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Do the words of a rap matter? Deep question, here.

Would it make sense to have a separate section of the forum for literature/poetry/stories etc. that members write themselves and want to share?

To be honest, it would be cool if he was in the special, and as I said earlier, I heard that they're casting a Troughton for the special.

Critics didn't mind Mylo Xyloto; Q gave it five stars and Pitchfork gave it 7/10, for example. And remember, Pitchfork only given Viva 6.9 and Rush 5.1. Maybe stop thinking in genre, and start thinking in whether something is good or bad. If Mylo Xyloto was a bad album, it was because of the quality of the songs, not because it was a "pop album". (Which is wasn't, by the way). Radiohead are considered a rock band, but I'll just shuffle three of their songs on my iPod for you: first one was described as Thom Yorke as a 70s dance song (Lotus Flower), second one was sampled by a rapper/DJ act (Planet Telex), third one features a full brass band (Life in a Glasshouse). Also, remember that good production and good songwriting are not mutually exclusive. All production does is dress a song up, and is there anything you wear that's more important that what you think?

Lol sorry, just the way you said "can't believe they are actually saying where, when and who" implied that you thought David Bradley had been cast in the 50th special.

Am I the only person to notice that Patrick Carney looks like the disabled kid from Glee?

:D On it.

Also, always write with the end in mind. This doesn't really have much of a conclusion.

I sent them an angry Facebook post before Christmas complaining about the Captchas and they informed me they'd do something about it. So, rest of y'all... you're welcome.

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I don't see why we have to label an album as something. MX wasn't just a pop album, it encompassed the old Coldplay acoustic sound, the Viva-fied wordless singalongs, the electronics of X&Y and a new direction. A couple of the riffs reminded me of A Rush of Blood songs, it wasn't just a package of "We are Coldplay we are working with Rihanna now and wearing fluorescent clothes and we have lights and synths and guitars are gay". They'll do the same thing on the next album; they'll incorporate bits of Coldplay that we love, bits that we didn't think we'd see again, and influences that they haven't shown us before. I find it slightly narrowminded that people want to box Coldplay up into "rock", "pop", "acoustic", "good" or "bad". If you want to box them, the word you're looking for is "evolution". LP6 will be as diverse as LP5.

"Liam's a man with a fork in a world full of soup". We could back-and-forth with Gallagher quotations all day. Though I did like Liam the other week saying "Mumford and Sons look like they have fucking nits." Brilliant.

Daleks are the only adversary to appear in every season thus far, even if it's just for five minutes or so in the later finales. S1, Dalek S1, Bad Wolf S1, The Parting of the Ways S2, Army of Ghosts S2, Doomsday S3, Daleks in Manhattan S3, Evolution of the Daleks S4, The Stolen Earth S4, Journey's End S5, Victory of the Daleks S5, The Pandorica Opens S5, Big Bang S6, The Wedding of River Song S7, Asylum of the Daleks Need a life, I just named all of them off by heart :\

This isn't actually a Doctor Who episode, you realise? It's a docu-drama about the creators of the show.

I think I'm probably the last one to read one of these stories, but careful with your tenses, and maybe try it as a tv script or monologue, as you seem more comfortable inhabiting someone else's voice; the narrator sometimes seems like a third character altogether. Also, what actually happened to Ashley? Did Rezzy get the phone call? I expected him to walk into the interview and see Miles there after he'd tripped him up, or something along those lines; are you gonna tie up the loose thread of the Q store subplot in another story?

There are few better time-wasters on YouTube than musician interviews. "Is Morrissey really a vegetarian? Does he not even like sausages? Everyone likes fucking sausages" -- Noel Gallagher. "Working with members of your family is hard. It's even harder when that member is Liam Gallagher." -- Noel again. "They sit on an apex of meaningless, and they mean nothing to no one apart from their fuck-ugly girlfriends." -- Noel on the Kaiser Chiefs. "Their music would be really good if they got rid of the ginger one." -- Murdoc Niccals on Girls Aloud. "Some people would call that rock and roll... I just call it unhygenic." -- Matt Helders (Arctic Monkeys) on drumming/sweating in your jeans. "It's a homogenisation of everything that will ultimately lead to emptiness, and a silly, naive way of connecting ideas" -- Damon Albarn on Glee. "I feel so safe surrounded by exotic cheese" -- Alex James (Blur). "My family can all speak Spanish and they just leave me to sit in the corner, watching Neighbours." -- Chris Martin "To show you what kind of a background I'm from, one day my dad was having a dinner, and his colleague said, 'what do your children do?' He said 'well, one of my sons works for a bank, and one of them is an international rockstar,' and this guy replied 'Wow! Which bank?'" -- Chris again

Coldplay birthday cake. I did my sister a Coldplay birthday cake. Thought I'd share, though probably in the wrong place entirely.

Does anyone know them/like them? Probably for fans of MGMT, Tame Impala, etc. Just recently released their sophomore album, I hear.

Definitely. But not only that, but when Muse do bombast, it always has a tongue-in-cheek feel to it, to me at least. Knights of Cydonia is mildly amusing, same with Survival, and Supremacy I laughed at the first time I heard, just for the "Suuuupremaccyyyyyy!" line. Maybe just me, but I don't think they're the right band for something like Bond. Last Shadow Puppets for Bond 24 please. <3

If he wanted money, he'd release a greatest hits with two new songs on, or release remasters and rarities. He'd have done the Olympics too; pretty sure when they asked him for the third time, they were offering him millions.

The strings sound Bond-esque. I like Supremacy, but I think they made the right decision with Skyfall. Has a bit more class in my opinion.

Allegedly, though I'd be surprised if all HMVs close nationwide. If they do keep some going, I'd be equally as surprised if the Oxford Street branch closes.

The flagship HMV down Oxford Street has vinyls, but I wouldn't say HMV is necessarily a good store, it's just conveniently located. Nevertheless, I bought my Sigur Ros vinyl in there.

It's hard to say what you really think about a poem, because a lot of people think poetry is personal. But it doesn't have to be a way to throw your thoughts onto a page and call it art, that's what Twitter's for. I write poetry at uni because it's the misbehaviour of language. You can say things in poetry like "He never picked for himself the pear of her heart, or lifted her hand to where his own heart, was a small, dark, terrified bird, in her grip. Where it hurt." It flows and it's like all watching a montage of a story. It's not random ideas scrawled down, for people to interpret as deep or astounding. Poetry is to dancing what writing is to walking, and that's the key to a good poem. This is from my final uni project. I'm doing a collection of poems centred on the idea of memory, loss and family. ____ Submarines Do you remember that crunching, gravelly path, the river following, like a dog off the lead? You told me that beneath the blue – among the beams that stream through skylights of rooms – lived submarines; I guess I believed you. We’d wander by the water in the evening; the surface would glitter like the frosty crystals of an ice cream tub lid. Like a rickety bridge; I thought the surface would sway, shapeshift; accommodate my weight, if I were to swim to the other side. But when I fell in, just a splash. A crash and the flashes of crystal were gone, and I cried; I looked for submarines and found none.

Arctic Monkeys, I'm hoping for.