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Since I was young, I knew I was goyin to be someone important and rich. That’s why I’m goyin to join this MLM. If I want a rich life, I am going (going?) to have to start thinking on my toes. That’s why Goyin will be my life’s focus for the next couple hours.

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For all of you reader who has been dying to find out how the Country Music Genome Project has been going, I apologize. I’ve been cheating. I’m going to start over; start date is TBA.

Why Have I Been Weak, You Ask?

You know that Office episode where Dwight gets a concussion and so becomes kind of cool for most of the episode? Well that Russian mp3 site that sells songs for $.10 actually is pretty sweet. I was officially introduced to it by my friend Ali and it is pretty sweet. Too much new music for me to stick with Country this week.

I’ve already received criticism for using this site. The truth is that technically this method of music aquisition is legal, although if we are to be honest with ourselves it is no more ethical than peer to peer sharing. We are essentially buying music that’s already been stolen by people in a country with different copyright laws. Explaining it this way makes this method of music aquisition even more counter-intuitive.

For me personally, I am willing to pay $1.64 for an album that I can download and assimilate into my iTunes library in 10 minutes. With peer-to-peer apps I’ve used (which I’ve been told are the out-of-date ones, so my opinion on this isn’t really the final word) I have trouble finding those hard-to-find tracks that were only released in Asia (just an example), and I often download files with defects, and it takes hours to add all the tags (album info, track numbers), etc etc. So anyway, I feel like my time is worth more than 1.64 an hour. But again, I think I was using lame peer-to-peer software.

Virtual Account Numbers

So anyway, This is the Russian Site I’ve been using. I also feel nervous about sending my credit card number over an unencrypted connection to Russia, so I downloaded Citibank’s temporary credit card number generator, aka aVirtual Account Number which allows you to make a one-time payment with a credit card online without giving out your real credit card number. The software from Citi is really easy and simple to use, I’m guessing most major card providers have the same software.

PS… two best aquisitions so far from the site: Planet Telex (Hexidecimal Mix), Remyxomatosis.

Starting tomorrow I am starting the Country Music Genome Project. This project’s mission is to discover the governing principles of country music and determine how it communicates with the cell structures of your average cowboy/cowgirl and how it can be responsible for illnesses such as the circulation problems that result from tight wranglers.

Scientific Method

One thing that Preston mentioned today that I’ve also wondered about is if we (in a general sense) like the music we listen to because its what we like, or if we like it because its what we listen to. Some can present the opinion that we like the music we listen to simply because we listen to it and not because we truly find aesthetic elements that we respond positively to. We for instance might begin listening to something because our environment and circumstances forces us to, and we end up liking that kind of music because of positive reinforcement.

That is why I will donate myself to science during the next calender week and listen only to country music. And of course I do like some forms of country, like John Prine and Gillian Welch, so I will have to stick with those elements of country that are not familiar to me and so will cause discomfort.

Purpose

I’m sincerely going to try to throw all of my prejudices away and use myself as litmus paper to see if I am a product of my environment or if my environment is a product of me. I was going to use gangsta rap, but I was afraid of the psychological reprocusions. Yes, yes, like for instance slapping around my bitches. There, I read your mind.

Hypothesis

This element of the scientific method is going to be impossible to include. If I decide on a hypothesis, I will be forming an opinion about what will happen. If I form an opinion, it will discredit the results because I am the test subject.

Control

Ok, well I think I will finally admit that there is no control, so this experiment really doesn’t follow the scientific method. I’m working with limited resources here.

Stay Tuned

I’m going to put a real effort into blogging about this everyday. This in itself is a bit of a science project since you, my faithful reader, know that I suck at writing on a regular basis.