That's funny that seeing the Kooks was both the best time of your life and a sort of turnoff towards the band. That makes sense though because of how the singer was behaving. It kind of makes you wish you knew less about the band so you could just enjoy their music.

I don't think Eventful is a popular enough website to accurately gauge interest in a band, and I don't really think bands use that site as a measuring tool to decide where they'll perform. But I still wish there were more people demanding Franz!

You gotta help me out, Kylee. I'm the only person demanding Franz to come to Honolulu on Eventful. How depressing. http://eventful.com/honolulu/demand/franz-ferdinand-/D0-001-002841072-3

I'm downloading Kasabian's albums right now. I'm sure I will enjoy them, too!

I've started listening to more of FF's first two albums so I don't get too exhausted of their new one. Plus, I'm sort of catching up. I already had their first album from when it first came out, but I never owned their second album until I downloaded it a few weeks ago. Yesterday, in fact, I went out and bought a DualDisc edition of You Could Have It So Much Better. (That's when one side is an audio CD and the other side has DVD bonus content.) I went to Mai Tai with some coworkers yesterday and one of them saw me with the CD and said it was a good album.

I just watched the DVD, which has the "Do You Want To" music video, footage of of them in the studio, an interview, and a video of their first time playing "Walk Away" in Japan. I love watching bonus snippets like that. Then I found myself wishing FF would play a show here. You never know.

Btw, did you go to The Kooks show a few months ago? I don't listen to them, but I knew they had a show at Pipeline and since we're discussing UK bands, I thought I'd ask.

Did you catch the webchat Franz did on Thursday? I wasn't aware of it, but I stumbled upon some links to videos of the chat: http://community.livejournal.com/franzferdinand/786924.html?#cutid1.

I'm still in my Franz phase and haven't been listening to much else, aside from the occasional Muse song.

That's neat that the Muse board had a contingent at the Amoeba gig hehe. Lucky buggers.

Kasabian is band I keep hearing of, but have yet to check out. I'll look into them too. I downloaded two Kaiser Chiefs albums recently that I have yet to listen to in full. A lot of Brit rock lately for me. A lot of downloaded music in general this month.

Now that FOTC video, that was lol worthy!

I caught the rebroadcast last night, thank goodness! I enjoyed it. I cracked up with that sign that one girl passed to Alex that read, "You can drink my vodka any time!" And there was that other one, something about "Franzy pants." Oh fans.

I haven't heard any of Friendly Fires' music until now; I'm streaming the music they have on their Myspace. Are they from Scotland, too? Seems like they make dance-able music, too.

It was exciting to see them on American TV for once! Alex's feathery hair was cute. Now for Craig Ferguson. I'm looking forward to the interview and hoping for a performance of "No You Girls." Don't know if they would play "Ulysses" again, since they just performed it on Leno.

I'm bummed I missed the Amoeba webcast, though. I was hoping to be home from our video shoot in town in time for the performance, but that along with traffic dashed all hopes for that. It looks like Amoeba archives their performances, though, so hopefully FF's will be up sometime soon.

In a couple hours, they'll be on Leno! Woot!

In celebration, here's another animated GIF... this cracks me up:

I'll be in town all day tomorrow, but I should be back home to catch the Amoeba stream. Thanks for the heads up!

I'm expecting and hoping for the same for Leno tonight. "No You Girls" would especially make for an awesome performance. It's just a catchy track.

Haha yeah I saw your sig. Looped Franz craziness ftw!

Yeah, Craig Ferguson is the Late Late Show on CBS. Franz is appearing next Friday (February 7), though. I found the info over here: http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCProgram.do?t=The-Late-Late-Show-With-Craig-Ferguson&pgmId=EP007151230868

Were you able to get the avatar working?

Try this version. I forgot that the max avatar size here is 90x90, not 100x100. Maybe that was the problem?

Otherwise, does this message board allow animated avatars? I know some don't.

I just found out Franz will be on Jay Leno this Thursday and Craig Ferguson next Friday. (Alex is supposed to be interviewed by Craig Ferguson on the show too. Two Scottish blokes!) Break out that DVR or VHS recorder...

Haha WORD. You're welcome! Enjoy!

Tada! Here ya go!

Oh, and I have non-acoustic Shine if you want it!

Yeah, I love the Ulysses video too! I was searching the Internet last night and stumbled upon a website that had it for download! For free and great quality too! Go here and right-click the "MOV" link below the band's picture and select the download option. I'm so happy I have it on my computer!

Sometimes it's the ad agencies that can't produce anything creative, but a lot of the time it's the clients, too. At the marketing agency I interned with and at the place I work at now, there have been a few times when we came up with ideas for clever ads, but the client was just too conservative to go with it and wanted us to do something traditional and boring. Like they were already assuming that people would be too stupid to "get it." I don't blame them, but at the same time, a good commercial will make your business look better. Like, I really like the Ala Moana commercials. No dialogue, just good music, good cinematography, and good text treatment on the screen. And it gives Ala Moana a classier image, not an embarrassing one.

Thanks for the input for the Muse songs! I was thinking that Absolution would be the album to start her off with, though Origin of Symmetry is a really good album, too. I was looking at all the Muse songs I had, and I realized it would be intimidating for a new listener to have all that music and not know where to start. Especially the miscellaneous b-sides, Hullabaloo, and HAARP.

LOL you replied to me on your own profile! I almost did that a couple of times too!

I showed one of our video production interns the videos for "Ulysses" and "Leave Before the Lights Come On." He liked the film grain and cinematic qualities of both and got thrown off with the ending of the latter video.

We need to change the state of local music videos, if that's what they can even be called. I never watch OC16, but from the very little that I've seen of it, it's an embarrassment to local video production. It's like the musicians got their cousin's camcorder and slapped something together just 'cause. But I guess it's tough to produce cool music videos when a lot of the music isn't very inspiring to begin with.

I've heard of Arctic Monkeys. I'm downloading their albums right now.

I've been trying to figure out which Muse songs to burn for our intern that showed me the Arctic Monkeys and Strokes videos yesterday. She already has BHaR but she's having a hard time getting into it, though she asked me today which song was used in the Watchmen trailer and she didn't realize she had it. I think I'm just gonna burn all their other albums and some b-sides on a CD.

We have the same favorite tracks on Tonight: Franz, in addition to "Ulysses" and "Can't Stop Feeling" for me. I just noticed today how "Kiss Me Katherine" acts as a reprise for "No You Girls" because they share a lot of the same lyrics. I thought that was neat. Usually reprises are in musicals, but it works for this album because it has that "night out with friends" theme and that story quality to it.

Coincidentally, I asked a couple of coworkers today if they heard of Franz Ferdinand. Strangely enough, both of them confused them with Modest Mouse! "Take Me Out" and "Float On" came out at around the same time and had similar music videos, and I guess that's where the mix-up was...

I had a music discussion/YouTube search session with one of our interns. She listens to a bit of Arctic Monkeys and had me watch their music video for "Leave Before the Lights Come On." I liked how it was more of a short film set to their song than a traditional music video; I loved the clever cyclical ending to the video. We also watched/listened to some stuff from Kate Nash and the Strokes. I'll give her a copy of Tonight: Franz. She'll give me some music from Arctic Monkeys and the Strokes.

Oh man, how could I forget about reversing?! That's another thing I need to work on. Especially with the driveway we have to back out of.

Good luck on your permit!

Good job on the Franz recommendation -- I can't thank you enough! They're now my new bus ride soundtrack. Right now, Tonight: Franz Ferdinand is my favorite of their three albums. You may have led me to my new favorite band. And about the beach music, my sister was actually the one who wanted me to bring Muse CDs. I guess that's a good sign! Listening to her and her friends sing along to their songs was amusing.

Sorry to hear about your car incident! Hope your parents will see the light and take you to the DMV. You don't want to procrastinate on getting your license... take it from someone who knows because I still don't have mine! I know, lame, right? That's one of my goals this year: to finally get my license. I have my permit, so I've been practicing. I need to working on my turning because sometimes I make wide turns. Also, driving on the freeway freaks me out, but it's inevitable.

Were you aware of this music video? Cool filmmaking... trippy, 70's/80's-ish.

P.S. Noob question: how do you embed YouTube videos? On another message board, the code was , but I suppose it may be different here.

I've been doing okay. I went to the beach on Monday with my sister and a few friends. I haven't been to the beach in ages. As pathetic as it sounds, I barely know how to swim. I had fun, though. We rented a boogie board so that helped. It came out to $6 for a couple of hours. Afterward we went to another beach to meet up with my sister's friends. There, we just stayed on the beach because the waves were scary. We ate, listened to Muse and Beastie Boys and watched my sister's friends roll in the sand. They came up with this game that involved rolling down a sand dune, then running back up, which is challenging when you're dizzy. It was funny to watch.

I've been working on updating my website, something I haven't done in a couple of years! Check it out. Right now, I'm formatting the text in my blog entries. I haven't updated my blog since I graduated. I haven't felt inspired to write in it lately.

How've you been doing?

Thanks for those videos! I like how "Ladies of the World" uses the old scenario of being so caught up in a fantasy that they forget they were in an ordinary bar. And "Robots" was the one FOTC song I had in my music library. I cracked up so hard when I first heard it, and remember being blown away by the binary solo, lol.

Thanks again for recommending the new Franz Ferdinand album. I was listening to it yesterday while I was cleaning/reorganizing my room, and again this morning while heading to work. You're right, I do like the single version of "Lucid Dreams" better, but I also kinda dig that electronic/beat breakdown thing at the end of the album version too. Haven't gotten around to listening to FOTC yet, though. I'll get to it soon enough!

I'm all right. Staying home today because of a severe storm, I guess our version of a snow day. High winds and rain, but not quite a hurricane. My boss called yesterday saying we didn't have to come in to work, and all the schools are closed, so my sister's also home. Plus it's a holiday on Monday. Yay, extended weekend!