I was listening to the mainstream radio, and I heard a song that was about ‘growing up a lil bit’ and ‘becoming a better person.’ I am not a music journalist, so I am not exactly sure what the song is all about, but I kinda identified with it because it’s the kind of song that I want 2 sing to the new year: 2k9. In the music video, there is a lost bro searching for meaning, looking for a new gimmick that will make his life a lil bit more meaningful.
Well I just heard the news today
It seems my life is going to change
I closed my eyes, begin to pray
Then tears of joy stream down my face
With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I’ll show you everything
With arms wide open
Well I don’t know if I’m ready
To be the man I have to be
I’ll take a breath, take her by my side
We stand in awe, we’ve created life
With arms wide open
Under the sunlight
Welcome to this place
I’ll show you everything
With arms wide open
Now everything has changed
I’ll show you love
I’ll show you everything
With arms wide open
If I had just one wish
Only one demand
I hope he’s not like me
I hope he understands
That he can take this life
And hold it by the hand
And he can greet the world
With arms wide open
I want 2 be inspired in 2k9, yall. I want 2 ‘grow up.’ I want to break free from my altbro past. I want to find music to be more meaningful than just bloggable electro hits. I want to appreciate entire albums again.
In 2k9, I will not be afraid to let things mean something.
I will be ‘myself’ in 2k9.5, because I will spend the first half of 2k9 re-evaluating my life and ‘becoming comfortable in my own shoes.’ I will grow closer 2 a core group of friends. We’re actually going to talk this year, not just go out every weekend without ever really getting to know the ppl we ‘roll with.’
Will I outgrow AmAppy this year?
Will I be able to afford college next semester?
Will I graduate?
Will my first job interview be an opportunity for me to connect with the interviewee, convincing him that I see the world in a unique way that merits a job within his firm for an above-market salary?
Will I grow closer 2 my parents?
Will I ‘get a girlfriend/boyfriend’ who ‘makes me want 2 b a better person’?
Will I lose weight?
Will I gain back the weight I lost from ‘doing 2 many drugs’?
Will I ‘experiment’ with drugs/sex/’art’?
Will music sound the same now that the new Animal Collective has leaked?
Will I still be a music blog in 2k9?
Will HRO be more than just a meme centre?
Will I have my first heart attack from eating Chili’s every day?
Does ‘time’ even matter 2 me since I exist in blogtime?
Will HRO ‘crash’ this year?
Will Carles run out of things 2 blog about?
Will ‘alt’ be ‘mainstream’ in 2k6?
Will mainstream=alt in 2k8?
Will Kanye West change music by sampling Animal Collective on his next album?
Will I blog about U2 in 2k9?
Will ‘I used 2 rule the world’ in 2k9?
Will I podcast in 2k9?
Will I vlog in 2k9?
Will the HRO EP come out within the next month?
Will I ‘become 1′ with the memesphere in 2k9?
What should my blog year’s resolutions be?
What r ur resolutions 4 2k9?
What do u want from HRO in 2k9?
Do u plan on reading HRO until 2k10, or are these ‘our last days’ 2gthr?
(Please be honest.)
Happy New Year, yall.
Just want these holidays 2 be over with so we can get back to ‘normalcy’ a.k.a. job/school/free internet at the library.
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miss u creed
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sry Lol buT 2k9 is the year of bloggable electro !
just look at / march /:
new D A F T P U N K
new E D R E C
new S E B A S T I A N
new M S T R K R F T
get excited
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//////////Reply by juliyana
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 9:56 am
@savanttttttt,
HAAWWTT STUFF!!!
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kant wait 4 HR0-podcasty
PLEASE P0ST MORE TUGGABLE HIGH-LVL ALT PEEN IN 2k9
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maybs you should leave your neon in 2k8 and make a new site/life theme.
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CRLS, if u did any research you’d know that the song is about how newb0rn son.
fggt
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//////////Reply by xavier
//////////Posted January 1st, 2009 at 10:48 pm
@anonymous, who the fuck cares, it sucks either way
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banger
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// banger
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Creed >>>>>>>>>>>>> Nickelback.
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that song is about creedbro getting a txt that says he’s gonna become a dadbro
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
@sue thompson, lol
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Preferred the “”urban mix”":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaEqzyFAXp0
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//////////Reply by whatuptokyo
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 1:47 pm
@Daniel Osborne, how do black people talk on cell phones in slow motion?
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uffie LP in 2k9. most blggble.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
@J, meh
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idk carles but your blog just hit NSFW status with the naked am Appy ad. Congratulations buddy!
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//////////Reply by ES
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 1:06 am
@Mandy, So weird: I’m in China and have been reading posts/comments about the naked ad, but I still just see a dog! “H8 u censorship.”
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i resolve to bone moar AZNs in nightclub bathrooms.
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im scared carles
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what do we want from HRO
more meaningful posts….deep, very deep
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what I [and everyone else should] want for 2k9:
moar tugjobs+drugz y’all!!!
[miss u sparks!!!]
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:05 pm
@human after y’all, lol
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Y’all, it’s time to post pictures of your alternative lifestyle for all of the bl0gw0rld to see. And I would like you to answer AZN “Samuel” on myspace’s question.
Kthxbai, y’all.
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2k9 the year carles discovered existentialism and decided to question ERRTHING N ERRBODY
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//////////Reply by Ann Da Panda
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 12:51 am
@808’sANDtentaclerape,
True. So true.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 11:36 pm
@808’sANDtentaclerape, It’s better than the other shit.
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//////////Reply by 808'sANDtentaclerape
//////////Posted January 3rd, 2009 at 12:27 am
@anony,
no wonder ur anon, you can’t interpret sarcasm. never said it wasn’t goot, brah.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:07 pm
@808’sANDtentaclerape, awkward
m4ke m0re music posts carles
ur opinion is S0 important 2 me
pls
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:08 pm
@indiehipster, sammmmme
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the archives of this website are very amusing, for they consist of mp3s being posted, a thing carles hasn’t done for at least 15 months (give or take)
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 11:37 pm
@26, It’s because carles has horrible taste in music.
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
@anony, no Afrika Bambaataa does and I paid 15bucks Saturday to see em spin MC Hammer “Can’t Touch This.” It’s about the personality and the ego not the music, CRLS.
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great song, happy new year
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blog about whether or not emile hirsch is jewish. just saw milk. blog about milk. blog about alt books. blog about appropriate literature for altbros to read on the bus while they listen to the new animal collective album. do altbros read? do altbros take the bus?
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
@Anonymous, altbros r so ovr Animal Collective’s new album. They listen to hypemachine popular on their iPhonez while they read hypebeast.
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Yes, Vlog, and blog about what you look like and stop being so Anon.
Yes, I’ll continue to read funny and relevant missives here and hear the XMU show. I find them life altering in magical ways.
Yes, you’ll fall in love and never Tug alone again, but often want to.
No, you’ll not get a heart attack from Chili’s in 2k9 but your local branch will close due to a lack of meaningful new products and weak branding.
You will begin to eat Curry daily and hang out at a British style pub where people ‘get’ you. You’ll begin a fetish for AltIndians and often Blog about their fashion.
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What I want? More pictures of body parts. Everyone loves that!
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Kanye West/ Animal Collective? IDFK.
I read an interview where kanyeezy said he wanted to be the urban version of radio head. basically, he wants to straddle the line between alt(?)/mainstrem long and well enough to have the clout/artistic credibility to make really “weird” records and still go platinum .
He also said he wants to be a pop artist and that he’ll know he’s reached Radiohead status when they start selling his cd’s at Starbucks.
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//////////Reply by anony
//////////Posted January 2nd, 2009 at 11:39 pm
@Hot N’ BODY’D, He’ll have to get in line behind coldplay. fuckin douchebags
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted January 5th, 2009 at 12:25 pm
@Hot N’ BODY’D, Ye will get Saul Williams to write his lyrics, Kid A to rap them, the Polyphonic Spree to do back up vocals, and instead of drum solos Greg G.’ll do mashup solos. Ye is building such a strong Warhol brand. He’s soo conceptual. HRO should be more conceptual.
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MISS U 2k8
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MOZZA
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“Do u plan on reading HRO until 2k10, or are these ‘our last days’ 2gthr?
(Please be honest.)”
Yes, I plan on reading HRO until your deep social commentary runs out///become too mnstrm.
CRLS’ voice aside you should go to Democratic Republic of Congo and do something meaningful.
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