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Suburbs. TKOL is okay, but Suburbs just has so many great tracks... like Empty Room, City with No Children, and Modern Man :D

I'll do it :D Not sure how wide my musical tastes are so that people won't know every single song I add, but... meh :D

Sure thing! :)

You Are 30% Extrovert, 70% Introvert You are quite reserved You aren't afraid of social situations... But you very much prefer to go it alone And why not? You're your own best friend! It kinda depends on my mood, though... sometimes I just wanna be around people, whereas sometimes I'm like 'EVERYONE GO AWAY AND LET ME PONDER THE MYSTERIES OF THE UNIVERSE.'

In my country, you have to do... Maths until Year 11, where you have to do it for at least a semester. Same applies for English and Science. Some sort of arts subject (music/drama/art) until Year 9. Geography or History until Year 10, where you have to do it for a semester. Same goes for sports. Oddly enough, our state is the only state in Australia that doesn't make English compulsory during Year 12.

Sorry, didn't see this. Uhm, well, I was happy to write when Jamie was organising it, and I'm still happy to do that now, so if anyone wants me to write anything, etc., I'd be happy to do that :)

1. Intervention - Arcade Fire 2. I'd Rather Dance With You - Kings of Convenience :heart: :dance: 3. Chased By... I Don't Know What - Snow Patrol 4. Batten Down the Hatch - Snow Patrol 5. Better (Piano and Voice Cut) - Regina Spektor 6. Sunshine - Evermore 7. Days Without Paracetamol - Snow Patrol 8. Lucky - Radiohead 9. Real Life - Evermore 10. Kicking & Screaming - Hills and Trains 11. Hey Good Try - Special Patrol 12. The Judge's Daughter - Green Day 13. I Want to Save You - Something Corporate 14. Airports - Something Corporate 15. You Don't See Me - Keane 16. In the Wash - Special Patrol 17. Nocturne #4 in F - Frederic Chopin 18. Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls 19. Your Love - Keane 20. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) (Live) - Green Day HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE I DON'T EVEN GRARGH

Just been reading Roadie: My Life on the Road with Coldplay. In it, Matt McGinn (Jonny's guitar tech) lists Jonny's guitars and setup: '6 x Vintage Fender '72 Thinline Telecasters (tuned in all sort of ways from normal, standard tuning right through to a crazy-ass one for '42' that has each string tuned to a different F). All Jon's electric guitars have names ending in 'y' - Blacky, Sunny, Browny, etc. 2 x Vintage Fender Jazzmasters - Jazzy A and B (tarted up, normally tuned) 2 x Vintage Gibson Les Paul Deluxes (like Thin Lizzy, but decorated and tuned way down low a la Rammstein) 2 x Gibson SJ200 Acoustics (named, helpfully, McGoo and NuMcGoo) 1 x Fender Hot Rod 2x12 DeVille amplifier (and two spares) 1 x Marshall 100w Plexi and spare 1 x Marshall 1960BX cabinet and spare Note: Amps don't have names. It'd be silly. A few yards of emergency guitar lead, logic information cable and two signal 'looms'... ...there's one 4-foot by 2-foot custom-built pedal board comprising: 1 x flashing mute switch (cuts all sound except echo trails - handy for onstage tuning or guitar changes between songs) 1 x channel switch for less or more amp volume and distortion, which Jonny never uses (a bit like the turbo on a fast, sexy car that's stuck in the garage) 1 x Line 6 DL4 delay (echoey) 1 x Boss DD5 delay (echoey and backwards) 1 x Boss RV3 reverb/delay (echoey like in a small wet cave) 1 x cheap Guyatone Chorus (makes it go all Pink Floyd/Doctor Who-ey) 1 x Vintage Rat (evil, mucky distortion like Black Sabbath) 1 x Tube Screamer (sort of 80s rock overdrive) 1 x Power Screamer (new wave thrasy version of above... see intro of Politik, etc. 1 x Boss TU2 Digital Tuner (for tuning!) Volume Pedal and two Expression Pedals, for causing swell and messing with outboard effects during songs. Lots of weapons-grade, high-performance foot-buttons for switching all of the above stuff in and out (these are, according to Mike Hill - who built the rig for us - guaranteed up to a million stomps. Right.) Linked to all this, off to Jonny's side in my under-stage guitar world, is a large, crazy rack like a roadie one-armed bandit full up with tons of sounds processing, routing and switching kit like that, allegedly, I'm in total control of. For the anoraks still reading, it contains: Signal Distro and Switching Units, for sending everything to the right places' (haaah, Everything in its Right Place :D ) 'and selecting a source (eg radio guitar pack or cable) 2 x Shure Dual Radio Receivers (main and spare - you can't get The Archers on either of these, I've tried it) 1 x global level controller, so you can up the overall volume level if one guitar's a bit shyer than the rest 2 x TC2290 delay units - great for pure, perfect-sounding echoes... kind of a fjord-y vibe that's super clean and Danish 2 x Line 6 Echo Pro units - more handy for fucked-up, screwy delays that hopefully don't exit anywhere in reality and might do your head in. 2 x Eventide H7600 - an insanely overcapable piece of high-end silliness that probably contains the secret answer to the Music of the Spheres. Eno - who else? - showed us how you could get some incredible, other-worldly noises out of this device but it (and its user manual) are way too aloff so I've stuck it near the bottom of the rack, just to teach it some humility. A full set of illuminated control buttons, just for me, so I can help Jonny out if he's too busy showing off to get to the onstage pedal board himself. 1 x Midi Controller - Basically, it's just this thing with switches on it that's really useful! Google 'MIDI' (Musically Instrument Digital Interface) if you're that arsed, but I'm not. It's basically a time saving way of getting song and effect changes happening fast, really. Mysterious, amazing and very clever but ultimately not much of a page-turner... ...there's now a proper spare rig now too - basically a smaller version of the above that's always plugged in, mic'd up and ready to go - along with other vital little bits of kit like pletrums/picks, capos (pitch changing metal devices for guitar necks), e-bows (whizzy plastic hand-held tools that make the instrument go EEEEOOOO like on Rio by Duran Duran), and slides (glass or metal tubes that, if worn on the finger, turn the user into a blues man/strangled tabby.' Hopefully this helps :)

I know we've seen that the title of the newspaper is MX, but has anyone noticed the middle...? LI FD, as far as I can decipher. LI is 51... maybe 5/1 (ie May 1)?

Well, I'm excited now. :D The sounds actually sound really nice... if the album sounds like this, I won't mind at all :D

It baffles me that Owl City are ranked above The Decemberists.

Maybe she's going on for the specific purpose of getting ripped to shreds for her abomination of music... or maybe they'll bring in Kanye and interrupt her.

Sounds like fun! I'll be tweeting throughout the day :D

Neither have I... and yet I've already posted at least two references to it on Tumblr... :P

As well as my main blog, I have succumbed to normality and created a second blog. It's about an experiment I'm doing in Minecraft, sooo... yeah. Enjoy xD

LOVE the Oatmeal :D

'Dad'. Mum was pretty mad it wasn't her... :P

But seriously, a green finger probably means you have gangrene. I suggest surgery; cut your arm off at the neck to avoid further infection.

I bought a mood ring in New Zealand once. Long story short, it ended up in the ocean :| /ontopic