jamus

Very cool. Thanks.

ditto

R.E.M. - Automatic For The People Kelis - Wanderland Philip Glass - The Hours Score If I could cheat though, I'd make 3 compilations ;)

Yeah, I like her a lot. I'm not a big lyrics person: I usually don't care what the hell you say as long as you can sing and the music is good. (Do we really care what Thom is singing/mumbling in Radiohead songs? Does he really care?) But I'm a fan of Alanis's direct lyrics, and I guess I should be since my writing if rather direct. I really like the fact that I can enjoy Alanis's songs as great music and/or as great prose. Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie is my favorite Alanis album.

It doesn't matter if it has your name on it: anyone can attend the concert with it. As for selling it, you can e-mail the file (probably a .pdf) to the buyer. For more security, I suggest you sell the ticket well in advance of the show and mail it to the buyer. For example if the show is rescheduled, a dishonest buyer could get a refund from you, and then sell his copy of the ticket since he'll have the file that you e-mailed him. I don't want to scare you. Plenty of people sell this type of ticket by e-mailing the winner the file. This is just something I suggest you consider. I hope this helps.

Sorry to hear that. Don't give up though. Keep searching. You'll find something. :)

Hey, I'm black. But when I usually go to concerts of white artists, I don't see much variety: went to see Coldplay and U2 in Atlanta and could count the number of blacks (excluding the workers, of course) I saw on one hand. But I live in the South, so go figure. But the fans I interacted with were very nice. And I don't care how many non-white people I see at a concert. When I went to see Lucinda Williams, I was at the very front, so I figured I was going to see some "interesting" white fans, to say the least. And boy was I right. There was this middle-aged white man near me. He looked back at me once and never looked back. And then during the concert, he threw up white power salutes at Lucinda. I gave him the benefit of the doubt and thought that I might have mistaken things. But after he threw up his salute the first time, his wife looked back at me like she was ashamed of her husband. And he was drinking too. She tried to minimize what he was doing during the show without being conspicuous, and she kept looking back at me. I could tell she was hoping that I didn't see what he was doing or that I didn't know what he was doing. I am young after all. That was an interesting concert experience. On my left there were a few young college town kids singing all the words, one of whom was Asian; in front of me were lesbians who were very open with their sexuality to say the least; and on the right was Mr. White Power and his crew, who were drinking, probably lower-class from their appearance (a couple were missing teeth), and who kept repeating that they have been with Lucinda from day one. But anyway, Coldplay fans are the best. Really. :) :) :) We're all such nice people.

Talk, definitely. It's their latest single. It's not as emotional as Fix You. It's not as old as Speed of Sound. It's just the right speed for a Grammy performance. I can't think of a better song for them to do off the album.

Hey, dajrekshn. Use "extent" instead of "extend." :)

I finished watching the movie. I just walked out feeling unsettled after finishing it.

Of course they'd have to do a U2 cover or two. Or three. Or catorce. :lol:

Hey, bonabon. I did like it. It's a great blockbuster event. For everybody, excuse my nationalism. When referring to "this country," I forgot that this forum is open to people all over the world. :)

Hi, to all. I just felt compelled to share my feelings after watching King Kong. I went to the movie theater expecting to simply experience the movie event of the year and to have a blockbuster-watchin', popcorn-chewing, coke-guzzling good time with my fellow audience members. Instead, King Kong left me so unsettled that I left the theater unable to answer my friend's question as to what I thought about the movie. I'll bet that 99% of the audience for King Kong isn't experiencing what I'm experiencing, but I feel that my experience is worth sharing. I feel as if my whole ideology is shattering. My feelings remind me of an episode of the Ozzie show on MTV in which people were competing to be the band to go on tour with OzzFest. In this episode, the competitors were told that they had to bite the head off of a bat. This one girl--I believe she had short black/colored hair--was seriously conflicted b/c, if memory serves me correctly, she was a vegetarian. If memory does not serve me correctly, she at least made it very clear that this went against her morals. She had a serious dilemma b/c she had to either go against her morals and what she seriously stood for or decline to complete the challenge and risk losing the competetion. I feel as if I would have had no problem solving this dilemma. I think I would easily decline to bite the bat's head off if it went against my morals. But this competitor did the exact opposite. She completed the challenge. FYI, the competitors were blindfolded and the live bat head was replaced with hot dogs (I know some of you are saying, "not much of a difference though.") When that girl bit off what she thought was a bat head, I felt this horrible feeling for her. Can you imagine the day when you go against your morals, and to win a competition on MTV at that. I felt as if she didn't know who she was anymore. I bet her identity was badly in need of repair. This feeling is akin to what I feel now, but I bet its tenfold what that girl probably felt, b/c initially after watching King Kong I felt as if my ideology and my moral system regarding a handful of things was shattering, but as time passes this handful of things is creating an unending chain that makes me rethink many thinks about my identity, my morals, my ideology, etc. No movie has ever made me feel like this before, and I'm not your average consumer of movies. I've been to the Cannes Film Festival before; I frequent video stores that rent out more than your usual Hollywood fare. There are only three other movies that have seriously, seriously, seriously, affected me like this before, but in very different and much lesser ways. They are: 1. Magolia - My favorite movie. It's me. It's my home, you know. 2. Signs - I watched it 4 times in 36 hours (I worked at a movie theater). It's message and themes were haunting, but I've gotten over my feelings about this movie. 3. Dogville - I vowed to never watch another Lars von Trier movie. I was upset and said to myself, "How could anybody feel so negatively about humanity and human nature?" I'm not upset anymore, and I did watch another Lars von Trier movie. King Kong is now #4 on this list and has affected me the most by far. It's changing my life. Amazing little sentence that is. To be specific about a few of my feelings--and hesitantly so--I don't hate animals anymore; I'm determined that my fifth attempt to become a vegetarian will be my final and successful one; and "love" is something that I intend on being a much more active verb in my life, & I'm committed to working on adding "forgive." Of course issues concerning capitalism, the destructive tendency of humans and human populations, and the environment are also addressed, but I don't have to resolve anything within myself regarding these. And for the respect of this forum and my privacy, I'm keeping my many other feelings to myself. (Get to know me for about 2 years and then we'll see, you know what I'm saying?) I must leave you with this. And this is very important to me. A few years ago, I started to recognize a pattern in history. Humans tend to do things that humans in future generations think is absolutely wrong, for lack of a better word. These future generations often can't fathom how humans could ever do certain things. For example, today we shake our heads at humans who kill and run other humans off their own land to settle and start lives for themselves; but America was built on doing just that to Native Americans. Today, we shake our heads at slavery, but our country's most famous founding father, George Washington, owned them. We shake our heads at racism, but this country needed a civil rights movement merely 40 years ago. And in 2004, this nation resoundingly voted against gay marriage. Unfortunately, humans in 3004 will look back at that moment in history and shake their heads. I'm determined more than ever that I don't want future generations of humans to look back at me and shake their heads. I don't want to be George Washington. But what will future generations shake their heads at? Capitalism? Killing animals for a bite to eat? Failing to save the environment? Making $20 Million a movie, and then buying $20 Million homes? War? The caffeine in coca-cola? Making a big deal out of a guy wearing a dress to the prom? Ruining 20 years of a committed relationship because you couldn't resist your urge to bust a nut? Dying of cancer too young because you refused to have a cancerous toe cut off because of your religion (Bob Marley)? Or even being willing to shell out $1,000 for a couple of Coldplay tickets instead of being willing to give a small fraction of that amount to end poverty elsewhere in the world? The number of questions is infinite. I challenge you to ask them often. I definitely think it's worth it.

For all my Georgia folks, the Austin City Limits concert will be on GPTV Dec. 24 at 12:00 a.m. That should be Friday night. And Michael Stipe's gonna be there. For everybody else, check out http://www.pbs.org to find out when the concert will be on public tv in your area. There are also other great Austin City Limits concerts from other artists that will be airing.

I'm not hot-blooded for her, but her acting talent is immense, and for such a young person. As for being the next Kirsten Dunst, I wouldn't say so. Jena has been in the game as long as Kirsten has. And she's made a very impressionable path of her own in film. Kirsten is pretty much a big star because of Spider Man. And Jena is no worse an actress than Kirsten. Jena was great in Pride & Prejudice, wasn't she. My "Yeah, I said it!" moment for today: Mandy Moore is a good actress who should challenge herself more. She held her own next to Jena in Saved as Hillary Faye. Good stuff.

The Golden Globes have just been announced, and I just want to know if anybody else is especially disappointed with the movies of 2005, or is it just me? When thinking of my favorite movies so far this year, I can't even come up with five. My favorites were Last Days, The Constant Gardener, Syriana, and The Interpreter, but that isn't exactly a list to get excited over. I did miss some movies that I wanted to see this year, so could you please give a few of your suggestions? (And I didn't miss Jarhead.) I'm looking forward to Brokeback Mountain and King Kong, so maybe they'll make up a little. '99 was my favorite year for movies: Magnolia, American Beauty, Being John Malkovich, The Insider, The Talented Mr. Ripley, Three Kings, Eyes Wide Shut, Cookie's Fortune, and more. '99 couldn't have been better.

Hi, If........... If your question is in response to my post, let me qualify a bit. When I speak about humans doing things because of their "private parts," I mean simply to say that we do things because of what it means biologically to be human. Look around: humans populate Earth because humans have sex and reproduce. When boy meets girl, boy may want to meet girl because he thinks she's cute--an urge that stems from the fact he is sexually attracted to the girl--and he may also want to meet girl because he thinks she's pretty cool--an urge that stems from something other than his sexual desire. For me, the "rush of blood to the head" can come from the guys function as a sexual organism, the near unexplainable love he has for the girl, and everything in between. In life, there are usually no absolutes, mostly in-betweens. And on the many spectrums in life, one often lies nearer to one end than to another. To refer back to the song, I certainly wouldn't want somebody to "buy this place and burn it down" if it had anything to do with their mere sexual desire as a human--on a spectrum so-to-speak, this "sexual desire" running the gamut from liking my facial features, to wanting to kiss me, to wanting to "go all the way" with me. If somebody told me that they want to "buy this place and burn it down for me" I would want to know why they want to do something so grand for me. And I personally would want to make sure that they want to do that for me because they love me outside of their sexual desire for me. If.........., if you were referring to my post, that's my qualification, and I hope it helps. If you weren't, then hi anyway. Good movie to watch about what it means to be human regarding sex: Eyes Wide Shut. Are yours wide shut or wide open?

That's cool. Thanks. Where'd you get that from?

http://www.beastiemania.com/qa/liverec.php

While surfing the web recently, I've learned that many people find Chris and his lyrics to be a little ridiculous, and his line "birds go flying at the speed of sound to you where it all began" in "Speed of Sound" is the latest lyric that seems responsible. One person huffed condescendingly, "To show us exactly what, Chris?" Neither Chris or his lyrics are ridiculous. In fact, most successful artists are saying something intelligent or meaningful whether we know it or not. I don't care to analyze every line in the song, but "Speed of Sound" is about alienation--in large part as an issue that we face with modernity--and how communication and the tendency for humans to get together in groups and families (biological and otherwise) is diminshing. If I may be so bold, Chris, and I, would argue that the "progress" humans make in the modern world is largely to blame for this alienation. Just look around: Instead of having the time to converse with each in the park over coffee, we're usually in the car on the cell phone telling the voice on the other end that we "have to go" or will "talk to you later." Etc. History has shown us that it's natural for organisms (i.e. Chris's "birds flying at the speed of sound) to get together in groups. Humans are losing that natural tendency, and Chris's birds are showing us what we've lost and reminding us how beautiful it is to be together rather than alone, no matter how much enjoyment Six Flags and cell phones and headphones that can only blast Coldplay in one set of ears can bring. Besides, whose to say that we wouldn't happy if we still had to hunt for food and make our clothes? In think we would, but there's no stopping this modern mountain now. And I know I'm not giving up my mp3 player. But we can still get back what we've lost. And we have people like Chris urging us to do so. Those times in concerts when the artists get the audience to participate in unison--like what Chris did with "The Scientist" for this tour--are very emotional for me. I hope that each of you feels what I feel when I take part in or listen to an experience like that, such as "The Scientist" from Coldplay's concert at the Glastonbury Festival earlier this year. Either way, those experiences are really beautiful, aren't they?

Coldplay - What If Other than Coldplay - Jesus, etc., by Wilco

Automatic For The People, by R.E.M. Now and probably forever. I went crazy when Chris announced that Michael Stipe was the surprise for this year's Atlanta concert.

I just wanted to add this: In the end, when the guy is telling he to meet her here and there, maybe he's forgetful, maybe he changes his mind, maybe he's madly in love and will meet her anywhere. Either way, he tells her to blame it on a rush of blood to the head. That's not enough for the girl to go on though. She's still left to figure out him and his rush.

Hi. I may not be on the right track, but this is my try. To me, the song is about a girl (yes, a girl; it appears that way based on the basic differences between the sexes and what they tend to do) examining the ardent actions of the guy she's in a relationship with and deciding whether or not to take that next leap. And it's a pretty big leap. The guy said, "He's gonna buy this place and start a fire." He's so in love that he even says he'll "buy a gun and start a war" for her. Seems kind of passionate, even irrationale, right? And that's just why the girl is questioning the guy's ardor. I think a key to this song is in the two ways the girl can interpret the guy's actions. Does his willingness to burn her place (a place--real or otherwise--that she badly wishes to move on from but does not necessarily want to see burned to the ground: "...Even though the mistakes that I've made. See it all disappear without a trace (?)") orginate in his private parts so-to-speak (resulting in this rush of blood to the head) or from a special "love" that us humans consistently and perpetually find hard to explain and define (resulting in this rush of blood to the head)? A major question in the song is something along those lines. The guy said he'll burn her place, and even grab a gun (Does that sound rational to you, or even peaceable?), and then briefly forgets he was going to burn her place: "Oh, and I'm gonna burn this place is what I said." But he tells her to blame his forgetfulness on a rush of blood to the head? She just needs to know where this rush comes from. An aspect of this song that I like is that the onlookers (in the girl, and maybe even in the guy's life) are there. They say, "start as you mean to go on." What the guy wants to do for her sounds good to them. They just reiterate that he finishes what he starts, that his whirlwind, crazy-in-love commitment not wane, minus perhaps the initial whirlwind, crazy-in-love part: "Start as you mean to go on." As with many Coldplay songs, we (and the girl) are not left with definite answers to the questions by the song's end. In the end the guy says to meet her on the bridge. Then he says the lane. And then this place. And then he tells her to just "meet me where I said." Again, he tells her to blame all this--forgetfulness?, etc.--on a rush of blood to the head. He wants to see her "pretty" face again. Guys want to see girls again (and vice versa) because of physical attration. But guys also want to see girls's "pretty" faces again because those faces are the ultimate signifiers of that "love" we find hard to explain. Thanks for that question. Excuse my syntax if it seems difficult and convoluted at times. I don't exactly have to turn this in for a grade. Again, I may be on the wrong track, but I thoroughly enjoyed telling you what I think about that song. Either way, it's a beautiful song. And I encourage you to make of it what you want. I'd love a reply. Jamus

Why think or talk in terms of worsts? I like Twizzlers more than Skittles, but I enjoy them both. I like R.E.M. better than Coldplay, but I don't walk around saying that I think Coldplay is worse that R.E.M. It doesn't have to come to this. And for that matter, why think in terms of bests either. I think our pop culture has inundated our conscience with the need to rank everything. Don't you get sick of those countdowns on VH1 and E!. They make up a countdown for everything. Next week on VH1: "The 40 Best Albums Never To Go Platinum In Canada." You know you'd watch it. I'm not counting myself out either.