Everyone has earbuds these days, but sometimes you'd like something a little more. At Arpix there sound coming from three different places at a time on a busy day so we've had to shop for headphones of late. I had some Sennheisers that i loved for over 25 years and that just tells you what a quality product is worth, but they finally bit it...

Cut to the search...and Chris fell for some other brand that I though were just ok, but he and Andrea said they dug. Ok, but I think I've since found the best value out there; the Koss HR-40 cups. Beyond the great sound - first in the requirements bag - is their incedibly light weight on the head. That's what I loved about my Senn's most, and I have that again.

Next is the price. Less than $50 at Radio Shack. Ouch!!! You can't afford to not have a pair of these.

Live concerts are too long. If you were to follow me around when I go to see a live act, you'd find that i can handle about two or three songs of most concerts. Sure, sometimes its because it just sucks so badly that I have to leave, but that's not what I'm wishing for.

No, a best scenario is that I love what I'm hearing and seeing, but if I get too much information in my head it all just blends together like a stew, and my memory of the event sort of disappears! My preference is a shorter set that I can really recall at a later date.

Sometimes I'll see a band and be loving it so much that I just can't bear to stay too long for fear of it all turning into mush. I wish more artists would perform shorter sets.

Let's face it, unless an artist has had a ton of hits, a fifteen song set is way overkill.

Here's one I live by in the world for composing music for film - the first thing you do is get it done on time and then you can make sure it's good.

There's no point in a great score if it shows up late to the mix. The train is leaving the station tomorrow and, if you're not on it, it will leave without you. Except if you're not on the train, then you actually hold up everyone else on that train, including the broadcaster, producer, and the hundreds of others depending on getting the show done done done.

So, in the "beware of your dreams they may come true" department, if one wishes to get a gig to compose the music for a TV show, that person must accept the responsibility to be a self starter who understands their own limitations, including how long it will take them to think about, concoct, write, record, gain approval on, mix, and deliver from 20 to 40 minutes of score for a project. And they must agree and follow up on delivering in the time allotted to the act.

Often this time is less than two weeks. Sleep when you're dead, have a writing partner or someone to feed and bathe you...or simply put a bullet in the plan to take the job. There are too many professional lives at stake to screw with the system.

Writing music for film and tv is not for the faint at heart. Nobody cares how talented you are if you don't deliver. It's just one more harsh reality of the game.

There I was doing some housecleaning of some bookmarks this week and I discovered once again that site after independent site dropping like flies.

Just one big for instance is iuma.com - evidently gone in the night since 2006. But there are so many more - lists of lists, links to sites, etc. And others have been sold and re-opened or forwarded to their new owners' sites. dotbomb1.0 continues. Exactly how popular IS ArtistDirect these days??

Even the once might AltaVista forwards to the once mighty Yahoo. It's a shame, and it's the way things work.

One day we'll be saying the same thing about MySpace.