Schizopherenic track listing

I don't remember seeing this anywhere, but I may be wrong, if it's been out there before this then skip over this entry.

1. Some Girls (Dance With Women)
2. She Got Me
3. 100 Ways
4. Build My World
5. Something Special
6. If You Were My Girl
7. Shake It
8. All Day Long I Dream About Sex
9. One Night Stand
10. Come To Me
11. Dear Goodbye
12. Everything You Want
13. Lose Myself
14. Right Here (By Your Side)
15. Blowin' Me Up (With Her Love)
16. Some Girls (Dance With Women) feat. Dirt McGirt - rap version


No word yet on if there will be a DVD released with this, as has been happeneing so often lately.

Not bad, 16 tracks total, three more than Justin's, although one is a remix.

Pop fans read this book!!

It's entertaining, easy to understand and VERY informative.

All You Need To Know About The Music Business by Donald S.Passman.

He's a big-time music industry attorney. This book is on it's fifth edition in the past 10 years or so.

He gives the skinny on everything on how to break into, and maintain, a career in the music industry. For the artist.

Part One: Your Team of Advisors
How to Pick a Team
Personal Managers
Business Managers
Attorneys
Agents

Part Two: Record Deals
Broad-Strokes Overview of the Record Business
Advances and Recoupment
Real-Life Numbers (very interesting chapter)
Other Major Deal Points
Producer and Mixer Deals
Advanced Record Deal Points
Advanced Royalty Computations
Loan-out, Independents Production, LAbel, and Distribution Deals

Part Three: Songwriting and Music Publishing
Copyright Basics
Publishing Companies and Major Income Sources
Secondary Publishing Income
Sogwriter Deals
Copublishing and Administration Deals
Advanced Copyright Concepts
Even More Advanced Copyright Concepts

Part Four: Group Issues
Groups

Part Five: Touring
Personal Appearances - Touring

Part Six: Merchandising
Tour Merchandising
Retail Merchandising

Part Eight: Music and New Technologies


In the royalties part, he explains how a new artist (say Jason Mraz or John Mayer) on his first album going gold doesn't make what we think he makes. A CD priced $18.98 that sells 500,000 copies, will give the artist $40, 250. And not all at once, either. With Universal releasing new artists at a price point of $10.99, that means the artist is getting screwed.

Go to Borders, pull up once of those comfy chairs and a Mocha and read this for an hour or so, it's fascinating. It's easy to see how someone can be royally screwed in this business.

Gay fiction

A list for ssecca01, since he asked. Not all inclusive, as I don't have access to my old collection, this is just the stuff I currently have or can remember.

Francesca Lia Block's Baby Be-Bop part of the Weetzie Bat series, sort of a mystical young-adult novel.

Robert Rodi's Closet Case Humor, farce, misunderstandings, secrets, more humor.

William Storandt's The Summer They Came a light fun summer-read

Armistead Maupain's Tales of the City and it's sequels. Seventies San Francisco, an ensemble cast, mysteries, romance, drama. Excellent story.

William Taylor's The Blue Lawn Australian high school boys discover love and angst.

Alex Sanchez's Rainbow Boys and it's sequel Rainbow High , three HS boys dealing with their sexuality, one out, one not yet out and one deeply closeted. Romantic.

Kate Walker's Peter another Aussie book, a 15 year-old finds himself attracted to his older brother's friend. Sweet.

Patricia Nell Warren's The Front Runner and it's sequels. Groundbreaking book, basically a gay romance novel. Still, well written. College track coach deals with an Olympic level runner and their feelings for one another.

Christopher Rice's A Denstity of Souls Anne Rice's son, he's not a bad author, this one's a mystery.

Michael Chabon's The Adventures of Kavalier and Klay one of the main characters is gay, a book about the comic-book industry. Parallels the Superman mythos extremely loosely. Behind the scenes. Won the Pulitzer.

Mercedes Lackey's Herald Mage series, Magic's Pawn, Magic's Promise and Magic's Price. High Fantasy. Romantic, gothic, fun to read. Angst galore.

I like the essay collection's of David Sedaris (especially his Holidays on Ice Christmas collection. He's gay, but not all of his essays deal with, or even mention it. Unlike Michael Thomas Ford's essays. All of them deal with being gay on some level or another. Both are damn funny writers.

Still on the humor vein, Growing Up Gay by The Funny Gay Males.

And I admit to a weakness for Gordon Merrick and his collections, especially Perfect Freedom and it's sequels and The Lord Won't Mind and it's sequels. Pure romantic claptrap. Of the wost kind. Krantz and Collins, eat your hearts out. Guilty pleasures.

Other authors: Jim Grimsley writes grim stories extremely well, Steve Berman has a collection of dark fantasy (very gothic, nice), Paul Rudnick has some humorous ones, Fred Hunter writes toungue-in-cheek mysteries, Mary Stewart writes historical novels and there's always Tim Barela's comic strip colelctions of Leonard and Larry.

Anyone have other suggestions?