Space Cadet

Ok, the tallies are in. There were a total of 278 eligible albums that received votes. Some albums were not eligible: Brains - Constant Love Forever - I couldn't find much about this album, but according to the band's own recent facebook postings they're still working on it for a 2011 release, and it may be EP length. If it leaked, the leak doesn't count. Florrie - Introduction EP - EP Local Natives - Gorilla Manor - 2009 UK release The Avett Brothers - I and love and you - 2009 Nightspring-Datura - The album may have been misnamed- the only references I could find to it were from this forum and forum-related discussions. For all I can tell it doesn't exist. Gorillaz - The Fall - The cutoff date was set at December 1st. This album is eligible next year. :inquisitive: Teen Daze - Four More Years This is an EP. But it's a 8 - track album length EP from what I can find, so I'm reluctantly letting it count.

Guys, I'm sorry, I had hoped to be more organized about this, but I have a really killer sinus cold and I'm getting very, very dizzy. I think I need to slow the pace down a bit. I'll post what I can of the lower numbers tonight as I get to them, and then I'll see if I can't try to put something special together for the top 30 or so tomorrow.

Ok, I'm still going to try to do it this afternoon/evening, but delaying it by an hour to get it finished first.

would later be better for people? or a different day? I'm hearing lots of it's a bad time and not many hooray I'll be theres... :shrug:

May have to delay the start time a bit if something I'm working on isn't done it time... (Durr... it's taking too long. :angry:)

For your information, our points system: Rank: Points: 1 - 500 2 - 425 3 - 375 4 - 325 5 - 300 6 - 275 7 - 250 8 - 230 9 - 210 10 - 200 11 - 190 12 - 180 13 - 170 14 - 160 15 - 150 16 - 145 17 - 140 18 - 135 19 - 130 20 - 125 21 - 120 22 - 115 23 - 110 24 - 105 25 - 100

Countdown this afternoon! I'll start the main countdown at about 3:00 EST (health permitting). It's going to be a traditional text-based countdown. Sorry, but I don't think anyone wants to hear my coughing and lizard voice. :sick2:

^yep.

I dunno guys, I'm halfway through compiling, and based on numbers of votes, there are some albums that were expected to do well that haven't gotten so many so far, and there are some albums that I haven't once heard mentioned that could do very well indeed. Anyone care to revise their predictions? :wink3:

Canadian political correctness gone mad. As usual. *sigh*

Ok, the countdown is happening this Sunday, rain or shine. Time and format will be announced when more is known.

True Grit (the new one) 9.5/10 Great movie. Amazing acting, amazingly well done.

Soonish, yes. Sunday at the latest.

I'd rather have something really artistic and unique that suited me. I would be a good way to show that they knew me if the 'got' the sort of thing I go for.

When I joined the class I just graduated with, there were about 15 or 20 people in it, and many had dropped out already. I finished with 7 other people. :blank:

I can move my big toes completely independently of the others, but the others still wiggle a bit in the opposite direction. :shrug:

Yep, every good relationship will have had times where one or both of the people in it "fell out of love". It's what you do about those times that determines what type of relationship you have. If you decide in those moments that the relationship is worth fighting for and work to make it work, then you'll get through the dry times and have a stronger relationship than you ever would have had without those times.

I don't think it is. I'm actually enjoying getting older. There are more advantages than disadvantages. It just means it's harder to fit in when the next generation starts taking over the forum. Most have, I think. It is very confusing. I used to be Erin a very, very long time ago, though I don't think we ever talked much.

I'm happy. It recently occurred to me that I've finally hit a point in my life where I've figured out who I am and what I want to do, and for the first time I feel really comfortable in my own skin. It's nice. :D

^Hooray, another familiar face! :nice:

Yep. Though the shooter sounds like your standard paranoid nutcase- which you can't reason with- I have been saying for a while now that if something doesn't drastically change in American politics, the way things are now is the beginning of the road to another civil war. In 30 to 60 years when the kids who grew up listening to their parents spout the sort of rhetoric that is going around are in charge and the last of the old hippies have died off, this sort of thing may lead to open armed conflict. This is the first shots. This seems like a very good time to take a hard look at where everyone is and change course, because right now you all look like the frogs in the proverbial pot- the water may not seem too warm yet, but it's heating up. From the outside, American political debate is starting to sound downright psychotic. It shouldn't be a surprise that it's setting off genuine psychopaths. (And for the record before anyone accuses me of conservative or liberal bias, I am saying this as an outsider- I don't have a party or a side and I think the left/right model of political discourse is inherently flawed, and in America's case potentially destructive.)

I always thought the first one was a stylized globe map with spiral embellishments on it. Sort of like they want to take over the world or something. It's pretty, whatever it is. But then I have a thing for spirals.

Round about late 2004- beginning of 2005 when I was completely and hopelessly obsessed with AROBTTH, my even more obsessed friend Joy started coming here for news about the new album and would tell me all about the things she saw on the forum. I started occasionally lurking here around February of 2005, got an account a few months later, and then started posting a few months after that. And have never left since. So that means I started lurking here about 6 years ago. :shocked2: Holy crap that's a long time. At least in internet time it's a long time. The web has completely changed around us. :lol: Blown up any small planets lately? I remember that thread :nice: Even if I never read it much or posted ever... Guess I thought it was where all the cool kids always posted and I didn't think I was worthy. Crazy that I'm one of the oldest ones around here now a lot of the time. Back in my n00b days I felt like I would never fit in with all these people who had known each other on here for so long. Yeah, I hate to sound like a whiner, but things really have changed so much around here, even in just the last year or so. But then things change a fair bit every six months-ish... it's bound to add up over time I guess. I just wish more of the people and groups I used to really like were still around. The average age of the people on the board stays the same but I just keep getting older.

I was baptized when I was about 8, in a river out in the country. It was my choice at the time, and though my parents were encouraging I knew I really wanted to be baptized. Since then I have been glad for it- being able to look back and know that I made my decision has gotten me through some pretty dark times in my life since then- the inevitable "dark nights of the soul". I have had my issues with various churches and general religiosity and stuff. I went through a phase where in retrospect I was actually quite angry with the state of organized religion for a while. But I guess having an active relationship with God has always been too important to me to abandon the church completely. As far as my personal beliefs about baptism, while there are now Catholics in the family and I'm trying to learn to be very respectful of their beliefs because I do really respect their faith, I'm definitely not catholic. I don't really believe in denominations, though I guess some people would describe me as somewhat baptist-ish. Although I can understand why questions of an infant's afterlife would bring about infant baptism (we have baby dedications instead), I believe that baptism was meant to be a very personal public proclamation of faith. It's a physical symbol that you are surrendering your life into God's hands- symbolically becoming a part of Jesus' death and resurrection as Paul puts it. So I do think it needs to be a personal choice that is made once the person is old enough to make that choice themself and to understand it. If a parent makes that choice for them, what is actually being demonstrated? The child's faith or the parents'? Without active conscious faith, baptism just becomes an empty forgotten symbol of childhood to be walked away from later, as many people in this thread have found out.

:laugh3: I just keep trying things until I hopefully someday find something I don't suck at. Which is silly because any instrument takes practice. But ADD and practice don't mix well. So I'll keep trying to practice my bass in the meantime, while always trying new things.