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1) All Together 2) Euphony 3) Generation X-wing (Rooms)...soooo hard to call 4) Suburbia 5) Sort of a Protest Song 6) A Boy and His Machine Gun 7) It's Been A While Since I Was Your Man 8) A Long Way Down 9) Truffle Pigs

well its been 45 mins since i sent out the email and i still havent stopped checking my inbox like every minute or two. i think that its fair to say that if they havent sent them out in the next 10-15mins that it could take way too long to keep checking and just come give her a look later tonight. i cant take anymore of this suspense

i have lived my entire 20 year life in Ottawa and am still not quite sure what the hell the capital theatre is unless they mean capital music hall. in that case its right by the U of O campus, but either way there's plenty of time to find that stuff out

haha, i did the exact same thing, had the weather channel on but it went to commercial so i flipped over to the tv guide channel. i can live with not gettin tickets better than i could have lived if i had been disqualified for sending my email like a couple seconds or a minute early

how long do u figure the turnaround time will be on the confirmations, 10 mins, an hour, more? i really just dont have a clue but i really wanna know before i head off at 1:30 for my 2:30 class

oh man that really sucks. well if me and all my freinds get one we'll have eight tickets between us so if there's an extra at the end of the day maybe we can hook you up

i havent gotten a reply yet, and neither have three of my friends. i just gave a basic two, three line email that gave my name and why I was sending an email. Any further info they might need would probly be asked on confirmation, otherwise they would have specified that specific info was needed

i can send it to you if you give me a way to reach you.

I personally agree with you that song for the girl (and maybe double life) could be considered lyrically soft compared to what he would have put out in BM days. In fact, even with Avalanche being my fav album, I think it would have likely been better without song for the girl (and maybe double life), but for a different reason. The reason I think this is not because the song(s) were bad, but because they just didn't seem to fit the rest of the album in my opinion, musically, lyrically and just in the overall feel. As for the softness of the lyrics in that song, i think it is less a product of unoriginality or lack of touch/effort but merely that of maturity as a man and artist. He is at a point in his career where he doesn't care about being the 'smartest kid in class', he no longer has to be embarassed or ashamed to have an obvious love/emotional song. Too many artists are afraid to write that way because it leaves them exposed in a way that ambiguous or methaphorical lyrics don't. I hope I didn't come off to attacking cause i am merely stating how i feel. But i will agree with that song for the girl never would have come out in his MGB days and was the weakest part of avalanche.

1) Middle Class Gangsters 2) Born To Kill 3) My Out of Style Is Coming Back 4) Agoraphobe 5) Carmelina 6) Prime Time Deliverance 7) The War Is Over 8) In A World Called Catastrophe 9) Weapon wow, all my round 1 picks won! didn't like the fact that two of In A World Called Catastrophe/Weapon/Blue Skies/Can't Get Shot have to be out so early, but i guess that's the way things gotta go

yeah i see where you guys are coming from, even when i voted i had a hard time with that, and it's my friggin poll! but i was just trying to avoid everyone simply voting for north american for life, which would have been an effort in pointlessness. that being said i purposely worded it 'least liked song' so that even if you liked every single song on the cd you could still vote. I personally fall into 'liked every song' category but thought NAFL was the worst and PTD was my second least fav (i expected so much more from it since i loved the original so much). but whatever, it's just a stupid poll and we can just let it run off the board's front page if people don't like making the choice. cheers!

i can understand all the people that think that MG's lyrics have gone downhill recently, because I think that WLR&RR had some soft or better yet, 'obvious' lyrics for a good part of it. But cane you guys really say that Avalanche was lyrically inferior to his old days with MGB? It may just be me, but I really think his best period lyrically and artistically started with Audio of Being and reached it's peak in Avalanche. Not to say that he wasn't meaningful and introspective in his Underdogs/BM days, but back then it seems more songs were merely cynical remarks, criticisms, and off-setting of anger where as AOB and Avalanche seemed to have a deeper, more emotional meaning to them. He really seemed to pour himself out musically for those two records, and it shows in their moodiness and general atmosphere with AOB being very dark (his low-point) and Avalanche as a sort of coming back/re-awakening. I dunno, it's just my personal taste and a lot of my reasons for could be used as reasons against. Some people just prefer the angry, cynic to the heartfelt outpouring, and there's nothing wrong with that. But as for me, lyrically and musically, his peak was AOB and Avalanche.

tough to compare because in sheer volume his first 5 releases (as MGB) are gonna produce more good songs than anything he could release on two cds as MG (3 if u count in a coma). but on the other hand, avalanche is my single favourite cd with a tough choice at second being probly Audio of Being. So all that being said, I'm gonna say in terms of sheer quantity MGB is better, in terms of fav cd, Avalanche takes the cake. As an overall I'll give the edge to MGB, but will say that if he continues to put out what is in my opinion Avalanche-quality stuff, then I would pick MG.

Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens

I didn't originally start this poll because I thought from the general reactions goin round that it would be lopsided in favour one 1 or 2 songs (primarily NAFL). But after seeing the somewhat surprising results (no votes for strange days?) of the favs poll, I started wondering how this would turn out. As for the way I made the poll, i just did it this way because almost everybody I've talked to in person either hated the new North American For Life, or liked it but less than the rest of the cd. This poll would be pointless if it was completely lopsided, so intead if someone does hate that song they can still pick it but then clarify what they liked second least. Let me clear up before the ragging starts too, that I am not one of the people that hated NAFL and actually enjoy it more than the original version (which i was never a big fan of).

1) Flashdance II 2) Rat Who Would Be King (cmon people) 3) Tripoli (Rooms)...this one was really tough 4) Entresol 5) Life Beyond The Minimum Safe Distance 6) Man From Harold Wood 7) The Fine Art of Falling Apart 8) A Better Pain 9) Four Minute Mile

To anyone wonderin why they can't find the dvd after i explicitly said it would be out on the 20th (which is the official release date), it appears there was a minor delay. I talked to some people at my local HMV and Music World stores and the HMV people said that they had them on order, and they were supposed to arrive on the 20th but were merely late. Music world wasn't sure whether they were getting them at all but said that it was very common for releases of this nature to be delayed like this. So don't worry Clone High fans out there, just keep checking the shelves, especially those of HMV stores, and they should be there very soon. P.S.- HMV had the listing price at $29.99 so it should deinitely not cost more than that. However in the good news section of all of this the guy did say there was a good chance that price would actually come down when it hits the shelves.

it was a tough call with some of my favs being tripoli, truffle pigs, and a couple others but in the end i think i gotta pick the new Gen X-wing. that was was great because it was changed enough to be fresh and new but without making it sound worse than the original (such as PTD in my opinion after the first listen). i may even like the new version better than the original, which i always loved, because the new feel of the song seems to illuminate what is being said lyrically. but anyways enough of me, i'd like to see the numbers and reasons from all of you, so vote away.

"Last year, Abe said he was 15 years old. Now he claims to be 16. Which is it, Abe? Better keep your story straight. He'd also like you to believe he's not a baby eater. But he's never gone on record saying he isn't. Maybe he's too busy eating babies!"

I don't know how many of you ever watched or heard of Clone High but it was a great show. It was a comedy cartoon that was actually produced in Canada for MTV. Unfortunately it suffered the same fate as Undergrads and was cancelled after the first 13 episode long season. There are lots of reasons thrown out there for this, but the main one appears to be that the show was under constant legal troubles because of it's controversial premise (especially by followers of Gandhi). But anyways, all that stuff aside, the show's first and only season is finally being released on DVD on Sep. 20th, the same day as in a coma. Just thought i'd throw this up there for any fans of the show that didn't hear about this release or for anyone that has $20-30 bucks to spare and an insane willingness to buy stuff on a stranger's recommendation. "Stop getting all up in my business, Mr. B. I saw the first two-thirds of the MC Hammer Behind the Music, and if there's one thing I learned about money, it's that it never runs out." - Scudworth

Every Rose Has It's Thorn - Poison haha, this band was sooo damn funny...the hair, the crappiness...it should be a crime that they are in this forum but, oh well

does anyone know if there is any specific reason that Matt Good is not playing a show in Ottawa, other than the win-tickets Bear show? i realize that a few years back he stopped a show at the congress centre early (i was there) because people threw stuff at him, but he had seemed to put that behind him seeing that he's played about 6+ shows here since then. i just don't understand why he wouldn't play a second show here, especially when you figure that a good chunk of people that go to the Bear show will only be there for the concert and not because they are MG fans. i know he has no obligation to play here and i'm not complaining, i'm just kind of surprised and was wondering if anyone knew of any reason. as for me, looks like i'm headed to montreal twice in the same month for concerts. i am gonna be sooo broke soon...

i have no idea why, but the new video clip wouldnt work for me either. maybe it doesnt work for anybody right now or maybe we just suck and the world hates us?

i suggest The Man in the High Castle to anyone that can appreciate unexpected subtlety in a book. if u go read a description don't think that it's gonna be a book about unbearable Hitleresque dictatortship or solely about the evils of totalitarian politics. this book is about people and their lives; how the world forces their hands; how their cultures clash and contain inherent traditions and tendencies, especially in how they see the world. and like all Phillip Dick novels, there is a large theme in the story about reality and what it entails. great book but not for everyone.

this feels so repetitive but here i go anyways. for the 50th time... Slaughterhouse-five by Kurt Vonnegut Man In the High Castle by Phillip K. Dick