Emilee and me in the paper world that ties London together in the Yankee In a Chip Shop video. It was another one-take fiasco, a la Salty Eyes, at least on the budget we were shooting- there was no affording double prints even, of the paper models we were destroying. And again, it worked out- by the skin on our eyeballs.
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I can't wait to feast on it with my eyes
Admit it, growing up you were always jealous of the little girls who got to play with paper dolls. This was finally your chance to have some of your own...
Either way, it looks like it should be an interesting video.
Oh, so you DO respond to "prodding".(makes note to self ;0)
It looks fab, chap...can't wait to see the final product!
The first anon post made me think of the Snickers "Feast" commercials.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Xg2k5-YkISU&feature=related
That is kind of how I feel about the Yankees video.
Amazing, I can't wait to see the new video. You guys always put out something creative.
You are a tease.
That being said, I think it is nicer to at least have a preview.
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you've got some patience. i'm liking what i see, can't wait for it to be done and out.
i have converted my sisters and mother into matches fans. wake the sun turned them into fans, and surprisingly, so did people on the block. they can't understand why you guys aren't loved by the entire world (exaggerated a tad)
*drumroll*
This reminds me of what I'm doing to my graduation cap.
Also, it's really effing cool.
yessss
now go upload it to youtube yoooo
Dude! So stoked for that video to come out. I'm sure it'll be a masterpiece.
I'm listening to you, as well as the rest of the band, on Live 105 right now. This broadband radio stuff is neat. Too bad it's close to 11:30 and I'm ready to drop, due to the nasty humidity/heat my city is currently suffering through.
Anyways, I cannot wait for this video, just like everyone else commenting here. I'm sure it will be a masterpiece.
I'm so excited.
Hurry up already! sheesh. you tease, you.
Xylophone + Bodysnatchers + The Spoons request = BEST listen ever!
Thanks for giving us a fun Sunday nite!!
Welly well well.
The shots appear!
And a lovely few marks they are.
You and the droogs look exceedingly ready to make cinematic magic.
I hope to see this very soon!
-A
oooh i love your videos! cant wait for this one.
i can feel the excitement mounting.
just a little fyi...i work at bath and body works and there is a journey's kids across the hall and when i work the front of the store i usually end up watching their tv because they play wake the sun every like 2 hours...im not sure how long their loop is...so yeah...theres a good 3 minutes every couple hours when im hooked onto their tv...my bad. i cant even hear the song over our weird jazzy stuff but i like seeing it
Everybody - I've posted some pictures from the shoot on my blog: http://chucowski.blogspot.com/
It's not very much, but better than nothing. I'll post all the pics I have as soon as the video is out there.
Your videos are always amazing! I can't wait for this one to come out. You rocked on Live 105 tonight and I can't wait for Saturdays show
Excited? Why yes, yes I am.
You know, when I was listening to Soundcheck tonight, and I heard that you guys were going to play a cover, a little part of me wanted to believe it was going to be "More Than A Feeling", but I knew it wouldn't.
Damn you for proving me right.
But you still have a chance to prove me wrong...
YANKEE IN A CHIP SHOP VIDEO WILL BE RELEASED ON ____ __, 2008!
You fill in the blanks!
By the way, I'm liking all the matches radio shows this week. You sounded great on live 105 tonight.
Paper, polka dots, and Monty Python galore!
You referring to it as the Salty Eyes 'fiasco' immediately made me think of that behind-the-scenes video. That was insanity. My mom, who's muchmuch older, thinks that's one of the coolest videos ever.
Can't wait to see this :]
bout damn time haha.... seriously tho cannot wait it looks like its gunna be another amazing video
Excitement?
We're all aflutter with excitement; the very idea of the premier makes us want to don our finest for imaginary red carpets.
I wasn't expecting a post from you today, but I can't tell you how much it made my day to see one. Sometimes it's the small things, the unexpected smiles, that shove despair the furthest away.
Yay!(:
OHSHIT.
I cant wait to see this. This will by far succeed in greatness in a race with WTS' video.
Hmm, so as excited as I am about this, it does happen to remind me of a certain shirt, that a certain girl made for AP Tour in Columbus, and a certain musician, who enjoyed and took a picture of said shirt, and said he would post it on the website. Hmmmm. haha In all seriousness I'm uber psyched for this video though. =]
nothing will make my week more than seeing this video finally!
I am SO ready to see this video. :D *excited*
looks badass.
youtube it.
I just got the internet back... =^] YAY!
So... this blog was posted on my birthday. =^D
And I think you, sir, are a BIG tease.
But, I enjoy the suspense...
Hurry up though... we gotta move on with the world. =^]
Shawn is a master mind!!end of story and everyone wants to be him!!lolz!even the girls!
<3
MercedesPage
Do I discern an underlying message in this latest addition to your blog? Something like “Buy our latest album-- hell, buy a copy for everyone you know and pass some to random strangers on the streets as well!” in an attempt at getting the message across before you run out of luck? It worked out before, it worked out this time-- but for how long can you rely on luck? And as much as I love how your music videos have a DIY and homemade touch I would of course never deny you double prints of paper models. Don’t worry, you’re not giving me a bad conscious and I do have the means to support the band. But if I promise to indeed buy an album or seven, could you promise to keep a certain amount of DIY-touch to the music videos? I’m very fond of it, you see.
(Ah, and yes, I’m very well aware that I may have completely misinterpreted everything.)
In any case; I’m very much looking forward to see the video.
I wonder if anybody on here ever feels like they're faking intellect just to keep up with Shawns light-years of thought.
I don't know really anybody on here...but sometimes what people say just seems...like they're trying to hard? Maybe.
Not that I mind. I'd much rather read faked ideals than read honest stupidity.
It just seemed a bit off.
maybe fans of the matches are just smarter than the rest of the world lol
Perhaps it’s faked, perhaps it’s real. It’s essentially impossible to tell just from a little note left on a blog.
Maybe some just have too much time on their hands and overanalyze things? Or maybe they aren’t actually trying as hard as you think they are? They could even be doing it just for fun.
A bit off. Or perhaps a lot off, honestly. But why be bothered by it? If people want to try to seem as smart as Shawn or if, in fact, they are it’s pretty harmless, don’t you think? And (though I know I’m assuming myself) should people really be so quick in assuming that some of the things people say really is just attempts at seeming or showing that they are as clever as Shawn and nothing else? We don’t know them, as you say yourself, and therefore we don’t know if they’re genuine or not. If they’re trying too hard they’ll figure that out sooner or later and stop. But if it’s just who they are stopping would be more fake then going on the same way. Problem is we don’t know which one belongs to what category. That is, if we choose to make a problem out of this at all. (Not saying you are, of course =] )
Hmm. And now I think it seemed like I’m trying to be clever here myself. xD
Oh, well. x ]
I think it's cause people edit themselves. Like...alright. On a messageboard, you can just say whatever you want. Here seems more...public than a message board I guess. So they'll revise what they say, using a smarter sounding (haha, ironic) style of speech and a bigger vocabulary. Also because they're/we're all fans of the matches. People want to sound intelligent to be taken seriously by whoever reads these comments. Especially Shawn.
I know I can't speak for everyone, but I guess that's just how it seems. I don't think its faked and put on really (in most cases). Just...edited.
whose to say shawn isnt trying to sound more intelligent than he actually is? maybe big words are contagious and we all just caught the smart disease. maybe we just are all intelligent people. i dont know and most certainly the rest of us are in the dark as well
I think Allyson is right.
And like, it’s nothing wrong with editing your language. I mean, we do it all the time to make or writing stile fit a certain genre. (We’re taught to adjust and adapt or writing to fit specific genres in school, are we not? Or, well, at least I know that’s been the case for me and my fellow classmates throughout our school years.) And I would suppose some feel that this big-word-vocabulary and clever-sounding way of writing is this blog’s genre and therefore they adapt. And I don’t know but I’d think that the comment which spawned this discussion was more of an attempt at a half-joke? If you think about it, Shawn called the video shoot a “one-take fiasco” and mentioned the budget and how they couldn’t even afford double prints of paper models. He has talked about how music video budget is based on record sales before (at least I think I can recall something about it form one interview or another). So it does seem a bit like he’d, I don’t know, hope? that the album sells so that they have a bigger budget for future music videos. And so the comment would seem like it’s half joking and half serious? If it’s way off and this interpretation that Shawn would subtlety ask us to/wish we would buy the album is all wrong he’ll get a laugh if he reads it. And if it’s not completely off he might smile at it because someone , well, maybe not understands him but maybe kind of gets it and is supportive in a way, I guess you could say. So either way, it’s probably something to smile about?
And I do agree with the anonymous poster above as well; Shawn may very well try to sound smarter than he is. (How someone can actually sound smarter than they are is a bit of a mystery though.) I think it’s all about how we adapt our writing though. And as long as it’s a genre we are able to master it’s not faking and even when it is a genre we don’t master we will learn by trying.
Or maybe we have indeed all caught the smart disease.
You never know, right?
Please hurry up and get the video out soon. It would make lotsa people happy.=)
Accch!
I no fake the intelligence!
VIDEOOOOOOOO. NOWWWWWWWWW.
Ah lurve the Matches, dem make pretty sounds on mind-ceiling, dey sprarkle all the life-long night.
When the video comes out it will be well worth the wait. Hardwork, it shows. :D
I think people here are of equal intelligence, but Shawn has a way of writing something that leaves people so flabbergasted that it knocks them off their chairs. When they do get up and back to keyboards some of their intelligence gets left on the floor.
Trying to remember what intelligence they had, they comment. Only when they finish their comments they find the intelligence spilled into the carpet fibers. But it would have been too late. Comment posted.
Unless there are a few really lucky ones, and they find their intellegence before the comment is posted.
That's what happens to me a lot when I read Shawn's writing. Usually I'm so dumbfounded I can't comment.
Just to note, I don't mean any offense by this.
I wish Whalen wrote a blog...it would be f'in hilarios!
I can't wait for this! That would be so much fun to do. Yay paper!
What if all of the "anonymous" comments are by the same sad Internet recluse, faking different identities? How could you tell?
;)
So far it looks awesome. Keep up the good work, and see you tonight!
Didn't mean to cause anybody anxiety, honest.
And I'm not judging, double-honest.
It just seemed a tad off to me.
Oh well, what's said is said.
See you all at the Fillmore show tonight, yes?
Don’t worry about it. I didn’t take offence. I did realize that my somewhat odd comment had the potential to start a discussion. I’ve seen them happen before when people have made similar kinds of comments, though perhaps staying on topic a bit more. I completely understand that it seems off and I’m sure I would have reacted in a similar way as you if it had been made by someone else-- even if I likely wouldn’t comment about it (no offence to you for doing so, of course).
And I think I'd like to blame the courses I’ve been taking in high school and in college for both the language and the actual content of that comment I made. You see, I’ve studied psychology for two years (taking two different classed) back in high school and recently attended a course in Swedish (my native language, by the way) in college and part of that course was about analyzing written text (and transcriptions, but that’s insignificant to this discussion) and see why it looked like it did and what was communicated – both directly and what was to be read between the lines – and to draw conclusions from that. So combine my interest in psychology with my fondness of analyzing the written word you’ll get weird comments like my previous one. Though, the comment was never meant to be taken too seriously. Unfortunately that did not communicate well. Should have thought of that I suppose.
But in any case, no hard feelings. = ]
Hey guys!
^ Indeed.
Aha the comments here are so hilarious, I love 'em.
Anyways I'm sooooo stoked to see this masterpiece of a video...
Dude, I hope the show last night went great.
It's definitely an achievement. Congratulations.
I didn't take offense to it. Just putting out my thoughts out there.
OH! I found the intelligence I lost from the Penguin Porn (Pegorn/Porguin) post! I wondered where that went!
anyways this was meant to be about the video. and to be entirely honest, i wouldnt care if they/you shot the video in a backroom pretending to be on tv talking from cardboard boxes. you/they could pull it/anything off. and in fact cardboard box telly would be so cool.
just a thought.
=) x
Oh and you kinda look like a conductor in that hat.
It's cute.
dude nice dolls, looks like it's going to be kick ass
There are many great bands.
But a band is only as great as what they do.
But in order for a band to become great,
they muct first be noticed.
And when noticed, they must know,
exactly what they came for.
It doesn't matter who they are noticed by.
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MAN I CANT WAIT FOR THE VIDEO!!!
Dx hope we dont see it by the end of this year like with WHAT KATIE SAID!!!
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