Lesson 7

Musicophelia says on page 94 that motor cortex can show changes within minutes of practicing such sequences. That is absolutely astounding to me. It is said that you keep your mind "sharp" with mental exercises, puzzles, etc. The book basically validated that and it is very sobering to think of the physical literal changes taking place in our brains at all times.
It also makes me despair again for the child on my case load with uncontrollable seizures that is actually in the past four months or so regressing (let's be honest, he couldn't exactly do much to begin with). He has now lost the ability to roll over- he used to roll like a tumbleweed. Is this reversable? I just think of the lightning sparks in his brain and I wonder how much is left undamaged at this point.
What to do?
Very frustrating being his therapist, I'll tell you that.
On page 148, Dr. Sacks mentions a reconstruction of function, so I guess I can hope.

So..... lesson 7
-freepress- The article entitled, ask yourself why... cable rates got so high was highly entertaining. It strikes me that these kinds of bribes are illegal in the pharmeceutical world. Who polices this?
And about the a la cart cable, I have been asking for this for years. I was told that they consider all premium channels a la carte. We have a big cable monopoly up here. One company-which everybody I know hates. I have satellite and I love them.
the next site was interesting,

-downhill battle- about apple tunes. This was depressing. I want to hear about positive people doing good things, all these people are so negative! I enjoyed reading about the musiclink.com and cutting out the middleman and actually told several people about it this week.

-full sail- I had no idea this existed, Great site. This looks terrific!

-taxi- Advertising + Resources. Awesome!
This looks really clever. Their FAQ's are great. Answered a lot of questions. You pay about $300 a year and $5 a song. It seems to me like an investment that would be worth it.

-music business solutions- I don't like this.
looks more like an infomericial. This looks like a smaller shop although they do tell you who they are at least...

-music big academy- I like the blogs. You can never have too much information about the legal things.

-google audio processing- I don't know how many people would be interested in this...
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-music xml- I don't even know what this is. It's a recent site. The about us tells me about the people, it still does not tell me about the company.

-Gnod- I want to talk-- but I don't want to log in!!!! AND it knocked me off!! Very uncool.
So again, I had a good time playing with bands and again I am bemused as to how they link music. I don't even know the people that this site is recommending I listen to. But,, I dutifully write them down on my ever growing list. Boy am I going to have a lot to listen to in the fall when I have NO SCHOOL!!