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i've spent a good portion of the day watching the live 8 re-runs, being as i was at a graduation party last weekend and missed the broadcast. it fills me with such an indescribable feeling to watch music in it's most basic form: to heal, to comfort, to entertainment and to make a change. i had chills and tears in my eyes so often during the broadcast, because it's just so innately good and notable. it's so incredible that music can be used as such a powerful tool outside of the individual experience. it fills me with some sort of hope that i won't be journeying into some unrecognizable and misguided land in 6 months, and that hopefully i can be involved in something creative and ground-breaking and beneficial. i would love to plan charity and action concerts, or at least help to do so at some point, if possible. it's just so funny that people everywhere can busy themselves with being music "snobs" and talking about music in such an elitist context when it's so obvious that none of that matters, at all. and that marketing and artist development and independent promotion are primarily what matters, and that music just can't be good, and sell itself without bells and whistles. i'm going to stop my diatribe now, but in closing, i'm so happy that live 8 was successful, i finished "charlie and the chocolate factory" for the 2nd time in anticipation of the movie, and i get to see the kittens again in a week.