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fineincome2

hi
does anyone know why/who are the baker twins, and why they are on OK Go's top 3?

yak63geese

Hi! Can anyone explain to me why sometimes the board puts five stars next to a thread in the threads summary? I just took a screenshot so you can see what I mean:

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So what's that mean? Only a few threads have them. I didn't do anything I'm aware of, on my end, that would make it appear this way (I'm not subscribed to the threads in question, and I never rated anything). Hmm.

dollarflame6

QUOTE (Kareh @ Aug 4 2007, 09:27 AM)

Hi! Can anyone explain to me why sometimes the board puts five stars next to a thread in the threads summary? I just took a screenshot so you can see what I mean:So what's that mean? Only a few threads have them. I didn't do anything I'm aware of, on my end, that would make it appear this way (I'm not subscribed to the threads in question, and I never rated anything). Hmm.

If you go into a thread, right under "add reply" at the very top is a "rate" button.
Most people ignore that function but I'm guessing where you see the stars is where people rated that particular thread.

Baker Twins- googling found Native American models...no idea what they have to do with OK Go.

Surfer Rosa

Hola, I just read the lyrics to The House Wins...does anybody knows what do they mean?

Rosa

dollarflame6

QUOTE (Surfer Rosa @ Aug 4 2007, 07:36 PM)

Hola, I just read the lyrics to The House Wins...does anybody knows what do they mean?

Rosa

Oh No was written partly to express how "the world was going to shit," in Damian's words...Bush won a re-election, the war in Iraq...I don't recall him getting into specifics about that one particular song, but he's described the album a lot as partying while the ship is going down...dark undertones

Surfer Rosa

Thanks ... I had the feeling it was about the white house that thing... I was just guessing what were all the references to cats all about... I guess it's just poetic license...

hail9fat

QUOTE (Kareh @ Aug 4 2007, 09:27 AM)

Hi! Can anyone explain to me why sometimes the board puts five stars next to a thread in the threads summary? I just took a screenshot so you can see what I mean:So what's that mean? Only a few threads have them. I didn't do anything I'm aware of, on my end, that would make it appear this way (I'm not subscribed to the threads in question, and I never rated anything). Hmm.

Yea I never noticed it until recently, and I saw that one or two of the pages for one or two of the members ( I can't remember, but I think one of them was Damian's thread) and I felt bad for everyone else, so I rated their's 5 stars (and I thought I was in Tim's when I was in the captions thread, so that's how that one got rated).

sherib

QUOTE (Electra @ Apr 24 2007, 10:19 AM)

Disturbing isn't the word I'd use...

Yay (if I'm reading you right, Alice), someone else who actually *likes* the naked picture!
I knew I couldn't be the only freak who finds it hot. Could I?

QUOTE (Claret @ Apr 24 2007, 08:49 PM)

no offense Damian, but you got icky thighs, man. They look better in pants. [/size]

Bite your tongue!

Sheri, Fan of D's Naked Thighs

Do short shorts next, dude. Ew, I just grossed myself out.

QUOTE (nostabenitsirhc @ Aug 4 2007, 09:29 PM)

Yea I never noticed it until recently, and I saw that one or two of the pages for one or two of the members ( I can't remember, but I think one of them was Damian's thread) and I felt bad for everyone else, so I rated their's 5 stars (and I thought I was in Tim's when I was in the captions thread, so that's how that one got rated).

The feature just appeared in the last week or so. (I'm pretty sure.)

QUOTE (hungrylikethewolf @ Jul 28 2007, 08:32 PM)

does OKGo ever offer VIP packages? You know, a premium price ticket that gets you a meet and greet and a seat in the first 10 rows?

I have to say, that I love that Duran do that for their fans, it's nice. I'd love it if OKGo could have something like that too.

I'm with the naysayers on this. Over the past couple years my opinion of Duran's "special offers" for fans has completely changed, largely due to OK Go, but other bands as well ... Duran are such complete gougers. I know there are fans who have had fantastic experiences with these VIP packages (and with the insanely priced dinner-with-the-band/hotel package thing back in 2003--I know someone who did this, and she feels it was worth it for the once-in-a-lifetime experience ... Once upon a time I might have spent the money--if I'd had it!--for that, too, and it shocks me to realize that!), but it's just such an insane amount of money. $300 for seats in the front and a meet-and-greet that is basically just an autograph and a picture? No bleeping way. (And more background for the non-Duranies out there: the hotel thing was a night at the House of Blues hotel, guaranteed spot in the first five rows, and dinner w/the band for $2000. Each member was at a different table, and you rotated tables, about 3 fans a table at a time, every fifteen minutes or so. This was on their first tour after reuniting after almost 20 years.)

But my opinion on OK Go doing this is skewed by my experience. All my OK Go shows have been general admission. If you could get there a couple hours early, you were in the front row. And I had ridiculous luck getting to meet the guys. Not true in everyone's case.

women60banana

QUOTE (Surfer Rosa @ Aug 4 2007, 07:36 PM)

Hola, I just read the lyrics to The House Wins...does anybody knows what do they mean?

Rosa

I found this explanation from someone on SongMeanings.net and it pretty much sums the whole thing up:

"No matter what you do, or how well you've succeeded so far, you're still going to fail in the end, so "you might as well give in." The verses, themselves, seem to suggest someone up late at night, frustrated and depressed, interpreting everything he perceives (trees branches - "fingers" - scratching at the window, screaming cats, and neighbours' telephones) in negative, futile tones.

One bit of text that people have missed so far is the title of the song: "The House Wins" It's a clear gambling/casino reference, most recognizably present in Blackjack, suggesting that if you gamble in the "game of life", your losses will always outweigh your wins."

sherib

Damian on "The House Wins" (from the Capitol Street Team site)--not much, but:

This recording is actually the demo I recorded in a friend's basement in Los Angeles, with the drums re-tracked and some viola thrown in. Several weeks into recording, after we'd completely re-tracked the song with Tore, there was still something more compelling about the original.
Lyrically, this is my favorite song on the record. The third verse summarizes the disillusionment that serves as a setting for the whole album:

"Ice age upon catastrophic ice age of selection and only one result has trickled in: the house wins. If evil were a lesser breed than justice, after all these years, the righteous would have freed the world of sin. The house wins, the house always wins."

hail9fat

QUOTE (mixtape @ Aug 6 2007, 04:02 PM)

One bit of text that people have missed so far is the title of the song: "The House Wins" It's a clear gambling/casino reference, most recognizably present in Blackjack, suggesting that if you gamble in the "game of life", your losses will always outweigh your wins."

You know, I always wondered if that could have something to do with it.

QUOTE (sherib @ Aug 6 2007, 04:15 PM)

Damian on "The House Wins" (from the Capitol Street Team site)--not much, but:

This recording is actually the demo I recorded in a friend's basement in Los Angeles, with the drums re-tracked and some viola thrown in. Several weeks into recording, after we'd completely re-tracked the song with Tore, there was still something more compelling about the original.
Lyrically, this is my favorite song on the record. The third verse summarizes the disillusionment that serves as a setting for the whole album:

"Ice age upon catastrophic ice age of selection and only one result has trickled in: the house wins. If evil were a lesser breed than justice, after all these years, the righteous would have freed the world of sin. The house wins, the house always wins."

Hmm, interesting, thanks Sheri!

sherib

I wonder if it was an intentional or an unconscious thing that it's called "The House Wins" and it's similar to "The House That Jack Built" in the way the lyrics are structured, a cumulative story ...

You'll all probably think I'm crazy for that one, but I'm serious.

dollarflame6

I like that article that started w/ the irony of the title. I'm sure Damian was partying when the dems took Congress. I stayed up all night and was tense all the next day waiting for the GOP to concede. And it made me proud to be American again. I kind of think it swept away Damian's disillusionment too- like maybe this time, the album won't be so dark...although, the dems have been ridiculously slow in changing things, gah

thephantommilk

I could be a total downer, and say that all the political parties are the same anyways... but I won't =)
I'm only 17, I've still got hope.

and I've always understood the gambilng reference in "The House Wins"... I don't know why, no one I know actually gambles.

and WOW I forgot how amazing those lyrics were <3

yak63geese

QUOTE (Tabetha @ Aug 4 2007, 03:58 PM)

If you go into a thread, right under "add reply" at the very top is a "rate" button.
Most people ignore that function but I'm guessing where you see the stars is where people rated that particular thread.

That's exactly it, THANKS Tabetha! I never noticed that before. Yesterday I hunkered down for a crash course on the workings of this board's portal and other things, and that was one thing still left bugging me.

dollarflame6

QUOTE (thephantommilk @ Aug 7 2007, 12:25 AM)

and I've always understood the gambilng reference in "The House Wins"... I don't know why, no one I know actually gambles.

yeah, me too. I always thought it was obvious. But that may be because I watch too much tv...
maybe I can redeem myself and say stats class...but no, I just watch too match tv.

yw, Karen.

KristaMichelle

I'm actually surprised to find out that some people don't get the gambling reference. Maybe growing up in Las Vegas really has corrupted me. Or maybe not. Either way, the title is my favorite part of that song.

walk2sock

QUOTE (thephantommilk @ Aug 7 2007, 12:25 AM)

and I've always understood the gambilng reference in "The House Wins"... I don't know why, no one I know actually gambles.

Me too, haha. I'm kind of a pop culture whore, though.

I never thought about it politically... makes sense, I guess.

I always thought of it as almost sarcastic. "You might as well give in," as in like, what's the use in trying anything if you're sure you'll fail ("the house always wins")... WELL, CHANGE WILL NEVER HAPPEN IN THIS FUCKED UP WORLD IF YOU DON'T TRY. Maybe a battle between both of those ideas, and how you have to choose between giving up or working hard for nothing. Does anyone else get what I'm trying to say.. I feel like I'm just blabbing.

sherib

QUOTE (Shalu-lah @ Aug 7 2007, 05:23 PM)

Does anyone else get what I'm trying to say.. I feel like I'm just blabbing.

No, I gotcha

KristaMichelle

Yeah, you made perfect sense, Shalu. And I agree, I definitely get sarcasm from it.