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Day late, oh well. [friday five]
1. How many times have you truly been in love?
3.
2. What was/is so great about the person you love(d) the most?
The fact that no matter how badly we can end up fighting, we always forgive each other within a few hours.
3. What qualities should a significant other have?
Caring, compassionate, sense of humor in line with your own, and good snuggling skills.
4. Have you ever broken someone’s heart?
Sadly, yes.
5. If there was one thing you could teach people about love, what would it be?
Be patient with those you love.

Everyone knows that since DDR Extreme came out, the whole “LEGEND OF _____” joke has been beaten to death. I never had any interest of jumping on the bandwagon, and quite honestly, I still don’t – but coincidence is a strange thing.
So Katie and I were down at Hollywood Video on Thursday night, and after snagging About Schmidt, I’m digging through the new releases, and I see Porn Star: The Legend Of Ron Jeremy. Now, I had heard about this documentary months ago, and like everyone else on the planet, I knew I had to see it. So we rented it.
(An aside: It’s very good. Go rent it.)
Now I’m sitting at my desk today, which as usual is a mess with a ton of DVDs and various other pieces of junk all over it. This includes the case for the aforementioned movie – because Katie and I pop in DVDs as we try to get to sleep. I look at the case, and I notice that the sticker from Hollywood Video is blocking the title of the movie in such a way that…

…you get THE LEGEND OF REMY.
Kooky shit.

Derek Silvers, the president of CDBaby, was invited to the Apple indie-label presentation about the iTunes Music Store the other day, and he’s posted a lot of details that are pretty interesting to read. Such details include:

• Over 75% of the songs have sold at least once.
• 90% of sales are 1-click downloads.
• Apple is averaging 500,000 sales a week.
• There is no cost to put your music on iTunes, and there’s no up-front advance from Apple.
• All sales are reported to SoundScan, on a song-by-song basis.
• Apple won’t accept money for placement (although exclusive tracks certainly help).
• The independents are being offered the same deal as the majors.
• Top seller charts only reflect the last 24 hours(!)
• Apple pays every month.
• EVERY artist will get listed in new releases if they put something new in.
• Google is offering exclusive discounts for sponsored links into iTunes.
• Artists without a label have to go through an iTunes partner, they can’t do it themselves.

I hate this; every time I read or hear more about how this is working, I get insanely starry-eyed. I still haven’t seen Apple make a move that makes the IMS less appealing than any record store we have in town.
How is it that one company can have their shit together so well? And how is it that that one company is Apple?