good song on the radio and want to check them out, preoblem is, if that is the only good song on the album, then you just wasted a lot of money. Is one good song really worth near 15 USD? Unless you are an office executive or one of the big bosses, I'm pretty sure the answer is no. 4) Cost of production for a CD, let's say a CD sold 500,000 copies at 15 USD each, the net profit is 7,500,000 USD,the cost of the CD it self (as in raw materials and processing) is 30 cents (yes, it costs that little per CD, the office stores are jipping you) the printing for the inserts (which are just fancy POS) costs $1 per insert (I'm talking about the front booklet thing and the thing behind the CD holder) and the CD case itself is really only about 25 cents. The cost for the materials is a total of 1.55 USD. Of corse the artist ad production company must be paid too, lets say that after the cost of the CD it self, the retailers that sell it,the artist and the production company all get 33.33%, that mean each of them are getting 4.48 USD per CD, 4.48 times the 500,000 CDs sold= 2,240,000 to the artist, production company and the retails (retailers as a whole). As this clearly points out, we're getting screwed, and not in a good way. 5) Some music is hard to find. Good old songs are hard and at times very pricy to buy, some albums are near impossable to find, unless you use a peer to peer sharing program. This also goes for forein music. Many great bands outside the USA would never be known were it not for programs like LimeWire and Kazaa. This also goes for the budding artist who is not known, someone downloads his song from his computer via LimeWire, they love it, tell their friends who tell their friends and so forth, giving the new artist not only a small fanbase to start from, but also the motavation to make more songs, who may then make it big and them sign with a major label and make the label even more money (so they are kind of shooting themselves in the foot by trying to stop peer to peer filesharing). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ I think I have made my point pretty clear, I may add more later, this is just all I can think of right here and now. Current Mood: busy (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Monday, July 31st, 2006
4:37 pm	My nortorious ramblings.... You really don't have to read this, I'm just rambling... Anyways, I'm an active member of youtube.com, things keep going down over there and it's a lot of BS, virus hoaxes, spamming, flamers, I just post my vids because I like posting them, people will comment without even watching the vids just to be asses, my answer to them, block em and forget them. I'm still a great deal stressed and worried bout everything, I guess that's normal eh? Thus is life. I'm worried bout how I'm going to talk to Luke about everything going on right now and i'm worried bout money too, story of my life, always something to worry bout. I ended up dumping out anything I had in the house that could be used to OD on, so it's not there to tempt me, just a precaution I take every time I get overly depressed, better safe then sorry I guess. I'm hungry as hell right now....at least my ssi check come in tommorrow, cause I really need to eat something besides tuna...i been living off tuna for the last week.... Anyways, yea, that's my rambling, lke I said, you really didn't have to read this... Current Mood: confused (Comment on this)
Friday, July 28th, 2006
2:40 pm	Love Just a poem, things I would never have the guts to say in person: In your arms my pain disappears I think only about you My angel besides me Wishing time would stop Praying we never have to part Comfort that is so rare to me I think only about you Your gentle embrace Your lips against mine When you smile When you laugh It makes me dread the morning light The time when you leave Every time we part I cry Wishing you were still here Wishing I could go with you But I know I cannot This is love I have no doubt It's so new to both of us You were so alone before we met I wait for you to return I know you will But the days inbetween are hell When we are apart I miss you every moment Waiting to see you Waiting to be in your arms I know you'll return But I am empty without you My heart My love My angel I'll always love you Because in you I find hope In you I find the strength to go on You may not realize you mean so much But you do No matter how hard life gets Always remember this: I will always love you. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And if Luke ever finds this online, i'm going to die of embarrassment XD Current Mood: loved (6 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, July 27th, 2006
4:51 pm	Depression sucks ass I'm so fucking depressed again...I might end up loseing my home, and I'm so scared, I don't want to be on the streets again, I can't live like that anymore....... I feel like I'm walking dead, like my soul and heart is hollow, like I have no purpose, maybe I should just end it? Not like anyone would miss me, and it would be a relief from this so-called life I live........Yea, some life, disabled, unable to think striaght half the time...I have also noticed something, when I have a stable home, i have no one to love, but as soon as i fall in love with someone, i end up homeless again, life just lines up that way for me it seems, i'm tired of it, i just want it to stop....if i lose my home again, i'm just going to end this hell, my life isn't worth it, my daughter would be better off if she never knows me, some good of a mother i am huh? i had to give my duaghter to someone else. why? because my fucking ass is too damned poor to feed myself, much less feed her and me. And can i help the fact that i'm poor? NO, bi-polor and Post tramatic stress NEVER go away...and why do i have these disorders? because my no godd peice of shit father abused me as a child!! and i don't mean minor abuse either, i mean the mother fucker shot at me, threw knives at me, i still have fucking scars from it!!! man, i just want to fucking die, fuck this world, fuck this misery...i just want it to end, simple as that....now just to find the most effective over the counter meds to overdose with..since that would be the least painful way to go.... Current Mood: depressed (Comment on this)
Saturday, July 22nd, 2006
11:55 pm	AK!!!!! OK, I forgot I had an account on here......I have nothing to put right now so I'm just saying hi. (2 Comments |Comment on this)