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God if someone wrote me a song like Fix You... :dead:

Hm. I shall try both

Yea, I use natural deodorant, which doesn't really do that much haha. What's actually a really effective natural deodorant is lemon/lime juice, sounds weird but the citric acid kills the bacteria on your skin really effectively, I use that sometimes.

The aluminum that's used as an antipersperant in most deodorants is linked to Alzheimers, it may have been that?

Usually when I leave the house, too lazy usually to use when I'm at home. I don't really get BO when I'm at home either, or really very often at all...

Because the help I got on my play last year was actually amazing and I ended up writing the best play abuot a possibly-schizo medical student who sees aliens EVAR. so um yeah I need to write a short storeh now and have no ideas :blank: halp?

Causers of This :blush:

Probably Coldplaying, because I should procrastinate less, I'm in communication outside of it with most of my favorite people from it anyway, and real death = bad

Neat. I like how everyone in the Coldplay section tries to pretend that Coldplay isn't a pop band these days, get over yourselves guys. Chris' collaborations recently have actually made pretty good pop songs imo.

Ah, right. To be honest, I didn't know they signed contracts that binding. Thanks for informing me. As far as labels seeing band tour profits, not certain but I would assume they would be able to. It probably depends on the contract. They'd certainly want to see them so they could get an assessment of what they want to do with the band.

Right, I totally agree. Like I mentioned most people cannot do what Radiohead did, but in a perfect world, it would be awesome if all albums could be In Rainbows-style. And I agree that small, young bands need the labels, but especially after they get off the ground, most of it comes from the bands. I do think people should buy the CDs of bands trying to get off the ground, for sure, and I'm even okay with the labels taking so damn much of it themselves, cause they do totally help the bands get out there. But once the label's put the album out, it gets online and people download it, and then they buy the tickets for the band's touring -- besides the label acting as an initial catalyst I think it goes back to the bands themselves like I explained.

What do you mean exactly by "don't deserve their fame"? Pop artists make hard to create music people like, period. Ignoring the fact that I'm rather partial to the two examples you used (a bit like Bryce above me), I don't get the argument that pop stars "don't deserve their fame/money". Music is a capitalist world where people are rewarded based on popularity regardless of what an individual's taste is; to say that any pop artist "doesn't deserve their fame/money" is just a petty way of saying you don't like them and wish they weren't famous... or it seems that way to me. I totally get your argument that they have money and don't need it anymore, though, and agree, basically, though. I was just nitpicking over your wording. This is why everyone should be a hipster and only go see live shows and buy the CDs of small indie bands, like Eddie mentioned. Big labels especially (small labels do this, too, but not quite as badly) soak up almost all the profits from CD sales, meaning not much of CD sales trickles down to the artist. The artist gets money from marketing itself/themselves. By that I mean, they get money from doing live shows, selling merch, etc. You look at a band like Radiohead -- they put out an entire album for potentially free ranging up to however much you wanted to pay. In my opinion (not just my Radiohead-fangirl opinion), this is the way to go. Just considering the CD itself: If somebody got it and thoguht it was shit, or didn't have the resources to pay, or just didnt' give a fuck, done. They didn't get much if anything from that listener. Tough beans. In fact, most people did this. 62% didn't pay anything. But based on the (subjective, obviously) quality of the record, other people, in fact mostly people who would normally just download a leak illegally (though lots of them would possibly buy the record in stores, of course!), felt morally obligated to pay what they thought the record was worth. Most of them paid something around five to ten bucks, that is, well below normal retail price at a cheap store. But. But. Let's assume everybody paid 5 bucks, just for the sake of argument. The middleman is utterly cut out. Record label gets nothing. Local record store gets nothing (sad, because I like local record stores, but beyond the point of this particular economic model). Everybody not involved directly in the production of the album (band, producers, technicians) gets nada. What does the band get? Five dollars for one copy of the album. That's 1/3 of average retail price, and that's a fucking lot, way more than they would have gotten for the sale of that album if it'd been put out on a label in stores. In this way I would estimate Radiohead made around as much as they wfould have if they'd put it out commercially (Fuck if I know, though -- but they certainly got enough. My main point coming up next is that it ultimately matters little anyway, though), AND their fans thought they were fucking awesome -- leading to something I've been ignoring: merchandise, tour tickets, et cetera. Tickets to a Radiohead concert are insane. A Radiohead shirt that probably takes a couple bucks at most to mass-produce costs $20. What I'm trying to show here is that bands don't get money from their labels, they get money from themselves, from their own marketing of themselves. That labels take such credit for bands' success are fucking pathetic now that downloads are so common. Sure, it used to be you heard a band on a CD put out by a label, but now the focus has obviously shifted back to what are the bands themselves gonna do to make money? which is the way I think it should be, and labels should just shut the fuck up and be glad that most bands aren't massive enough (like Radiohead) to follow a scheme like Radiohead did for In Rainbows. My three cents. I ended up writing way more than I wanted but this post gets most of my feelings about this issue accross pretty well I think.

Of country, definitely older, of blues, mostly older, of jazz, pretty even mix. A lot of modern jazz fusion is awesome.

Hm. Maybe you're right. I hope so though. we'll have to see

Piano but not that well and I haven't practiced in like a month at least. Also I can do a few blues licks on harmonica but I doubt that counts. I want to learn guitar one day but we don't have the money for one.

I think Chris loves him, I got a song by him off his mixtape that's awesome, called Passing By [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4LsDPdD4T4]YouTube - Ulrich Schnauss - Far away trains passing by[/ame]

Really? Sweet! I love Causers of This, such a good chill-out album

yeah pretty much Jazz: (Hard to find a lot of jazz on youtube sadly, but I'll link some stuff I like) Emily Remler original isn't on youtube but here's her explaining how to play the hook: [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gm7EKTr_H0]YouTube - Emily Remler - Mocha Spice[/ame] Eric Reed (not much good of him on Youtube) Regina Carter [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT1ozaUdFZE]YouTube - Mood Indigo Regina Carter[/ame] Chet Baker's a total dick but he knows how to play the horn and has an amazing voice like silk [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug2LQxOe53Q&feature=fvst]YouTube - Chet baker - my funny valentine[/ame] Monk (Monk's hardcore) http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=thelonious+monk+straight+no+chaser&aq=f I'll refrain from listing more... I really love a lot of jazz, my dad has a huge jazz record/cd/tape collection and some of it's boring but the good stuff is AMAZING. Country, I like Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan and stuff. Old country is pretty good. Blues is awesome, <3 Robert Johnson and B. B. King and etc.

derp

yah, I said "partially"...

you think? hahaha

No I definitely wasn't. hahaha. Do you get back in school tomorrow? I forgotted

I was just joshin' ya, gal :lips:

I feel kind of bad for not voting, it's just too hard for me to bother :shame: Anyway I predict that The Suburbs will come in first, although undeservedly imo. Top ten is gonna have Kanye, LCD Soundsystem, Deerhunter (my top three :blush:), Vampire Weekend, Gorillaz, Soofyawn, unsure of what else. I hope of Montreal does well. :nice:

ooh, yellow name, fancy. Do they get to keep it?