Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Stir Karma

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50 Comments :

Blogger Random Hero said...

Is that supposed to be extremely blurry?

February 13, 2008 1:38 AM  
Blogger Random Hero said...

Oh, and another thing. Browsing YouTube lead to finding an interview from the other night in Vegas. The interviewer just happend to be a newborn moleman who made it extremely awkward to watch.

February 13, 2008 1:46 AM  
Blogger Louie said...

What the hell...? You're messing up my page, dude. Haha.

February 13, 2008 3:44 AM  
Blogger KatieB said...

whoa...what IS that?
lol...sorry for sending 2 emails...i just get so excited sometimes that i lose my head and forget things like links to youtube videos...oops

February 13, 2008 4:29 AM  
Blogger Marie>You said...

Mr. Harris, all I see is a blurry rectangle thing. Mind telling me what the hell it's supposed to be?
Or is something really there and I just can't see it 'cause my computer is a piece or crap?
I'd like to know.

February 13, 2008 5:01 AM  
Blogger Seamoon said...

What's going on?!

February 13, 2008 5:06 AM  
Blogger Steph said...

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February 13, 2008 5:14 AM  
Blogger Steph said...

right click>view image: wake.jpg

Wake the sun video still?!

February 13, 2008 5:19 AM  
Blogger Steph said...

and by .jpg I meant .png

February 13, 2008 5:22 AM  
Blogger KatieB said...

oh oh oh
i did the view image thing and its still stretched so you cant see it but when you look up the url box...theres a little square that appears to be a tiny version of what the long rectangle is supposed to be
its like a little dude with an orange background (possibly a sunrise?)

February 13, 2008 5:30 AM  
Blogger Steph said...

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February 13, 2008 5:41 AM  
Blogger Steph said...

if you have photoshop you can reduce him to 60 x 60 and get a pixelated (but bigger) version. It definitely looks like sunrise!

and for irony, the sun is coming up as I post this. I think this means I need to resume studying for my exams today.

February 13, 2008 5:46 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey dude i dont know how i feel about the new album yet. i would never criticize you cause i have been a fan since the beginning, but i just dont know as of right now. but then again, i didnt like decomposer the first time i heard it, and i obviously do now, so im not sure.

the positives are that i feel this record's is more lyric-forward than your other stuff, but somtimes it gets a little repetative, i dont know, but there is some really great stuff on it

im still gonna go buy it when it comes out for you guys

February 13, 2008 6:43 AM  
Blogger Shawnfromthematches said...

"Anonymous Anonymous said...

hey dude i dont know how i feel about the new album yet."

I Said

you don't have to know how to feel about it right now. It will be waiting for you at the top of the driveway... watching you climb in your frozen car every morning... it knows what time you come home, how you take the shortcut down the ivy rather than walk the path...

and
steph, katieb and sherlock holmes know what Wake the Sun looks like.

February 13, 2008 8:24 AM  
Anonymous Nikki Thump said...

Damn this eMac at my poor school that won't load a picture of any kind!

it simply shows a questionmark..

February 13, 2008 8:29 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Holy damn, that is huge. Lawlz

February 13, 2008 8:36 AM  
Blogger Doll said...

Well, Shawn, you win. I'm sitting home sick and lo and behold a post. I expect your usual post but instead get an elongated figure that has be scrolling up and down the screen. Now, I have not been able to partake in thrilling reads of "I Spy" books since I was little, and I'm feeling too crummy to get into it now.

Anybody who figures it out, even Shawn, please publish a steady link to the picture on my blogger. I'm not a very computer savvy person, and this is more than my feeble electronic mind can take in my state.

I hope I just guilted somebody into helping...
-D

February 13, 2008 8:49 AM  
Blogger Doll said...

By the way...
my MOTHER just headed to the airport with a ticket to Texas and a pocket-knife. She has been known to commit homicide in her frustration in the past. Matches, lock your doors.

Again...
-D

February 13, 2008 8:53 AM  
Anonymous Morris said...

A man placed upon the rising sun. you are as mischievous as you are brilliant. the new album is amazing. definitely a contrast to the others, but what on earth would you expect? in turn, i would buy it more than once. for friends and unfortunate ones. and why stop with one good deed in return payment, but rather throughout your remaining lives. also, patience is thin for this dvd you mentioned. mainly anticipating more of the bands inspiring achievements. LOVE

February 13, 2008 9:01 AM  
Blogger Kait said...

"you don't have to know how to feel about it right now. It will be waiting for you at the top of the driveway... watching you climb in your frozen car every morning... it knows what time you come home, how you take the shortcut down the ivy rather than walk the path..."

That's kind of creepy, mate.

February 13, 2008 11:29 AM  
Anonymous Kelsey said...

clever!

February 13, 2008 12:21 PM  
Blogger sara, obv said...

Very clever, Shawn. I messed around with the size and such in photoshop, and it's definitely a male walking/looking into a really bright sunlight of some sort. It looks really cool, sir. <3


Also, Shawn, I got the text reply to my abih payment, and it made my day. Thank you, a lot.

February 13, 2008 12:42 PM  
Blogger sara, obv said...

To others:
If you can't see the image or are too lazy to mess around with it, click here

February 13, 2008 12:46 PM  
Anonymous booger129 said...

ok first off
shawn you get creepier & creepier by the day & i love you for it
it makes me feel less creepy about the whole cancer thing....anyway
"newborn moleman"
you totally stole that from me adam!
& morris
thanks to colin
once i saw that that i only thought of zack morris & i couldn't take anything said by him seriously
i kept thinking of zack saying it & then trying to sell me zit cream

February 13, 2008 1:09 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Whatever the heck that is, its not hiptop friendly

February 13, 2008 1:44 PM  
Blogger Steph said...

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February 13, 2008 2:34 PM  
Blogger allyson said...

Is there a deadline on this?

I've already worked something out, but I need to get my camera back first. My friend still has it from Say Anything last week.

February 13, 2008 2:36 PM  
Blogger Steph said...

But, but we've only had two days! The turnaround for videos isn't nearly that fast (this you should know *cough*), especially for those unlucky souls who have heartless professors that assign us readings and papers and stuff. (I assure you the previous parenthetical remark was made entirely in jest though it makes me wonder if there is a deadline for submitting videos and pictures?)

February 13, 2008 2:47 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Wow, haha some people dont know the whole if you dont have anything nice to say, dont say it thing, that one comment was weird


That's funny that shawn actually read it and tollld them haha


I downloaded the album yesterday, my first impression was that you seem a bit jaded in the songs, but thats what gives it emotion ironically. and it does creep up on you like shawn said, it crept up on me in class today while in a very heavy lecture about liberals and conservatives and what strategies clinton and obama use in their campaign.

I think you should take that as the best compliment, if you read this one. cause i actually did have 24c ringing in my head during this discussion and i thought that you might appreciate under what circumstances your music resonates with someone

I think its fair to make the statement now that
the matches and politics coincide
haha
this coming from someone who wants to be a political anaylist, so im a credible source.

haha

February 13, 2008 4:10 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I fiddled with it on Powerpoint... cause I'm that ghetto. >.<

But seriously.
I'm thinking I'll take the picture tomorrow at school when I do something nice, cause I atleast do one nice thing a day. =^D WOOHOO!!!
Though... I only ripped one song...
Gotta hold back.
Gotta have something to scream about when I buy the cd.

My friend asked me why I bought cds like yesterday. And he said "Other than supporting some fantastic band, like The Matches." (they're getting sick of my excitement for this cd, btw) and so I explained that it's the thrill of finally finding the cd you've wanted for so long, waiting in line to check out with it in your hand, then unwrapping it and pulling the security sticker off... it's orgasmic. He died laughing and I pointed out that he didn't let me get to how listening to the music... he wouldn't let me. He was scared I'd say something "more inappropriate than orgasm." >.<
OOO how I love talking about music in life.

February 13, 2008 4:39 PM  
OpenID myenqvist said...

you make beautiful music. i wish i could make beautiful music. but alas, i have the second best thing, which is singing along to yours.

February 13, 2008 5:00 PM  
Blogger lekwon said...

i can't wait to email my recompensation. tomorrow is valentine's day, and i have a wonderful plan in mind.

February 13, 2008 5:44 PM  
Blogger girl on rooftop said...

ohhh heyy that's pretty cool :]

if you copy the URL and then go to it...and then copy the picture on MS Word...and then stretch it SIDEWAYS..!...

*le gasp*

i feel extremely clever :]

and i can already tell that'll be one sick video...

props to you, mr. shawn.

February 13, 2008 6:39 PM  
Blogger Miss Nicole said...

Mr Shawn I do believe that the colors in the box were very beautifully blended... lol I don't know what else to say about that. It looked cool, I scolled up and down a few times :)

February 13, 2008 6:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

http://i26.tinypic.com/2mww50y.jpg

February 13, 2008 6:46 PM  
Blogger wowitsjordyn said...

lord shawn harris -
i regret to inform you [not like you care or were notified about this beforehand] i will not be attending the dallas show on this friday. my mom does not want to drive me there [we live maybe half an hour away] and it might ice. so she's freaking out. but i shall think of you all while listening to all of the matches cds i have on repeat. i will be very sad, but i shall trudge through this.

ps - i've had a video for wake the sun in my head since the first time i heard it. ca-razy.

February 13, 2008 8:09 PM  
Anonymous dani said...

Happy Valentine's Day! (and happy birthday to me!) I'm just excited because I get my license today. Not that you care. I just feel the need to share my joy with everyone! YAY! xoxo

February 13, 2008 9:00 PM  
Blogger sarah tither-kaplan said...

Well, now I know. You do read these comments Shawn. This is embarrassing. Even more so because I had to look up how to spell the word embarrassing.

Every time I hear "Wake the Sun", I feel like all the Beatles are still alive and Blink-182 never broke up.

P.S. I hate to bring See-you-ehn-tees into this, but that Rossstar interview and the story about "you know who" was hilarious.

February 13, 2008 9:24 PM  
Anonymous Brittany said...

look at everyone getting all "shelby woo" up in this blog. i like it.

February 13, 2008 9:50 PM  
Anonymous Carah said...

Hey Shawn,
Question:
Be my Valentine, for I
Each day have thought of you.
My whole life couldn't manage what
Your ready smile can do,
Vanquishing my loneliness
As though all light were new.
Let me be your Valentine
Even as you're mine,
Needing what I have to give
That each might each define
In friendship and in harmony,
Now you, now I the melody,
Each helping each to shine.

....so will you?

February 13, 2008 9:52 PM  
Blogger Shawnfromthematches said...

sure

February 14, 2008 2:12 AM  
Blogger Random Hero said...

Carah strikes again! dun dun dun

February 14, 2008 2:28 AM  
Blogger sarah tither-kaplan said...

i'm so glad that worked out for carah.

February 14, 2008 6:19 AM  
Anonymous Carah said...

Wow, Thank You Shawn.
The best Valentines Day Ever!!!
xoxoxo

February 14, 2008 6:53 AM  
Blogger everlstng said...

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February 14, 2008 6:12 PM  
Blogger everlstng said...

I wanted to ask, what was your first reaction to learning that your cd had been leaked? It must have not been pleasant.

February 14, 2008 6:16 PM  
Blogger Seamoon said...

Hahah! Oh, Carah. I'm glad I don't know you very well.

February 15, 2008 8:38 AM  
Blogger Morgan Elaine said...

http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/650/wakethesunhaoi1.jpg

yep.
thats a little bigger than it should be because it was far too small :)

you think you're so clever, Mr. Harris.
you are no match for me!

February 18, 2008 11:08 AM  
Anonymous Cooper said...

awesome trick Shawn you had me for a while but i messed with it and i finally see

February 21, 2008 2:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

someone help me, how do i see what this is???


i dont see view image anywhere when ii right click

March 10, 2008 8:47 PM  

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