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Coldplay Bipassed EMI's Marketing Department Big article in the New York Times today about how Guy Hands' takeover of EMI is going. (Not well.) Interesting with lots of details for those who can stand a glimpse inside the proverbial hotdog factory. You can read it here: EMI’s New Boss Sees Cracks in Music World Especially interesting is that it mentions how the potential Coldplay strike was resolved. (And probably why this campaign seems so much less impersonal and corporate than the X&Y campaign was.) which probably rankles quite a bit because:

"As if to illustrate his point, the singer then responded to a question about the album title Viva la Vida (borrowed from a painting of watermelons in a bowl by Mexican artist Frida Kahlo) by joking: 'We've always wanted to have nice melons as inspiration.' I light-heartedly chided his 'sexist joke about Frida Kahlo'." Hey if he says it was lighthearted I'll take his word for it. But it really didn't come across that way.

Heh... best video EVER. :D

Yeah, because farting aliens giggling about making a stink in Downing Street is ever so serious. :P Or how about all the jokes about the guy who's head opened by snapping his fingers. Or Captain Jack anything. And that's just the first season. Doctor Who has been farcical since day one. It was the first thing I noticed about the show, sometime around when they wheeled Cassandra out for the first time. RTD episodes are especially farcical on a whole other level- it's just the way he writes. He likes his scifi a little over-the-top. (And most of the crazy elements in other scripts are RTD tweaks too, if you listen to the commentaries.) Even what I've seen of the old days of Who had plenty of farce- right down to a silly "I am the walrus" joke. Honestly, all scifi has to have at least a little silly humor or else it gets too dark to bear. I adored that episode. I couldn't even breath by the end of it I was laughing so hard. Nice bit of clever fun before things got really intense- sort of like the adipose right before Pompey blew up. Not to mention it was fun seeing Who played out as an Agatha Christie story rather than having to conform to it's own structure all the time. And I'm not the only one who thinks so. She said back when the season started that she was only going to be doing the one season.

:laugh3: The more things change, the more they stay the same. :thinking: *sigh* ...And this boys and girls, is why we shouldn't listen to trolls or believe a word they say. They were saying Coldplay sucks for AROBTTH, and they say Coldplay sucks now. :smart:

So they're SURE that they're actually beavers this time and someone didn't go dumping some unfortunate groundhogs in a river. :P

^Yeah, I went through the same thing when I was around here for X&Y. It ruins your enjoyment of the album if you aren't careful. I just pick which threads and posts I read and respond to carefully. Because as much as I'd like to yell back at some people, it really honestly isn't worth the energy, and will make no difference in the long run.

Chocolate. Definitely chocolate. And music, when it's good and I like it. I go a little bibbledy when I go too long without hearing something new.

Welcome. :nice: the more the merrier. P.S. Your username made me laugh. :laugh3: (In a good way, I mean.)

*group hug* Deep breath people... sometimes a little bit of distance is a good thing- pay too much attention to all that stuff up there, and there won't be any space left in your brain for anything useful.

It could be a blackfly bite. I'm somewhat allergic to both mosquito and blackfly bites. The mosquito ones I can take an antihistamine for, but blackfly bites get all big and itchy and sore even with an antihistamine. Reactine seems to be the only thing that works on them.

100 000 a day... it should beat it easily. Probably around 500 000 for the week.

Yay Fran! :nice:

^ :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3: Oh the things we miss over here.

http://www.thisishampshire.net/display.var.2342660.0.coldplay_surge_to_top_of_album_charts.php edit: leave it to me to forget to refresh before posting. Still, great news.

24,902! We've broken the top 25,000.

"We musn't look at goblin men"... :stunned: First my nightmare and now my favorite poem. Total co-incidences I know, but it still feels like they've been rooting around in my head an awful lot this season. *shivers* Brilliant episode though. Freaky. The best RTD has ever written for sure. And now for the home stretch... ^ Yep I've seen it. :nice:

I've often wondered if he is myself, but I don't really think so- his lows aren't really that low (at least not publicly) and he shifts from one extreme to the other much faster than any bipolar I've ever known. Actually he really reminds me of a friend of mine who can be extreme up or down on a second by second basis. Lots of fun to be around until the inevitable meltdown hits. But then it's over a minute later. Some people have jokingly referred to her as being "bipolar on speed" just because the transitions are so extreme and so fast. I think he's just really, really high strung- which big medical condition or not is not something someone just gets over on a whim. If he wasn't so sensitive I don't think he could write the way he does- it's the creator's curse- some people can't turn it off and on, and they need it to be on to do anything.

ET go home...PLEASE. :laugh3:

FIGWIT!!!! :nice: It really is so weird seeing them get so much attention all of a sudden. I have a live copy of that 'humans are dead' song from 5 or 6 years ago. Used to think it was the most hilarious thing ever, but every time I would get someone to listen to it, they would just give me a funny look and shrug. Now all of a sudden, 5 years later, all sorts of people are randomly quoting that exact song. (Well, some of the words are slightly different now, but still...).

:shocked2::sick::laugh3::(:thinking::sneaky::\ :lol: :lol: :lol: Or he could have just been having a sugar crash from too much chocolate. :thinking:

There were some good questions in an intellectual sense. But think of the last time you had to write a really painful book report for school and the teacher wanted you to write about all sorts of obscure metaphors and meaning you didn't see there or that even outright contradicted what you though the book was about. (I was an english major... saw a lots of it.) Now imagine it was your own book. Mega awkward. He was asking those sorts of questions about Coldplay lyrics. Some songs can stand up to that, but not Coldplay ones, not the way Chris writes them.

I know. It's so no fair. :(:laugh3:

^The guy doing the interview was a stuffy prick who didn't get Chris at all and apparently hadn't listened to the album. Maybe it would have been better if Chris had stayed in spite of all that, but with all the pressure and his high-strung personality I really can't blame him for leaving. Not that any of the stories seems to be doing a very good job at getting the stuffy prick part across, unfortunately. :dozey:

Arcade Fire - Rebellion Lies They had radio stations playing that a lot during visits on the last tour.