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how much snow did you guys get? my friend studying at cambridge posted pictures of what she got, and it was like an inch, and i laughed that only an inch of snow halted everything :lol:. how much did everyone else get? i know it doesn't snow as much in england as it does where i'm from, and that it's snowing less in recent years over there, but we get feet of snow dumped on us overnight and the world still runs :P. i just wonder what to expect for next year.

i got a text to my phone during class, and i prayed that it was semy telling me something good had happened, but alas, it was not :bomb: i REALLY hope it's tomorrow or friday, but i figure it's going to be wednesday or thursday :dozey:.

holy muffins, you guys are INSANE :freak: that stuff is just too amazing :stunned:

hahahaha, why do i think that he does that regularly? :lol: your sig is awesome, BTW :D

well, i was being somewhat generous in saying three times, but your email (and all the emails, really), my letter, and then everyone saying their individual thank yous in the thread when she posts, which she obviously has read since she's quoted and replied to some of them.

:freak: wow, that was nice of him. and a bit surprising. i wonder if anything will come of that, if his suggestion made the people that decide these things stroke their beards and contemplate it. i think coldplay would be a good bridge between the years of the classic artists and bringing it back to something a bit more younger and current. coldplay really is for all ages, whereas some of the classic artists are more for the older set and all the previous justin timberlake stuff was definitely for the younger set. mark my words, if they don't go classic next year, and if it's not going to be coldplay, it's going to be the jonas brothers :dozey:

i know no one's going to agree with me, so maybe i should just let everyone have at it until a consensus is reached, but i just think everything like that is too involved and complicated, and i worry that it might lose some of its significance if it's too big and fancy. i also think we've already thanked her with written words THREE times now, so if we're going to do something, it probably should be SMALL so we're not bombarding her, and it probably shouldn't be written down. i just don't think we should overdo it, and most of the ideas i've heard sound like overdoing it to me.

haha, i'm fine, alison, actually better than usual. i just get really pissed off about this topic for some reason, because people aren't being logical and reasonable, they're just taking what the media feeds them without much question, and that shouldn't be something that anyone does on any subject. it's been confirmed in every which way that they're NOT splitting anytime soon: from rolling stone, from the oracle, from chris himself, and all the evidence is stacked against the possibility of any split in the next...5 years or so. also, coldplay fans should know how chris is by now rather than running around like chickens with their heads cut off every time he says something like this. i think he's playing with the press and trying to be funny, and for some reason it irks me when people are being thick. oh, and this is the rhianna quote, but i don't know the source: Chris: "And if I'm fed up with being Mr. Coldplay, I try to pretend I'm Rihanna for a day. It's a far sexier way to spend 24 hours." :lol:

hmm, i quite like that idea, but in some ways i think it's too similar to the postcards project itself. i don't know why i'm so picky about all this stuff, but nothing has really felt 100% right and appropriate to me yet.

aww, well that stinks. i guess that makes sense, but it sucks for the smaller films, which are usually the best ones anyway, in my opinion.

my college doesn't see fit to supply each dorm room with ondemand :lol:. i wish they did, though. surprisingly, we get HBO out here in hickville. really, though, why are they releasing brand-new movies on CABLE? i've never heard of that being done before. there's probably a good reason, but to me it almost sounds depressing, like a "straight to DVD" sort of thing :thinking: aww, well i don't know about it being a big release here, though i could be wrong. i bet my arthouse cinema at home will have it, but perhaps not the mulitplex. but if it's on limited release, wouldn't it be playing in lots biggish cities? here, limited release usually means NYC and LA only, and then if it's successful and acclaimed, then they go to nationwide arthouses. and then if it's popular in arthouses, like juno and slumdog millionaire and garden state, it'll go to multiplexes. i would think that cities like london and liverpool and manchester would have limited release movies, but that's just me guessing.

you can deliver packages to PO boxes, but they don't actually physically GO inside the PO box. the post office puts a slip of paper in the box telling you to go to a certain counter to pick up the package that was too big to fit in the box :wink:

i just watched the trailer for two lovers on itunes...interesting, i thought gwyneth was supposed to be the beautiful blonde to die for, but really, she's made out to be rather normal-looking in it. i think that's cool :D

yes, that kind of thing, but anything perishable is a big delivery issue, since i think we'll end up only having the PO box to go on.

maybe that's what he's trying to do :P. i think he'd like that, actually :lol: i think the press is the press and will never stop reporting it, but what i find annoying is all the coldplayers that believe it! don't you guys know the way chris is by now? haven't you seen all the OTHER threads on this topic where we've tried to calm you down? besides, it would be completely illogical for them to call it quits now. not impossible, of course, but really illogical and stupid of them. besides, they still have one more album on the docket for EMI, and i think they're more likely to put out something new than to release a greatest hits. i'm sorry to be blunt, but all the threads and freak outs are just tiring when there is so much evidence against it being truthful in any way.

exactly :wink:. until debs reported back sometime last month saying she had something up her sleeve, i refused to believe we'd get any more than a note back from her. but then she said she had a plan and people got all excited...so i started to, too :bomb:. now with what she said on thursday and the email lore got yesterday, it's pretty much certain that there's SOMETHING awesome coming our way simply because it's taking so long--i'm thinking it's a video or longish blog post on the website, something that she would have to get website-techies (or perhaps video-editors?) to do. i'm basically trying not to explode in anticipation, and i told myself i'd never get to this point. i knowww :bigcry:. hoppipolla is one of my favorite songs in the world anyway, and the trailer is fabulous in itself, as i think the movie is too. i have a weird affinity for trailers in general, though--i think they can be an artform in themselves, in all seriousness :P

oh god, are people STILL posting this crap? :rolleyes: just chill out and realize it's chris talking. he also has said that the band sits around sewing and that he likes to pretend to be rhianna :dozey:. HE MESSES AROUND WITH THE PRESS FOR FUN.

i think i just don't like being interrupted every 10 minutes when i know i'm going to press it more than once anyway. i'd rather just have 30 minutes of uninterrupted sleeping then getting woken up three times in between :P

you can keep all the jaffa talk in MY thread :smug: :P when i mentioned the flowers idea, BTW, i didn't really mean flowers per se, i meant something like flowers, something that could be dropped off and delivered by a third party or something. i realize that flowers wouldn't go to a PO box, and i don't think debs has her own office at EMI, at least not anymore. something tells me she works from home. i'll go with whatever the consensus is, for the record. i just don't really like the poster idea for reasons i can't really explain. i think it's because that's the sort of thing we did when i was in elementary school for people who came and visited our class--it just seems a bit little kiddish and unoriginal to me :uhoh:. i also think it's needlessly complicated and overblown. i like the idea of something small and not written-word-based that would supplement the thank you letter i wrote to her from all of us and the email lore wrote from all of us. we've done the collective written word thing--i think a short personal audio thing would be nice.

jaffa cakes :wideeyed:. we could send a cake made out of jaffa cakes that reads "THANK YOU, DEBS" in icing :P

i just think the whole poster thing is overly complicated, as big as the postcards project itself, and i'm more for a small and simple idea. the CD would be much less complicated to make and send off, and everyone could do their part in less than 5 minutes and send it instantly over the internet. audio CDs have 80 minutes of recording time, too, so we could fit A LOT of people just saying "thank you" and their location and name, or like ~160 people could do an under-30-second personalized message (and that's still a lot of people). i'm a visual person too, and i'm not completely opposed to the poster idea, but i don't necessarily think that debs would definitely put up some sort of poster in her office permanently and always think of us or whatever. she might, but she might not. i like the CD idea because it's still personal (what's more personal than a message in your own voice?), a good representation of all of us, and she can pop it in and listen to it once or as many times as she wants, and then it's just a CD that she can file away rather some huge poster that she might get rid of or just keep knocking around for a while. i'm having a hard time describing why the idea of a big poster makes me wary, but i just think it's too complicated and too overblown. i like the CD idea because it's almost MORE personal, yet small and manageable without being too...obnoxious or something.

go go go see slumdog :wideeyed:. most people are yelling at me for hyping it up and being so obsessive about it, but i'm seriously in love. i just connect to it in this weirdo way. even the trailer with "hoppipolla" in it makes me want to cry. benjamin button was meh, in my opinion. i need to see milk before the oscars, though.

i think probably about 90% of the stuff i've bought in the past 5 years has come from target :uhoh:. i buy like EVERYTHING there.

i went to target today, and i think the target designers are on a butterfly binge. all the new stuff had butterflies on it! i wanted to buy everything, because now butterflies are inextricably linked with coldplay in my mind :flutterby:

rachel getting married, 7.5/10. anne hathaway was great, but some of the scenes were just too long, like the wedding dancing.