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Can anyone give me some suggestions? Is his New album any good?
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Probably not. :neutral:
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*sings* striptease for me baby, striptease for me baby...
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If ever there was a time to quote Lori back to herself, now is it...

Heh, HW came to Peterborough. I am very sorry for him.
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8-)
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*sings* striptease for me baby, striptease for me baby...
Just because I am sexy, naked, a bassist, and sporting a top hat doesn't make me Duncan Coutts!
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my secretary really likes him.

i think he's average.

get 50 Cent instead.
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joe_canadian wrote:*sings* striptease for me baby, striptease for me baby...

*starts taking off clothes*
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:mrgreen:
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i've heard "autumn is here" and really loved it, Smoke Baby doesn't sound bad either
"How can we justify spending so much on destruction and so little on life?" Matthew Good

"The white dove is gone, the one world has come down hard, so why not share the pain of our problems, when all around are wrong ways, when all around is hurt, i'll roll up in an odd shape and wait, untill the tide has turned.....with anger, i'm dead weight, i'm anchored"- IME, God Rocket (Into the Heart of Las Vegas) ^ Some say this song is about a terrorists thoughts before 911

"Pray for the sheep" Matt Good
"But it's alright, take the world and make it yours again" Matt Good

I felt it in the wind, and i saw it in the sky, i thought it was the end, i thought it was the 4th of July.

"Hold on, hold on children, your mother and father are leaving, hold on, hold on children your best freind's parents are leaving, leaving,.......*AHHH*! " - Death From Above - Black History Month
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doug wrote:my secretary really likes him.

i think he's average.

get 50 Cent instead.


I hate 50 cent more than bad music!!!

and I hate bad music A LOT!!!!!
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This guy reminds me of U2 ... ALOT. But hey, he's not that bad. :mrgreen:

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Mechanical Thought wrote:This guy reminds me of U2 ... ALOT. But hey, he's not that bad. :mrgreen:
I thought the same thing.

The recent work of Hawksley doesn't compare to the older...
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Woah. I love his new video. Don't know what it's called, though. I don't really like the song, but the video is fucking great.

Here's how it goes...

He's running around town, stealing random instruments from people. It's really funny. He takes a piano from an old woman, then goes back and gets the piano bench. Then he gets a tuba from some fat kid eating lunch, then steals his lunch.

So, you see him taking a bunch of instruments and putting them on his truck.

The song, I should mention, is something about "We'll still need a song" or something.

Then he goes to a music store, but it just closes. He then stands in the window, looking at an accordian and crying, because he can't get it.

All the while I'm thinking "okay. WHY?!?"

Then, he finally pulls the truck up to some sort of barn or something, and brings all the instruments inside, then stands at the door counting them. Then he runs to the truck, and gets a woman (his wife?) out of the truck, and brings her inside. They stand in the doorway looking out, then he puts out his hand and a drop of rain falls on it.

Still I'm thinking WHY?!?

Then, in the last few seconds, it's all explained.

The camera zooms out, and it's not a barn at all.

It's an arc.
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