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Thanks Dave, that's exactly what I needed. :smiley:

Use layers. Put Thom on one layer and either erase around him very carefully if you have photoshop elements, or paint a layer mask over the white part if you have the full version of photoshop. Paint the background on a layer below the one he's on. And gradients are great for rainbow stripes if you can figure out how to make your own. edit: is this the idea you were thinking of? I can send you the photoshop file if you want to play around with it yourself...

:laugh3: So what does that make Radiohead then? A colour-shifting lava lamp?

Honour Roll of Ineligible Albums Since there has been some confusion over some 2006 or ineligible albums, I though I would make an honour roll of the ones that were so good people voted for them anyway. Please, P L E A S E, take a look and take these out of your lists. I'll be adding to this when I catch up with double checking the newest lists. 2006 Albums (going by the ORIGINAL release date, whether that was in the US or UK.) Amy Winehouse - Back to Black Charlotte Gainsbourg - 5:55 Chris Garneau - Music for Tourists Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards CSS - Cansei De Ser Sexy Patrick Watson - Close to Paradise Peter Bjorn and John - Writer's Block Scissors for Lefty - Underhanded Romance Silversun Pickups - Carnavas Albums with a Significant live Component Alice in Chains - Unplugged Flight of the Conchords - The Distant Future EP (I know I said this one was fine earlier. I'm very sorry, but I was wrong; I forgot it was partially live) Sigur Rós - Hvarf-Heim, Heima B-Side Collections, Previously Released Material, and Best Ofs David Gray - Greatest Hits Gorillaz - D-Sides The Killers - Sawdust Various Artists I'm Not There Soundtrack Have information that I missed about one of these albums? Please PM me with your research. Albums I need more information on: Kiki Pau - In Your Bedroom Vesta Varro - Exit Here

Yay Joy! Finally someone else rooting for Wintersleep. :nice: Thank you! I'm adding this to the blurbs list, if you don't mind. I'll have to check them out...

Thanks guys. I'm adding them to the master list now. Just remember you need at least 5 albums on your list, and they have to be original albums from 2007, so b-side collections like The Killers' Sawdust don't count. ;) Thanks.

So one crackpot has been brainwashed by how plastic Hollywood is, and people actually take this crap seriously? Overall, that article makes it sound like British women are much, much more healthy psychologically speaking. And generally, I prefer to watch older British actresses. They haven't plastic surgeried all expression out of their faces, so you can actually connect with their characters. Unlike their American counterparts. "In America, women start going to spas in childhood." And what strange foreign planet is this America you speak of on? " Even our celebrities can't get it right compared to the glamour of Hollywood. Helena Bonham Carter was an example of an English rose, says Safran, but she is regularly photographed looking like "a bag of spanners". You would never catch her American equivalent, Michelle Pfeiffer, with a hair out of place." And last time I checked, Helena Bonham Carter just got a Golden Globe nomination, because she's still a great ACTRESS. Haven't seen Michelle Pfeiffer in ages. (not to mention they have radically different hair types.)

:laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:!

:rolleyes: Chris spends a couple of months doing some intense studio work, and so isn't caught by paps for a while. Headline: Martin Marriage in Trouble! Divorce Imminent!!!! Chris says "Hi" to a couple of people on set (because he's friendly like that) Headline: Martin hosting wild parties in Paltrow's Trailer! Gwyneth Furious!!! He takes one evening off for dinner with friends. Headline: See above. :dozey: It's like there's a whole industry full of people who never got over staging soap operas with their Barbie dolls, so now they have to use celebrities instead.

He keeps coming to Halifax, people keep saying great things about those shows, and I keep missing him. I hate being broke. :sad:

Looks like the media's best of lists have begun: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22187795/ My guess is that Travis will finish above the Arcade Fire, possibly top 3. Just a hunch though. Arctic Monkeys' album was a bit too world weary for me in the end, but the Klaxons album is fantastic all the way through. Not a bad song on it imho, and I'm still listening to it all the time about 10 months later. Probably an acquired taste of a style, though. I meant to get PMs out about unfinished lists sooner, but am still tracking down the last few release dates. Quite a few albums were released in 2006. The first release date between the US and the UK is the one that counts. So Amy Winehouse's album was released in late 2006 in the UK, early 2007 in the US, and counts as a 2006 album. This would be the time to tidy up your lists once and for all!!!

Wish there was an easy way to get regular copies of the NME over here. I know, I know, it's the NME.... But still would be nice to have the option. ^Lucky you. :tongue:

Elizabeth Gaskell? I read a ghost story by her for one of my classes last year. It was quite good in that creepy victorian sort of a way.

You said that this morning, and yet here you are again. :dozey: Just out of curiosity, are you even capable of having a normal conversation?

Of course the real culprit is all the really nice, smart guys who prefer to date brainless pretty girls and just be friends with the smart pretty ones. :bomb:

:nice: This is my favorite. I hope it would be me, it's so perfectly content. :sneaky: This is me telling a joke. :mad: This is me when I'm having trouble concentrating.

In the land of the blind, the man with one eye is king... :blank:

I was wondering if there were any fans of the band 'Sons and Daughters' out there. I heard their album 'The Repulsion Box' not too long ago, and now I'm addicted. It's such a great album from start to finish. :nice: I think I heard that they had another album coming out? Does anyone know anything about that? Anyway, great band. Listen if you haven't. :cool: edit- myspace: http://www.myspace.com/sonsanddaughters

Just stuffed mine in an email. :nice: Hope it's not too late. Goodness, my memory is terrible these days.... :thinking:

^both added. And not late after all. :D

Start with the Bends, and go chronologically. (Bends, OK Computer, Kid A, Amnesiac, Hail to the Thief). In Rainbows is one of their most direct albums, so you can probably listen to that any time. (And the free download is only for a few more hours) Actually, it's sort of the album that makes all the other albums make sense- it gets all the different styles they've used over the years working together. Actually, I started with OK Computer and that worked fine. Kid A and Amnesiac might be a little bit harder to get into at first unless you already have a bit of a thing for electronica. Just don't expect to 'get' it all right away. These songs take time.

Suddenly I have the impression that this explains a lot. :thinking: :laugh3: Well, listen to Parachutes and pretend later stuff doesn't exist, at least. Much healthier than starting a thread like this. Though I have enjoyed the conversation, actually. This will be an interesting thread to come back to once lp4 is out and everyone's thoughts have changed again. :nice: p.s. check your pm's...

It's all fun and games untill someone loses an eye. :rolleyes:

I probably wouldn't notice, to be honest. If I did, it depends. If the cash register made the mistake, (which they do sometimes) it could actually get the cashier in trouble for messing up the till. So I might mention it, but I'm not that good at quick math anyway. If the clerk made the mistake, but it was only a couple of cents, it would be rather pointless to hold up the line and get everyone mad at me. If it was a lot of money, I would give it back. I've worked that sort of minimum wage job before, and it would suck to be the one who got the kid in trouble because their till was off. But like I said, I should check my change more carefully, but I don't. So I would never notice in the first place.

It's just a BBC article... Which you can tell by checking what the actual link is...