Nobody loves no one

I was sitting in my room earlier today singing "Wicked Game" in my head and I started thinking about that last line in the song. "Nobody loves no one." As I thought about what Chris Isaak is saying with that line, I began to realize just how profound this line actually is. My main thought is that the line can work as one of those pessimist vs optimist paradoxes. Is the glass half empty or half full? Are we to take the line literally and believe that nobody loves no one, or in other words, everybody loves someone, or are we to think of it just as a poor use of a double negative? Nobody loves no one, or nobody loves anyone? Personally, I am a glass half full kind of guy most of the time. Kind of depends on what's in the glass too. If its Dr. Pepper, well then the glass is pretty much always just simply NOT FULL. But I also think there is more truth to the thought that everybody loves somebody. Even if you are a wretched evil jerk like Ebeneezer Scrooge, even he loved someone. Even more important, we are all capable of loving someone. Anyway, just something to chew on.

*WARNING - So I hadn't actually watched this video before I embedded it but I just did and be warned that there is an extremely hot semi-nude woman throughout and yes some slight boobity and bumity as well although not full fledged nakedness. All I can say is daayyyummm!

Pink Floyd sues EMI over single song downloads

Pink Floyd recently filed a law suit against EMI saying it had violated a contract which prohibits the studio from selling Pink Floyd's songs in any form outside of the context of the album. EMI said that offering the songs as single downloads on iTunes was not a violation of the contract because the contract was specifically in regards to physical versions of the band's works. Today Pink Floyd won the suit.

My feelings about this? Well as a Floyd fan I am happy about the outcome. I do feel the need to add a caveat to that reaction however due to the fact that I am one of the biggest critics of some of the bands who forced the Napster issue (like Metallica) and even went to the lengths of purposely downloading all of Metallica's music for free and vowing never to buy a Metallica product (which I temporarily broke in order to purchase Guitar Hero Metallica). But in this case I feel that there is a good and legitimate reason for Pink Floyd to not want their music sold outside of the context of the album's and for anyone familiar enough with Pink Floyd I think the reason is obvious. Pink Floyd did not write songs, they wrote albums. They perform albums. They do have songs that work as singles, but for the most part you can't listen to one without moving onto the next track. You can't listen to Pink Floyd on random without severely damaging the quality of the listening experience. So for that reason I adamantly support the band in their wishes.