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i saw it once in HD when i was walking through the apple store one day and was MESMERIZED. that's what made me want to play it on my own TV :D

i got an HDTV for christmas, so two nights ago i plugged my ipod into it for the first time and watched all my coldplay videos in HIGH-DEF. it was strange, but it was almost like they were brand-new again. "speed of sound" in HD was particularly amazing.

i havent listened to coldplay OR radiohead yet in 2008!! isnt that sinful? (well, ok, besides my ringtone, which is "shiver"...)

i have no patience whatsoever when it comes to things i care about. so downloading the hypothetical leak it is, even if i have to go buy something from the coldplay.com shop so i put some money back into their hands for it :D

while i agree about that book, it does have some slight errors, such as calling the song "politix" and getting the occasional lyric wrong and spelling will's name "wil" throughout the book. oh, and the binding totally falls apart after one reading of it :laugh1: Coldplay: look at the stars by phil o'brien is longer and focuses more on the details rather than the big picture, but the book itself is less pretty. the pictures in the gary spivak one are beautiful.

haha, well places like target open at 9:00 AM, as does the mall around here...but honestly, why would you camp out when you can download it all safe and warm at home?? to me its about the music first and THEN the packaging. we'll undoubtedly see the artwork online and in ads beforehand anyway, so that will tide me over. i'm much more curious about what's behind the artwork, which i will have already seen by then. besides, most places dont take too kindly to camper-outers unless theres something HUGE theyre waiting for, like the wii or harry potter. i'm of the belief that coldplay falls into this category, but i dont think most of the american public would agree. if some target worker asked me why i was camping out and i said "the new coldplay album!" theyd probably laugh in my face (because id probably be the only one there) and then tell me to get the hell off the sidewalk. :laugh1:

i agree...its actually probably my least favorite song on the album as well. my vote for next single would be "bodysnatchers".

the strokes! sometimes theyre a good antithesis to coldplay. this is the name of a BAND?! rocket boys is the name of a pretty famous memior written by a guy named homer hickham jr., which the movie october sky was based on. duuude.

ooh, i loved that version of "15 step" in particular! thanks for posting the entire thing here.

oh, of course! i was just talking about in the semi-distant future of the music industry :) i never would have been able to before either, but now that i'm in college, i'm TOTALLY willing to skip class for coldplay!! i'll even miss an entire day to see them in concert (in PHILLY!! :D) actually, thats a lie: a year and a half ago, i skipped school for the only time in my life (with my parents permission, though) to see coldplay. and i didnt get away with it: my teacher nearly ate my ass and it almost cost me my school prefect position!

i kind of hope this is the way that the tide of the record business is turning. well, not so much not having a physical release (though i'd be perfectly happy if CDs were phased out almost entirely and everything was a digital release accompanied by a vinyl record album), but i'm kind of hoping that radiohead has set the new norm by self-releasing their work online without the use of record companies. i think that was brilliant. and practical, frankly. of course it would also be nice if consumers could always set their own prices for the work, but i dont expect that to happen :lol:

if it leaks, i must admit that i would download it. i would never be able to resist, knowing that i COULD be listening to it. but i wouldnt feel too too bad about it because i know i personally would drefinitely still spend the money on the CD and vinyl anyway, so theyre at least not losing any money from me. but for their sake, i really hope it doesnt leak because it lessens the whole experience of the thing on both ends, and it probably loses them a bit of money. though because guilt is my middle name, yes i would feel bad about it. though i think my love and excitement would outweigh the guilt in this case :sneaky:

totally buying it. though ill probably forget unless i explicitly go to borders to buy it...

i'm too lazy to pull off the whole layering thing most of the time. i think it looks nice with tank tops under shirts and light sweaters and all that, but really i don't bother putting on so many clothes. besides, it feels kind of constricting anyway. i'm a jeans/tshirt/sweatshirt kind of person. and i'm quite glad that long shirts are now the style. there was a period of time only like 2 years ago where you simply could not buy a shirt that covered your entire stomach and back, especially when sitting. this was a particular bother for me and my friends, since my school had a really strict dress code with harsh punishments for people that broke it. once long shirts were coming into style again, my friends and i were close to graduating, and we can wear whatever we want in college :dozey:

i didnt have much of a choice in the matter considering i was watching TV at the time and you're bombarded with music every five seconds. but "new year's day" was the first song i listened to when i scraped myself off my friends couch and got in my car this morning, so i suppose that's fitting. my LAST song of 2007 was "warning sign" by coldplay, though :D

HAAAAAAAAAAA oh man. it seems theyre willing to give anything a go to make this good :rolleyes3:

because i'm a total geek, i already have this all planned out. :smart: i'm going to preorder it on itunes so i can download it the second it becomes available. i'll listen to that all night, and then the first chance i get (meaning the next day) i'm going out to target or wherever and buying the physical CD. i much rather have the physical release; there's just something about having a tangible piece of work thats so much more satisfying. but i could NOT wait until its on the shelves like, 10 hours after it comes out. those 10 hours between midnight and when the stores open would make me crazy, knowing it's available for listening but i'm not listening to it! and i always always always buy the album on vinyl as well if/when it's available. i find that vinyl record albums are SOO much cooler than plain old CDs, and there's more of an...exciteable rush with them. so as long as theyre releasing it on vinyl as well (they've done it with all their others), i'm getting that ASAP as well.

yes! i totally hate being thrown into the same group of people! but usually after like 2 minutes of talking to someone they usually figure out that i'm trying to disassociate myself from that group as much as possible. what also really grinds my gears is having to pretend to act like a teenager on occasion. with my friends i dont have to, but if i'm ever in a situation where there are a lot of people my age that i dont know, i feel like i'm supposed to be acting "normal" for my age so i dont get pinned as the "weird one that thinks shes so much better than us". i'm starting college next month, and the thing i'm dreading most is that first awkward period where i've got to meet all these people my age and pretend to be normal!

dude! what a good point! i wonder if it does...i suppose it could go either way, but i kind of really hope its about the baby because that would be insanely adorable. nice connection-making there!

yay! i'm glad we have an official confirmation. and its still an adorable name! :baby:

oh my god, i was going to say the same thing. i strongly dislike people my own age. theyre so...juvenile! what really grinds my gears is when they think theyre the center of everything yet theyre just so terribly misunderstood (see: emo). i think it has a lot to do with me feeling a hell of a lot older than 18, but really, even my friends get on my nerves with their dumb teeangeryness!

my brother has that same red hat. or HAD. i wonder whatever happened to it...if its still around, im TOTALLY stealing it.

ah, i love reading this! thanks so much!! [and i didnt know about jonny hacking down trees for an extention on his house! i must have missed that!]

oops, sorry, double-post...:embarassed:

oh melanieau! that first one is my fave of the three...he looks so young! i think i like seeing youger pics of him because it makes him seem closer to my own age...:rolleyes: