A few irrelevant and pointless comments...

Julian,

Are you the same Julian Silverman who authored "Pariah Beats" in
NewInternationalist? (I used to be a Communist, until I discovered the
CPUSA's Central Commitee was riddled with cranky Stalinist leftovers,
not Marxists. And they wanted me to pay dues with a CREDIT CARD, for
chrissakes!)

Igliashon,

I wouldn't worry overmuch about petrochemical-based CDs; instead, I
encourage you to have nightmares about the VERY
environmentally-unfriendly, heavy-metal toxins and other tastey poisons
in your non-recyclable PC -- which is otherwise petrochemically based as
well. (BTW, the ghosts of several murdered trees haunt your new guitar.)

Carl,

It's my misfortune I'm not a serious musician, instead of a com-poseur
with delusions of musicality -- so I'm forced to use ZeBox out of
overwhelming shame and profound feelings of inferiority. (Much wailing
and gnashing of teeth.)

Mr. Cage,

I'm stealing your masterpiece, 4' 33", and re-performing it as a work of
my own entitled, "Pretentious Duet for Unplayed Piano and Bored
Audience". Genius is where you find it.

:-D

Note: This post may contain trace amounts of humor, or perhaps humour --
I'm not sure which.