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crapmuffins. this is not looking good. i suppose the whole "withholding the album" thing will be painful for coldplay too, as artists. because i figure keeping "the album to remember them by" and songs that "everyone needs to hear before they die" under a blanket indefinitely isn't really what the plan was. i'm not an artist so i can't really say, but i would think that simply getting your work out of you and finished isn't what it's all about--another huge part of it is putting it out in the world for consideration. i figure theyre not too thrilled with hiding it away, either, and that makes me feel a bit better. i'd really like EMI to sort themselves out and/or for coldplay to sit down with them and list their demands and for EMI to oblige. i figure breaking off their contract would take a hell of a lot of time with all the legal munbo-jumbo involved, so i kind of don't hope for that yet, unless it's really the only hope of them getting it out this year. meh. i hate strikes. this is the second one to severely muck up my plans and enjoyment (the WGA strike being the first...)

huh, i'm actually in a similar position myself, emma. i know what i want, but i know it's pretty unlikely and i dont know what to do with that. i know its not the place to ramble on about my own stuff, but what you just said i applied pretty well to me...

erm, well, you'll see when ian gets my request and it goes through! :D but its been the name of my blog/livejournal for years now, and i always liked the phrase because its an oxymoron... i hope to have it up tommorow. because given the new developments on the coldplay front, i'm probably going to be compulsively checking this site all day tomorrow :cry:

and we're being tortured because effing EMI is too stupid and greedy...i hate that its big business and money matters that are screwing up our entertainment. i know it happens every day and business rules all, but somehow this feels more personal than it ever has before. i dont know, i need to stop posting about my laments, but i'm just so effing disappointed...

i know i know i know, i'm being horridly selfish, and i know EMI is now crap, but its just the fact that i've been so looking forward to having this new album and now that it was (probably) within reaching distance (because even if it was to be out in december, they did say it was going to be out in 2008), it could very well be taken away. and this makes me very sad. and i was actually kidding about begging in front of my coldplay poster :laugh1:. but only barely.

ohhhhh nooooo, but look at the new post.... now i'm WAITING on the next prospekt entry, because whatever they decide to do about EMI (please just stick it out and give us one more album!!!!) they DO owe us an official explanation of their choice in the matter. so prospekt better get his pen out. :bigcry:

emma, i think this could go waaaaaay beyond may. i bet its real close to being done and was GOING to be released in may....but GAHHHHHH....:bigcry:

i'm nearly physically pained by this development. i have half a mind to get down and beg in front of my coldplay poster for this NOT to happen and for them to just put it out and bear it even though EMI is evil...i just can't wait any longer!!!!! i think my soul is being crushed. :(

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! :bigcry: i think i'm going to hide under the covers for a while if this actually happens. but it sounds like a legit source....ohhhh my god....:stunned: :bigcry:

sounds good to me; i just PMed him with the request. thanks for all the info!

^i thnk he meant what would your mother say to a game of "ill show you mine if you show me yours," but i could be wrong :laugh1: and i corrected myself! :P

well, when you put it like that i sound like a loser... but i'm really getting itchy now that they haven't said something whatsoever in almost a month. they haven't even put up the 2008 part of the timeline!! it feels like there's no progress being made (even though i know that's not true, i'd just like to know what theyre DOING right now considering mixing's done and all that. i'd like reassurance about all of this). MUST...HAVE...RELEASE DATE!

haha, ok, so maybe i lied :laugh1:. i still NEED that release date for the survival of my soul. but i'm willing to bargain a bit for them to just talk to us. the release date is still the holy grail to me. at least, short of the album itself!

YAYYYYYY! :dance: i'm totally hitting NY and philly. i just hope those dates work in my schedule!

ahhh, thanks for the info! i figured you had to do that, but people do it so often that i thought there was more of a self-serve way to do it. but i'll get on that!

ok, can i ask a really, really, REALLY dumb question??:confused: erm...how do you go about changing your username? i just searched for a way to do it and couldn't find anything. in the FAQ's it says that you can only change your username in dire situations by asking an admin, but people do it all the time! so do i have to PM an admin? i think i've thought of one that i like better than the current (fairly crap) one i have. god, i feel like such a n00b...:embarassed: so much for hanging around here for two years.

we havent heard from them since the xmas video. i'm getting REALLY antsy now; i want SOMETHING in 2008. i'll even go so far to say that it doesnt even need to contain the release date yet, as long as we have some info! (but the release date better be posted soon...:evil:)

hey anna, i'll show you mine if you show me yours! :sneaky: (the HAIR, i mean :laugh1:) though i think mine is a bit longer than you were thinking of going...if i cant pull at least most of it back with an elastic i go a bit mad.

oh, and i have a new hope for LP4 that i thought of last night: i want there to be a song on there in which chris sings like he did in "shiver." to me, he seems to reach this level or something in that song that i dont think he ever fully reaches again in any other song i've heard. so i'd LOVE to hear another song where he sings with that much energy and emotion.

ugh, mine was a nightmare when i had it that long. it took ages to wash (i have ridiculously thick hair) and it certainly didnt dry straight but at that point in my life i couldnt be arsed to blow-dry it. i just braided it, but it got so knotty...gah. now i freak out when my hair grows beyond shoulder length, which is why i'm cutting it all off tomorrow.

^well, at least when i cut all my hair off (it was down beyond my ass at the time i lopped it off), it was like phantom-limb syndrome. id be washing my hair and be absolutely astonished when i was running my hands through it and there was no more to run my hands through after only a second. and my head felt pounds lighter. when my long braid was cut off, my head actually moved forward a bit because of the lack of weight! and your eyes kind of bug out in surprise every time you look in the mirror for a week or so after. its such a change, like youre missing an arm or something.

i'm not sure i can offer much advice on the situation, really, given my own upbringing, but i'm glad that you're learning (or have learned) about the other side of things if the people around you haven't bothered to expose you to them. i think that's beyond irresponsible for a school not to explain both sides in an equal light and let the students mull it over and decide for themselves. frankly, that disgusts me. but i would like to say that if you're losing your faith, it doesnt necessarily mean you're losing ALL faith, at least not permanently. in my opinion, there are WAY more than just two options, or four options or whatever it is. there are an infinitely huge number of gods to believe in, and only a fraction of a percent are contained in books like the bible or the torah or the koran. i grew up in a violently atheist house, with religion being pretty much forbidden. at my school, i encountered a wide selection of world religions (my school is technically episcopalian, but its not associated with the church and is really liberal). weekly chapel services ranged from being traditional muslim or christian or jewish or hindu or sikh or pretty much anything you can imagine. and through my exposure to all those different religions, i realized that i didnt have to pick ONE of those to subscribe to. i picked and chose all sorts of aspects of all of those and combined them to create my own brand of faith that isnt really describable, but isnt shakeable, either. so my point is that just because you're having doubts about a part of your religion, i dont think it has to mean that everything, especially your belief in god, has to be out the window forever. because i think that even though i believe in evolution and in science 100%, there are still some things in the world that are too beautiful and too amazing to not have some sort of otherworldly or magical involvement as well. to me it has nothing to do with how things are created or the reasons behind them and everything to do with the way such things make you feel. i think that feeling, that recognition of the wonder and magnificence, is god (or whatever you choose to call it). (and off the topic, you're quite a good writer, alyssa. that was an amazingly well-written post!!)

^he looks so bob-dylan-ish in that pic!

i voted for "the album isnt called bloody prospekt"! because i honestly dont think that itll be called that--it's all speculation, and prospekt is an identity, so i doubt its also the album name.

yep, its the actual score in the trailers. for movies like this (not hugely commercial, but very well known and respected), thats pretty typical, at least in my experience. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0469494/trailers-screenplay-E34611-314 ^this isnt the trailer i've been seeing in the actual theaters, which i think is much better than this one i found, but this gives a taste of the music and the general mood it gives.