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:freak: that butterfly story is so great! i wonder if it's a sign too! :P i don't know, i agree with makayla and alison or whoever else it was that had the gut feeling...i had a gut feeling today too :lol:. maybe the hand-off was today, and we'll hear by friday or something :shy:. three gut feelings and a random butterfly sign have to mean SOMETHING, right? :thinking:

@ carla: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes :P they're english, primarily. i can actually get them in america, but not in the area of the state i'm in, because it's all hickish and rural :P. they don't exactly import much here :lol:. but i can get them easily at home (they're just really expensive). i bet you could find them without much trouble in holland! i think if all the dates run out, we should get to guess again, but that's just me :wink:. and you LIKE the suspense?! :inquisitive: you're crazy! :P

agreed--it's the thought that counts, and debs has been nice enough to organize all this for us, so even though we're all bursting from excitement, she's doing her best to get them to the guys when she considers is best and easiest :wink:. i think that the christmas theme will still be appreciated, no matter what time of year, because it shows we were thinking of them at the holidays (though i think we're pretty much ALWAYS thinking of them :lol:).

so if everyone agrees that the guy puppet looks more like a sketchball than guy, why did they use it?! :lol:

so if everyone agrees that the guy puppet looks more like a sketchball than guy, why did they use it?! :lol:

i agree with alison, though i think it might have been done late last week rather than today or something. at least, if i were her, i wouldn't tell us when she did it but to wait for an upcoming surprise, i'd just wait until the surprise was ready to say anything, and depending on what the plan is, i figure it could take a few days to get all together. but :bomb:, even if it's just a report in a note or something. i just want to know that it's done and what their general reactions were, that's all :D

i probably heard yellow back when it was big, but i don't have any specific memory of hearing it until 2005. i heard clocks all the time in 2002 and 2003...you couldn't really escape it, and my mom played AROBTTH on heavy rotation anyway, but i just didn't pay that much attention. i knew that clocks was a nice song by coldplay, which had a skinny, practically bald lead singer that danced funny :P in may 2005, i was walking through my house on the way to the bathroom and i passed a TV. the speed of sound video was coming on and my friend had mentioned how good it was, so i sat down to watch it. and i was a completely converted coldplay lover in 4 minutes, 38 seconds :D

:freak: you people are KILLING me :bigcry: i thought i had a good feeling about today, too, but alas, it amounted to nothing :sad:

part of my reasons for liking it are personal: i've always been interested in indian culture, i think about the concept of fate a lot, blah blah. but besides that, i like how it takes a pretty average long-lost love story and puts a new spin on it with the structure of the film, how it's not completely straightforward. i also thought the cinematography was beautiful and that the score was amazing, and that almost all of the parts were extremely well acted for children with no experience and young adults with next to no experience. i thought the screenplay was well-written and beautifully expanded from the book, and that the end dance scene was awesome. i have to say i somewhat see the points that people are making about it being not so mindblowingly original or anything, but i don't know, i feel somewhat of a personal connection with this movie for an unexplicable reason. i don't really expect to convert anyone to my opinion; i'm just glad lots of critics agree with me. i confess that one of the only reasons i'm on this board all the time is because i don't really like the place that i'm in, and talking to people that i like and have things in common with is a change of pace from college. coldplaying is sadly a bit of an escape.

agreeed :wacky: it's cliche in that the ending is all tied up and happy, but it's the structure and writing of the entire film that gets me. i also feel a bit more connected to the movie as a whole because of some personal things, but i thought while the plot of the "long lost love" thing has been overdone, this particular story made it completely original.

i confess that i've seen slumdog millionaire 5 times so far, and that i think it's the best thing since sliced bread.

i just ate jaffa cakes. CURSE THIS THREAD! i only have three left, and that's got to last me at least a week until my mom can mail me more :bigcry:. i can't wait to have them readily available next year. but i'm hopeful for this week :wacky:

i think i can see in part why some people think it's overrated, but i just don't happen to agree. i actually think most other films this year that are up for the big awards are overrated in comparison. i'm not going to get started on why i think it's amazing, though, since it'll just turn into a big long rant. benjamin button, 6/10. that may be a bit harsh, but it was the hype that ruined a lot of it for me. also, i'm not so into fantasy-based movies, and it was just so slow-moving and predictable that i didn't see the big deal outside of the technical things, like CGI.

exactly, my gut doesn't really care about postcards: it just wants jaffa cakes! :lol:

you're just jaffa-biased :angry: :P but i hope your gut is better than mine, because my gut said first week of january :lol:. in its defense, it is right sometimes :P but :bomb:. i hope we hear this week!

you being so sure freaks me out a bit :freak:

stop it, alison :bigcry: though tomorrow would be the perfect day for an announcement for me...tuesday is my shortest day :wacky:

i've only listened to the preview like three times (previews tend to annoy me a bit, because then the part of the song that's previewed sticks out from the rest of the song for me), but somehow i was able to completely embed this song in my head, and it was stuck in my head all day yesterday :lol:. i can't wait for the full release :nice:

i looooove harmless, have for years :heart:. i notice very slight similarities between harmless and lost? (acoustic), actually, but i think that's just me being a bit wacko :wacko: i think most of their unreleased songs and b-sides are some of their best work :wacky:

i love guy's hair slightly longer :wacky: and poor will! but that's such a funny story :lol:. i love how cute guy and will look together at 4:59 of this video: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEinhOqXMb0]YouTube - Coldplay performed "Viva La Vida" at "Wetten dass...?"[/ame]

i love guy's hair slightly longer :wacky: and poor will! but that's such a funny story :lol:. i love how cute guy and will look together at 4:59 of this video: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEinhOqXMb0]YouTube - Coldplay performed "Viva La Vida" at "Wetten dass...?"[/ame]

i understand the contradiction, but i didn't make myself clear, nor do i know how to make myself so clear that i'm confident my point has been made and not mis-quoted. i don't believe every last american to be selfish and spoiled (and i fully anticipate people to get on my ass about that statement i made a few posts ago). i believe there are people, a good number of them, that defy the stereotype, and that obama is one of them. i believe he has to take the roads that we've already been set down to start change in motion. i also believe that's the only way he'd ever be willing to do it, and for that reason he's not someone that people with your political mindset would ever be satisfied with. i took a class partly based in anarchy last year, and after extensive thinking about it, i just don't believe it would work in today's society. i can be optimistic for things such as anarchy and socialism working well hundreds of years in the future, but i don't see it happening now, based on historical, philosophical, and psychological models that i know of. i understand that you think differently, and i accept that. i just want to hear a little more realism and a little less idealism in what everyone's proposing--obama included, although i think his proposed tweaks are much more likely to go into effect and further things along than i think anarchy or what have you would bring us to the ideal future that you seem to envision. i should probably stop going on so much, because i think i'm digging a hole for myself, but at least i know i don't have as much detailed knowledge of this stuff as others do :P. i'm just saying what i believe to be true based on what i know at this present time.

:stunned: holy SHIT, thalia. there is something wrong with you, for you to be that amazing. this (or a similarly made, yet VIVA-themed squee-art) has my vote for a tshirt. that's what i was thinking, personally :D. i'm still willing to organize this when the time gets closer, in or around may, if no one else was going to do it :D

i don't know about 4 or 5 grammy wins being that optimistic. coldplay are a big act that got great reviews this year--i think 3 is probable, 4 is borderline realistic, and 5 is hopeful, yet very possible. that's just me, though.

i believe if we're delaying the inevitable, then the inevitable is a complete meltdown of government, society, and economy. i don't see the people standing for a quick, drastic change that forces everyday life and everyday policies to change, especially not in america. people here are too status-quo, too spoiled, and too selfish for the most part to stand for drastically altering their ways of life for the betterment of society years down the road. from what i can tell, you're essentially saying let the world crash and burn so it can rise out of the ashes. while i know the present situation is bad and it looks as though its just going to get worse, i don't think it's yet time for the world to burn. we've survived worse than this so far, and i anticipate bigger yet inherently different problems arising in the next few hundreds of years that have more reason to boil down to a big explosion.