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YoYoDawgs
Member Since: 10/19/2004
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I'm kind of in depressed states myself. It's like I'm a really cool person to those who know me, yet somehow I find myself bored every Friday night, basically every weekend by myself. I'm a sociable recluse, an oxymoron if you will.
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You better call up every friend you got and see if someone's throwing a party. There's a 80% chance one of them is. Spending every Friday bored to death is NOT acceptable 
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Member Since: 5/1/2007
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Aw, c'mon! Where is everybody?
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Sorry I was on the phone 
You should cry sometimes.. it is good.
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Member Since: 6/16/2006
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lol I was looking at one of your old blog posts.
And I saw:
Pete Rock - They Reminisce Over You
That song to me is one of the best hip hop songs of all time. Not to mention Kanye and Common make a reference to it in "Can't Tell Me Nothing" and "I Want You"
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Member Since: 5/25/2007
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i so love the way i are!!!!
can i add Don't Stop The Music by Rihanna!=)
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 12/29/2003
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You know... I just realized this is Chris...
Wow. I feel slow. Darn name changes!
Anyway, lol at "Party Hard" I remember that song!
Sadly for you, I felt very sleepy last night 
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Member Since: 7/2/2006
Posts: 3,175
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This Is A Song from The Magic Numbers always makes me cry
And plz add Evanescence's My Immortal... that song knows how to touch me lol
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Member Since: 1/9/2004
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A Possible Turning Point and a Quarter to Go.
So, tomorrow I find out about what could possibly be a turning point in my life. Its really critical to me and I hope to God that this thing comes to fruition. I'm not going to tell you exactly what I'm talking about, but please if you could, pray for me, bless me, do some voodoo, whatever.
Thanks.
In other news, I can't ****ing WAIT to do my year end countdown. It's going to blow all your ****ing [wang chung natural born] lives. It's taken me all I have to not come up with a list of the 75 songs from the first 3 quarters of the year, but I've done it. Expect some surprises is all I'm saying, some **** that didn't even MAKE the.top.twenty will be on there. Get Ready, bitches.
I also can't wait to see what the rest of October, November and December bring for me. There are a couple of things I feel are missing from my life and I VOW to use the next 80+ days to attain what I want. No more bull********.
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 12/21/2002
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I wish you luck with whatever you're up to tomorrow, and yes, the year-end countdowns are coming soon! Should be a great time, as usual.
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Member Since: 5/24/2007
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i feel lefted out.... but go0d luck!!
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ATRL Senior Member
Member Since: 9/26/2001
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I don't know what you're talking about, but here's to hoping everything turns out okay just the same.
YEAR-END COUNTDOWNS! YES!
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Member Since: 1/9/2004
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AND...He Strikes Out! (Again)
So.
The thing I was being so secretive about yesterday was this job interview I had at a restaurant called Bubba Gump's in Times Square. My first interview was on Friday, and that went well, but my second interview...eh, not so much. And I quote: "I'm very partial to shrimp".  Why the **** did I say that? So, the final interview is the third one and I was hopefully anticipating being called back today, but nope.
This is my seventh job I've applied for and the seventh one I've been turned down on. It's like how much longer do I have to trudge along loveless and without any true enjoyment in my life before God strikes me down and puts me out of my misery?
Well, if I'm good at one thing in my life, it's writing - writing about music especially interests me. So, here's a little excerpt from an album review I wrote for my music writing class about one of the best albums of the year. It's not finished, but it should work...
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Sometime between 1998 and 2004, it seems someone, something, let the freak off of its leash. It fled upon its release and unleashed its wrath in full force, devouring all opposition and leaving hardly any indication that its domain had ever been disturbed. The freak emerged as victorious, true, but at the price of losing one (possibly two of its bandmates), and struggling with album sales in a music industry where the compact disc is on the edge of extinction. Past all the adversity, the freak is now tame, astute and expanding its horizons.
This year, Korn (the freak) endured another troubling blow when founding drummer David Silveria announced that he would not be recording or touring with his band for this album, their eighth studio effort, opting instead to spend time with his family and manage his restaurant. This comes only two years after the band’s split with guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, now famed for renewing his faith in Jesus and vilifying Korn at every given opportunity. Taking into account frontman Jonathan Davis’s battle with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (a rare blood disorder) last year, and the fact that the three studio albums following 1999’s triple-platinum Issues have barely pushed past the million mark, they’re holding up pretty well. Lesser bands would have, or rather, have disintegrated under such circumstances.
So what do Davis, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu and James “Munky” Shaffer do now? With the “nu-metal” stigmatization and Fred Durst left for dead miles behind the reach of their rearview mirror, Korn abandon all inhibitions and make the album of their career.
Where their last album, 2005’s See You On the Other Side was a toe dip in the pool to test temperature, Untitled (actually named “Untitled” since their debut album was self-titled) confidently cannonballs and does laps instinctively. The former’s sound was excused by the fact that it was Korn’s first venture into experimentation but somehow, with the transition in ambience came a watering down of lyrics and subject matter. Gone were the ultra-violent retellings of abuse and adolescent turmoil; they were replaced by Jonathan’s pseudo-reflections on the world around him with all too obvious titles (“Politics”, “Hypocrites”, “Getting Off”, etc.). The album was critically well-received, true, but it seemed the band had died completely and Korn purists were left bewildered.
So they started over… with a song aptly titled “Starting Over”, funnily enough. Following the eerie “circus-gone-evil” chimes of the intro, “Starting” startles with fill-in drummer Terry Bozzio’s assault which eventually gives way to a paranoid bass line during the verses, frenetic drums during the chorus and build up to a psychedelic crescendo laced by piano. Davis’s anguish is palpable as he antagonizes what seems to be a higher power to “come take [him]”- mighty words coming from someone once embattled by alcoholism and drug addiction. The next track, “Bitch We Got A Problem” begins with a screech and leads to verses that alternate between danceable and chaotic every two lines, making the music as schizophrenic as the subject matter of the song itself (“which one, which one of you is into me / which one, which one of me is into you?”).
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Member Since: 5/1/2007
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Too bad about your job. Hopefully you'll get one soon.
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Album Review for Music Writing Class. Read. Or Get Crabs.
Sometime between 1998 and 2004, it seems someone, something, let the freak off of its leash. It fled upon its release and unleashed its wrath in full force, devouring all opposition and leaving hardly any indication that its domain had ever been disturbed. The freak emerged as victorious, true, but at the price of losing one (possibly two of its bandmates), and struggling with album sales in a music industry where the compact disc is on the edge of extinction. Past all the adversity, the freak is now tame, astute and expanding its horizons.
This year, Korn (the freak) endured another troubling blow when founding drummer David Silveria announced that he would not be recording or touring with his band for this album, their eighth studio effort, opting instead to spend time with his family and manage his restaurant. This comes only two years after the band’s split with guitarist Brian “Head” Welch, now famed for renewing his faith in Jesus and vilifying Korn at every given opportunity. Taking into account frontman Jonathan Davis’s battle with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura (a rare blood disorder) last year, and the fact that the three studio albums following 1999’s triple-platinum Issues have barely pushed past the million mark, they’re holding up pretty well. Lesser bands would have, or rather, have disintegrated under such circumstances.
So what do Davis, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu and James “Munky” Shaffer do now? With the “nu-metal” stigmatization and Fred Durst left for dead miles behind the reach of their rearview mirror, Korn abandon all inhibitions and make the album of their career.
Where their last album, 2005’s See You On the Other Side was a toe dip in the pool to test temperature, Untitled (actually named “Untitled” since their debut album was self-titled) confidently cannonballs and does laps instinctively. The former’s sound was excused by the fact that it was Korn’s first venture into experimentation but somehow, with the transition in ambience came a watering down of lyrics and subject matter. Gone were the ultra-violent retellings of abuse and adolescent turmoil; they were replaced by Jonathan’s pseudo-reflections on the world around him with all too obvious titles (“Politics”, “Hypocrites”, “Getting Off”, etc.). The album was critically well-received, true, but it seemed the band had died completely and Korn purists were left bewildered.
So they started over… with a song aptly titled “Starting Over”, funnily enough. Following the eerie “circus-gone-evil” chimes of the intro, “Starting” startles with fill-in drummer Terry Bozzio’s assault which eventually gives way to a paranoid bass line during the verses, frenetic drums during the chorus and build up to a psychedelic crescendo laced by piano. Davis’s anguish is palpable as he antagonizes what seems to be a higher power to “come take [him]”- mighty words coming from someone once embattled by alcoholism and drug addiction. The next track, “Bitch We Got A Problem” begins with a screech and leads to verses that alternate between danceable and chaotic every two lines, making the music as schizophrenic as the subject matter of the song itself (“which one, which one of you is into me / which one, which one of me is into you?”). It is here Jonathan displays the elasticity of his singing ability, he croons, barks and makes for one of the band’s most catchy choruses to date by using repetition.
“Evolution”, the album’s first single, slows things down a bit. If its swooping pendulum-esque guitars didn’t cancel out the bombast you’d come to expect from the band, the lyrics (“the number one virus caused by procreation”) should do the job. Ironically enough, “Evolution” is the first song to disprove the notion that the old Korn is long gone. At approximately 2:39, the band unleashes that sonic assault that brought millions of troubled youth to adore them, shortly following the chanted declaration that “nothing much has changed”. The heavy, industrial-tinged “Hold On” and scream-laden “Do What They Say” provide a great contrast to the track they sandwich--the best track on the album.
“Kiss” is first and foremost, a ballad. While the band has tried their hands at slower songs before (see “Alone I Break”, “Tearjerker”), the result this time is nothing less than perfection. Many bands have tried their hands at the “rock ballad” before, clearly aiming for Top 40 success - not this one, though. “Kiss” is as sincere and forthcoming as any other Korn song. The violin flourishes accentuate the delivery of Davis’s clear-cut, heart-wrenching lyrics, and the muffled drums that immediately precede the second verse make for a rewind-inducing pinnacle for ears. The psychedelic bridge is enough to make one envision a panorama of dark colors and abstract shapes, and Jonathan’s reverberating whimpers make for a grand finale to this ambitious track.
While no tracks come close to capturing the splendor of the aforementioned song “Ever Be” makes for an admirable second-place candidate. One of two tracks to further address the band’s feud with ex-bandmate Head, “Ever Be” crucifies their slanderous former-guitarist to the fullest extent of Davis’s vernacular before exploding into front line war-zone speed drums and attacking Welch with the chant “you wanna be God”. The second, “Love and Luxury” takes a more compassionate stance on the situation, mocking their estranged comrade just long enough to sneer “I read your little book and/ ha ha ha ha ha ha ha” between industrial grooves. “Killing” is another return to the Korn of yesterday, or so it seems; by the time the opening drums pass, the synth/guitar/bass combo sound like crows circling overhead, but alas, after yet another serene bridge, it sounds like 1998’s breakthrough Follow The Leader all over again.
Untitled has its missteps, but very few: “Innocent Bystander” could have easily been a B-side and “Hushabye” (unsuccessfully) tries to claim supremacy as the album’s supreme slow song. For the final hurrah however, Korn give us the creepy ghost-bagpipe landscape of “I Will Protect You” which combines all the elements of the band’s impressive catalogue. As its title suggests, the song assures listeners that no matter the band’s structure or whatever musical tangents they may take, Korn will forever be the uncensored spokesmen for the troubled youth of America, no matter how troubled the band becomes itself.
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 12/21/2002
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Quite good, yo. I give it a K+. 
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Member Since: 1/9/2004
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Me Against the [Promo Single]
"Whatever U Like"
"Baby Love"
"Straight to the Bank"
"Amusement Park"
"Wall to Wall"
"Kiss Kiss"
"Take Control"
"Lock U Down"
I know I'm missing a lot, but this new term is ridiculous. A flop is a flop is a flop. The end.
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Member Since: 7/1/2007
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LOL
Thats just what they say when they see its flopping.
"Hey you were the one with that flop single... uh what was it's name?"
"FYI it was a promotional single so it doesn't count as a flop! And it was called 'Whatever U Like'!!! WHY CANT I GET ANY RADIO PLAY!?!?!??!  "
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ATRL Moderator
Member Since: 12/21/2002
Posts: 20,569
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I didn't know artists were now calling their first and second singles promo singles. lmao. Ridiculous.
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Member Since: 7/1/2007
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^ Only if they flop 
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Member Since: 1/9/2004
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Artificial Social Life Fridays, Number Two
There's only two hours left in this Friday, but I'm hating the isolation I feel every weekend as a result of not doing anything with myself.
Arith gave a good suggestion last time, but most of my friends are either working on Fridays or not even that good of friends to begin with. Anybody else have any suggestions to turn my social life around?
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Member Since: 7/25/2006
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Go clubbing. 
*sigh* I wish i was old enough too go -____-.
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