The Making of the CD:
*Warning:* This page is only for people who bought the CD. If you have not, please cover your eyes while viewing the page. Well, I guess that this part isn't really all that secret. Okay, okay, read on, brother.



----Well, wouldn't you know it . . . the story still seems to have no end. At least none that I can see yet. And so the saga continues . . . (hazy dream sequence returns)

----Our story continues with Wesley, simply because he is the only one with enough spare time on his hands to look after producing the CD. Well, not exactly. Let's put it this way, he's the only one that's odd enough to enjoy spending all of his spare time producing the CD. Yeah, that's better. So, how is it that you make a CD? You buy a CD burner, and lots of CD's, and jewel cases, and the finally realize that you're in debt.

----Now, this realization doesn't have to come so slowly. No, no no, one could look into the future and plan out what one needs to buy, make a list in order of importance and relevance, then build and balance a budget or some kind of shmuck like that, but that kinda thing is for millionaires and university students. Yeah, that's just . . . oh yeah, student.

----Once you have successfully made a bunch of CD's, and worked your way into debt, the next step is obvious: panhandle. Okay, just kidding. Maybe you will run out of money if you do this, but that's always a risk that you have to take. This is a sad fact of our world today. To get money, no matter how much you want (enough to go on tour, let's say, for the sake of reason), or what you want to do with it (umm, to go on tour, just for consistency's sake), you have to spend it first. That is just the way that our capitalistic society works. So, what do you do with that? Work with it!

----Now, if I'm starting to sound like that over-caffeinated motivational speaker that came to your high-school in grade 11 and told you that some day you're going to own the world in your own little way by achieving the seemingly impossible dream just by dreaming it, and related it all somehow to a banana in a way that you thought only the hypnotist that came to the school the month before could make someone understand, stop that train of thought right there. The fact is, no matter what you dream, and how much you believe it, the world likes to eat up people with good intentions. If you have good intentions, and want to be rich, that's not the way the world works. Good intentions should lead to humble actions, leave the riches for the rich and the worldly, my friend.

----Where was I . . . oh yes, in front of my computer. And not only that, telling you how to make CD's, and sell them too. The first thing you need, is a good album cover. A cover that catches the eye and says "I'm not giving you back your eye until you buy me!" Now, that can be very difficult. Do not take this part lightly. Find someone who can make one of this, or if you have confidence in yourself that wasn't given to you by the banana-man motivational speaker, do it yourself.

----Once you have an eye-catching cover to your CD (and music inside that doesn't induce vomiting), you can really start selling. What you also must consider in the midst of all of this is how much you want to sell the CD for. If you use high quality printing, and hire a supermodel to leave lipstick marks on each one, and pay an international distribution agency to sell millions of them around the world, then it will be pretty expensive. Wheras if you use black and white printing, and sell them out of your beat up, rusty '88 S-10 pick-up, then you can sell them for \\$5 and still turn a simple profit (hmm . . . like us).

----How do you sell large enough quantities of CD's to pay off all of the debt that you have aquired? Now here's a real interesting one. You don't. Instead, buy T-Shirts and sell them to make the money back. Now, I know what you're thinking, "How could someone possibly fit their entire fist inside their mouth?" Now, trust me, my friend, it can be done. You just have to have faith that what you're doing is the right thing in God's eyes, and to constantly check and see if it is before you do it. It's really going out on a limb, but you have to do that sometimes. Just in case you got confused, I'm not still talking about putting your fist in your mouth.

----Now, in this day and age, to reach people on a large scale, you need to be noticed. It's hard to get noticed without people thinking that you're doing it for all the wrong reasons. Also, it's hard to do it for all the right reasons once you've finally been noticed. Therin lies the paradox of human nature conflicting with the will of God (well, it's not the entire paradox, but a good representation of it). It's like if you go back in time and kill your grandfather, will you be born? Although it would make for an awefully interesting episode of Jerry Springer, there just isn't any answer.

----As long as you've given it your all, with God's help, in the end you have won, no matter how much money you've lost. If you are working for God and in His will, there are no two ways about it; God will use you.

----Well, I suppose that that is about all that is left of this crazy little story for now, unless I go into boring and useless detail. If you want that, then just e-mail us. The story goes on, and so do we. Keep checking back, because God is the only thing that stays the same. There is always a new story to be told.

----Until then, have fun in the playgound, even when the children laugh at you. It shouldn't matter how old you are to play in a playgound. Everyone needs to from time to time. Most of all, drink plenty of liquids and keep God #1. -V2