First off I must get this out of the way: retainers suck! They are the most evil torture device devised by mankind. Not only do they make you feel funny but you can't talk. They hurt going in and out and they make you take them out to eat or brush your teeth (5x the pain right there). And if you lose them they are $150 to replace (per).

Braces: $1500.
Retainer: $300.
Five "Fun" Years of Pain: Priceless... oh wait nevermind thats $1800 (hey at least I get a free cup eh?)!

Ok so I'm watching The Two Towers today. It's quite a good movie even despite book-movie descripencies and the fact that it kind of drags on. Overall the music out of the first and second is some of my favorite music out there. It makes you feel a certain way just by listening to it. And it kind of grows on you. There's sad stuff and happy stuff, real dark and evil stuff and then some care-free stuff. There's some parts that just make you feel like the movie is epic and something really important is going on and everyone in it are very brave and etc.

Speaking of music, there's this whole thing with these RIAA people going on y'know? Personally: I don't think they should sue people that download. What good is that going to do? If I have 5 gigs of music do you think I'm going to stop just because you sue a 14-year old girl? Nope, that's just going to make me do it MORE. Sure, it might scare off some people but not everyone. The best way in my opinion to do it: go to the companies for support and help. Say I don't like that my music is being distributed, can you make a way so people can't do that anymore or something similar. The RIAA wouldn't be so big and evil in the eyes of everyone if they just tried working things out instead of sueing little girls all willy-nilly (yes, I said it, willy-nilly...). On the other end of the spectrum how is downloading something off of Kazaa any different from turning to your favorite radio station and recording a song and then listening to it whenever you want? Remember, the folks at the RIAA are saying that if you download off Kazaa you're not "hearing it the way the artist ment for it to be heard". Seriously though, CDs shouldn't cost $20. Hopefully after they take $3,000+ off of everyone CDs won't cost as much.

Apple's new service seems pretty cool to me (and the best out of all the ones I've seen). $1 for a song. That seems pretty fair and at least that way I don't have to buy 19 3-minute recordings of RANDOM CRAP and one 3-minute recording of AWSOME GOODNESS for $20, instead I can bypass the crap and get the good stuff (and nothing but it). Only downside: they're getting sued by the Beatles music company (which has the same name). Evidently they agreed that the Apple we know would always be computers and no music and now they're mad that they changed their minds or whatever. I really don't care. I mean, I just don't. America would be so much better if no one could sue one another. I'm planning on getting one of the newer iPods soon. I think I'll hold out untill I get my new computer with a USB 2.0 slot though. Anyone wanna comment about them? I've done some reasearch and everyone says they're really nice. I guess I'll see eventually.

And then there's that hurricane, that spinning, natural, non-tornado vortex-'o-doom. What fun, I can already tell. (Hey that reminds me how come they don't name tornadoes? Or blizzards and other natural dissasters for that matter? Volcanoes get names but earthquakes don't? No volcanoe ever busted up L.A. that's for sure!)

That's all for today! (I promise this time!)