Professor Peedston

I want to be remembered for exploding the moon. And for inventing Coca-Cola.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4719169.stm They seem to want to emphasize that it's as much an ideological fight as a military fight. My thoughts: 1. I want to give them some credit for at least acknowledging that guns and airstrikes won't win this "war" by themselves, but for Christ's sake, wasn't that obvious to pretty much EVERYBODY about four years ago? 2. Even though I'm spending time talking about it, I'm not entirely convinced that issues of terminology are really that important, and I think this whole issue might be sort of a red herring. What do you think?

I wouldn't be able to put it together chronologically but all of these things (and some other things I can't think of) would have to happen: - The Eagles win the Super Bowl - I enjoy at least two ice cold mugs of the best beer ever created (I still don't know what that is yet) - Bjork drops by to tell me how awesome I am and/or make out - I pick up a newspaper and find a collective apology by every media outlet in the world apologizing for the amount of coverage devoted to Paris Hilton, American Idol, and various other pointless pop culture phenomena (the correct amount of coverage is none). I'm getting too lazy to continue with this so I'm stopping there. :P

:stunned: wow.

and uhh http://www.coldplaying.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11766&highlight= :P

I LOOOOOOVE them. They're very Up-With-People-ish. And completely ridiculous and over-the-top. And also amazing despite of and because of all that. One of the best live acts I've ever seen.

Shelby Lynne won a Best New Artist Grammy award for her 6th album. So Linkin Park have got nothing on her. :P

a. I've decided I'm not going to my early class tomorrow. 2. Only two months until fall! d. XTC is a criminally underrated band. $. When I'm bored in class I stare at the second hand on my watch and see how long I can hold my breath without being noticed. ~. I can be very immature sometimes (see previous).

The backs of me hands are usually filled with a potpourri of phone numbers, page numbers of books I'm reading, and random pen marks that get made because I'm unable to hold onto a writing utensil without fiddling around with it. Then I go to the bathroom and wash my hands and then have no idea what the phone number to such and such friend's place is or what page contained my favorite epigram and stuff. Uhhhhh... wait, when I started writing in this thread I was answering a question about.... ah right. My answer is no. :smug:

Whoa... it's been so long since I had to worry about that that I forgot people are actually affected by ratings. :lol:

There's no way there's no thread for them, I remember there being one that had like 50 pages of posts. :confused: Anyway... yeah I'm a fan. I think I might put on Some Cities now because it's been awhile since I had it on. Last Broadcast is still by a wide margin my favorite album of theirs though. So euphoric.

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Does it strike anybody else as odd that MTV has their awards in the middle of summer? Wouldn't it be easier and make more sense to celebrate roughly a full calendar year like every other awards show ever? And if they're going to have it in August, wouldn't it more accurately be called "MTV Awards - last third of 2004 and the first 2/3 of 2005"? I think they pick the date for their awards show based on when they're going to run out of episodes of "Pimp My Ride" that haven't been aired at least 200 times. Because as far as I can tell, Pimp My Ride is the only show that MTV ever actually shows. Or at least it seems that way to me, because whenever I'm at somebody's apartment who actually watches TV it's always on. Oh, and uhh.... go Coldplay I guess. :P But I'd be lying if I said I was actually planning on watching or finding out if they win or not. :blush:

Yeah like everybody said, fuck the Yankees. The Phillies are back in the playoff race! WOO! Tom's prediction: Jim Thome comes back healthy, the Phils pull a trade deadline deal to get Barry Zito (for... Vicente Padilla and Ryan Howard maybe? Throw in Ramon Martinez or Ugueth Urbina if that's not enough), and they storm into the playoffs as the hottest team in baseball! Yeah, right. :rolleyes:

Like Reilly said, it's pleasant enough but it doesn't really hold my interest. Also the shaker or whatever that is is mixed way too high. This isn't related to the song itself, but did you think about naming it something else? It's an instrumental song, you can name it anything you want, why would you settle for such a forgettable and mundane title like "Try"?

It's Wayne Coyne of the Flaming Lips!

THIS IS INDEED FUN Watch as I attach the file once and it shows up on the thread three times for some reason.

Wait... this thread is from OVER A YEAR AGO.

How long does it take a group of police officers to fire five rounds? Two or three seconds? Like I said, hindsight is 20/20 and it's a lot easier to question what they did when we know things they didn't.

If you shoot a buy with a bomb strapped to him in his arms or legs, is that really going to stop him? If he's intent on blowing himself up, that's not going to stop him. Obviously that wasn't the case with this poor guy, but the police didn't know that. It's always easy to sit here second-guessing with the benefit of hindsight.

Re: Little stupid things about other countries that piss you Ah yes, the "plains" of the world's tallest mountain range. :lol:

La Jetee - 9/10 It's the short film from 1962 that 12 Monkeys was loosely based on. And it's way better than 12 Monkeys.

They be Americans. (One is from Philly, in fact.)

There's a cheese for every occasion!

A while ago I was playing a show with a band I was in at the time, and I was struggling for some kind of stage banter to kill time while the other guitarist was changing a string, and I decided then to name my guitar "Petunia" and play some blues licks (you know, to parody the B.B. King thing). Some people got the joke and some people just thought I was a jackass, I think. So I guess you could say my Tele is named Petunia. :P If that didn't kill enough time I was prepared to name my drum machine and synthesizer which were also onstage, but it didn't come to that.