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if only there was some way to test that theory.

One for the wall in his room and one for the wall in the living room.

I was going to put this in the poetry thread, but I thought that it wouldn’t hurt to have a separate thread. I teach 3rd grade in a high poverty urban area. In my classroom I teach the kids the craft of poetry, even though it is not a part of our curriculum. I feel it’s an important avenue for them to express their views and to realize how powerful they can be with their words. This allows even the lowest achieving students to realize success because the focus is on expression rather than mechanics or correct grammar. One of the experiments I started doing was to play them music by Explosions In The Sky while they were writing. I’d give them the title and let them use the music to influence their writing. Through the years I have collected some good ones and decided to make an anthology of these titles to give to the band. This is the email I got from them: Hey there, This is Chris, the drummer from Explosions in the Sky. Sorry it's taken so long to send you a message, but we just got back from tour recently and there are always a million things to catch up on once we're home. Anyway, I just wanted to thank for giving us the copy of The Season of the Waterfall. We all read the poems and were deeply moved. Not even sure what to say other than that i'm glad that there are people like you helping out and doing things like this. Reading them was not easy. They were beautiful but also incredibly heartbreaking. If there is some way for us to help out, please let me know. Even if its something dumb like sending you a bunch of CDs or something to give to your class. I'm not really sure 3rd and 4th graders would have any interest in meandering, long winded instrumental rock music, but I can't really think of anything else. A lot of people have given us stuff over the years but nothing has compared to this collection of poems. Not even close. Thank you. Sincerely, Chris explosions in the sky Here are some of the poems. Please keep in mind that I teach them the craft, give them the tools, but this is 100% their writing. I wish I could take credit for what they write, even sometimes steal some of the lines for my own lyrics. I’ve had mothers and fathers in tears as they read their child’s poems. It amazes me every time I read a new one. These are all using titles from EITS songs. The Birth and Death of the Day Death is in the sky and Light is in the ground. When people say be gone death death stays. It never went and now it disappeared like fallen warriors. Light has come back to the sky. -Jorge Our Last Days As Children We used to go to the park together then it was time to grow up. You are a fashion designer and I am a doctor. We get off work at 3:00 and see each other at the buffet and eat and talk about when we were little and remember times like when we ate chocolate mint ice cream on Saturdays, when we played with each other, when we were friends forever when we played Bratz and you used to be Sasha and I would be Cloe, when we went to each other’s houses and watched Disney movies, When we used to talk about ourselves and what colors we liked. You liked red and I liked pink. When we played dodgeball and we would be on the same team and we would run or jump so we wouldn’t get out, but we would catch the ball and get other people out, when we painted each other’s nails, when we colored each other’s drawings. when we played soccer and we would win, during recess we would play four square and you would be in the A square and I would be in B. After we talk we start to cry. I miss those things. -Lilibeth The Only Moment We Were Alone I feel dead dead like nothing People just pass by like Nothing Ghosts being nothing Laying down being a jerk Biting ghosts one at a time Water from God biting water forever. -Juan

So unless Copeland owns their own music (which is plausible), it appears that EMI is willing to license out old Tooth & Nail titles under certain circumstances. Does SRC care to comment? Also LOLOL @ being worried about "boring" color options.

It is truly an honor.

Peregrine is remastered specifically for vinyl finally. Maria, who did the art for Casket Girls and Marshmallow Ghosts, did embroidery based on the original art. It looks really fucking pretty.

They say living well is the best revenge but I guess this is also an option.

Tell your Dad to adopt me.

RJ secretly works for SRC and retained the rights to do represses. That's my conspiracy theory and I'm sticking to it.

Sort of wish I didn't already buy a purple and I could just spend my money on this one. Buying one tonight to keep the guy with the full Alex G collection going.

This is the problem. Same thing would happened to me with my old setup whenever the volume was up high.

Also, I teared up this morning watching Jim propose to Pam on The Office. I'm going to be a mess when I get to the wedding.

I think he bought it off someone on here.

Selling a few records and would possibly trade (message me what you have to trade) *if you'd like to negotiate prices let me know Linkin Park- Collision Course /2500 Blue RSD ($25 shipped) Linkin Park- Hybrid Theory /? Black ($12 shipped) New Found Glory- Mania RSD 2013 /500 Red/Yellow swirl (offer, not asking a whole lot for it) Transit- Young New England /1200 Gold/Green/Red Starburst ($10 shipped) Transit- This Will Not Define Us /150 White ($12 Shipped) Transit- 4 way split w/ Bayside, Saves the Day and I Am The Avalanche /1700 black ($7 shipped) Please message me if you have any questions!

I loved "house"

They Live is fantastic! There are some other good ones in that list too, Bad Taste is kind of a hidden gem.

OooooOOooooh. Nice!!

Being in the same scene as these guys, I can honestly say I've never seen a scarier and more terrifying performance. I seen them at their first US Show ever when they entered Machine Shop. ive been hooked ever since. These guys are the real deal and have brought it to a new level. I've been a fan since the first EP and I was let down with the lack of technicality and the amount of chugs, but hey you gotta do something to sell records. They've sold over 10,000 copies in the US alone, and they are from Australia. Numbers dont lie, These guys are making a huge impact so get used to them being around. And I'm stoked to get this variant to add to my collection.

If the cops are getting called to your complex often enough that they had to change the address... it might be time to consider a move.

I'm glad others have said it, but all that indie pop bullshit (basically, most of what plays on Sirius XM's Alt Nation and seeps onto mainstream stations: Imagine Dragons, Young the Giant, etc) going on right now. As said, it's just kind of forced and uninteresting as all hell. Just some kind of chorus and not much else, structurally.

I've got one. It's The Afterman. From Coheed's The Afterman Ascension.

Some people prefer first presses, or rarer presses of albums, variant collect, or sometimes would rather 180gram black because black is supposed to sound better than colored vinyl, etc. etc. so I thought I'd give someone on the boards an opportunity to get this album rather than ebay - but regardless, who are you? (don't really answer that cause I don't actually give a shit)

In my opinion Suns and Lovers sounds more post punk and Downward feels like the shoegaze sound they went for and Guilty feels the same except heavier. All really great albums though.

Probably a combination of both.

But when they first get them......

Solid list of upcoming releases. Anybody know anything about Night School? EDIT: It's this https://www.facebook.com/nightscool Alexandra from Camera Shy

Hot Topic exclusive highlighter yellow w/ black splatter

if someone finds that lossless album for me ill do tapes

So true! Im in for the In Motion clear and YAMS brown. I just feel like white was a lazy choice

Forget about limited and buy the variant you want. Be glad there are more of the "cool" variant so that more people have a chance to own one.

I wish they had done cool splatters as the most limited option

it fills the whole in my heart

Here's the update! https://www.facebook.com/tinyengines/posts/10152552311979726?utm_content=buffer088d9&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer Basically what happened is that Hotelier, Dikembe and Somos re-presses were late, Mediumship was early and Frontier(s) was right on time. Now there's a giant log jam of mail order at Tiny Engines HQ. We'll get through it as quickly as possible though! If you have something that needs to be changed or you ordered any of the previously mentioned records separately and want to combine those orders, let us know. And the moral to this story? Manufacturing turnaround times are virtually impossible to predict these days. Blame it on the increasing demand for vinyl (good) caused by bullshit that should never be pressed on wax in the first place (bad). Jurassic Park Soundtrack ... I'm looking at you.

It's alright and was more for nostalgia and putting on when I have people over. Sound quality isn't anything special but the splatter itself is really rad. All and all this should have been a $15 dollar record. It doesn't warrant a $26 dollar price tag. It's extremely obvious at this point that sound quality is not paid attention to when these hot topic exclusives are put out. I'd rather SRC do these nostalgia records for $29.99 and have them done correctly.

looking up some videos of their new songs live. this shits killer.

a copy of elvis depressedly's holo pleasures for $15, and teen suicide's dc snuff film for $10. I had the biggest smile on my face for days.

I hate when people say "tat". As in "I'm hella tatted", "Where you get those tats done?"

Oh. And Les Mis. When Anne Hathaway sings I Dreamed a Dream ...there was snot.

my cat really doesn't like thunderstorms...

Awesome team name.

Just tell the girlfriend she's wrong. Just make sure you are out of flying limb or plant pot range when you do it.

The Smiths are bad

repping VC hard online. this is hilarious. now if only there was a mini-game where i could work out the worth of my variant collection via discogs and flip them on ebay for cash and RP.

It was your dream to flip a cd to make a quick hundred bucks?

You have no soul if you didn't cry in Toy Story 3.

tooth and nail can no longer release vinyl of old releases. they don't own them. capitol can, but let's be honest, probably won't. tooth & nail is relaunching as an independent label and can release whatever new records they want. not that i really care, but why would this be a good thing for old releases? it probably really sucks for all the artists too... having their old music sold to a major that'll probably just sit on it or hold it for ransom. also, this is the reason broken circles wasn't able to press records he already had in the works. so more vinyl... no.