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Polls / Re: Sugababes or Siobhan...?

« on: July 20, 2003, 04:52:25 am »

I definitely like the Sugababes better
(Do the US-people even know who they are..? LOL)

I think Siobhan is trying too desperately to stay in the spot lights after she got kicked out of the Sugababes.

I thought she quit?

I like the sugababes, but a lot of my favourites come from the Siobhan days (Run for Cover, Soul Sound). That's more to do with the material rather than any change in the sound. I've not heard her solo stuff yet though.

Mart

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Polls / Pianos or Keyboards

« on: July 20, 2003, 04:43:35 am »

pianos are the bestest. But a little inconvenient for travelling to gigs...

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Completely Off-Topic / Branch = Carlton

« on: July 20, 2003, 04:41:21 am »

ummm thats kinda ridiculous lol.... and i wasnt aware that branchy played piano??

yup and she's darn good at it too!! If you have the cd(which your probably don't) she plays piano on one of these days....I have a picture of it that I'll post of her playing the piano. She can play lots of instruments...I think the hardest thing in music is learning how to read it...once you can read it goooooooooooooooooooooooo. If only I listened and learned to read the music I could have been a world famous flute player. ahhh ohh well. haha

She may be able to play piano, but she doesn't on One of These Days. Well, not according to my liner notes anyway. (Incidentally, OOTD is rapidly becoming my favourite on the CD). Although, she does look amazingly VC-like in the carnaby st. t-shirt photo...

Learning to read music is a piece of piss. Anyone can do it in a day if they want to. I mean - there's only like two essential things to learn: how to read the pitch of a note, and how to read the length of a note. All the rest is sugar coating, which you can get from recordings (or look up things as you go along). Erm, unless you meant *sight*-reading, which I would agree is freakin' difficult. But still not as hard as playing an instrument *really well*.

Anyways, this reminds me of a Beau Peep cartoon:
Beau: But for one cruel twist of fate I'd have been a concert pianist by now.
Dennis: What was that?
Beau: I can't play the piano.

Erm, it was funny in cartoon form, trust me.

Mart

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Completely Off-Topic / HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSIE!!!!

« on: July 19, 2003, 05:45:37 pm »

More importantly i can BUY SCRAP METAL now!

Woo hoo! Knock yerself out, girl.

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Other Musicians / Re: Gareth Gates

« on: July 19, 2003, 04:09:57 am »

An extra bonus is that hes a total SPUNK!

Is that what he uses to get his hair like that then?

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General Vanessa Carlton Discussion / I just don't understand....

« on: July 18, 2003, 05:36:19 pm »

I'm a huge fan of Michelle Branch and I never look at her boards.

Also, have you entertained the possibility that maybe they're not geeks? - Not everyone spends a lot of time online doing pointless browsing. Some people go outside in the sun and look at fluffy bunnies. And stuff. Erm, yeah. Or something.

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Completely Off-Topic / Pop-up-problem

« on: July 18, 2003, 06:57:26 am »

Hmmm... that's like cutting off your foot to cure a stubbed toe.
---Andrew

Now that one was a funny line...

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Completely Off-Topic / HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSIE!!!!

« on: July 17, 2003, 09:18:10 pm »

Happy birthday. Now you can smoke. And have sex. Way to go!!

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Completely Off-Topic / Pop-up-problem

« on: July 17, 2003, 08:14:25 pm »

I dont know anyone in the professional DEV commuinity that frowns on Adaware.  Personally, I like SpyBot Search and Destory better.  BUt they both work.
---Andrew

You asked them all then?

http://www.spywareinfo.com/newsletter/archives/december-2002/12252002.php

But I guess it's ok now, as they do link to it.

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Polls / South Park!

« on: July 17, 2003, 06:12:52 pm »

TIMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

















TIMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!








TIMMYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Completely Off-Topic / Pop-up-problem

« on: July 17, 2003, 06:06:51 pm »

oh, I should add that proxomitron is for only for web page pop-ups etc., and not for any crappy spyware that you've got installed on your computer. You do need something like adaware to deal with that kind of problem.

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Completely Off-Topic / Pop-up-problem

« on: July 17, 2003, 06:03:21 pm »

Hi,

by far the best pop-up blocker/cookie stopper/web page controller is proxomitron, which is free and downloadable from... erm... somewhere on the web. Use google.

adaware is frowned upon by the anti-spyware community now (or at least it was last time I checked). I forget the details, but again I'm sure you'll find something about it on google.

Mart

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Polls / New Or Old Jewel?

« on: July 08, 2003, 05:39:42 pm »

Hey I did that "who the hell is Jewel?" thing ages ago. Well I'm glad it's a more common syndrome than I previously thought amongst brits.

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Other Musicians / Michelle Branch

« on: July 02, 2003, 03:00:35 pm »

Hmmm, strange that if the release date isn't until Monday they would put it out today, but eh, glad you got it  

Me too I certainly ain't gonna complain

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Other Musicians / Michelle Branch

« on: July 02, 2003, 08:15:05 am »

UK Release Dates & Prices

Hotel Paper
Michelle Branch - Release date 07-07-2003
CD £12.99

I just bought it in HMV today. Are they being naughty for stocking it now? I couldn't find it in Virgin...