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something of a historical footnote
Tuesday, May 23 2000
Corynna was visiting tonight, getting a massage from her understudy Kim. We sat around talking about various things afterwards.
Dealing with nosy mothers, the sort who go poking for information and then freak out about the things they find, was high on the agenda of things to discuss. Corynna told the tale of how her mother gradually mellowed about Corynna's racy sex-centered lifestyle, starting with Corynna's intitial entrance into the sex industry at the age of 16 and continuing on into tantra and online erotica. It's getting awfully hard to maintain this journal with Kim's 50s-era mother hanging on every word.
For dinner, Kim went to the Bicycle Shop to dine with Corynna and Evan. I stayed home, being the hard working no-free-time slave that I have unwittingly become.
Just to see what all the fuss is about, I downloaded some Britney Spears via Napster. I haven't had a chance to listen to any of it yet, but obviously I fully intend to delete the offending MP3s the moment I've heard them. If I actually like the music, I'll buy the Britney Spears CD at the highest price I can find in Beverly Center. This has been a paid advertisement courtesy of RIAA.
Actually, to tell you the truth, published CDs are still more interesting, convenient and reliable than Napster-nabbed MP3s. The other day I downloaded an MP3 purporting to be an obscure cover by Nirvana of the Metallica song "Enter Sandman." But when I went to listen to it, it turned out to be a goofy little home-produced diddy urging me to suck someone's dick. Some day soon, of course, a thousand MP3s will fit in a pocket watch which will be able to beam them to any stereo or computer. At that point all anti-copy hysteria will be, well, something of a historical footnote.
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