Ben,

May I compliment you? Not necessarily for deciding to go back to OurStage, per se. I do think that they may be the best site of that type. I am not sure what all the negative hype is about My Space, other than the aforementioned arbitrary friends requests. There is, apparently, something going on there regarding Indie artists that I am not aware of. So, I cannot comment intelligently on that. I'll have to look at that.

However, what I wanted to compliment you on was the fact that it is difficult for most folks to do an intelligent reevaluation of a position they have taken on any issue and then decide reconsider that position after looking through the information they have. When someone makes a public statement on a position they hold about anything important and then publicly say that they have changed their position after further evaluation, that says a lot about their character.

I don't call it eating crow. I call it simply exercising your rational judgment, as you see it, and responding to it accordingly. As I said, it's not that you decided to to reenter the OurStage arena that I compliment...it is that you are bold enough to say, publicly, that you are willing to to reconsider your position. Not a lot of folks would do that...particularly in a public forum. My hat is off to you!

Good luck with your song next month.

Alan