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On amazon.ca, the cover seems to have been corrected from "Rabbit" to "Rabbits".  Hooray!

Though I should note that it's still listed as "Rabbit On the Run". 


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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Re: The Marching Line
« on: June 02, 2011, 07:20:16 pm »
Out of the songs I've heard on the record, it's one of my favourites so far.  Ugh, so beautiful.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Re: In The End
« on: June 02, 2011, 01:29:15 pm »
Wow.  

I don't really know what to say.  Compare this to "A Thousand Miles" and the change in all those years is astounding.  Also, I can totally picture this playing in the background of a movie, so I have no doubt V would be an excellent composer. :)

Yes, it's really dark, gloomy, atmospheric and different than what we've heard but man, I can't stop listening to it.  Reminds me of Clint Mansell's "The Last Man" from The Fountain.  It's oddly reassuring at the same time, even though it's about, literally, the end.  

I know what you mean about reassuring!  The lyrics are about dying, but turning into diamonds -- I get a reincarnation vibe you know ? that we die but we can be reborn, or our spirits live on..that it really isn't the end. the end is just the beginning to something else, a new chapter, a new book.  so on one hand the album is ending darkly but gives new hope

That's interesting; I didn't interpret it that way.  I saw it as diamonds lasting forever ("diamonds are forever"), and thus, us lasting forever.  Since they're the hardest substance on earth, not to mention the fact that they're beautiful to many people, we become diamonds in the end, gone but lasting forever and that "it will be beautiful." 

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Re: In The End
« on: June 02, 2011, 10:16:02 am »
Wow.  

I don't really know what to say.  Compare this to "A Thousand Miles" and the change in all those years is astounding.  Also, I can totally picture this playing in the background of a movie, so I have no doubt V would be an excellent composer. :)

Yes, it's really dark, gloomy, atmospheric and different than what we've heard but man, I can't stop listening to it.  Reminds me of Clint Mansell's "The Last Man" from The Fountain.  It's oddly reassuring at the same time, even though it's about, literally, the end.  

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Holy crap, OMG!!!!  I might actually be more excited about the book than the CD, haha.  Hal Leonard sheet music books are usually, unfortunately, the bass in left hand + vocal line in the right hand. :(  However, there've been a few Hal Leonard books that aren't transcribed like this (ie. some of Michael Buble's books), so there is some hope that it might be the original versions.   :D

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Okay guys and there are literally no way to record the songs. The songs are downloaded from corporate or come on CDs that are immediately thrown away and even if I got ahold of one it wouldn't work in venereal cd player. There is no audio jack on the music player either or microphone outlet. I don't have a video camera or anything that I can use to record the audio from the speakers in the store.

If you have a laptop and a cam built into it, you could always listen to it a zillion times and post a cover of you singing it on youtube!   ;D

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Wow, sold out shows in New York already?  That's awesome!!  I doubt she will be coming up to Vancouver again but it would probably be one of the few things I'd look forward to this year if she did.  Vancouver, Vanessa!

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / Re: Vanessa Carlton Dream
« on: March 16, 2011, 09:02:34 pm »
I dreamt last night that Vanessa came to visit our choir at high school (I'm not in high school anymore but I was in choir) since she had heard we had a kick-ass choir version (plus piano) of "London".  When she came in, I was pretty much hysterical because it was freakin' Vanessa Carlton and she was here to listen to us, a choir in Vancouver!  So we started to sing it with Vanessa playing piano and it was really great for the first bit but as the song went on, more and more people started zoning out or becoming bored or didn't know the words and stopped singing.  Eventually, I ended up being the only one singing while everyone stood looking around, bored, which was kind of embarrassing.  When we got to the bridge of the song, she stopped playing.  I asked if she wanted to go on and she didn't answer, just looked disappointed, and I was definitely disappointed with my choir, who, I think, by this point, somehow all went home, haha.

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Does anybody else think her voice sounds much different?  When I heard the first song in the beginning, I thought, "Why're they playing some other person's song in Vanessa's video?"  I guess it's actually her?  Is she just using more head voice than chest voice?

But in the IDWBB clip, it sounded pretty much like the Vanessa I know (which, btw, was absolutely gorgeous).  Hmmmm.

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / "Rock" cover of White Houses
« on: January 27, 2011, 10:24:45 pm »
I'm not sure if this has been posted before but I just found this.  A band named Cavalier covers White Houses. 

It's at least tolerable compared to the Half-hearted Hero cover of A Thousand Miles, though that's not saying much.  Thoughts?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHZHJ7uDNKQ

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Creative Endeavors / Re: Watch and vote for my short film! (please!)
« on: January 09, 2011, 10:21:55 pm »
Thanks!  Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

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Creative Endeavors / Watch and vote for my short film! (please!)
« on: January 07, 2011, 10:44:55 pm »
Hey everyone!  I  recently made a short film/commercial on the topic of dangerous driving for a contest. There's a prize for Viewers' Choice based on the number of Likes on the youtube page.

If you guys could take a look at my short film and click on the Like/thumbs up button on the youtube page, that would be super awesome! Thanks so much! (And tell me what you think of it too!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UBAA8suJwA

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Everything's been said already, but this is really cool, despite the mean comments on blog sites ("She's just doing it for attention", "Look at me!  I'm straight!").  Whatever.  I guess only us fans know her better than that. 

Anyway, it takes huge amounts of courage to come out as whatever queer person and I don't expect straight people -- well, mainly just the ignorant ones who can't and will not ever understand the difficulty of coming out -- to understand, and now I admire Vanessa even more.  :)

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Oh wow, The Trevor Project!  I'm pretty impressed to hear V's performing for a good cause (not to mention all the other stars and guests who attended though Jeff Probst seems kinda random). 

Did anyone go to the show or know what she performed?

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Vanessa Songs / Lyrics / Sheet Music / Re: Spring Street
« on: October 19, 2009, 01:24:50 pm »
Speaking of Spring Street, I have a slightly amusing story to share...

So I was in my university CIS (Computer Information Systems) class and the professor was going on and on about computer hardware and all that stuff, and as usual, I wasn't paying attention. It was my first week of university and I didn't know anyone in that class. So anyway, I sit way in the back, so I decided to visit Vanessa's official site. So it loads and the Victorian lady comes up and I click on her...and then, to my horror, this starts blaring out of my computer's speakers:

"NA NA NA NA NA NAAAAAAAAAAAA"

It was the introduction to Spring Street that automatically plays when you enter V's site. Everyone, including the professor, turned around and stared at me. I immediately closed the window and nobody said a word. Then, to make matters worse, I was stifling my laugh (I usually laugh when I get into embarrassing situations, don't ask me why) when suddenly I just couldn't hold it in, and I let out a giant snort - in which case everybody turned to look at me - AGAIN. It was mortifying.


Hahaha, that's awesome!  You should have stared back at everyone and said, "What?  It's Vanessa Carlton.  Don't you listen to good music too?" 

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