tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-70258862535884323112024-02-02T10:09:57.895-08:00The SpongeDanihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.comBlogger125125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-30016556939215057342012-11-06T16:20:00.001-08:002012-11-06T16:20:54.941-08:00Why I Need Barack Obama To Be President For 4 More YearsI'm getting far too nervous about this election tonight, so I feel like I have to put my thoughts down on how important it is for me that Obama wins reelection. I know it's most likely too late to change even one person's mind- originally I had had a grand plan to write such an inspiring post that thousands of people would forward it to their friends and many would change from Romney to Obama because of it. But that's not going to happen, and probably never would have. But I need to put down my thoughts just so I at least have a last record of the last moments of this campaign, and how I'm feeling. At a decisive moment tonight, either all the nerves that have built up in me over the past 5 months will disappear, or I will be utterly depressed and lose faith in America. Either way, I'm going to be significantly in a different mind set.<br />
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President Obama is my idol. He's the only one I have left, as of this past month- he used to share that title with Brandon Flowers, but the latter has really disappointed me and I've given up faith in him, honestly. But that has never happened for me with Obama. He has literally never let me down. And that is quite extraordinary, because I hold my idols to very high standards. The difference between me and many of the young now 'disillusioned' '08 Obama fanatics is that I was never insanely obsessed with him. I am in love with him, dn't get me wrong, but I never saw him as a God or profit or messiah as so many others did. I knew that he was a human being, and in fact that's what I loved about him so much. He was honest, and had real feelings, and I got the undeniable sense that he meant what he said and wanted to change the world for the better.<br />
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And I still feel that about him. He hasn't changed in that sense- sure, he has become more realistic and is now aware that he can't exactly shake hands with Republicans because they will constantly try to stab him in the process. But he's still a great guy, and he still means what he says. How many politicians can you say that about? VERY few. And this is the President of the US we're talking about! It's a rarity, and we have to hold on to such a gem.<br />
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Now lets just go down the line of what he has in fact accomplished and changed in America, because so many naysayers think he's done little. And I'm not going to mention Osama Bin Laden or saving the auto industry or all that, because that's been gone over a million times already. I'm going to talk about what people like to gloss over and ignore-<br />
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-American's reputation around the world has been flowering the moment Obama was elected. We were in the dumps literally a minute before he won. Doesn't anybody remember this? Americans wore Canadian flag patches on their bags when they traveled for god's sake! Bush ruined our reputation, and the rest of the world hates us. Now they love us. You know who one of our biggest fans are, based on a recent poll posted on Reddit? FRANCE. That's literally insane. Do you remember freedom fries? France were our enemies, and now they are huge fans. Obama did that single-handedly by getting elected, and don't let anyone deny that. And people think that the rest of the world doesn;t matter, but actually it does. The world is made up of a lot more than just Americans, and it's high time we acknowledge that.<br />
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-He is just fun to listen to, his family is fun to admire, it's fun to think that he is my President. Politicians are usually so stale, I never imagined I would have someone I so admired as my President. I am so, so proud to call him my president. And 4 years of him are still not enough to make up for the 8 years of shame and frustration we had with Bush. We need for more years of Obama to fully make up for that, it's the least this country owes us right now. The wounds are healing, but they're not done. Electing ROmney now will just break so many of us into pieces. It wouldn;t be fair.<br />
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-The economy. Yes, Obama is the strongest to handle this economy. News flash indeed. People think Romney is the best for the economy? Are you kidding me, it's the exact opposite! Romney is one of the businessmen that STARTED this mess. YEs the economy is growing slowly, but that's the way it SHOULD be. It needs to fix itself. It was utterly broken and corrupt before, nd that's how so many were crazy, unrealistically successful- because their money was literally invisible. Now it taken painful years to fix the economy and make it strong again, and there's no short cutting around it the way ROmney promises to unless we want another bust and recession in 5 years. We need to invent the new car or computer to build the economy again. It's up to us, not the president, so give him a break for once and look inside at what YOU could do, as a CITIZEN, as Obama so memorably said in the convention. We're all in this together. We need to make America's economy successful again by working together and brainstorming how to compete with the rest of the world fair and square through innovation. Short cuts will get us NOWHERE.<br />
-Obamacare, financial aid for school- did I mention what a great guy Obama is?<br />
-He is the first black president America has ever had. He deserves four more years to prove what he is really capable of. It's not joke that he inherited just about the worst situation possibly imaginable in 2008- now things have finally settled down, and he has SO much more to prove. He deserves a fair shot. The future history books already say so in my mind, as a history major. He will forever be one of the most if not the most beloved presidents in US history, mark my words. Let's give those history books more to work with in his future representations. Also, the Republicans in Congress are going to look racist as hell in future history books for trying to block everything Obama tried to accomplish from the moment he took office. They said their top priority was to not get him reelected. What happened to a top priortiyy being fixing the economy, or caring about America's future? Why be especially hard on the first black president? Do you KNOW how blacks used to be treated in America until 150 years ago? Do you know how all these factors together look in history books in the future? yeah, that's right, Republicans dug themselves in a hole once again, and they're again on the polar wrong side of history. Don't even get me started on the nonesense that comes out of their mouths about gay marriage and abortion. These are quotes that get crystallized in history. It's going to look like quotes about segregation and slavery.<br />
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-Don't be on the wrong side of history. Vote for Obama and be on the right side of history. Don't think about the moment, think about the big picture. This is fucking important. Liberals, stop harping about Guantanamo bay and think about what's at stake here. You look like babies. Obama is still president of the US, he can't paint everything sparkly peace and love. This is the real world. Appreciate that beautiful miracle you have here and stop complaining. Start voting. Give Barack Obama 4 more years. Romney is a shadow of a person- he doesn't even know what he stands for. He grew up privileged as hell and never took the time to learn about how the rest of the world lives. He doesn't understand us, he's a decent guy, but he just doesn't understand. he looks at America economy like balancing a check, not dealing gently with millions of conflicting factors that come out of this beautiful, diverse, historical, miracle that is America. let's do this right. Let's reelect Obama and get 4 more glorious years of beautiful history.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-72732115458300129812012-01-03T00:46:00.000-08:002012-05-30T16:46:18.312-07:00Behind the Scenes Photos: Spring/Summer 2011 London Fashion Week, Pt. 3This final part of my Behind-the-scenes London FW photo trilogy includes photos I took after the Topshop fashion show, right outside the old warehouse building. Lots of fashionable people were walking about and it was really fun to photograph them. I also took lots of pictures of the Sartorialist and Facehunter taking photos of two girls. Sartorialist took so many photos of his girl for so long. That was interesting because there were so many different people there- I was impressed that he just dove in on one that caught his eye and spent all of the time on taking the perfect shot of her, with many different backgrounds. I always assumed he took sort of spur-of-the-moment photos, but if this was any indication he sepnds a lot of time on them and directs his subjects into all kinds of different poses and places. So when they look like they just happen to be walking about or gazing in some direction, don't be fooled too much because Sartorialist put them in that position. Still, it shows what an art it is for him and explains why all of his photos are so beautiful and interesting.
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</div>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-63319537993506095912012-01-03T00:20:00.000-08:002012-05-30T16:42:59.558-07:00Behind the Scenes Photos: Spring/Summer 2011 London Fashion Week, Pt. 2Part 2 of my London Fashion Week photo collection is from a different point of view entirely- this time as an "insider." I was lucky enough to get a ticket for a show sponsored by Topshop, featuring up-and-coming designers. It was at an old warehouse in the financial district, and at first I didn't know what to expect- but it turned out I scored a seat at a damn hip event. Everyone there was even more ahead-of-the-curve fashion-wise than those around the Somerset House tent, and I spotted none other than the Sartorialist there! I had watched a video about him a few days before so I recognized him immediately, but otherwise I probably would have never noticed him. I later sort of camera-stalked him post-show and took pics of him taking pics of a stylish girl, which you will see in part 3 of this photo collection. But for now, the fashion show itself (which included not one but three great young designers):<br />
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These pictures are from outside the tent, near the entrance of Somerset House, and then a tiny peak from behind the tent from a café window. I later ate in that area really behind the scenes with all the fashion people milling around, but I didn't want to give myself away as an outsider spy so I just sat and watched with my camera safely hidden away...
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I've been searching all over the Internet and I can't find a single guide for what a Killers fan should do in Las Vegas. What?! This band has been around for seven years and we Victims can't gather up a guide for our fellow fans, who just want to see more than Sam's Town? For shame! Alright I GUESS I can create the guide myself, since I've already enlightened fans about such important issues as, where Brandon bought his <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/08/brandon-flowers-and-case-of-purple.html">purple tiger hoodie</a>, and, who has copied his <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/12/brandon-flowers-trendsetter-feathers-on.html">feather epaulettes</a>. Yes. You're welcome. Moving on-<br />
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This is the <i>Victim's Guide to Fabulous Las Vegas</i> <br />
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First, some required knowledge before you DARE SET FOOT THERE-<br />
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-You must think of LV as "the Killers fan's Mecca." Because that's essentially what it is. And you are just a lowly commoner Victim making a pilgrimage to the holy land, essentially. This is a replenishing, soul-fulfilling experience you are about to embark on. Are you even ready? I'm talking Magdalena levels of pilgrimage epicness!<br />
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-It is hot as fuck there in the summer. It's DRY and HOT and the SUN is so intense, you will practically melt. I know Brandon makes it seem like it's heaven on earth, but really you're going to be sweating like a pig if you go in the summer.<br />
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-You have to memorize TK's version of the state song <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Yu7pKuwHiQ">"Home Means Nevada"</a> before you set foot there. Get to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf52j_hZdzQ">practicing</a>. <br />
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-The moment you get out of your car, or airport, and step outside on the city of Las Vegas's land, you have to fall to the floor and bow three times at its holiness. Say (while kneeling, with your hand on your heart): "I have come to the land of Brandon, Ronnie, Mark, and Dave- this is *THE* Fabulous Las Vegas- (this is when you start bowing on the ground three times:) I AM NOT WORTHY. I AM NOT WORTHY. I AM NOT WORTHY." Or, you know, don't. Just don't blame me if the LV gods (TK) frown upon your disrespect.<br />
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Now, the guide itself includes three levels. The BASIC FAN level, which is for half-assed fans who have a life. Whatever, they'll have the cliché pictures, but they won't have the <i>true experience</i>. The next level is the LEGIT STAN level, which is awesome and allows you to pat yourself on the back because, congratulations, you are a TRUE Killers fan! Phew, you must be relieved. Finally, the third and final level is the CRAZY MOTHERFUCKER, which means you are at an epic level of creepiness and is, quite frankly, more shameful than anything. Look at your life, look at your choices. <br />
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-Visit the <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/sams-town-las-vegas#hrid:_oOnVPE4SXOwEKsfmhyvfA">Sam's Town</a> sign picture- "When you walk around Liverpool, you think of The Beatles, or you go to
Manchester and you think of The Smiths or Oasis. I want you to come to
Las Vegas and think of <i>Sam's Town</i>. And I think we've started to capture that, which is a truer version of The Killers, 'cause that's where we're from.... I used to live across the street from Sam's Town. Maybe it'll be like our Abbey Road where people go to take pictures.... I wouldn't mind it. [2006 when Sam's Town came out]--- [fyi, helpful tip from Telekon, mod at TKC: "You can get a free bus from Harrah's on the strip, it will take you to
Sam's and when you have finished there you can get the free bus back to
the strip."- they also added: "Billy Bobs steak house in Sam's is amazing."]<br />
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-Drive in the LV desert with all of the windows open all the way, blasting WYWY/Crossfire/WTFLV/This River is Wild/Bling. Wearing cowboy hats would be a nice touch. Or fancy suits:<br />
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-Go to <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/luv-it-frozen-custard-las-vegas#hrid:wr7_bhwcKkZTYIQOaNNU3A">Luv-It</a> frozen custard, "the best frozen custard in Vegas"- and you must say all of these phrases on the way and when you get there: "Dude, we should get custard! Oh man, he's never had custard, for hell's sake!" -- (because of this famous '05 Spin article excerpt: "Flowers suggests dessert: "Dude, we should get custard!" "Custard," Vannucii seconds. "Do you like Custard?" Flowers asks me. "I've never had it." "Oh, man. He's never had custard, for hell's sake! We gotta go to Luv Its. It's the best frozen custard in Vegas." Our
driver navigates down East Oakley Boulevard toward a wood-paneled shack
almost hidden from the main drag. "I'm so happy! I can't believe we're
here," Flowers says, smiling. So we're eating custard, eggy and rich...")//// ALSO again in August 2012, The Killers gave director Werner Herzog a tour of Las Vegas and along with taking him to eat tacos and drive around the Mojave, they brought him here. According to Ronnie Werner chose banana split flavor, and Ronnie got blueberry shake.<br />
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happy pop star. In a windy parking lot just outside Vegas' spooky Neon
Graveyard, he's cold and he's tired and, much to his chagrin, guitarist
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was my archenemy. He was a really bad dude," Vannucci says. "We were
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-Go to <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/gold-coast-hotel-and-casino-las-vegas-3">Gold Coast Hotel</a> where Brandon was a bellboy (Bell MAN, sorry (quote)). As the bellman to deliver condoms.- "I was working there when we were signed."<br />
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- Go to <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/binions-hotel-and-casino-las-vegas">Binion's Horse Shoe Hotel & Casino</a> and order grilled cheese and corn bread for $3.75 for lunch from the snack bar, and then go to the secret east wing downstairs to find the ultra secret poker place - "i meet up with vannucci at binion's horse shoe,a casino in fremont square,near old vegas.it's an unpretentious,middle class joint with loads of button down,seedy charm.built in the forties and greatly expanded since,it's one of the oldest remaining casinos in vegas,a stark contrast to posh mega dens like the bellagio.the decor is all about floral print carpet, cowboy memorablilia and pictures of famous poker players like red winn,puggy pearson and wild bill hickok. Vannucci grabs lunch at the snack bar,which serves specialties like hobo stew an ugly meat and potatoes mishmash to patrons seated at a long oak counter."I like this place because it's real old school,"vannucci says."my parents have been coming here forever.I just had a grilled cheese and corn bread for $3.75.that's a reasonable price,man." Growing up,vannucci was a binion's regular with his dad-a friends family used to own the place vannucci navigates like a tour guide."here i'll show you the really old part of this place,"he says,walking toward the original,unalterd portion of the hotel."not many people know about this."we climb up a hidden staircase in what's now the binion's east end,sparsely outfitted with rustic oak furnishing and tiny hallways.After passing through a couple of unmarked doors we're back downstairs,in front of the poker tables."for true poker players,thisis still the place,vannucci says "i have pictures of me as akid next to the million dollars in cash meant for tournament winners.but it's funny I don't even knwo how to play."<br />
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-Visit Beauty Bar, where Ryan Pardey (The Captain/Santa!) had worked for a long time and TK hung out a lot- "the killers have a post show party at beauty bar and want to steal a few precious moments at home." + In Mark's <a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/nylonmag.html">words</a>, from 2005 Nylon mag: <span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"</span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span class="black2pt"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody">This is a relatively new club in downtown Vegas, slightly off the
strip. It's part of a chain (There are Beauty Bars in New York, San
Francisco and Los Angeles). It's set up with vintage hairdressing
paraphernalia, the seats have hairdryers and other '60s stuff. I
went there a couple of times 'cause our friend Ryan Pardey, a DJ in
town, used to have a club night. It's giving us a little hope, now
that there's a local club to go to that doesn't only play techno
club music." <br />
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-Go to the Palms and try to find/get into (lol good luck) the fancy recording studio where Sam's Town was recorded. TK were the FIRST to record there, and since then about a million other legends have.<br />
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-Go to an Elton John show and pretend you are going to have dinner with him after like TK-<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="mainmenu">You know, he does this show in Vegas now, so
whenever we're home and he's doing his show, he gets bored because he's cooped
up in a hotel and he wants to go do something. So we'll go off to his show –
we've done it a few times – and we'll eat dinner with him afterwards. And it's a
nice change of pace for him.</span></span><br />
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-Go to where Celine Dion's show is (obviously don't see it, duh. Although I won't disrespect you that much because <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEggoXwoXEY">this</a> video is hilarious) and mourn the fact that it was in the place where Brandon's favorite movie theater was demolished. Although he did once <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5V-G9f2W2o&feature=youtu.be">say</a> "the show's supposed to be spectacular."<br />
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-Los Tacos<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span class="black2pt"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody">, one of <a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/nylonmag.html">Mark</a>'s favorite Mexican restaurants in LV (circa '05): "One good thing about Vegas is that there's alot of good Mexican
food. One really good place I discovered is Los Tacos. It's so
authentic, it's completely run by Spanish-speaking Mexicans. It
reminds me of the taquerias in San Francisco and Los Angeles. <br />
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-<a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/sushi-roku-las-vegas#hrid:PPeR-D4Rlo0ibPaLVmvdTA">Sushi Roku</a>- if you'll spot the boys (especially Brandon) anywhere, it's here- Even family man Brandon Flowers has to eat. Thus we have him being spotted
enjoying lunch at Sushi Roku inside the Forum Shops at Caesars today
with family in tow. Reportedly, the singer is a frequent visitor of the
acclaimed restaurant.<br />
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-Visit the Hard Rock arena where Brandon saw Oasis and when he heard Don't Look Back in Anger, he decided to start a GUITAR rock band- <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span style="font-size: 9pt;">''That show
changed my life,'' he recalls. ''I wasn't even a fan of Oasis, but I walked in
for the last three songs, heard 'Don't Look Back In Anger' with people screaming
along to it, and that was it.''</span></span></span><br />
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-Visit the shimmer room at the Hilton where TK performed, and Brandon got to use the same dressing room as Elvis. Maybe you can go into the dressing room? Doubt it...<br />
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-Visit Dior Homme at the Bellagio (?) because BFlo loves dat high fash<br />
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-visit Precious Slut, where Brandon got his ear pierced although it probably got new owners because that's a terrible name. If you're ever going to get anything pierced, maybe you should do it there- "I got my ear pierced there. It wasn't called <a href="http://preciousslut.net/">Precious Slut</a> then."<br />
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-visit Buffalo Exchange on Flamingo Road because that's where Brandon and Tana first met! Wear a neon pink coat and chat up a cute shy boy, you might just meet your future BFlo. "he met while shopping in a Vegas thrift store. She was wearing a bootleg
Joy Division T-shirt with Mickey Mouse on it. She thought he was cute
and they began dating the next day."<br />
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-go to UNLV to the practice room where Ronnie used to sneak TK in the middle of the night- The band broke into the music room at the University of Nevada, Las
Vegas, for late-night rehearsals. "If you pull on the doors hard
enough, they just open," Vannucci confesses. "They make this big
crack."<br />
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-Walk along the Truckee River. TK said it was their favorite thing to do in LV on their twitter Q&A with fans, 9/20/12-<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">-</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span class="black2pt"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody">Champagne's Cafe - "It's just a little room, a dive bar, a place to go late night, but
it's a real taste of old Vegas! You know: red leather seats, dark
fuzzy wallpaper. Some gangster movie was filmed there; it's very
Casino-esque. And they have cheap drinks." -Mark, to Nylon mag<br />
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-Go to the Stratosphere- "on the corner of main street"<br />
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-visit Chapalas, Brandon's favorite Mexican restaurant- <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">We convene at his
favourite Mexican Restaurant, Chapalas, 20 minutes from downtown, but while the
conversation between band members is free-flowing, Flowers is silent, smoking
copiously while shooting me nervous looks. Often, for no particular reason, he
will issue a fake, serpentine laugh - "Ss-ss-ss" - that comes cloaked in Boy
George-strength irony. </span></span></span></span><br />
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-order a huge steak and coke at the Palm in Cesars Palace.- I<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">t is only after two full days in his company that he begins to mellow, and when
we meet for dinner two evenings later, at Palms, a chi-chi restaurant within the
towering arcade of kitsch that is Caeser's Palace casino, he is, at last,
relaxed. He orders a huge steak and a coca-cola, and convinces the waiter, a
Killers fan, to allow him to light up in our non-smoking section. AND _be ready to be grossed out...)- </span></span></span></span>Mitt Romney and Brandon Flowers had lunch at the Palm at The Forum
Shops at Caesars Palace. This was reported elsewhere Wednesday morning
and confirmed that afternoon by Jen Appel, PR rep for Flowers and The
Killers. It was a private lunch, she said in an e-mail, so Flowers has nothing to say to the media about it. (From Feb '11) Maybe he personally asked Brandon to do that Mormon video? lol.<br />
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-Meet an Elvis Presley impersonator! -<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">At this point, we are interrupted in our conversation by Elvis Presley. He
smiles his false teeth at us, shakes Flowers by the hand, and tells him that his
son is a huge fan. As Presley retreats, back to the restaurant toilet where he
works as an attendant, Flowers lights up another cigarette. "It's nice being recognised," he says. </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-"</span></span></span></span>Downtown - Fremont Street - the 4 Queens and the Sassy Sally sign (i
think) is where they've done photo shoots outside of.... (make sure
you're there at 8pm to catch the canopy shows, every 30mins)" - nicolaflowersuk at TKC<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-go bowling at Sam's Town- </span></span></span></span>asked the band why they named their album after the Sam's Town casino,
and what would one expect if they were to visit there. Their reply "A
great bowling alley," Flowers said. "It's got nothing on the Belaggio,
but I used to work across from Sam's Town and live across from Sam's
Town, and you just have to see this place."<br />
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-The Crown & Anchor pub, where Brandon got his girlfriend cheating on him- which he based Mr Brightside on. http://www.yelp.com/biz/crown-and-anchor-british-pub-las-vegas<br />
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"I was asleep and I knew something was wrong. I have these instincts. I
went to the Crown and Anchor and my girlfriend was there with another
guy."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-get the view of Sam's Town Brandon was always talking about, from the freeway- </span></span></span></span>When I was younger I grew up in a place called Henderson and there were
no freeways to get to Las Vegas from Henderson. You basically had to
come down this highway called Boulder Highway - that was how you got to
Arizona; that was how you progressed away from Las Vegas. So to get to
Las Vegas, that was also the same Boulder Highway. Now it's grown so
much and there are freeways all over the place connecting you. Whenever
we would go to Las Vegas it was very exciting, even though we were
almost in Las Vegas - you could see it if you're high enough in
Henderson. It was still an exciting thing because you'd have family in
town and you would probably be going to the Mirage (hotel), or if your
mum was going shopping, the movies - anything like that; that all
existed in Las Vegas. So the only way to get there was down Boulder
Highway, and you could see Sam's Town on the right - that always
solidified it for me that we were actually getting somewhere because you
were then in Las Vegas when you got to Sam's Town. It's this local
place that's western-themed. So anyway, for me, that's what this album
feels like; we're getting somewhere exciting now. We've started
something with "Hot Fuss" but now we're moving on down the road."<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-do the penny slots at a small casino- </span></span></span></span><b>Night:</b> I like playing penny slots, which is probably a Las Vegas thing. There are lots of small casinos around which we go to.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-give a local band and a club some support! </span></span></span></span>"A club will open up and close just as quickly because it doesn't have
the funding. You've got to remember, places like the House of Blues and
the joint at the Hard Rock are funded by the hotel and casino
industries, so even when there aren't any shows, they can still stay
afloat. It doesn't work that way with other clubs, so a lot of them only
last for a few months--and the bands seem to follow that same trend.
Everybody gives it a good six months or so and then quits because
nothing's happening for them. It's kind of sad, because I know of some
great musicians and good songwriters there. But nothing's really come
out of Vegas to put the place on the map."<br />
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-Visit the location where the Spaceman video was shot- "1501 Nevada Highway in Boulder City, NV 89005 is where they shot the
video for Spaceman. You can go see the old hangar where we all ate and
the wardrobe was, and pretend like b-flow and his family are still
sitting in the trailer out back! They filmed it right next to my house
and I was in the video is why I know this." - luchadorman at TKC<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-something involving frank sinatra- </span></span></span></span>But he was fascinated with old-school Las Vegas - 'with Frank Sinatra and the glamour and having a Cadillac'<br />
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-get a salad with some mysterious special dressing, pizza, and nuclear fries at Metro Pizza- "This place has the best salad dressing ever," says Flowers. "I don't
know what they put in it," We're at Metro Pizza on East Tropicana
Avenue. Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra hits play on the P.A., as they do
everywhere in this town."Try these nuclear fries," he demands. "Nuclear" fries, by the way, are
irradiated with the same spicy red pepper that covers the chicken
fingers, which come next. Then there are individual pizzas, chicken
parmigiana, bread, pasta. We may have hit the carb jackpot, but it
doesn't feel particularly sinful.<br />
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-Visit the Liberace museum on Tropicana, look at the Rolls-Royce, Lasagna suit, grand piano, prayer room (OBV READ IT BC BRANDON DID), and then go to the gift shop, try on a sequin jacket, and make a Zoolander face-- I should probably mention that we're staring at our fragmented
reflections in Liberace's mirror-covered 1962 Phantom Five Rolls-Royce
while pondering envy. We've visited the Liberace Museum on Tropicana to see if there's anything to covet. There is much. "He was the first.
Before Elton John. Before Björk," Flowers says. "I first came here
when I was five." We pass the "Lasagna Suit," a red-and-gold ensemble in
which the maestro used to cook. "I need to see the grand piano,"
Flowers announces... We find the
Baldwin grand mounted on a riser in the middle of the main floor. Seven
feet long and covered with Austrian rhinestones, it's the centerpiece
of the entire exhibit. "Are you feeling envious?" I prod. Flowers
nods and laughs. There are signs that politely ask visitors to refrain
from touching anything, even though almost everything here, especially
the keys on the famous instrument, beckons to be tinkled...The re-creation of Liberace's prayer room is preserved behind glass in
the hallway that leads to the master bedroom. It's gilded but somehow
less ostentatious than the rest of the collection. A Bible is
permanently open to Proverbs. Flowers leans in and reads, "Better is
the poor man walking in his simplicity than in his rich and crooked
ways." He shakes his head. "Liberace had his lover surgically altered
to look like him." He'll repeat this three times as we move toward the
café and gift shop. "That's bad, when you wanna have sex with
yourself." There's little envy for the extremity of Liberace's
conflicted psyche: the piety versus the screaming ego. Safe from such
choices for now, Flowers browses the gift shop. He tries on a sequined
vest, making a Zoolander face, but decides not to purchase it. <br />
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-steal a cup from Spago. It won't be Morissey's, but close enough. Also Brandon frequents that place a lot. But it's expensive as hell! <span class="st"><span class="f"></span><i>- Brandon Flowers</i> of The Killers, <i>spotted</i> at Spago (Forum Shops at Caesars) on Sunday.</span><br />
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<span class="st"> </span>-Find the Banana Republic where Dave worked when TK started (Probably Forum Shops, but not a sure thing.)- It was just a shitty job. I was always in back folding clothes. I
always dreamt about getting out of there. The only good part was
listening to music back there. Radio, CDs, I made my own mix tapes with
The Cure, Elton John and so on, to keep my mood up. One day my manager
came and wouldnt allow me to listen to music in the back anymore.
After 1 1/2 years. I wanted to kill him." and ""I'm the only guy that works in my store who's ventured into the dressing room with a client on more than one occasion."<br />
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-Find the hospital where Mark delivered blood<br />
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-go to sam boyd race track<br />
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-Go to Chaparrall high school where Brandon went.<br />
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-Clark High School (where Ronnie originally went) and Western High School (where he moved)<br />
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-Skyline restaurant ["I eat in a restaurant called the Skyline hotel and casino"- Brandon] <br />
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-Horizon Street- where Brandon grew up [ "I grew up on a street called Horizon"]<br />
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-go to the Cosmpolitan because Brandon performed there once and it's new and stuff. ["The Comso hotel, just in its main entrance is the Chandelier where
Brandon performed on its opening. (check out on line who's playing at the
Book and Stage at the Cosmo, theres some great bands play there and the
shows are free.)" -nicolaflowersuk at TKC]<br />
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-order raspberry mojitos at L'Atelier at the MGM- the killers aren't completely averse to the occaional hot spot like L'Atelier,where keuning takes me just before saturday nights gig.It's a pricey french resturant inside the MGM Grand with crushed velvet chairs and candlelit tables.Keuning discovered the place while milling around before a rolling stones show at the MGM.he keeps coming back because it has,he says,"the worlds best mojitos."we order raspberry versions and kick back.<br />
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-Visit The Joint because the Killers christianed it<br />
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-find Joseph the tailor! "Earlier, I met with my tailor here, Joseph, for about an hour. People
in Las Vegas can’t really get their heads around how tight I want
something to be— it blows their minds. But Joseph, he understands me."<br />
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-do a photoshoot an hour from LV in the desert sun- <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">It is midday, and this afternoon's shoot is to take place in the Nevada desert,
an hour from downtown Las Vegas, and under an unforgiving sun. Ordinarily, photo
shoots are the bane of every band's life, and few endure one without a grumble,
but Brandon Flowers considers them of vital importance. This is a man who knows
just how to play the media, which explains why he is currently dressed like a
metrosexual Reservoir Dog ready to throw a series of Vogue-friendly poses till
nightfall. <br />
"It's important to look good, " he says earnestly. "Great music is great music,
but image is priceless. I'm not saying I'm in this position because I'm
good-looking, but it certainly helps." </span></span></span></span><br />
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-visit Anthropology- supposedly Tana shops there! If you wanna get ur own bflo you better get to dressing the part, mmkay.<br />
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-<b> </b> Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House- Brandon Flowers from The Killers enjoyed a quiet
dinner with his wife at Del Frisco’s Double Eagle Steak House in
his hometown of Las Vegas<br />
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-Visit treasure Island hotel- BFlo's dad was a bellman there <span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">where Flowers's father still works as a bellman at the Treasure Island
hotel, their faith remained undimmed.</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-drive aroud with friends, stoned, and imagine that helicopter search lights are looking for you</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span class="mainmenu"><span class="postbody"><span style="color: black; font-size: 9pt;">-FInd a desert sheep horn thing </span></span></span></span>-As well as a desert bighorn sheep - the Nevada state animal<br />
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-find "the thai place" near Dave's house- I don't really leave my house too much though, I go to the Thai place down the street then go back to my house. That's it.<br />
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-wake up and immediately read USA Today and listen to Nick Cave if you want to be like BFlo a la 2005- <b>Morning:</b> I start the day with USA Today, my favourite newspaper.
It's got it all covered. There's the serious news, which is usually bad,
then there's the fun movie star stuff which lightens it up. I'll also
stick on a CD. Nick Cave's last single, There She Goes, My Beautiful
World, knocked me off my feet. It's so good - it's like Elvis-style
gospel.<br />
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Early <a href="http://gigs-r-us.tripod.com/id170.html">gigs </a>: The Junkyard (8x), Three Angry Wives Pub (2x), Huntridge Tavern (2x), The Huntridge Theatre (They opened for the Libertines here in Aug. 1, 2003!), Crown & Anchor Pub (2x), Money Plays (1x), House of Blues.<br />
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-Pure Nightclub<br />
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-go to the Ice House lounge where tk played before they were famous. it's closed now, but there must be something new there now, no? http://www.yelp.com/biz/icehouse-lounge-las-vegas<br />
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-watch a <span class="st">Le Rêve show at the Wynn, where Only the Young video was filmed</span><br />
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-go to the golf course where Brandon used to play and work- Stallion Mountain golf course. -""If I had to go back to one of my old jobs it would be working at
Stallion Mountain golf course in Nevada," he says, laughing. "You do
pretty well out of the tips and, also, you get to play golf for free."<br />
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-Celebrity club, where they performed- It's a Wednesday night in late August with the Las Vegas heat pushing
100 degrees, and we're backstage at Celebrity, a mid-size club miles
from the Strip. Brandon Flowers, the Killers' baby-faced lead singer,
is nervous. The Killers are about to play their first show since
February,<br />
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-random 24 hour diners- They love the unnatural scenery too, especially the city's lesser-known
[?] twenty-four-hour diners, the places [with?] more than a touch of Old
Vegas.<br />
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-We're sitting in Trattoria del Lupo, a swank restaurant in the Mandalay
Bay, the tropical-themed hotel and casino on the Vegas Strip. [where the interview for Spin's '7 deadly sins' cover story early 2005<br />
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-go to an Urban Outfitters at some mall (?) because Tana used to work there- Flower's fiancée, a wholesome-looking blonde named Tana, works at Urban
Outfitters in the nearby mall. We duck in to say hello and show off his
new $75 do.<br />
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-Mandalay Bay lobby Macaws - "This feels a bit like Bon Jovi revisiting the old neighborhood in New
Jersey," Vannucci quips. It's early afternoon. We have convened in the
Mandalay Bay lobby in front of the caged macaws wheezing from
secondhand smoke, and are piling into the back of a black limo. (Spin feb 05)<br />
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-limo tour- "The Hilton sign is the city's biggest free-standing sign. One day it
fell down. That's the motel where they traced Mohammed Atta's credit
card," Vannucci says as we cruise downtown. "They'd been staying there,
planning 9/11. That's where the guy from <i>Suddenly Susan</i> hung himself. That's where we played a gig once. A guy got shot there.""That
strip club has men and women," Flowers chimes in. Then he points to a
tattoo parlor. "I got my ear pierced there. It wasn't called Precious
Slut then."<br />
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-Get haircuts at the Mandalay Bay like Brandon and Ronnie- haircuts at the Mandalay Bay's posh salon. I'm a little surprised when I
make the reservation and the receptionist says, "Oh, Brandon. He's
been here before." (Brandon's cut was $75). [BTW Brandon still goes here regularly to get haircuts as of 9/25/12- according to his interview with KROQ's Kevin & Bean show]<br />
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-Go to "Kiehl’s Since 1851" body moisturizer-and-such shop at the Forum
because apparently Brandon was spotted there, according to the Forum's
official Facebook page.<br />
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-go to the Fleur de lys lounge- We wander instead to the Fleur De Lys lounge, a candlelit bar with
velvet curtains and soft couches festooned with the kind of bead-stuffed
pillows that rave kids used to fondle. They certainly invite sloth.
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[FYI, this guide is also partially on <a href="http://www.yelp.com/list/the-killers-fans-guide-to-fabulous-las-vegas-las-vegas">Yelp</a>. I'll add all of the sites to it eventually]<br />
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Next time... The Killers fan's guide to England!<br />
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Edit: Awesome TK fans who ~get it~ (send me a link to your proof and I might just post yours as well...):<br />
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- <i>Imaginary Men</i>: <a href="https://imaginarymen.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/sleep-not-included/">https://imaginarymen.wordpress.com/2011/04/27/sleep-not-included/</a> + <a href="http://imaginarymen.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/flowers-friday-big-ass-belt-buckle-edition/">http://imaginarymen.wordpress.com/2011/05/20/flowers-friday-big-ass-belt-buckle-edition/</a> + <a href="http://imaginarymen.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/i-see-sams-town-and-sams-town-sees-you/%20">http://imaginarymen.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/i-see-sams-town-and-sams-town-sees-you/ </a><br />
(I swear I wrote that LV = Mecca before I found your posts! Great minds... great obsessions...)<br />
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-<i>Living in a Dustland Fairytale</i>: <a href="http://livinginadustlandfairytale.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/big-talk-the-best-night-of-my-life/">http://livinginadustlandfairytale.wordpress.com/2011/07/23/big-talk-the-best-night-of-my-life/</a> + <a href="http://livinginadustlandfairytale.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/i-see-brandon-i-see-sams-town/">http://livinginadustlandfairytale.wordpress.com/2011/04/19/i-see-brandon-i-see-sams-town/</a> <br />
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-<i>Oliveramber</i> <a href="http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-photo/oliveramber/usa_2007/1183836600/16-.jpg/tpod.html">http://blog.travelpod.com/travel-photo/oliveramber/usa_2007/1183836600/16-.jpg/tpod.html </a><br />
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-<i>Ankh Vintage</i> <a href="http://ankhvintage.blogspot.com/2011/04/vegas-killers-way.html">http://ankhvintage.blogspot.com/2011/04/vegas-killers-way.html</a><br />
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-<i>Prof Thump </i><a href="http://forums.klipsch.com/blogs/markb/archive/2010/03/31/the-killers.aspx">http://forums.klipsch.com/blogs/markb/archive/2010/03/31/the-killers.aspx</a><br />
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-<i>I'm Looking for a Song to Sing</i> <a href="http://lookinforasongtosing.tumblr.com/post/20393340861/bucket-list-day-1">http://lookinforasongtosing.tumblr.com/post/20393340861/bucket-list-day-1</a><br />
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+ more cool links about LV:<br />
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-Time Out's <a href="http://www.timeout.com/las-vegas/features/78/20-great-things-to-do-in-las-vegas">20 great things to do in Las Vegas </a>(includes Sam's Town, Luv-It)<br />
-The Guardian's <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2011/nov/16/playlist-for-las-vegas-city-guide">ultimate Vegas playlist</a> (incl. TK, of course)<br />
-Take the Handle- <a href="http://www.takethehandle.com/archive/?p=649">Off the Beaten Path guide to Las Vegas </a><br />
-Pinterest page- <a href="http://pinterest.com/cindycalista/in-the-neighborhood/">"In the Neighborhood..." </a>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-28953074915363023722011-08-09T19:41:00.000-07:002012-06-17T18:29:06.923-07:00Proof that Drudge Report is Racist and ManipulativeI'll just keep adding more as I spot them- seems like Drudge is getting more emboldened and hellbent on firing up a race panic in America every day... he could at least be more subtle, some of these aren't even subliminal. Eesh.<br />
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-59119406663918384332011-07-31T11:03:00.000-07:002011-08-03T20:01:11.082-07:00Brandon Flowers' Style Outline, Part 2: Glam Diva Brandon, Hot Fuss 2005<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbrCIkmusywq3rCEWchqSGPq_uEojGBVw63CFzmGSDU6wLqRdSeN5RlKOgPWVw2JnR2Ny82Ol7WIu7BJk8EMwJ5i-sMfplF6SfwC98hS4sCJxauh72cqvEPaxo6n3XU23VxvmnqBEyyo/s1600/killers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEbrCIkmusywq3rCEWchqSGPq_uEojGBVw63CFzmGSDU6wLqRdSeN5RlKOgPWVw2JnR2Ny82Ol7WIu7BJk8EMwJ5i-sMfplF6SfwC98hS4sCJxauh72cqvEPaxo6n3XU23VxvmnqBEyyo/s1600/killers.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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So there is this thread on TKC titled "What Are Other Artists Saying About the Killers?" which was started in January 2005 and is still going strong, now with over 250 pages of quotes from other musicians and famous people. It's probably one of my favorite threads on the forum (A forum I have frequented since 2005 and one that is probably the reason I am such a hardcore TK/Bflo stan. Blame that one destiny-changing night when I searched some tiny unknown band called The Killers on Google and stumbled upon this then-unofficial forum, which used to not be all private and membership-only... and the rest is history).<br />
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Anyway, it's one of my favorites because I see TK as something like my little child, which is strange, I know. I am like a proud momma. And when I see other respected artists praising TK, I get this glowing feeling inside that must be how mothers feel when their children get praised by their teachers, you know? Luckily, I've experienced this a lot since everyone and their grandma has pretty much mentioned TK at some point. On the other end of the spectrum, when people criticize or bash TK, I feel my insides burn furiously and I make a mental note, on something that must be brain stone because that shit never leaves, that I will not give that person (usually musician) the time of day again. I also have come to the conclusion that anyone who bashes TK immediately falls out of fame and fortune. It's like a lovely curse. Proof: Where are the Bravery? The Stills, anyone? Patrick Wolf, what is he up to now? Klaxons? Heloooo there? Anyone??? Exactly. (I'm on the fence about Klaxons because I did like their first album, but their singer's comment embittered me big time. I can't help it! It's not even controllable, I swear...)<br />
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So, basically, I'm going to copy almost all of the quotes compiled in the thread to this post. At least that's my goal, we'll see if I go through with it all the way. So, yes, I'm basically raping a thread from TKC and putting it on my own blog. But, I have noble reasoning! 1. I've become increasingly aware that there is a whole TK fan base outside of TKC and they're not aware of the things that are only visible to members there, so I'm here to share the wealth. 2. I'm on a never-ending (really, why the fuck has it not ended yet?) mission to raise the status of TK against all the stupid ass critics and indie snobs who try to hold them down, so a nice slice of reality with all of their favorite musicians praising TK will be a sting to those people that I can relish with all my heart. 3. I added a lot of the quotes in that thread myself in the days when I obsessively Google News'd TK multiple times a day, 'err day (no joke) so I'm not a total outsider leeching. [Also, major props to TKC member Stace who added most of these. Thanks girl!] 4. I forgot a lot of the quotes and this is a good way to look at them again!<br />
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-David Bowie attended a TK show in NY Oct. '04<br />
-Elton John in Interview Magazine, when asked what new bands he liked: <i>"Another is the Killers. Their album, Hot Fuss [Island], is already gold, but I think it's only the beginning. They're absolutely brilliant, and their lead singer is one of the sexiest men on the planet. I think they're America's most attractive-sounding rock band."</i> + Also in Contactmusic he was quoted from Teen People best artists of '05 as saying, <i>"I always thought pop music was supposed to be about glamour. When The Beatles and The Rolling Stones first started, it was all about the music and their look. Me, I could never go onstage in a T-shirt and jeans. Recently, the glamour thing had kind of taken a dive - until The Killers came along. They're one of a very small number of bands that put effort into their stage performance and they way they look. You're always interested to see what Brandon Flowers is wearing: he's a bit of a fashion icon, and everything looks good on him. He just oozes star quality! And these guys are great songwriters. A lot of artists come and go very quickly. The Killers just aren't that kind of band."</i><br />
-Bono said Somebody Told Me was the best pop song of 2004. Also in a Nov '04 interview he said predicted TK could be the next biggest/best band in the world.<br />
- Bono of U2, paraphrase of radio interview on Jo Wiley: <i>"They are just Wow...well what can i say, their name The Killers basically says it all...Killer melodies, Killer hooks and style."</i> Also, in a Q magazine article he said he would give the Pope a copy of Hot Fuss to demonstrate that rock music is not evil. 2005<b style="color: #0b5394;">More obscure or less obviously classic but still classic musicians</b><br />
-<b>Alice Cooper</b> on T4 said he loved TK and Kaiser Chiefs, and when asked to choose one of the two, chose TK.2005<br />
-<b>Rick Ocasek</b> of <b>the Cars</b>, asked to mention one of the <i>"million new bands out there that are phenomenal"</i> he mentions: <i>"I mentioned Devendra Banhart, and the Killers are good. Oh, I've always loved Interpol, and I produced a great band called Hong Kong." </i>(And Brandon thought he didn't like them! Wat.) 2005<br />
-<b>Morrissey</b> of <b>the Smiths</b> (and just general legend, and Brandon's hero) chose Jenny Was a Friend of Mine for a June '04 compilation CD he called "Songs to Save Your Life."<br />
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-Paul Anka: a Province article quoted a Rolling Stone article that mentioned BFlo if there was no Paul Anka, there would be no TK, and that he tracked him down to a Greek restaurant but Anka didn't know who he was... "Anka says he bloody well did too know who the Killers were. They're one of his faves, he insists." 2005</div>
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-Supposedly New Order scrapped their new album because it sounded too much like TK. Brandon mentioned during an Oct '04 NME article that he heard this. Stephen Morris, drummer of New Order, later said it was just a rumor started by TK. Ha. 2005</div>
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- Stephen Morris, again drummer of New Order, in NME on TK getting their name from their music video for "Crystal": "From the shelter of his Audi, Stephen jokes that The Killers are 'our Frankensteinian creation. The trouble we had with names and they get a name and design concept straight out of the bag! We should consult our legal representatives... No, I couldn't be arsed, good luck to them.'" Bernard Sumner, the singer of the band, said on VH1 Classic that of all the bands they have influenced, TK were their favorite. 2005</div>
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-Bon Jovi's Richie Sambora and David Bryan in St. Petersburg Times: "I think you'll probably find more new bands making a dent in the touring business," he says. "There's a bunch of young new bands that are coming out with great new stuff now. They're great songwriters. And the music is a bit more powerful, it's a bit more aggressive."Sambora and Bryan mention New Wave throwbacks the Killers and glam-rockers Louis XIV as potential young saviors; both of those acts play loud, hook-based anthems, perfect for flicking your Bic. 2005</div>
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-Jon Bon Jovi, when asked by Interview mag what he was listening to: "I'm wide open to what's going on in rock right now-I remember somebody saying a year ago that rock music was dead, but I think things have really turned around with acts like The Killers and Jet and Damien Rice. I think there's another generation that's coming along to keep the genre moving." 2005</div>
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-Nick Rhodes, keyboardist of Duran Duran, included Hot Fuss in his top 10 albums of 2004. Also, later in the year when asked about shows like X factor: "Good luck to the kids on the shows. They're only trying to get a break and, from that point of view, I'm not so critical. What I don't like is the cynical marketing of everything and shoving it down people's throats. These acts are clogging up the charts and don't inspire anything. But I'm happy now to see bands like Franz Ferdinand, the Scissor Sisters and The Killers coming out. They are a bit more edgy, have actually got something to say and have got a vibe about them." 2005</div>
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-Jim Kerr of Simple Minds credited TK with inspiring them to release album after three year hiatus: "New wave is big again with bands like the Killers. " 2005</div>
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-Alleged- TKC poster said they read that Dave Grohl, singer of Foo Fighters and Nirvana drummer, didn't like TK at all and joked about Brandon's girly name. And <a href="http://akamai-static.nme.com/images/gallery/davebrandonrickypaphotL291009.jpg">still laughing at him 5 years later</a>! lololol. + ALSO in a Kerrang magazine article about Foo Fighter at Oxegen Festival... "Just as Grohl ends his final interview of the day, The Killers take the stage. "Man, that band gets the loudest singalongs," he says. "Our dressing room was right behind the stage last night (at T in the Park) and all you could hear was the crowd singing along to every word - not just the choruses, they even sang the verses. I'm glad we didn't have to go on after them."+ In addition, German magazine MusicExpress alleged that he refused to do a photoshoot with TK because he thought Brandon was arrogant (he did do one with Kaiser Chiefs). 2005</div>
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- Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day, according to a TKC member who had a personal interaction with him: "Who the fuck is Brandon Flowers?" I told him, from the Killers. And he was just like, "ohh, good band!" [LOL he def got to know who BFlo was after the whole American Idiot anti-american controversy nonsense]. 2005</div>
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-Oasis on 102.1 The Edge interview, when asked what good music they were listening to: "We just really like the Killers...they're great!" (Bflo and Ronnie were shocked and hurt when this quote was read to them in MuchMusic, apparently. They have always loved Arcade Fire). 2005</div>
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-Liam Gallagher of Oasis, when asked how he felt about bands like TK citing them as an influence: "I don't ever listen to the Killers. I suppose it's nice that people say nice things about you instead of saying bad things. But I wish they'd pay a little bit more attention." 2005</div>
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-Noel Gallagher of Oasis said in NME that TK were one of his favorite bands of the moment. Supposedly he asked TK to open some tour spots for them but they couldn't because of scheduling conflicts. 2005</div>
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-Mike McCready, guitarist of Pearl Jam: "I think rock 'n' roll is still kicking with bands like Social Distortion, Death Cab for Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, Supersuckers, Queens of the Stone Age, The Killers, The Strokes and others. I believe it goes through cycles every 10 years or so." 2005</div>
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-Rivers Cuomo of Weezer when asked by AOL if any young bands were catching his ear: "I've been hearing that Killers song a lot [Mr. Brightside]. I think it's incredible." AOL: it's super catchy, right? RC:"Super emotional too, if you ask me." 2005 </div>
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-Edith Bowman (Radio 1 host) was [and still is] a big fan, her favorite song of 2004 was Mr. Brightside. 2005<br />
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-Famous photographer Mick Rock: "He makes collage photo-art, and still takes a lot of band photos, most recently of terminally hip noiseniks The Killers, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kaiser Chiefs and the 22-20s, among others. "There's a surprising lack of degenerates. They're all pretty clean-living kids compared to people in my young days." 2005<br />
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-Win Butler, singer of Arcade Fire, in EW article: "I don't envy a band like the Killers. If we were still touring behind this record a year from now, I think we'd break up and fucking kill ourselves." 2005<br />
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-The Bravery (that's right, yee haw!) on the TK feud, singer Sam Endicott told cduk.com: "He [Brandon] started it... Well, when someone is insulting you and trying to crush you - which is what he's trying to do - you're not going to sit there. You have to stand up for yourself." Guitarist Michael Zakarin added, "We're better than them anyway." Also in an earlier NME article Michael joked about being a TK cover band in the future. Also in MOD he said something like "They're not a real band." 2005 <br />
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-The The Dandy Warhols' Courtney Taylor-Taylor (what a name) in Metro Times: As it is with the Warhols, each new direction becomes a fashionable template for later acts, in this case, the Killers. "It's so flattering, and they're so good at it," Taylor-Taylor says. “That's sort of what we've always done. Two years later, whatever we've done last gets co-opted." (um lol, no). 2005<br />
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-Nick McCarthy, guitarist of Franz Ferdinand, wasn't a fan of their music. 2005<br />
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-Franz Ferdinand's drummer Paul Thomson and his wife chose to play TK at an after-show party in Russia, according to Q. 2005<br />
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-Johnny Borrell, singer of Razorlight, was a fan, but said that Mr. Brightside was the "same song" as Bowie's "Queen Bitch," so basically a rip-off. Also in concert said something along the lines of, "We're not another band like the Killers. We don't wear eyeliner." (the bands became friends later-almost collab'd on a Beatles cover song Brandon wished he wrote the song "America"). 2005<br />
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-Paul Banks of Interpol sidestage comment on new TK song 'All the Pretty Faces' to Ultragrrrl (Sarah Lewitinn): "On tuesday night I was watching the band with Paul Banks and he turned to me saying 'is this a new one? it's really good.'" 2005<br />
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-From a TK article: When it's time for their set, Interpol singer, Paul Banks, spends the entirety watching from the side of the stage, smoking, ignoring the girls who are backstage oogling him. When Banks hears their new song, "All The Pretty Faces," he asks about it and then says "This song is really good, it's going to be huge." He admires Flowers' charisma, and speaks highly of him, which Flowers refuses to believe possible. (so this is prob the same as the Ultragrrrl incident but from the journalist's POV) 2005<br />
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-Keane: a TKC member said they got their sig at the signing tent and "one of them, not sure which one" lol commented on their TK shirt: "Oh I just bumped into the drummer of the Killers. He's a nice guy. Really nice. The nicest drummer in rock." Also singer Tom Chaplin asked the crowd at concert Music Midtown if they were looking forward to TK, playing after them, and when everyone cheered he said: "Of course! How could you not be?" 2005<br />
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-Carl Barat of The Libertines said in GQ that Brandon was the sexiest man in pop. 2005<br />
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-Brian Karscig, guitarist of Louis XIV, on opening for TK: "Everyone in the world wanted that Killers tour...We hit it off really well. They gave us the opportunity of a lifetime. I don't think most of us in the band even want to ask them why they took us out. Brandon did tell me, 'The second I heard that song (Louis XIV), I knew I loved your band." 2005<br />
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-The Stills and Secret Machines (Q article) hated them. Lol oh the (g)olden days.<br />
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-In an NME article from Dec 2004, an article about The Strokes mentioned that "Hot Fuss was one of many CD's lying around in their studio. It didn't specifically say that the Strokes were fans though." (TKC member's quote). 2005 <br />
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-Nick Valensi of The Strokes in Filter mag: From Valensi's perspective, the music world is at least more tolerable than it used to be. Many would say that the success of the Strokes was even largely responsible for that change. "I think we really contributed to the fall of the boy bands. That was sort of coming anyway. Not to say that the nu-metal one wasn't coming anyway. But I think we did our small part to stop that machine," he says, adding, "I'll take the Killers over Staind any day of the week, hands down. That's not to say that the state of music is great or in great shape. But is it better than what we had six or seven, eight years ago? Definitely." 2005<br />
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-Tegan and Sara, on touring with TK: "'I want to say they're the nicest people we've ever toured with,' says Sara about The Killers, minutes before going on stage for a performance. 'They came out to see us in Vancouver both nights we were there. It's our hometown. Apparently, we were doing group hugs and spinning and dancing on the dance floor. We're still getting along with them well,' adds Tegan. 'We've been hanging out a lot. We've been playing in these 1,000-seat stadiums, so we see them in the hallways.' ... Flowers, known for making gay boys and straight girls weak at the knees, matches his boyishly cute looks with an adorable personality. 'Yeah, he's very cute,' notes Sara. 'He's just very sweet and he's got his little funny outfits.' When I mention the effect he has on gay men, Tegan and Sara both smile and nod their head. 'He thinks everybody has crushes on him,' quips Sara. While they don't have a favorite 'Killer', Tegan and Sara do love hanging out with drummer Ronnie Vannucci. 'He's always poking his head in the dressing room and trying to get us to go out with him and have pie.'" + Their website blog posts about the tour with TK: "What a week. The killers tour started this week in AZ. So far so good. They are so good live and they are so nice. All of them. We feel very lucky that everytime we do this 'opening' thing that we luck out and get the coolest, nicest bands. It makes life so much easier. - Tegan" and "Then there's Ronny, the fantastic drummer from the Killers. Even though he hasnt offered any hugs he has offered heaps of friendliness and charm. He comes on our bus after shows and is able to hold the floor with his story-telling so well that even champion tag team talkers Tegan and Sara are left speechless. Amazing. - Drummer Rob" and "We enjoyed touring with the killers so much that we've decided to become roadies and devote our lives to rubbing Brandon's feet. Not true, but we are sorry to see it come to an end, and are so grateful to the band and crew for being so welcoming and accommodating to us. - Sara" 2005<br />
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-The Goo Goo Dolls were fans. [Someone just wrote that. Sorry, got no proof]. 2005<br />
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-John Mayer, from his monthly Esquire column: "That line in that Killers song 'Mr. Brightside': 'Now they're going to bed / and my stomach is sick / and it's all in my head / but she's touching his chest.' It's called deceptive resolution, and it's a powerful device in songwriting. You play what people expect you to sing against what you actually do, and you get two currents of ideas running at the same time. It's deep, it's dirty, and it's really smart. The Killers' lead singer doesn't like me, but he can eat it. I think he has some great tunes." 2005<br />
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-Kelly Clarkson included Smile Like You Mean It when asked what the top 5 songs on her iPod were (the other songs: Radiohead's Fake Plastic Trees, AC/DC's You Shook Me All Night Long, Alanis Morissette's Wake Up (Acoustic) and U2/s City of Blinding Lights). Later, in '06, she chose Mr. B as one of her favorite songs and said she liked TK because they were "trendy and different." 2005<br />
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-Sheryl Crow: "Yeah, recently I downloaded the Kings Of Leon - and paid for it. Kings Of Leon, The Kills, The Killers and Arcade Fire. Of course, Ray La Montagna is also on my playlist." 2005 <br />
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-Steve Harwell, frontman of Smash Mouth: [discussing CD's he was listening to in his car] "..a band called The Killers, which is a great record. One of their producers, he's doing our record." 2005<b style="color: #0b5394;">Random celebrities</b><br />
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-Brooke Burke (E! presenter) included Hot Fuss in a list oh her fav albums in Blender, under "the album that gives me a little cred:" "I have this incredible sound system in my Hummer and when we drive up the coast, I crank 'Mr. Brightside' and 'Smile Like You Mean It.' The Killers make great cruising music. I'm not usually aware of what's hip or cool and I was never into new wave, but I like the sound of this record. I don't even think it makes me want to go back and discover and explore new wave. I don't know why. Maybe because it's not soulful enough for me, but this album is fun." 2005<br />
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-NME: Best album of 2004? Juliette Lewis: "The Killers' 'Hot Fuss'. I'm not done with that album, I love it. It's so uplifting and the constant groove, the melodies - I just love the guy's voice and the synthesizer stuff. It's got its own sound, without being too retro." [TK and Juliet are good friends now! Her band has opened several shows for them]. <br />
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-Kelly Osbourn included Smile Like You Mean It in a Teen People list of her favorite songs(she gave it the highest rating) and wrote: "I love this whole CD, and this song is good; I like the keyboards. I think [Brandon Flowers] is hot. None of them are ugly, and in today's [bleepin'] music industry, if your've got a good beat and you look good in your little suit and tie, it's a hit." 2005<br />
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-Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen on MuchMusic: Ashley, "This new coming of age rock music is coming... like The Killers." Mary Kate, "Oh we love The Killers." And on their website Ashley said her "favorite fall song" was All These Things that I've Done. 2005<br />
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- Girls Aloud chose TK in their top 5 songs on MTV. Either Cheryl Cole or Sarah Harding (poster wasn't sure) said (paraphrased), "This is a great song and they're a great band and I'm glad it's being re-released, it's The Killers with Somebody Told Me." 2005<br />
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-Nicky Wire, bassist and lyricist of the Manic Street Preachers, chose a TK song for his iTunes celeb playlist and said in a Jan. NME article that they write good lyrics. The band also played All These Things That I've Done on the speakers before a show. [I believe Nicky turned against them a few years later? Will have to look into that. edit: yup, he called Sam's Town "truly terrible" in NME]. 2005<br />
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-James Dean Bradfield, the singer of Manic Street Preachers, said "And, good God, The Killers' Hot Fuss. It's fantastic, big, enthralling pop music. Made me realise how our first album (Generation Terrorists) was so far from perfect. You've loaned your teenage brother The Holy Bible? Get it back - it'll fuck him up! We're older now, different people, but I still love the rush of hearing young bands make really powerful music." 2005<br />
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-John Waite (The Babys, Bad English), "But it's not high art, it's not Steinbeck. It's just rock 'n' roll. I like all kinds of music -- Lucinda Williams, The Killers, Dylan, folk music, Indian flute -- all except for arena rock. I've no idea what to make of it." lol guess he wouldn't like TK now then... 2005<br />
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- David Jones, singer of The Departure: Q:What's your favourite album from the last 12 months?A: "I love The Killers' album, Hot Fuss. We toured with them last summer, and they were brilliant. Really great band." 2005<br />
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- Jesse Malin (Heart Attack, D Generation) told his solo concert audience he loved TK. 2005<br />
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-Marshall Crensaw (singer songwriter) on what artists he listened to: "Once in awhile, I listen to the Top 40 stations when the kids are in the car. Eminem, I like some of his stuff. I think he's great. The Killers, (too)." 2005<br />
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-Nick Carter of Backstreet Boys in People article: "I like The Killers a lot...Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison...I want to be able to put those influences into the music."Also, he said he would like to write a song for the Killers if they would let him. Guess that didn't work out... lol. 2005</div>
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- Hillary Duff said on MuchMusic, Canada something along the lines of: "I really like The Killers. Their album is really cool and different."Also, in another article, her inspirations for her new CD: "intense alternative stuff: The Killers, Morrissey, Muse... oh and Good Charlotte." 2005</div>
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-James Blunt on his fav artists of the year on VH1 Big Artists Pick: "The Killers' Hot Fuss is a great album - it's got a great emotion in it and it rocks. And Bright Eyes' record, too." 2005</div>
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-McFly's Danny Jones chose Mr. B for his celeb iTunes playlist and wrote, "When I first heard these guys I loved them." 2005</div>
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-Rachel Stevens (S Club 7) mentioned the Killers when asked on TV what music she liked. Also included them in her top 5 songs for MTV and gushed about how "hot" they are. 2005<b>Fictional </b></div>
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-Bonnie Wright (Ginny in HP) had TK posted as her favorite band on her imdb page. 2005<br />
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- Charlize Theron was already a fan then, according to Ronnie. She co-starred in Brandon's Crossfire video last year. 2005<br />
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-Daniel Radcliffe aka Harry Potter was a huge TK fan, loved Hot Fuss (Mr. Brightside was his favorite track), talked about them a lot in interviews. 2005<br />
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-Chris Kattan of SNL, in Spin article on KROQ Weenie Roast: "I think the Killers are awesome. I haven't said 'awesome' in ten years!" 2005<br />
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-Eric Roberts (villain in Mr. B music video) in Feb issue of EW: "They're adorable", he says, though he has eyes for singer Brandon Flowers in particular. "I love the length - kind of short - of Brandon's pants, and the childlike way he walks. And the song [Mr. Brightside] has grown on me to the point where I absolutely love it." [Brandon once called him "the devil" haha, but in an admiring way, if that makes sense. It does with Brandon yo.] 2005<br />
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-Johnny Depp in an MTV Brazil interview, when asked what music he liked right now, mentioned TK. (if you're curious, the other bands were the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Oasis, and the Strokes).<br />
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-Jon Cryer (Ducky in Pretty in Pink) mentioned in Spin he saw TK at KROQ Acoustic Christmas. [Bflo quote: "We all have a little Ducky in us"]. 2005<br />
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-Michelle Trachtenberg in Jane mag: "I'm all about Muse, Gorillaz and the Killers - their lead singer is adorable." 2005<br />
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-"Rupert Grint, 17, who plays Ron [Weasley], said his favourite rock groups were AC/DC and The Killers." - from thisislondon.co.uk 2005<br />
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-Alkaline Trio on MTV2 - "We like this little garage band from Salt Lake City called the Killers." [wha?] 2005<br />
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-The All American Rejects covered Mr. Brightside at the Vans Warped Tour. 2005<br />
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-Patrick Stump of Fall Out Boy said on MTV2 that he liked the Killers and that many bands were copying them. 2005<br />
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-Good Charlotte were fans. Joel Madden said if he could be in any other band it would be TK. 2005<br />
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-Ville Vallo, singer of HIM, said in an interview on the band's site that he enjoyed Smile Like You Mean It, and he especially praised the intro. 2005<br />
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-Sugarland (from something related to American Music Awards apparently?): "I own The Killers' CD - I have two copies. I love The Killers. But I'll bet they do not own a Sugarland CD," Bush said, laughing at "that whole concept." 2005<br />
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-Stephan Jenkins, singer of Third Eye Blind, in Cornell Sun: "I don't feel like anything has come along to reshape what Third Eye Blind is. There's a whole bunch of bands who play but don't do what we do and the ones that are really successful are trying to do something that's kind of retro... Yeah I mean those are the ones who are kind of in a retro phase. I mean I love that Killers records, I think it's great. I think it's so inspired and so fun. And I heard the bootleg of the new Strokes and I think its slamming. I just love both those bands but they're both kind of retro bands. 2005<br />
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-Quinn Allman, guitarist of The Used in July '04, so early on: "My favorite record of all time, that's really hard, I don't know. That's a really, really, really tough question. Right now I'm listening to this band called The Killers, they're f#@$*^% crazy good." 2005<b style="color: #0b5394;">Pet Shop Boys- they really deserve their own section because holy hell have they blabbered about TK</b><br />
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-Pet Shop Boys' Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe in The Independent: "It must also help that the state of pop has improved. While Release was written for charts dominated by Pop Idol clones, now there has been a renaissance in acts with attitude. Tennant, a former Smash Hits journalist, immediately voices his enthusiasm. "What we've had in the last year, even less than that, is suddenly what I really like - pop music with integrity and presented really well. Franz Ferdinand, Kaiser Chiefs..." Lowe adds The Killers. "Now, that is a fantastic pop record," Tennant continues. "We've played Las Vegas twice and [The Killers' front man] Brandon Flowers saw us both times. I did wonder how this new generation would get on, so it's nice they are coming through. We've been waiting for boys in groups to start wearing make-up for years." 2005<br />
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-Anna Nalick (had a really popular song- Breathe (2AM)- on Grey's Anatomy) said she really liked TK.<br />
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-Yan from British Sea Power told UndertheRadar mag about highlight of '05: "It was a nice and varied year - in the space of one month we toured North America with the Killers and played with Faust in Brighton. The Faust show ended in a fistfight but we got on better with the Killers. The first time the Killers ever went on tour anywhere was supporting us in Britain, at 200 capacity venues called things like Lincoln Bivouwac. Returning the favor, they paid for us to come to the US and play a few 20,000 seat arenas. They're lovely fellows and rhythmist Ronnie joined us most nights for an all-star - well, one star - jam at the end." <br />
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-Benjamin Curtis of Secret Machines on Manchesteronline: Brandon Flowers recently dipped into his vast reserves of wit and wisdom to comment, "the Secret Machines are total assh**es. "Really?" expostulates Benjamin. "That's news to us." What did you do to wind him up? "I don't think we did anything to wind him up. I have no idea what he's talking about. We played a couple of shows together and that's about it. Maybe... God, I'm racking my brain! I really have no idea. I wish I knew! "Did you hide his mascara (it's like the man's Popeye spinach!)? "You know what? Maybe he's just a really good judge of character. Maybe we didn't do anything. He could just TELL. It's like his X-Man power." Was he nice to your face? "Yeah, they were fine. He actually seemed kind of shy. I mean, I can't imagine what it's like to sell a billion records of your first album and then have everyone give a s**t what you say." <br />
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-Panic! at the Disco on MTV.com: As if the online haters weren't enough, there's also the whole issue of the Killers. Of course, there's bound to be comparisons between the two acts: Both are from Las Vegas, both have a penchant for snazzy suits and both have been known to rock a synthesizer or two. And all that would be fine, except for the fact that "apparently" the bands have beef with each other, a rumor that got started back in September when Wentz managed to include Panic! in a rant he was aiming at the Killers' Brandon Flowers. The whole thing just made the entire rise to fame that much more bumpy for Panic!, who not only claim to have no problem whatsoever with the Killers, but also see a kind of affinity between the two bands. "Pete kind of threw us into the middle of that one. It really didn't have anything to do with us, because we don't hate the Killers or anything like that," Ross laughed. "I mean, the same thing sort of happened to them, only faster and on a bigger level. And both of us wanted to get out of Vegas." <br />
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-James Blunt, again, on "the best American band": "I think the Killers are fantastic. So many of those songs on Hot Fuss are great." <br />
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-Darren hayes of Savage Garden- Darren Hayes 16th july 2006 :"in other good news..Brandon Flowers has a cool new haircut"Darren Hayes september 2006:"The the killers rock my world. is the killers record out monday?. you should definitley avoid the album then.. if you can't get over the haircut.. I'd run. The video for when you were young is gorgeous. Brandon flowers.. what a rock god. I love their new look. brandon's vibe is awesome..love the beard." <br />
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-Chris Martin of Coldplay paid The Killers very nice compliments, basically made a speech about them, at a Coldplay concert in Vegas. Also sang the "I've got soul but I'm not a soldier" ATTTID refrain in the middle of "God Put a Smile Upon Your Face."AND at concert, twisted logic tour in las Vegas-"you're on stage, and you've just met the Killers and youre thinking theyre the best band coming through in a slightly terrifying sense, slightly tTOO good to be true, anyway youve just met the killers who you love and respect, and you look in the mirror 5 mins before you go onstage and you think we've got to look good because the killers are hereand all these people paid all this money, and yu suddenly realize that you look lke michael bolton circa 1976... when you have curly hair and you're on tour, it's a very difficult decsion bc on one hand do you want to trust some crazy hairdresser from st. louis or do you want to just grow it and look slightly like michael bolton circa 1976.... anyway when faced with that decision, just met the killers, then you have to say to yourself don't panic- fellows, this is what this song is all about (starts "Don't Panic').<br />
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-Bono of U2 obvs answered audience questions during the Capital Distinguished Speakers Series event. When asked what was on his iPod: "This is an exciting time for music," he said, and listed the Killers and the Arcade Fire among his current favorites." Allegedly he also once said, "I hear the Killers and I get off the phone." Also later in the year when asked what music he liked at the moment, referred to Sam's Town- "The Killers, they've made an outrageously good album." <br />
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-David Gray in The Herland Sun: "On the B-side of his latest single, David Gray covers the Killers' Smile Like You Mean It. "I heard it somewhere in a shop and said, 'Who's that?' The girl behind the counter said it was the Killers, so I went out and bought the record. I just like the tune. I think they're a pretty tight band and that was the song I liked. But the singer seems to be absolutely full of shit!" Hahaha.<br />
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-Fall Out Boy on their TK feud to NME: "Well, we realized the only way we could get in the goddamn NME was if we talked shit about the Killers!" chuckles Wentz. "That said, me and Brandon Flowers probably have the biggest mouths on the planet and neither of our bands probably care for that too much. At the end of the day, we're just a bunch of dudes who probably should just be giving each other make-up tips. Actually, I have an open invitation to Mr. Flowers to go out to dinner if he'd be interested." <br />
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-John C. McGinley (Scrubs) listed as his 'iPod must' in Giant mag: "Hot Fuss by the Killers. Brandon Flowers has almost a classic Broadway voice and I like that he's not afraid to step up to the mic and sing the song. He's like Roger Daltrey." <br />
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-Anthony "Ant" McPartlin of the UK entertainment duo Ant & Dec told the Sun: " I cant wait to hear the new Killers album as well- I loved the last one."<br />
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-Andrew Farris, guitarist of INXS, chose All These Things for celeb iTunes playlist and wrote: "Brandon Flowers and The Killers have made synths cool again in rock music. I love their vibe. They really command your attention live and this track stands out simply because I love the lyric, 'I've got soul but I'm not a soldier.'"<br />
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-Pete Wentz in NME: "We played Vegas the other night and we invited The Killers to our party afterwards, but they didn't show. I think they were recording... He hasn't officially accepted my invitation yet. I think it would be awesome. He's probably a good date. And I'm buying, Brandon! I'd take him somewhere classy, maybe go to Nobu and get some sushi." Wentz added that while the war of words was "funny" for a while, he actually has a lot of respect for Flowers. He wouldn't want to hear this, but I think more than anything, we're too similar to each other... We both over-analyze everything, and we're both totally neurotic." <br />
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-Michael Tapper and Chris Cain of We Are Scientists in the Independent: "Tapper is a little more open about his influences, proclaiming his appreciation for Gang of Four and Wire. He then jokes about wanting to play for The Killers, citing life on the We Are Scientists "sickie pissy" tour bus as a reason. "The Killers' singer [Brandon Flowers], with his pink leather jacket, has definitely got IT," Cain says dryly. "He's got that ineffable IT." <br />
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-Ashley Parker Angel of O-Town put STM on his celeb playlist and wrote, "This track rocks and they're one of the better bands to come out recently. I've always thought the lyric to the hook is really strange... in a good way."<br />
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-Chris and Keith Murray (singer) of We Are Scientists in their Later with Jools Holland interview: Chris: "The Killers are doing alright, they're pretty funny guys." Keith: "They've got a joke or two. That's how we got the idea for this, we were like these guys are cut ups!" Chris: "Look at that jacket, these guys are hilarious!" They sure were fixated that jacket. OT: I walked by Keith last year in Williamsburg after a Belle & Sebastien concert! (Gosh that sounds terrible, I swear I'm not a hipster you guys...)<br />
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-The Futureheads: This comment made like no sense so I'll post it whole, and see if you can figure it out: "Last night there was a show about The Futureheads and they were talking about Pete's birthday during the NME tour. Jaff very excitedly pointed out that Brandon Flowers had given Pete a kiss and Pete forgot all about it. The next day he asked if they had done anything for his birthday and Jaff even more excitedly cried, "The Killers sang happy birthday to you!" ignoring all the other bands who had done the same thing. Methinks Jaff is a fan." AND in clashmusic: When did you find people started picking up on the Futureheads? I think when we did the NME Tour in 2005 we were flying by that point. We did play the shit out of all those bands (Bloc Party, Kaiser Chiefs, The Killers) we were on tour with. The Killers changed their set list depending on how well we went down. If we went down really well they would come out with all their hits. So we were fucking fighting for it. We were really proving ourselves and we did blow seven tanks of shit out of those bands I think. That gave us a lot confidence and we realised our contemporaries particularly in a live sense, were slightly behind us. <br />
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-Again Neil Tennant of Pet Shop Boys: "We are going through a phase where the term 'pop' is used to mean rubbish. But bands like the Arctic Monkeys, Kaiser Chiefs, Killers, Franz Ferdinand make pop music. They like to think they are rock but they are pop and all have a sense of fun about what they do and have a great look." Also, another quote of his from The Guardian is *****famous***** because Brandon made a huge fuss about it and saved all of his mustache clippings in a plastic bag to send to Neil as some kind of sick twisted hahaha: "When I see someone like Brandon Flowers who has the appetite, and possibly the talent and looks, to be a star, I find that enthralling... I'm worried, though - and I hope he's reading this - that he's grown a beard. It means he's saying, 'I'm not pop. I mean more than that.'" <br />
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-Pete Wentz, not so sweet anymore after Brandon fanned the feud flames and said there was a creature inside of him that wanted to beat all the emo bands like FOB to death: "Honestly, I like Brandon a lot from what I've read in interviews. He's sharp. I don't think people would take as much notice [of his comments] if he wasn't. I respect that... I kinda like how he called Fall Out Boy 'dangerous.' It felt like how Ice called Maverick 'dangerous' in 'Top Gun.' The whole thing kind of feels like one of those D.A.R.E. commercials. I kind of think of it this way: How could you feel like a superhero if you didn't have an arch-nemesis?" And responding to Brandon's claim they'd never met: "We met a couple of times... I think they maybe tried to order drinks from us at the [MTV] Video Music Awards, because they thought we were waiters. The drummer was really nice though... Besides, we get Brandon's family and friends into Fall Out Boy shows when we play his hometown. It must be very 'dangerous.' I believe they came to the show in Salt Lake City, but I did not meet them. They were on the list, though." However, a few months later he was asked on his website by a fan what he thought about TK's new single (When You Were Young) and he wrote: "i like it. there is a song on the record, i think its called "bones" that i really like."-<b>Atoosa Rubenstein</b>, that lady lots of girls my age remember as the past editor of Seventeen, had TK listed as one of her fave bands on Myspace. (lol, Myspace. oh 2006.).<br />
-<b>Justin Timberlake:</b> <i>"I listen to a lot of rock - Arctic Monkeys, The Killers, Keane. It's a lot of British bands. There must be something in the water in the UK."</i> Oh, JT, honey... Also later in Rolling Stone he listed TK among Coldplay, The Strokes, Arcade Fire, and Radiohead as the bands he's inspired by because they <i>"just want to be who they are."</i><br />
-<b>Pete Doherty</b>: <i>Q: If you had to choose to get rid of poetry or music, which one? Pete: Er, The Killers?</i> <br />
-<b>Keane</b> drummer <b>Richard Hughes</b> on their website: <i>"If you could be granted one super power, like super strength or the power of flight, what would it be and why?"-Albert Asker, Richard replies: You have an appropriate surname!<b> </b>I'd like to be able to play the drums like Ronnie Vannucci. I think he's superhuman. Otherwise I'd love to be able to drive a formula one car, or a rally car - those guys are utterly unbelievable. Right now I'd settle for curing my vertigo."</i><br />
-<b>Panic! at the Disco</b> again, this time <b>Spencer Smith</b>, after Brandon's murderous thoughts about emo bands: <i>AOL: if your records sales started to slip, and your label was like, man we got to do something, would you let one of the FOB graze you with a bullet in a drive-by, nothing serious, but you know, for publicity? Panic: yes. only if it was shot by Patrick, goes through one of the guys in the Killers and then I catch the bullet with my mouth and swallow it only to get led poisoning. </i><br />
-<b>Rodney Bingheimer, </b>famous KROQ dj (broke many artists in the US), in an American Chronicle article, <i>"I passed up a Killers listening party at the Roosevelt for this interview!" he greets us with, somehow making it sound like a sincere compliment ... nothing like a little pressure with our soup!"</i><br />
-<b>Whitey</b> of the <b>Kaiser Chiefs</b>, "<i>To be honest, I can't remember everything about the tie in the soup incident. I was in catering and everyone sits in their own spots and the table was full but there was an empty table next to it, so I sat on my own. And Brandon came in and sat next to me. We were a tiny band at the time. I was talking to him, very nice, very pleasant and I just realized that I'd had my tie in my soup for the entire conversation. For about 5 minutes he'd just been looking at me weirdly but he was too sweet to say anything."</i>I loved this so much...<br />
-<b>Jessica Simpson</b> said on TRL she was most looking forward to seeing the Killers at the VMA's. <br />
-Actress <b>Jordana Brewster</b> put ATTTID on her iTunes playlist: <i>"I can’t work out without good music (it gets too boring!!!) I love running to this song…the slow buildup to the chorus is my favorite."</i><br />
-In <b>Elton John</b>'s liner notes for his album The Captain and the Kid: <i>"To the Scissor Sisters, The Killers, rufus Wainwright and Ray Lamontagne for inspiration."</i><br />
-<b>Jake Shears</b> of <b>Scissor Sisters</b> in NME: <i>"Elton listens to everything. I would've dismissed the Killers if he hadn't told me they were amazing."</i><br />
-<b>Phil Collins</b> defended Sam's Town in the Las Vegas Sun: <i>"In the face of so-so reviews for the strident "Sam's Town," the Killers have an ally in Phil Collins, who said he heard some of the band's new CD after his 17-year-old daughter, Lily, bought it and, during an interview before Saturday's show, "What I've heard, I love."</i><br />
-<b>Joel Madden</b> of <b>Good Charlotte</b> again, defending TK on his blog in face of the mass Sam's Town bashing: <i>"Bought the new killers record today and i love it. I think its funny how its getting bad reviews, people never wanna give bands the chance to grow, i believe in the killers. theyll be making good music for a long time."</i> Damn straight!<br />
-<b>The Changes</b> on their Myspace: <i>"I purchased the new Killers' album. Some of it's really, really good. The reviewers keep falling down over the fact that they're obviously inspired by Springsteen; like that's somehow weirder than being inspired by Duran Duran. Bruce is big, bold and all-together rousing. What a great influence."</i><br />
-<b>Rick Ocasek</b> of <b>the Cars</b> again: <i>I didn't feel like gymnastics were part of The Cars. I certainly philosophically didn't want to prod the audience to react to anything. To me, it was more like negative theater. We didn't really talk to the audience. I didn't see that being a part of this band. And some people liked that. Bands do it now and don't get criticized for it. The Killers don't move much.</i> <i>Different kinds of bands do different things. Some people dance and run around and yell and try to get audience reactions, and some bands kind of play their music. </i><br />
<i>-</i><b>Gerard Way</b> of <b>My Chemical Romance</b> allegedly 'said he "celebrated" a Killers show in 2004 by doing an 8 ball and then trying/wanting to kill himself.' um.<br />
-<b>Mick Jones</b>, guitarist of <b>the Clash</b>, said to Blender mag when asked what newer bands he was listening to included: <i>"The Killers, this new record, I started liking. I wasn't sure about the last one, but this one I kind of like. They're all right those guys."</i> <br />
-<b>Noel Gallagher</b> of <b>Oasis</b> again when asked at a CMJ q&a which songwriters from the current generation he thought were good: <i>In whose generation, yours or mine? Coz I'm 39 and yer probably what? 25? Well, if we're talking about you younger lot, then I'd say the guy that writes the songs for Kings of Leon, Serge from Kasabian and Brandon from The Killers. Yeh, Kasabian, The Killers & Kings of Leon. They write fookin fantastic songs. I especially love Kasabian. Tom is an amazing frontman. </i><br />
-<b>Dane Cook</b> allegedly wrote in his blog that he loves Sam's Town and likes to listen to it when he's writing new material. TKC member adds that that explains why he spotted him at the Wiltern show in LA, and that he was especially into ATTTID.<br />
-<b>Kanye West</b> said he was looking forward to seeing Justin Timberlake and TK at the MTV Europe Music Awards. Also when he was interviewed on the EMAs red carpet he kept saying how happy he was that he got to see TK in concert the night before.<br />
-<b>Cameron Diaz</b> and <b>Justin</b> <b>Timberlake</b> (they were dating back then) attended a Killers show before the EMA's (JT hosted) according to MTV UK.<br />
-<b>Davey Havok</b>, singer of <b>AFI</b>: <i>Q:As far as music, what are you checking out at the moment?<b> </b>Davey: I’ve been listening to the new Killers record.. Q: Ohhh<b>. </b>D: Do you like or dislike the new Killers..? I: Oh I love the new Killers.<b> </b>D: That’s great! I was really excited, I really loved Hot Fuss, I thought it was a great record, I thought the songs were amazing, and its one of the few bands of notoriety that I really appreciate and I think are doing something with merit. I never wanted to meet them (laughs) because I was afraid they were gonna ruin the one of two bands that arent from 1986 that I like! And we were on TRL in the United States with them a few weeks back and they were really nice.<b> </b>I: Oh cool.<b> </b>D: I was really looking forward to this record I mean I knew it was going to be different to the last cause everyone was talking about it and, it is and its great.</i><br />
-<b>John Legend</b>, when asked what was on his iPod: "I've been listening to the new Killers' album lately. I like it a lot. My favorite albums this year so far are the Killers, Gnarls Barkley, Amy Winehouse, Beck and OutKast, in no particular order. I'm also very much looking forward to the new Jay-Z album." <br />
-Hit machine producer <b>Timbaland</b> included Sam's Town in his list of top 5 albums of the year for GQ and said, <i>"I find them to be a great alternative group. I love to see artists that do not conform to the normal, because it creates great music." </i><br />
-<b>Ben Folds</b> did "blind spins" with Vh1.com, where he listened/judged new songs while the interviewer gave him the lowdown on the artists. They played him Read My Mind: <i>"This is a Juno synthesizer, right? Maybe it's a Korg Poly 61. Hmmm...he's setting up his story now. Who is this that wants to meet her? Is this a song from Rent? What, it's the Killers new album? People think it sounds too much like U2 and Bruce Springsteen? I don't understand that kind of music criticism, where they say a song sounds too much like something else. Who really cares? Play the song to someone in the deepest forest in Africa. If they respond to it, they respond to it."</i><br />
-<b>Paul Stanley</b> from <b>KISS</b>: <i>“My Chemical Romance, that’s one of the most interesting things I’ve heard recently. I like Coldplay. I think the Killers are great.” </i><br />
-<b>The Stills</b> in concert at the Bowery Ballroom, according to popular music blog The Music Slut: <i>"The band even joked that the last time they played Bowery Ballroom, The Killers opened for them (it's true, I was there). This was followed by many boooooos. The Stills response: 'Let me tell you something, we showed them!'. Brilliant."</i><br />
-<b>Craig Finn</b> of <b>the Hold Steady</b>: Pitchfork: <i>Did you see the "Saturday Night Live" when the Killers were on, and some people have claimed Brandon Flowers was impersonating you? Craig: I did not until someone told me to go look it up on YouTube. I don't know what that guy looks like normally, but someone told me he doesn't wear glasses. Pitchfork: No, he doesn't wear glasses. A year ago, he was totally doing the whole David Bowie dinner-jacket thing. Craig: I don't know. He discovered Springsteen or something, so a lot of press I've seen has combined reviews of our two records. So that's one thing. But if I had to guess whether that guy from the Killers knows who the Hold Steady are, my guess would be no. But a lot of people said that: "Hopefully, he wasn't making fun of you." That was the thing, like maybe he's trying to dis. But still, my guess is that he has no idea who we are or who I am. I think that if I was Brandon Flowers from the Killers, I would be concerned about a lot more things, mainly just being a rock star and buying things.</i><br />
-<b>Coldplay</b> did a surprise set for Little Noise Sessions and according to NME: <i>"<b>Chris Martin</b> then played an acoustic version of The Killers 'When You Were Young' and said afterwards : "What a great band The Killers are." Playing a new Coldplay song 'Bucket For A Crown' on the piano, Martin said that he had written it the night before. "If it's shit," he said "We'll give it to The Killers and if it's good, we'll keep it." </i><br />
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-<b>Editors</b> in NME: <i>"We've got the Killers and Razorlight in our sights."</i>(i.e. they wanted to be as famous/big).<br />
-<b>Taking Back Sunday</b> covered When You Were Young in concert. And oh and i wanted to mention that tbs or should i say adam lazzara like the killers not only did he cover when you were young but on tbs's website in their diary, a few of adams entry's mention the killers. One of the title's to his entry is "if all our days are numbered..." and in an earlier entry, he ended it "it's not so bad it's not so bad, sang the killers" . Also on aol session matt and adam are asked what they have been listening to and they said the killers new stuff.<br />
-<b>Rod Stewart </b>said he loved When You Were Young in an article.<br />
-<b>The Kaiser Chiefs</b> were making fun of TK on Zane Lowe's radio show, talking over Read My Mind and making fun of it the whole time, like Brandon's groan in the end. TKC members brushed it off as friendly rivalry/ "taking the piss." + In Spin mag some passive aggressiveness from <b>Nick Hodgson</b>: <i>"Spin: How far do your ambitions extend? NH: You just think about the year ahead. I don't know. We'll see. I don't want to be U2-size. It makes me feel claustrophobic if I imagine that our band would ever be as big as U2. Spin: That's what the Killers want. NH: They'll never do it, though, and I think we probably will because we don't want it as much [laughs]. We always wanted to be as big as the Charlatans and sell 2,000 tickets at gigs. We thought that would be unachievable and amazing. So maybe the Killers will fall apart because they want it too much."</i> Jealous much... then backing up on his words months later in NME- Nick Hodgson about the whole U2 comment in this week's NME:Brandon Flowers wasn't happy when I said they would struggle to be U2 sized. All I said was about being U2 sized, and we said "We don't wanna be U2 size, but because we don't want it so much, we'll probably end up doing it" And I think The Killers got mentioned and I said, "Well, they'll probably end up not doing it because I think they want it." And we don't really want it. The thing about being U2 size is it's just too big.<br />
-Hockey player <b>Sheldon Souray</b> on what artist he would like to see live: <i>"I would have loved to have seen The Doors. Now….hmm. (pauses to think) I’m a Killers fan so I’d like to see them. I know it’s probably not very popular but I’d like to see them." </i><br />
-Tennis player <b>Andy Roddick</b> on his current favorite band: <i>"Dave Matthews band will always be my favorite. I am really into The Killers as well."</i><br />
-<b>Matt Bellamy</b> of <b>Muse</b> said about the NME Awards nominations: <i>"I'm sure the killers will do well, they're on form." </i>AND in interview on youtube Matt Bellamy: We saw The Killers the other day, they was very good.<br />
Dom Howard: The Killers are very good! They're brilliant I really like them. ......AND Q: Favourite Big Day Out band this year? <br />
B (Matt Bellamy): It's had quite a few good bands this year, The Killers were pretty good. My favourite would be, ur, I don't know, I mean, Jet, Killers. <br />
H (Dominic Howard): Killers were good, I saw them the other day. <br />
B: Hot Chip?<br />
H: Hot Chip are a good one. I haven't seen them play on this tour, but they're great live. <br />
B: Urm, it's difficult to tell. <br />
H: The Streets were great. <br />
B: The Streets. A bid between Jet and The Killers maybe. <br />
H: Yeah, I saw The Killers the other day and they were brilliant.<br />
-<b>Gerard Way</b> of <b>My Chemical Romance</b> again in NME:<i> "I’ve been listening to: Sam’s Town, The Killers. We were making our record when this came out, but I can finally listen to it now. It’s one of the most moving records of last year, you feel what he’s talking about and it’s very risky. There’s stuff on there that makes me cry and it’s been a long time since that happened." </i>Also in the Cleveland Plain Dealer: <i>"Way tagged "Sam's Town" as "probably" his favorite release of 2006. "You really have to listen to it, which is what makes it special," he said." </i>Also at Oxegen festival during performance told audience, "I hope the killers are playing. I really like the Killers"<br />
-<b>Evan Dando</b> of <b>the Lemonheads</b> said he hated the Killers (no proof, sorrys).<br />
-The band<b> Billy Talent</b> said they would really love to meet TK on MTV2.<br />
-Actress <b>Lucy Liu</b> said in Blender that she loved Sam's Town, especially when she saw TK live. <br />
-<b>Jared Leto</b> of <b>30 Seconds to Mars</b> was quoted bashing TK but then wrote them a personal email saying he never said anything of the sort and that he loved the band. The quote really never surfaced in any magazine, only in contactmusic. Anyway this was the orig quote: <i>"</i><span id="intelliTxt"><i>They copy Depeche Mode, even up to what they wear. But Brandon Flowers doesn't come close to Dave Gahan."</i> Well anyway, they sure are fast friends now. </span><br />
-<b>Nicola Roberts</b> of <b>Girls Aloud</b> said she loved the Killers.<br />
-<b>Mike Bailey</b> (Sid in Skins) said he loved the Killers (omg).<br />
-<b>The Furutrists: "</b><i>In the meantime, the quartet – most of whose members are 21 and under – continues to develop its music. Formed three years ago, the Futurists have evolved from their dance-rock origins into something less clichéd. "We started out like the Killers," he says. "But you read about Brandon Flowers' antics in Rolling Stone, and you think, 'Do I really want to be associated with that kind of music? Do I really want to be an '80s throwback band?'</i><br />
-<b>Howard Jones</b> (80s synthpop)-<i>I think the best music at the moment is coming from Rufus Wainwright and the Killers. I've been studying the Killers, really. They're not the most modern band. They sound a bit like a cross between the Cars and the Cure. But it's such well-made music and such great production and the guy's got such a great voice, I think they really stand out.</i><br />
-<b>Ricky Gervais</b>: What's on my iPod: Dylan, Neil Young, David Bowie, Cat Stevens, some folk, U2, Radiohead, Coldplay - all the big boys. And The Killers, who are my new favourite band. <br />
-<b>Kiefer Sutherland</b> said the Killers are "phenomenal" when their RMM video was #1 on VH1's Top 20 video Countdown show while he was interviewed.<br />
-<b>Kings of Leon</b> in the Herald Sun- <i>KOL don't need your respect, really, what with Bob Dylan hand-picking them to support him last year, just as U2 and Pearl Jam have done in the past. Even Elton John is an out and proud fan. ``That's a huge honour, for all these who have done such enormous things musically to respect us,'' Caleb says.``I feel like they're really behind us and that's why they make it well known that they're our fans -- they don't want us to give up, they don't want us to say `F--- it, we throw in the towel, Jet's gonna go rule the world, and the Killers are gonna go rule the world, and we're just kinda back here . . .'' ``S.L.Y., bro,'' Jared interjects at the mention of those other bands. ``That is so last year. S.L.Y.'' ``I know, I know,'' Caleb says, shaking his head. ``I've gotta say,'' Jared continues, ``though it definitely pisses these guys off, they think it sounds cocky.''</i><br />
-<b>Roger Taylor</b>, drummer of <b>Duran Duran</b>, with his picks for single of the year: The Killers “When You were Young” - Kind of controversial – a lot of people are saying this record is not as good as the record they made a year or two ago. I think it’s a fantastic record, I think they still got it, they are still really going somewhere and they are going to be around for a long time. <br />
-<b>Matthew Followill of Kings of Leon</b>- I have huge respect for bands like Arcade Fire and The Killers who take a risk. I really loved The Killers' first album, and while I'm not as big a fan of their second one, I wouldn't have wanted them to just repeat the same formula." <br />
-<b>Amerie</b> interview for popjustice: 'Are there any 'surprise' duets or cover versions on the album?'<br />
No, but I'd like to do something with The Killers. I'll sit in my car singing their songs thinking how great it would if that was my genre and I could sound like The Killers. Whenever I sing their songs I am always making it a duet with me...Also in another interviewing saying she would like to collab with bflo: "I don't know what songs we could do but I love his band's records and their writing and arrangements." <br />
-<b>Simon Pegg</b>- The name comes from the style of two-word titles like those mentioned in Pegg's above examples ("Bad Boys", "Lethal Weapon"). When musicians The Killers came out with an album called Hot Fuss, it was pure coincidence."We came before that although it was a simultaneous sort of moment. We were in New York and I walked into a record shop and there it was and I thought, 'Oh sh*t, someone's made an album with a very similar title to our film.' But we saw the Killers recently at a thing. We didn't sort of talk about it either, did we? We just sort of said hello to them." <br />
-<b>Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers</b>- Nicky Wire from the manics is quite scathing in the NME this week...although I know he does like the killers music but he says that Dave's haircut is bad and that brandon shouldn't slag off Emo. AND later to NME- Wire was equally blunt when speaking about his distaste for the overrated, undertalented, and extremely annoying American band The Killers, saying, “The last Killers album is truly dreadful, and I think everyone thinks so. The first record was brilliant, but then the second one comes out and it gets great reviews, but then you realize the terrible, concocted, false nature of it all. The Bruce Springsteen comparisons are so utterly wrong. There’s no authenticity in that record at all, extremely false and calculated. People might like it, but people with brains don’t. All that getting Tim Burton to direct their video, get a supermodel in the video, falling for the same shtick. They’re morally bankrupt, for Mormons especially!”<br />
-Matt Dublin of <b>Red Romance</b> in ew popwatch- This won't be the first time you've opened for The Killers. What are they like?<br />
We opened for them last Fall at the MSG Theater, up in Boston and in Atlantic City. They are extordinarily gracious and down to earth guys, despite their enormous success. But more than anything else, they are absolute musicians of the highest caliber. When you hang out with those guys, it's always about the music. Their success really renewed my faith that ultimately, people still want songs, the kids still want anthems, their own soundtracks, and that's what the Killers are to so many people. AND Matthew Dublin of the Red Romance in brightestyoungthings.com, he talks about touring with the Killers Did anything particularly insane or tabloid worthy happen while on tour? Or are the Killers just good Vegas bred Mormons we all heard they are?MD:In all sincerity, they really are just straight-up music lovers and great musicians. They’re really serious about what they do and they do it so well, I love watching them play every night. They don’t really get too crazy in terms of crazy rock n’ roll stories. Ronnie’s a sweet heart and the best drummer working in music today next to our own Dr. Beckett. However, don’t step to Mr. Flowers when it comes to ping pong; he’s got an old school grip that’ll leave you questioning your desire to pick up the old paddle anytime in the near future. <br />
-<b>Joel Madden</b> in Spin- What was the last song that got stuck in your head?<br />
Joel Madden (of Good Charlotte): The Killers' "When You Were Young." I really think that Brandon Flowers has a sense of mystery to him.Also Billy Martin again of GC in app.com- "We love The Killers' two records," Martin said. "Their songs are awesome, but we're not trying to copy what they've done. We're doing our own thing. We came up with these off-the-wall ideas. We happened to move into this area of really dancey pop music. This album happens to just be where we are now."<br />
-<b>Rufus Wainwright</b>- "I don't know him all that well but I wrote this song about him which is kind of hilarious," Wainwright told Time Out London of the new tune, 'Tulsa.' "It says he tastes like potato chips in the morning." Also in another article, "He is so sexy yet so unhappy and also somewhat sane and crazy at the same time. "I haven't met anyone who quite fits the Brando mould as much as he does immediately. There's this dark, moody, restless, annoyed by compassionate figure that's sucking up all the energy out of the room."And another interview: Hearing it from an acclaimed singer/songwriter who’s currently working on an opera, you’d hardly expect the fawning anthem “Tulsa” (“Your suit was the whitest thing since you know who / I feel that that savior I have mentioned may be you / And who would have thought that I’d owe it all to Tulsa?”) to be about, of all people, Brandon Flowers of The Killers. “I spent one night with him at a bar, swooning over him along with everybody else,” jokes Rufus Wainwright."Aaand more: "Tulsa" -- about a night on the town with Killers singer Brandon Flowers:"It was at the point where that band was hitting. Brandon was being very, very nice to me because he's a fan, and I was therefore in the coterie, and together we formed this shield of beauty and brains, and it was all in this tiny bar in Tulsa, which had never seen the likes. ... It was kind of Kurt Weillian or something."I don't know if Brandon's heard it yet; he might be completely horrified. But I was, once again, 'Thanks a lot, thanks a lot for not sleeping with me so I can write a song about you.'"AND from jsonline- Q. "Tulsa" is sort of a gay fantasy about the married rock star Brandon Flowers of The Killers. Have you gotten any reaction from Flowers about "Tulsa"? A. I saw him in Ireland. We were doing a festival together. He was very sweet, quite bashful, and gave me a nice big kiss on the cheek. We'll take it from there.AND RUFUS Wainwright's meeting with Killers frontman Brandon Flowers at this year's Glastonbury Festival in Britain carried extra meaning.Wainwright wrote a song for Flowers, Tulsa, on his new album Release the Stars. In it, Wainwright hails Flowers' Marlon Brando-like looks and charm. Their post-Tulsa meeting went without incident, the songwriter says. "Brandon was very flattered. And somewhat bashful, shall we say. Exceptionally tickled. We kissed each other on the cheek."AND from a Q&A- What's your most embarrassing moment?“Hitting on Brandon Flowers.” <br />
-<b>Chris Martin</b> said he wishes <b>Coldplay</b> had written Hot Fuss. aaand mumbling about him in video form: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY9SujNSM78 Aaaand<br />
On an interview with MuchMusic, Tulsa was brought up. Rufus said they were just at a bar and nothing "spicy" happened. And that Brandon contacted his lawyer and said he would call Rufus but he hasn't yet. Because, as Rufus put it, "he's playing hard to get."<br />
-<b>Paul Anka</b> nd even a cover of the Killers' "Mr. Brightside.""They're real nice guys. I really like them," Anka says of Las Vegas' homegrown rock heroes. Singer Brandon Flowers has credited the Las Vegas legends as inspirations during his days growing up in rural Utah. The band asked to be introduced to the singer upon learning they were both in Montreal at the same time."They were very gracious and nice guys (who said) 'It's kind of because of you that we're in the business,' " Anka recalls. After that meeting, he decided, "I'm gonna take a shot at 'Brightside.' " And now he declares, "It's one of the highlight tracks."AND in montreal Gazette: Do you have an iPod, by any chance?Anka: Sure, I do. (Laughs heartily).Gazette: What do you have on it?Anka: Everything from Yo-Yo Ma to Ennio Morricone, <b>the Killers</b> ... Weinstein or Amy, whatever the hell her ... ND Gazette: The Killers track, which you've mentioned, that's very interesting. Maybe we could talk about that briefly. I know Brandon Flowers once said without you, the band wouldn't exist.Anka: Yeah, in Rolling Stone.Gazette: Exactly. In fact, I referenced that last time I wrote about you. How did you end up choosing that song?Anka: It was here in Montreal. I was at a restaurant here. I don't know if you know that story ... and he came to the restaurant, because he had heard I was at the restaurant. And he showed up at midnight. It was that fish restaurant; there's a New York restaurant and one here. I'll think of the name in a minute. And he walked in, said "We want to meet you, because it's you and My Way ... I knew Brightside, I knew their album, I was aware of the band. And I especially knew because of Vegas. So I said "Hey, cool, you know, I'm touched and thank you and sit down." And we talked and, of course, Rock Swings was done. And I said "You know, Brightside, I hear it now. I wish I had ..." I said "If I do another one, I'm going to whip that song out and do it.<br />
So, as we evolved into this, remembering, and the attachment with them, I said "I'm going to find a vibe for this song," because I love the song.<br />
-one of the people from <b>Bad Relgion</b> said on loveline that by far, Sam's Town was his favorite album of the year. and AAC they asked the bands questions. one of the questions was Best Live Band and Bad Religion put the Killers!<br />
-When asked about their relationship with The Killers, <b>Hot Hot Heat's Steve</b> replied, "Sexual." I recorded the interview from VFest and I'll type up the full quote later. They also talked about the Red Rocks show, but almost seemed uncomfortable, and said they had a lot of fun and Brandon saved his voice so he wouldn't lose it forever.<br />
-<b>chris moyles</b> (radio1 DJ in UK) played FRU on thu or fri and sed "FRU, thats the name of the song not why were playing it, were playin it because were legally required to by contract!" but he said it in like a way of saying its crap!<br />
-And they're <b>Jonathan Ross</b>' favourite band<br />
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-<b>Kelly Clarkson</b> said, "I'd love to see The Killers, I've never seen The Killers. I'm a big fan of theirs AND in Kelly Clarksons playlist she put Mr. Brightside and said that it was one of her all time favorite videos<br />
-<b>Bruce Willis</b>- "It's weird. I'm getting back into all the music I used to love when I was a teenager, like The Rolling Stones. I'm seeing The Stones in Paris in June. My 15-year-old daughter Scout has got me into The Killers."(also Rumer Willis was spotted at thier Vegas show)<br />
-They are also set to play at the Princess Diana memorial concert at Wembley on July 1. The Killers are <b>Prince William</b>’s and <b>Harry</b>’s favourite band and the young royals personally requested they perform at the Diana event to mark the tenth anniversary of her death. <br />
- watching an interview with Amy Winehouse, and to use an example of how she's like an old man when it comes to music, she said something like "Someone will say 'The Killers are a great band' and I'd say, Yeah, they look like nice boys"<br />
-<b>Tony Wilson founder of Factory Records</b>, which released Joy Division records. in Pitchfork- Pitchfork: What was your involvement with Control, the Anton Corbijn film about Joy Division?TW: I was involved in the initial stages as an associate producer to fuck off some rival people who wanted to make a film, to get rid of them, which I did. And then I was just a general advisor.More recently there was a slight falling out. I bought a Fall Out Boy DVD special at the bookshop on Union Square. I'm very fond of Fall Out Boy, and there was this wonderful cover version of 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' which really shocked me. And I know that emo-- which I'm quite fond of-- treats Mr. Morrissey as its godfather, which is fine, but the fact is that 'Love Will Tear Us Apart' is one of the core songs.And suddenly I thought 'well fuck this, this is amazing!' And then I thought 'all we've got to do is get Panic! At the Disco to do a cover and we've got a soundtrack album featuring songs by Fall Out Boy and Panic! At the Disco and suddenly Joy Division's music will be revealed to millions more kids!'<b>That seemed very exciting, so I drove all the way to Nottingham where they were filming, and I hadn't realized that Anton has just come back from a photo shoot with the Killers and-- I mean they're a good band but their lead singer's a fucking idiot. He hates emo, doesn't he? Anyway, I had this big row with Anton about the soundtrack album.</b><br />
-Hot Fuss was critiqued in the latest issue of Stuff magazine (Best Summer Ever issue). The article had "music royalty" judge bands on whether or not they had lasting potential. <b>Bret Michaels, lead singer of Poison, Ozzy, and Gene Simmons</b> all gave them a thumbs up.here's what they actually said:Quote: Bret Michaels: I've always thought they were kind of The Cars of the new millennium, with a little more attitude. I think they need to identify who they are more. It's tough to listen to a heartbreak song when you don't know much about the person. Everyone knew my stripper girlfriend was breaking my heart when I wrote "Every Rose Has Its Thorn". Wear your heart on your sleeve.Ozzy Osbourne: It's a lot like 80's. Like an 80's kind of new wave pop rock. (Trying to read his notes) I like...I can't read my own fucking writing. But they have my thumbs up.Gene Simmons: The music is terrific, but if you're in the Killers, the question 'Who?" is going to follow you. Just because you can sell a million records doesn't mean squat. That's a great feat, but the question is still, "Who?" The Killers is a good name, though.<br />
-<b>Brian of Louis xiv</b>- The Killers were smart enough to bring a Ping-Pong table on the road, so we have been having small, but intense tournaments backstage before and after the gigs.....me and Brandon are tied for first place at 3 games each. <br />
-<b>Reverend And The Makers main man Jon McLure</b> yesterday voiced his disgust for The Killers during Gigwise’s weekly Wednesday Webchat. The singer/songwriter breached the subject after being asked about what bands he went to see and which stages he preferred at Glastonbury. He replied: “It’s all about the smaller bands. You’re not going to change your life stuck in front of the pyramid stage watching the bleeding Killers are you? He then went on to launch a tirade against the Las Vegas band firstly calling them “intrinsically evil”. Before adding: “The Killers are corporate whores playing a marketing game with the unsuspecting masses. The ruthlessly efficient mainstream shall prevail with The Killers as soundtrack.” Brandon Flowers we await your answer. <br />
-<b>Tim Rice-Oxley from Keane</b> said about The Killers at Werchter (Festival in Belgium) <br />
"My highlight was The Killers, though. I've seen them play quite a few times and they're always entertaining, but yesterday I thought they were absolutely brilliant, really full of energy and soul. They're one of those bands who seem to have an hour-long 'greatest hits' set after only a couple of albums. Read My Mind was sensational. Anyway, needless to say we knew we'd have to put on a great show to follow a run of acts as good as that, so were really fired up for it.""Backstage at Werchter, the atmosphere was very friendly and relaxed. We feel a certain kinship with The Killers, both bands having come to prominence at about the same time, and it was great to see them and hang out a bit. Ronnie Vannucci is always a lovely man to chew the fat with, and Dave seemed disappointed to discover that the rumours he'd heard that our third album was finished and about to hit the shops were not strictly accurate." <br />
-Again <b>Bon Jovi</b> told Myspace music one of the top 5 songs he was listening to was WYWY (other four:U2 One, Bob Dyland Forever Young, Kaiser Chiefs Ruby, Snow Patrol Cashing Cars<br />
-Bryan Ferry (of Roxy Music)" Musically, he has wide tastes with Arcade Fire and The Killers being his current favourites<br />
-Tom of <b>the Enemy</b> in Sunday Mail- "I heard them on the radio and thought they were just rubbish."Then I saw them at the NME Awards in London and thought this is a chance for them to redeem themselves."They're disappearing up their own backsidesTheir first album was alright but the follow-up Sam's Town was terrible.""We were playing at Glastonbury and they blocked off a big area of the Main Stage - so nobody would see them - and kept everybody waiting for 20 minutes."It was totally out of order. Their singer Brand on Flowers owes us 20 minutes of our time.If we ever do another gig with them we aim to make him stand around for half an hour to get him back."I'm having him and his band."<br />
-<b>Jamie Reynolds and Simon Taylor-Davis of The Klaxons</b> in NME youtube interview at T in the Park http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-uSgbKoe50 - "I'm looking forward to seeing the Killers, I wanna know whether or not that guy still wants to get me. other)- we had an incident with the killers the other night in verchen in belgium when jamie decided to place spinach on setev from the killers' shoulder, who i previously had an encounter with a few years back prior to the klaxons' existence when they were a small band supporting british sea power in nottingham... no no no not beef, not beef, no it's spinach... vegetarian... other- i took a spoonful of spinach and i gently placed it upon his shoulder and he was upset with me and i hope it can be today is aday for making up, i havent seen him sense and i hope... i tried to explain to him the incident that happened to me with him and he didn't remmeber.. othr- that's why i made up for it by placing the spinach."<br />
-Recently, <b>Smashing Pumpkins</b> 'took over' on KROCK. They were basically just there to promote their album and give the station some hype.Anyway, later in the program, they comment that they got to meet The Killers and found out that they not only make great music, but are great people. AND more from SP in an interview: What advice would you give bands? :What I would say is, have a core belief, whether it's God, music or your band. And stick to that. One band that has a future is the Killers. Seeing them live, I thought, "This is a real band." I found out that all of the guys in the band saw the Pumpkins on Lollapalooza in 1994. They didn't know each other then. But they were all at the gig. I'm not saying that was the moment they decided to be in a band, but it was one of the moments-and I'm proud of that. I'm not taking anybody's credit away. But I subscribe to Bob Dylan's theory: We're just troubadours, and it's our job to pass the flame on to others.<br />
-<b>Kanye West</b>- "I listen to mostly rock music now," he said, citing the Killers, Keane, Modest Mouse and Feist as current favorites.Those artists also influenced the sound of Graduation, which West says takes rap in a different direction."This album has a lot of synthesizers layered on it, which has never really been done before in hip-hop," he said. "That doesn't make it good, just because it's different, but it's a representation of what I've been listening to." <br />
-<b>Jack Shepard</b> AKA David Platt from Corrie:<br />
I'm really into the album Sams Town by The Killers at the moment. They are a brilliant band and i dont think there's a single bad track on the whole cd.source: NOW magazine<br />
-<b>The Academy Is...</b>'s buzznet profile, and in one of Adam Siska's journal entries, it said THIS:Yesterday morning/ afternoon (im not sure which,) Tony came knocking on my bunk and told me we had a radio show for a rock radio station in Glasgow, Scotland.<br />
The radiostation requested that we play two of our own songs as well as a cover of a song that is currenly Top 40 in the UK. We decided to do LAX to O'hare, Big Mess, and a cover of the Killer's "Read My Mind,"which in my opinion is an awesome song. So perhaps our cover of that will surface on the internet someday... -Dave Grolh from Foo Fighters again said that Ronnie is one of his favorite drummers thats around today.<br />
-<b>Kate Nash</b> in her fan diary... i liked the shock i got from the massive crowd at 02 hyde park, the coloured in sheep at latitude, wearing gold leaf, going 'hippy' and being generally annoying at glastonbury, the cake i got from the promoter at t in the park, <b>seeing that guy from the killers </b>and meeting lovefoxx at oxygen,....<br />
-<b>Kanye West</b> in hiphopdx- According to Reuters, Kanye West's latest album, <i>Graduation</i>, will feature a select few guest spots."When I hear the records of my favorite bands -- the Killers or Coldplay -- you only hear one voice from start to finish," says West. AND other interview- He says, "Before me, nobody spoke their mind. I broke down the boundaries for Amy Winehouse, Lily Allen, Brandon Flowers from the Killers. Now everyone says what they think."+ http://www.nme.com/images/07819_193528_kanyewestblog_01.jpg brandontache AND in hiphoplinguistics- "I love TV on the Radio’s production,” he said, referencing the critically acclaimed Brooklyn indie-rockers, “but man, at the end of the day, Keane and the Killers have bigger hooks.” Mr. West stops, considers, then laughs. “The last thing I need now in my quest to be cool is for somebody to think I dissed TV on the Radio."AND Kanye in Rolling Stone- The S.S. jetted to London for this issue’s interview with Kanye West. After his set at the V Fest in Staffordshire, Kanye and the S.S. hopped in a Mercedes for a three-hour drive to the equally muddy V Fest in Chelmsford (check out West’s sneaker protection) to catch the Killers. “They’re my absolute favorite band,” said Kanye. Days later, in New York, we caught up with Brandon Flowers at Sears Sound. “Kanye is amazing,” a flattered Flowers responds. “I can’t wait to hear his new stuff.” <br />
-<b>KT Tunstall</b>- Revealing all about her new material, 31 year old KT Turnstall said: There’s much more of a rock influence on this album.“The song that really stuck out on the radio when I was driving to the studio was The Prayer by Bloc Party. It’s a wicked song. The Killers were playing a lot on the radio too and I was enjoying their writing.” <br />
-<b>Robbie Coltrane</b> (AKA <b>Hagrid</b> from Harry Potter) has gone an interview in one of the UK magazines and said the following:"I love driving and spending time in a car as magnificent as the one I had was a pleasure. I spent the whole time listening to The Killers on the stereo, I think they're fantastic, I'm 57 going on 18"<br />
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-On the V Festival coverage on C4 Tom from <b>Kasabian</b> has just said that he loves Brandon. Tom has some not so nice opinions about some other people in the music biz so it's good to know he likes TK!.......kasbaian want to 'kill the killers' vfest interview...how original <br />
-<b>Ricky Wilson</b> about the 'take on me' sing along on Gonzo with bflo and zane lowe- I did it once with Brandon Flowers, and that was funny--because he's quite a funny fella. You wouldn't think it, but he's a funny fella. He's got a funny laugh <br />
-Baissist of <b>The Heights</b>, who performed at V Fest with TK from thestar- Plus, bassist Chris Carr made maybe the best dig at Killers ever: "We shared a boat with the Killers on the way over. They stopped the ferry halfway. Brandon Flowers got off and walked on the water a bit.<br />
-Lou Reed Pitchfork: And the stuff with the Killers... Reed: That band is genuinely great. The thing we did, I think it's called "Tranquilize".<br />
- a bandmember of <b>the Walkmen</b>, and she told me that when she was hanging out with the band after a show, they were all talking about how they don't really like their band name. Then they started saying how they're jealous that the Killers have basically one of the ultimate, most perfect names possible.<br />
-<b>sarah silverman</b> loves the killers ...she has not once but twice in her ipod playlist wywy and attid<br />
-<b>The Parlotones</b>’ bassist, Glenn Hodgson<br />
Who would you dig to see in concert?<br />
MxPx, Rancid, AFI, Rise Against, The Kooks and The Killers. <br />
-Mark from <b>One Night Only</b>.<br />
If you could handpick a band to tour with in the future: who would it be?<br />
Mark: The Killers even, we went to one of their shows at Wembley Arena and that was really good.<br />
5o cent’s new single <b>’I Still Kill’</b> has been banned by US TV stations <b>MTV</b> and <b>BET</b>.The track has been renamed <b>’I Still Will’</b>.50 Cent told <b>New York Magazine</b>: “I don’t think they have a problem with the group The Killers being called The Killers and I don’t think anyone’s protesting that Guns N’ Roses is called Guns N’ Roses."He added: “I think that their perception of me is dark so they’re going to ask for those things to be changed.” <br />
-<b>Tom deLonge of Angels and Airwaves</b> (previously Blink 182) to MTV-<br />
"I back the fact that he did it," DeLonge said of Flowers' pronouncement. "Labels are struggling, bands can't get on radio and something new is needed now. But didn't he know I said that? I mean, he must have heard that I said that first, right?" <br />
A spokesperson for the Killers did not return calls for comment at press time. <br />
"C'mon, man, he <i>knew</i> I said that," DeLonge said with a laugh. "But the funny thing is, no matter what anybody says about their album being the best, it's art and you can't judge art. I was laughing when I said that it was the best record in 20 years ... laughing when I got off the phone [with the interviewer] because it got everyone talking and it worked to my benefit." <br />
-director of Southlad Tales, <b>Slater</b>- "Southland Tales" (the movie with Justin Timberlake that uses ATTTID):We were going to throw blood all over the nurses but that was a little bit too much and we just went for it. I’ve got to give a lot of credit to the dancers who played the nurses. I wish I knew their names but they were great. They really performed and they kind of gave him an opportunity to play off of them. I had to do one take with no lip synching because we didn’t have The Killers’ song. and the producers were like, "Rich, we can’t afford the song. They’re never going to give it to us. It’s like a fortune.” They’re the biggest band in the world so we did one take with no lip synching. I ended up doing the first take with no lip synching because we were getting everyone warmed up and then we lip synched the second, third and fourth take because we had to move on. We cut it together and like the next day my editor had a cut of it and we sent it off to The Killers, to their management, and we were just like, "Please God. Please let them like this because we can’t afford this song.” And the management saw it and they were like, "Okay. We love this. How much money do you have?” And we were like (gestures to indicate a very small amount) and they were like, "Okay. You can have it.” They said yes right away and it set in motion us getting all this other music because it’s sort of "Oh, well The Killers are doing it for how much?” and then it was The Pixies and Muse and Radiohead. Thank God that they… I still have never met the band but I’d give them a hug if I did.AND from another source: When he talks about The Killers’ song, "All the Things I’ve Done"... in my mind it felt like the voice of a disenfranchised Iraq veteran, and I don’t know if that was the intention when The Killers wrote that song. But if you listen to the lyrics, it’s really powerful. We didn’t have the rights to the song and we just shot it anyway. Then we showed it to The Killers and their management, and they were like, ‘Okay, we love this and how much money do you have?’ We were like, ‘Ahh [cough] $40,000,’ and they said alright you can have it. It was an amazing gift and it set a precedent to get all of this other music, and they were really generous." <br />
-<b>Fall Out Boy</b> started covering Mr. brightside in concerts<br />
-<b>Simon Webbe of Blue</b> (solo) covered WYWY in concerts<br />
-<b>Fran Healy of Travis</b>: Healy has also come to terms with the kind of band Travis is and aspires to be. He knows Travis is not considered a band that's "cool" to champion. He knows they'll likely never pack stadiums or be on any hipster hotlists.But that's fine by him. As much as he admires some of the bigger acts out there, he feels Travis stands apart with its inclusive, everyman approach. It's a belief that was recently strengthened while Healy and bass player, Doug Payne, watched The Killers take the stage after them in Buenos Aires.When we played with The Killers the other night, Dougie -- the bass player -- turns around to me and says, 'Man, do you ever get the feeling we're really unprofessional?' But we're just not that kind of band. . . The Killers, there's a connection there, but there's also a distance. They're rock stars.<br />
-Hockey player <b>Dany healty</b> caught singing along to Mr. Brightsde (played in the stadium) when a mic was strapped to him- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouY-FX4RMOQ<br />
-From a New York Times article by none other than <b>Wyclef Jean</b> (he mentions some of his favorite musicians):<br />
The Killers<br />
As a fan of rock growing up, I go all the way back with a band called Yes, a band that came from a classical music background. I take you that far back to bring you to the Killers’ “Sam’s Town” (Island). I’d call this a CD and audio movie because when listening to it, you feel like you just entered a movie. I put this CD on when I go out on a drive to go think. Then I park the car and put the Killers in the background and go into deep thought, a state of meditation. Or you can do your hour on the treadmill, this CD will meditate you. It’s vocally and musically incredible. As a guitar player, the layers that I’m hearing are insane. I can hear an Eastern twang mixed with a Western twang. When you’re like, “Yo, what’s up with rock ’n’ roll, where’s that nirvana vibe?” With the Killers you catch that vibe. -Dev Hynes of that (apparently now dead) band, Test Icicles for Discoteque confusion (he also did a cover of Uncle Johnny):<br />
When I drop that cliched phrase "modern day style icon" he names states that Brandon Flowers is someone who he thinks dresses very well indeed. It turns out that Dev is a huge Killers fan, and is one of a select few who is a fan of the bearded western look. "I am influenced by their music and then how I dress just follows.. I'm actually a little obsessed". Funnily enough, a couple of weeks back while staying in a brazilian hotel in spotted the band huddled outside having a smoke. "I hate meeting people that I like" so he chicked out and "had to walk straight past them." A shame, they could have chatted about facial hair "With mine, I'm basically just copying what he's doing!"<br />
-Taylor the drummer from <b>Foo Fighters</b> You're in a band with one of the greatest rock drummers of your generation, Dave's (Grohl) a big fan of yours, otherwise he wouldn't have given you a job. You're presumably a fan of his, otherwise you wouldn't have taken it. But who else has caught your ear of late?: <br />
"Y'know me and Dave (Grohl) were talking about Ronnie from The Killers recently. He's a really fantastic drummer.<br />
I'd been listening to a lot of Cheap Trick and I said to Dave about Ronnie reminding me of Bun E Carlos for some reason. I think they're both incredible drummers, and I don't think either of them get the credit they deserve. Bun E has this kind of second line thing going on with eighth notes on the left hand sometimes - it's just amazing, perfect drumming. So Ronnie and Bun E get my vote at this moment in time."<br />
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-<b>Rufus Wainwright</b> again- You've said the song "Tulsa," off "Release the Stars," was written about The Killers' Brandon Flowers."That one is specifically about Brandon Flowers. But I wouldn't call it a deep experience.Have you heard from him since its release?Yeah, I ran into him a couple of times while we were both touring Europe and doing festivals. He was very, very sweet. I was a little concerned about him. He looked a little thin, and he's so huge on the charts, I'm sure there's a lot of rock 'n' roll lifestyle going on there. I actually felt more like his potential mother than lover. I just wanted to feed him. Feed him love. <br />
-<b>Brendon Urie from Panic! At The Disco</b> and at the bottom of the article there was a section called <i>'Brendon's Fury'</i>. Anyway, top on the last was The Killers and he said - and I quote "<i>They hate us - we get the cold shoudlder!</i>" Beside it there was a picture of Brandon<b> </b> and it was captioned as '<i>Brandon and Brendon: not bezzies</i>' So I'm not too sure about that row being over even now - the magazine was literally just out. <br />
-Robert Been of <b>Black Rebel Motorcycle Club</b> in herald sun:<br />
Before your new album Baby 81 came out, you supported the Killers in arenas around the UK. Do you want BRMC to reach that arena-rocking level? I always thought I did, we always thought that was just the natural progression of things getting better, but it's actually not in a strange way. You lose something really important right around the stage we're at -- we're on the threshold between two worlds. One is these dirty, sweaty underground shows that remind you just how f---ing good and powerful music can be. The other side of the coin is really big theatres, and people go from standing to sitting, and they go from $10 to $50 tickets, and you just get the "ever get the feeling you've been cheated?'' kind of thing. It's the disconnection -- you keep getting further and further away from people physically, and the stage keeps getting higher and higher . . . It's good for certain forms of entertainment, but I don't know about real heartfelt music with a conscience and something to say. Some bands, like the Killers for example, they know exactly what they're doing up there. And whether you like it or not, they're masters of making you feel good and entertaining you and keeping you connected with open arms. We do something else, that's the only way I can explain it. Hopefully not the opposite of all that, but . . <br />
-I wsa just watching VH1's Top 20 countdown and actor <b>James Marsden</b> said he was a fan of the The Killers. AND in itunes playlist- "Mr. Brightside" (Track 6): "I know, I know. Probably on everybody's playlist. Sorry, it's terrific. I cannot get tired of it." <br />
-I guess <b>Mikey Way</b> of <b>My Chemical Romance</b> is a fan, because on his list of favorite albums of 2007 [lol even though it was out in 2006] he had Sam's Town on it.<br />
-From a member of the "next big thing" band, <b>Vampire Weekend</b>:<br />
>> Favorite Older Songs at the Moment<br />
Maybe "Burn" by Usher. I love that song... "Read My Mind" by the Killers. That song is so...[laughs] I don't know, I think it sets out to do something, and it does it really well...AND -Vampire Weekend in spin- By the time they returned to New York in August - with Batmaglij behind the wheel, blasting the Killers triumphantly on the George Washington Bridge - they had landed themselves a record deal, a booking agent, and a manager. AND chris from VW at nme awards video interview, when asked who he thinks should win other awards-"I dunno- The Killers. Those guys are huge, and they're good."<br />
-<b>McFly</b> interview:<br />
The Killers or My Chemical Romance?TOM: Based on recent material I'd say My Chemical Romance. If you look at both their new singles I think the MCR one is awesome. The Killers one is a bit disappointing.<br />
DANNY: I've liked more of The Killers songs but I love MCR's new song. I'd have to go with The Killers though. They have gone a bit weird but the third album will probably be amazing.<br />
HARRY: I would say MCR but I really like The Killers as well.<br />
DOUGIE: Yeah, My Chem. -If Oasis and The Killers both asked you to do a tour with them but the dates clashed which band would you go on tour with?<br />
'I would like to go on tour with Oasis and just watch them bicker every day, that would almost make it worth it. I'm a bigger Oasis fan than a Killers fan.'Have you heard much of The Killers new stuff?<br />
'I mean, yeah, it's good for The Killers [laughs]. That's what I have to say about the new stuff.' <br />
-I know she's not really famous, but in Radar magazine they interviewed this girl, who is a dwarf & does a <b>Mini Britney Spears impersonator</b> show (and other singers too) in Vegas. They asked her about moving to Vegas & if she liked it. She said she was getting used to it & it wasn't so bad because she got to hang out with Brandon because his bodyguard also is a bodyguard for some guys in her show.<br />
-Jon McClure of <b>Reverend and the Makers</b>:From Loaded magazine.<i>"You get bands like The Killers - all they want is to shift units. It's all about being bigger than U2. What about your art and your songs? That Killers lyric, 'I got a boyfriend, looked like a girlfriend back in February of last year.' What the fuck are you talking about? It's utter shit". </i><br />
-anyway enough rambling, Mr Lula says he heard an interview with <b>Amy MacDonald</b> where she said that she came home form a killers concert and wrote a song because she had to get the amazing experience of their concert into a song and on paper (something like that), she was basicly giving alot of love to the killers AND Run is already a massive radio hit. What's the story behind it? I wrote Run after going to see The Killers in Glasgow. When I came home all their songs were just going round in my head and I thought: "I'd love to write a song like that." So it's basically a song that I wrote that I thought the Killers could perform. Have you considered asking them to play it? It would be great if they wanted to. Have I met them? Not the full band, but I've met Brandon [Flowers, lead singer]. He was really sweet and nice, but he was just about to have a baby so I think his mind was elsewhere at the time.AND ina break between songs in concert "she said she has been at a lot of gigs in the Carling the best being the Killers in 2006" AND.... after Holland Lowlands festival, on her myspace: Another reason for me being so tired is that we stuck around all day to watch the Killers. They were on at 1am, but it was definitely worth it. I ended up being awake for 24 hrs yesterday. I had about 4 hours sleep last night. I am a walking zombie.<br />
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But again it was all worth it.<br />
The killers were amazing, as usual.<br />
I felt so inspired watching them. The last time i saw them perform i wrote run the very next day.<br />
To be honest i haven't been to many gigs recently, i dont ever have time, and when i do i get agitated because i just want to be on stage and also alot of music these days doesn't really catch my imagination. I hate the way that one artist is successful and then a million clones are released. However i don't think that will ever happen with the killers. They are just too good, in my eyes no band will ever be able to recreate that sound. I find Brandon flowers absolutely mesmorizing as a performer.<br />
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My absolute dream in life would be to do something with the Killers.<br />
They are one of my favourite bands. I think out of alot of bands and artists around nowadays very few will still be around in 20 years time. The Killers will definitely be one of them.<br />
-<b>The Bravery</b> Heads In A New Direction With The Sun And The Moon<br />
...The initial Bravery offering came in the wake of the Killers' retro '80s new-wave ride, which was in vogue. The Bravery's original batch of slick, catchy songs recalls such Reagan-era heroes as the Smiths, the Cure and Duran Duran. Retro dance fans embraced the Bravery, thanks to such catchy cuts as "An Honest Mistake," "No Brakes" and "Public Service Announcement."...<br />
///...The Bravery is feeling retro again with its new album, The Sun and the Moon. However, it's a completely different sound than it showcased on its self-titled release. Ever since the band broke, it's been listening to British invasion and '70s rock, and it shows up on The Sun and the Moon. The group takes it easy on the synthesizers in favor of the more traditional guitar, bass and drum attack. The Bravery also says goodbye to stylish and hello to serious rock, which happens to be the trail blazed by the aforementioned Killers, who went Springsteen with their latest album, Sam's Town."We're not trying to follow the Killers," Zakarin says of the band's bitter rivals. "We have no idea what goes on in their heads. We're just following what we feel. We were listening to a lot of the Mamas and the Papas, the Zombies and the Beach Boys.""We started making our music just for fun," says Conway. "But time will separate us from all those bands that we're associated with. We don't sweat [the comparisons].",......AND.... "We found the tabloid element hard to deal with," Endicott says. "That was what shocked us most. We really had no idea what we were getting ourselves into."<br />
So three years on, is Endicott prepared to concede the feud was a joke? "No, some things were said and it got out of hand," he says. "It's weird because it was like junior high school. Actually, you know, I'm still not really sure what actually happened." <br />
When the similarities between the two bands' career trajectories are pointed out to Conway, he pauses — for a good 15 seconds. "I think we sound more different now than before," he finally says. "I don't think they do as much. We wanted to experiment with new sounds and different ways of creating sonic textures."<br />
-<b>Kanye West</b> posted Tranquilize video on his blog and wrote that they were one of his favorite bands. ALso posted a whole post about Brandon's style with 20+ photos. (he's worn the same Dior Homme clothes as Brandon before).<br />
-<b>Miley Cyrus</b> Pop star Miley Cyrus' new electro-pop beat single See You Again (which samples '80s hit Sunglasses at Night) is a top-10 smash on Billboard's Pop 100 chart, and hit No. 11 on the Hot 100. Miley, who's currently working on a new album, told the Houston Chronicle ..I'm taking chances on the new album, it has a weird and crazy new sound. The last album was a little more produced, a little more girlie. I'm really a huge fan of the Killers, and another one of my favorite artists is Melissa Etheridge. I love that mixture of techno-rock; that's a very Killers vibe; then you'll hear Melissa Etheridge, more earthy with her voice, and it's not a bunch of tuned-up stuff. You'll hear her voice crack, and it sounds awesome.AND I was watching E!, I think. Or one of those Hollywood news shows and they showed a clip of her new movie and a bubble popped up that said "Miley's celeb crush is Brandon Flowers."....AND well , i saw on a magazine that one thing that she always has on her tour is "Hot Fuss" ... I saw in E! too. AND from omg.yahoo.com The tween queen and her pals groove to their favorite tunes. "Right now I'm loving Boys Like Girls and I'm very into Regina Spektor and the Killers," notes Miley. <br />
-<b>Dev Hynes</b> again- if you know anything about Dev's taste, you know he hails the Killers as the best band on earth. We spent far too much time waiting for their neue Christmas video to load so he could show me. Notice the green ribon around his neck in our photos? Yep - that's an ode to Mr. Flowers. I bought the ribbon at Mills End. Shout out! Here's "Don't Shoot Me Santa"(+link to video)<br />
-Tegan and Sara again- easiest, strangest etc. moments in the past 10 years they have been touring:<br />
The Easiest<br />
''Probably two tours before that when we opened for The Killers, it was effortless as their audience was amazing and it was a real high for us.''<br />
-<b>PlayRadioPlay</b>, where he mentions his 10 most influential albums:<br />
10. The Killers - Sam's TownI HATED this record at first. But after a hundred listens or so, I began to appreciate Brandon Flowers' genius. <br />
-John Taylor of <b>Duran Duran</b> in the age:<br />
But it seems there is a fine line between respecting and stealing.<br />
"<b>When my daughter put on the Killers' album I said 'What, that's my line!'</b> But I got it from somebody. We're just relay racers, really. We all nick stuff, so prepare to have it nicked. I'll never run out of ideas, because I'll keep listening to people's stuff."<br />
-On <b>Coldplay</b>'s website <b>Chris Martin</b> commenting on Stuart Price's remix of "Talk" says the thin white duke's remix of Mr. Brightside is "just about the best thing ever". AND Chris Martin seems to like Human a lot, it's currently the song he listents to the most AND posted <a href="http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=m2YhqiRH0zY" target="_blank">this</a> video of Viva La Vida over in the Coldplay thread at pointed out that Chris sings "Are we human or are we...?" at around 3 minutes into the video. AND Chris Martin's favourite song of 2008 is Human according to RS artcle<br />
-<b>The Pussycat Dolls</b> (lol) just said Brandon Flowers was the hottest male musician, or something to that effect, on E! News.<br />
-<b>Envy Corps</b> initially came to attention when they were asked by The Killers to join them on their American tour, so StrangeGlue was keen to find out if the band could leak any top secret diva behaviour. Unfortunately we were out of luck."There wasn't really any partying on the tour, the only extravagance was a full size table tennis table, which travelled around the entire tour, just good old fashioned white boy fun really." We asked about the experience of being part of such a big tour."I think we really learned a lot about how to work as a band, whilst The Killers aren't really our favourite band out there, we do have a lot of respect for them as a band, they've worked hard and they've taught us a lot about performing as a band." <br />
-<b>Paul Anka</b>:<br />
Your latest CD has some surprising remakes of rock songs, like a Sinatra-fied “Mr. Brightside” by the Killers. What’s that about?<br />
It’s a paraphrasing of rock-swing … There was a demographic from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s that grew up with their own music. I put quality into it. It wasn’t a joke, and the critics love it.<br />
Are you trying to get Killers fans to break out the swing moves, or get the older crowd to headbang?<br />
I think it’s both. With rock-swing we picked up some new fans … I think we picked up a cross-section. The real Killers fans didn’t like it, but a different demographic really picked up the form instead of the content of it. You’ve taken a good song, and a hit’s a hit … Billy Joel called me a few weeks ago about it. Bryan Adams loved it.<br />
-<b>Davey Havok</b> from <b>AFI</b> says the Killers are one of the only two modern rock bands he likes.<br />
-<b>Fleet Foxes</b> mentioned the Killers at a recent LA gig according to nme: Frontman Robin Pecknold earnestly thanked the LA crowd for coming out to see them, to which drummer Nicholas Peterson added, "Whenever we're in LA we like to hang out with The Killers."<br />
-The Killers are in itunes celebrity playlist of Canadian singer <b>Sarah Slean</b>. She chose Mr. Brightside and said: "perfect marriage of form and content... the insistent throbbing rhythm section enhances the insistent narrative as the singer indulges his paranoid healors fantasies..."<br />
-<b>Killer Mike</b>- <br />
"If my name had not been "Killer Mike" my career would be a lot further now. I was told by people who wouldn't give me endorsements "We don't like your name", but these same people gave endorsements to bands like "The Killers". I don't know what separates one black man from being Killer Mike and five white men from being The Killers, but I wo uld be more afraid of five killers than one."<br />
"But as a man, once I've made a decision if I believe that decision is right and noble then I have to stand by that decision or I risk being not credible in front of people....and I can't do that. So even though some days it hurts me that I can't be Killer Mike and The Killers can be the Killers, or that people don't wish me to be Killer Mike, even though that hurts, I made my decision and I must stand by it"<br />
-<b>The Feeling</b> on T4 on the Beach red carpet: The Feeling said in an interview that they liked TK's fashion sense and thought they were sharp dressers.....<br />
-<b>Coldplay</b> had a concert in Las Vegas last week and this was reported in the Las Vegas Weekly review:[Chris]Martin acknowledged The Killers twice—blending a line from “Read My Mind” into “God Put a Smile Upon Your Face” and referring to the Las Vegas quartet as “our only rivals in the world that we care about”. <br />
-<b>Martha Wainwright</b> in carnpple.com:YSOS: What kind of artists are you into then? Martha: Oh, Franz Ferdinand, The Killers are good… Mercury Rev, Yo La Tengo… I have a tendency to listen to people who are dead, though! A lot of old songs – maybe it’s about memories – wanting to hear old songs again because of the things you associate with them. <br />
-<b>We Are Scientists</b> in NYC and they mentioned the Killers quite a bit, but not in the most positive regards.<br />
While introducing their new single Impatience:<br />
Keith: We're about to play our new single for you guys.<br />
Chris: You know, singles aren't always the best songs on the album.<br />
Keith: That is, unless you're the Killers.<br />
Then some people in the crowd start to boo...<br />
Keith: Woah, I didn't realize that there were Killers representatives here tonight.<br />
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While talking about finally playing the Bowery Ballroom:<br />
Chris: A few years ago, the Bowery wouldn't even let me in. I mean, I only had half of the money for the ticket, but they still didn't let me in.<br />
Keith: Yeah, they wouldn't let you in since you had 3 dollars all in quarters.<br />
Chris: And it wasn't even half filled that night. The Killers were playing.<br />
Keith: Who knows what the Killers would do with 3 dollars in quarters these days.<br />
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And before playing their song Textbook, Chris said, "This one's for the Killers.".......... AND in thenewgay.com TNG: How do you respond to fans who say that you're sounds has gotten more glossy or radio friendly or more like The Killers?KM: I feel like the more you read things people say, the more contradictory it sounds. The first record people were saying "Hey, how's it going, Killers ripoff?" And now for other people to say "Suddenly they sound like The Killers" strikes me as almost bordering on absurd. I give zero credence to anything anybody says when they're publicly digesting pop music.AND We Are Scientists' new playlist on iTunes features RMM with the comment:Read My Mind: Shut up, this song is awesome. Don't be an a**hole. <br />
-<b>Shanaze Reade</b> just said on Newbeat (Radio 1 news) that she loved listening to The Killers<br />
-<b>Red Romance</b>:TRR is about two years old. We had been sending demos to our friends in The Killers, Ronnie Vannucci and Brandon Flowers. They had been supporters for a long time, so we had been sending them these kind of crappy demos that we had been doing just at friends' studios. I think it was around the fall of 2006; they called us up and asked us to go on tour and open up for them. Then we recorded a five song EP, and literally, a couple of weeks before that five song EP was going to come out in March 2007, they called us up again and said that they were doing an arena tour, promoting Sam's Town. So we went out and got to do real big venues, like, hockey arenas, stadiums and stuff.<br />
BL&L: Yeah, I saw you guys had done Madison Square Garden; sort of a big deal as you were unsigned….<br />
MD: Yeah, and also a hell of a sign of the times, isn't it? The fact that an unsigned band would be playing MSG, it's kind of unusual, but we can thank Al Gore's internet for that, right? (laughs)<br />
-Malice, a member of a hip hop duo called <b>Clipse</b> , says he would like to collaborate with the Killers in this video at 1:49 (2:37 remaining):<br />
<a href="http://metallungies.com/2008/08/the-clipse-road-to-success-pt-3/" target="_blank">http://metallungies.com/2008/08/the-...-success-pt-3/</a> the interviewer first asks who they would like to collaborate with and they mention Jay-Z, 50 Cent, etc. Then he asks "Nothing else out of hip hop?" and Malice says:Ohh... I don't know, I tend to like the Killers, man, are you familiar with them? [interviewer says "yeah, they hot, they hot man"] yeah, I think the Killers is kind of crazy... <br />
-<b>Estelle</b> (who sings "American Boy" with Kanye West) listed WYWY as one of her top 15 favorite songs for angryape: 11 - The Killers - When You Were Young<br />
"The lyrics are so true of what some women go through... and the rises and falls in the arrangements are nothing short of genius. Future classic..."<br />
-In the Leeds Festival program Grant Nicolas from <b>Feeder</b> chose When You Were Young as one of his tracks of the summer- "I love that song and I think they're a really good band. The last album wasn't as strong commercially as the one before but I think it's an album they needed to make. I think it's really good that they've made that step. They've gone from being a pop band to a really big rock band. I find him quite an interesting frontman as well." <br />
-<b>Razorlight</b> drummer Andy Burrows...<br />
"Once you get to this point it’s not a competition. It's a really interesting time and it's been fun to listen to what other bands are doing," he said."<b>The new Killers track ('Human') is beautiful</b> and we've had a little dance to Keane 'Spiraling'." <br />
-Cool. I was reading NME a while ago right before they played reading and leeds and Billy Lunn from <b>the Subways</b> said."But I've got all the time in the world for Brandon Flowers because when we did <i>Later...</i> with them, he told all the photographers backstage to wait while he signed some stuff for my sister". <br />
-<b>Lou Reed</b> again in Spin- <i>How did collaborating with The Killers on the 2007 track "Tranquilize" come about?</i><br />
<i>(lou) They asked me. It was a good song. I liked the singer. I did it. </i><br />
-'Is this it?" interview with <b>Ryan Adams</b>- q:When will I be famous? My God: if you're lucky, never! Fame is an unnatural construct and those who go in search of it are the least likely to find it. I mean, really, does anyone want to sit through a show by the Killers? What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, unfortunately with the exception of the Killers. AND brandon replied when asked about it in Winnipeg Sun- “[Ryan]’s probably never been to a Killers show,” said Flowers before adding: “I’m not even going to start. It’s stupid. It doesn’t do anybody any good. Like that comment that he just made isn’t doing us any good and it’s not going to do him any good. He’s going to wake up in a few days after being asked about it a million times and he’s going to regret it. It’s better to just stay out of it. He needs a little press, maybe?”AND later wrote an informal apology on his blog: <b>last but not least</b>i was very wrong about the killers and r.e.m./i went and bought those albums./they were more than i knew./and the piece was meant to be sarcastic and i was wrong./i actually quite like both a lot/and really/even if i am game for being sarcastic, and going with the flow/it was improper to judge the heart-felt work of others/my apology may be too late and not enough/but it remains true/both records said so much to me/and i am lucky /to be a loud-mouth, and uneducated in tact/and be able to still listen to these records./my apology, it seems,is that my ears agree with both/and/my tail is frankly between my legs./for what it’s worth./let every artist have his day/and his night xx RA/// finally, RA put Day&Age on list of 5 best albums of 2008 for Filter mag.<br />
-<b>Michael Steger</b> in girlfriend mag, actor in the Bones video and 90210 said <br />
My faves (bands) are Coldplay and The Killers, who I had the chance to meet when I got cast in the video clip to their single 'Bones'. That was a cool experience.<br />
-<b>Little Boots</b> on myspace blog- I will be on Jools Holland tonight, Friday 7th November at 11.30pm on BBC 2 so if you are around tune in! Also on the show are The Killers, Fleet Foxes and Al Green so is a really great line up, if you miss it you can watch again on BBC iPlayer all of next week.I played 'Meddle' on Jools' piano with my Tenori-on and Stylophone, was definitely the scariest thing I've ever done! But got to meet Brandon Flowers... I am the biggest Killers fan ever so totally freaked......<b> </b><br />
-<b>Paul McCartney</b> interview with the Sun:Another noticeable feature of Electric Arguments is its authentic contemporary sheen. I wonder if the songwriter who had influenced so many had actually been influenced himself by today’s artists. “Yeah, I think so,” says Paul. “You see someone like The Killers and think ‘Oh that’s cool, that riff, that guitar sound, or that’s Zeppelinesque or whatever.’ I analyse it because that’s my profession, but the sound of the record would have to be attributed more to Youth. He’s the ringmaster and I’m the acrobat.”AND Paul McCartney had "When you Were Young" on his iTunes Celebrity playlist thing<br />
-<b>Dominic Howard</b> from <b>Muse</b> approves TK.Q: Do you still go to gigs and watch the band/artist from the crowd, and who was the last band you saw?<br />
A: I still do this now and again. It always sounds and looks better from out in the crowd. It normally sounds shit for every band at the side of the stage. The last band I saw was The Killers in Bush Hall a couple of weeks ago, which was great. It was nice and small and I think they are very good live.-Chris Moyles again- This morning on Radio 1 Chris Moyles, after playing Human, had a rant about the lyrics { I am so over that!} then called Brandon " A skinny, Vegas freak!"<br />
-<b>Kanye West </b>again, with Clashmusic:Who at the moment is consistent then? Coldplay, U2, me, Jay-Z… It’s just that they are so few and far between. I mean, maybe the new Green Day album will be really good. I liked the first two Killers albums, so let’s listen to the new one and see if it’s really good. I’m sure there are people I’m not thinking of, but it’s certainly few and far between. People may have two great albums under their belt, or have the hottest album this year like MGMT. But can they keep it going? Is there anyone you’d like to collaborate with that you haven’t yet? Santogold, MIA, Cool Kids, Feist, The Killers I’d like to do something with them… When I spoke to Brandon from The Killers a month or so ago they said that you were the top of their list to collaborate with. Ah man! That’s dope. How about The Killers? Yeah. Well, we’ll have to give it time and see. But The Killers are my favourite group. But they’ll have to be consistent. Three or four great albums that have three or four great songs on each. I saw The Killers at the V Festival and that was amazing to me. Brandon from The Killers is one of the most stylish people, which I think is important. What happened to the Mick Jaggers, Michael Jacksons, Madonnas… People who are really fresh to death. I’m not going to name any names, but I feel like there are people who have the potential to do that and that alone holds them back. They look whack! (laughs) And that’s another reason I think Barack won too. Nobody wanted to look at McCain anymore! For the four years he’s going to be here and shit, people didn’t want to look at that dude. Looking good does take you a long way. I mean this is entertainment. Look at me, I just switched it from politics to entertainment – but politics can be entertaining to people though. <br />
- Spencer Smith, drummer from <b>Panic at the Disco</b>:"If you could give one album that you love to everyone you know, what would it be?<b> </b>Let me go over to my iTunes here. I’ll give two answers. One album that I’ve been listening to a lot lately is the new Killers record. Just like both of the first records, it took a few listens. With Sam’s Town, I did like the single, but then all of a sudden, two months later, I was like, Fuck, this shit is so good. How did I not know that from the first time?"<br />
-On MTV2, <b>Fall Out Boy</b> were playing their favorite videos and one of the guys chose Human and said he liked the album.<br />
-On MTV2, another artist chose Human for their video playlist. This time it was Andrew from <b>Jack's Mannequin</b>. He said that he has The Killers in his stereo and to check out Human because it's excellent.<br />
-<b>pete wentz</b> “My biggest public regret is the fall-out with The Killers. “Fatherhood has made me see our feud is petty bulls***.”Tattooed Pete—who, with his bleak lyrics, has become the spokesman for the emo generation of moody teenagers—went on: “I’ve wasted so much time thinking of cute insults for Brandon and his band, when I should have used that creativity to my own band and our music. I want it to stop—and, for another thing, I like The Killers’ music anyway!” <br />
-"records of the year" are, and <b>Ronan Keating of Boyzone</b> said:If you're looking for a timeless pop record, The Killers delivered again. Day & Age is full of feel-good electronic moments, but it also has a sense of melancholy. It's not what you'd expect from a "rock" band, but I like that. Lead singer Brandon Flowers is the perfect front man, making great performances sound incredibly simple." <br />
-<b>miranda cosgrove</b>: Who is your biggest inspiration as a singer?<br />
I have too many inspirations to name them all, but to name a few I really like Gwen Stefani, Pink, the Beatles, Coldplay, <b>the Killers</b>, Paramore, Kelly Clarkson and Lily Allen. I'm not really sure that my music sounds like theirs, but they all really inspired me.<br />
-<b>keane</b> live broadcast answered fan q's-"What do you think of the new Killers album?" To which they replied "We like it, we're fans of The Killers". Then rambled a bit about Human, finally saying their favourite song by the band was Read My Mind.<br />
-<b>Aled Jones (We're Walking In The Air )</b> is a big fan of the boys... He talks about them and gives his view on Joseph, Better You Than Me (he thinks it's a bit too slow) in the latest issue of NME. <br />
-mtv favorite 2008 albums are:<b>Adrian Young, No Doubt</b>"The Killers are really great. I just bought their record on iTunes two days ago, and I have their other two records, and ... they're really, really a great band. I really enjoy their albums." <br />
-<b>Thai Prime minister Abhisit Vejjajiva</b>, has been quoted mentioning the Killers, from NME:During a speech at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand last night (January 14), Vejjajiva spoke about his musical tastes. He told reporters: "The Killers new album is good, and there were very good releases last year, comebacks from Oasis, Metallica, even Guns N' Roses."<br />
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-Larry from <b>U2</b> mentioning in Q how Brandon said they will replace U2, who are getting old: ...our brightest spark wasn't at the beginning. Our brightest will be, I hope, at the end of our career...none of us want to accept good, or even very good. We want to be in a different place. So The Killers can dream on as much as they like about U2 retiring and letting them take the spot, but they're going to have to fight a bit harder! With respect to those guys, I love that band. <br />
-<b>Little Boots</b>, Pitchfork: Having a blog does make it a little easier for journalists to do very important research before an interview. For example, I saw that picture of you with the Killers' Brandon Flowers on there.LB: [laughs] They are like so uncool nowadays and I'm this fangirl. Though I haven't got their new album, which is quite shocking. I just like their epic-ness. Their lyrics are these huge grand statements and they sound so ridiculous. And Brandon's like this prophet. And, live, it's so in your face.Pitchfork: I'm not sure if they're aware of their own ridiculousness.LB: Yeah. I think they take it pretty seriously. But I take it pretty seriously as well! Their B-sides album, Sawdust, is one of my favorite CDs.AND <br />
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Little Boots: number 35<br />
Brandon: number 37<br />
she talked about this on myspace and said; <i>"cooler than brandon? i don't think so..."</i><br />
cool list: http://www.nme.com/blog/index.php?bl... c=1&tb=1&pb=1 AND met brandon... HE REMEMBERED ME!! omg omg omg. And from her entry on the Brits:<br />
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-<b>RuPaul</b> in hs blog: "after the Kathy Griffin performance at Hollywood & Highland, i stopped in at The Virgin MegaStore to buy Beyoncé, Grace Jones, The Killers, Pussycat Dolls and Brandy. i've had all those albums for weeks, but i wanted to officially buy them out of respect. i can't get that fuckin' Killers song "human" outta my head. i was initially attracted to them because of that gay little bolero jacket the lead singer wears (the one with turkey feathers covering the shoulders), but now i love them because they're just plain gay."<br />
-<b>Lady Gaga</b> told orange- "I love The Killers. I hung out with them at a party at Motor City [bar] in New York City."She added: "I really like their last album. I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan, and he clearly inspired their work." (also references them in boys boys boys lyrics). AND on freshly squeezed: commenting on the 5 contenders for Best International Band at the NME Awards - The Killers seemed like a clear cut winner for her. Here's what she had to say:Yeah, em The Killers, I really really love what they're doing. I got, you know I was always into them, but the last album - I'm a huge Bruce Springsteen fan and anybdoy that loves The Boss can hear the influence on their last record. So, I actually gave them a shoutout on my em, album in the song 'Boys, Boys, Boys' (sings)<i> let's go see The Killers and make-out in the bleachers</i>.<br />
Nick Grimshaw: Are they getting big in America now? 'Cause they were always, like, big over here.<br />
GaGa: What?! They've been big for a while in America.<br />
Nick: Really?<br />
GaGa: Yeah. (pushes his shoulder jokingly) Asleep...!<br />
Nick: Sorry. (laughs)<br />
-<b>M83</b> in houstonist-Regarding your tour with The Killers, how have things been so far? <br />
I feel pretty proud to be on this tour because they are such a big band in America. This is a big opportunity for my music and my band. It's a wonderful experience. It's a new way to promote the music and the album.AND Anthony Gonzalez of M83 n metromix:How was the tour M83 recently did playing arenas with the Killers?<br />
Oh, it was great and such an opportunity to promote the album and our music to a different audience. They were really nice and kind to us. The Killers are an amazing band, but they’re also amazing humans, too. They really support what we’re doing. We played such big venues, like Madison Square Garden, which was an honor for us. What was the audience reaction like at those shows?<br />
It was cool. The audiences were very nice to us. Like the Killers, we mix a lot of electronics with acoustic instruments. The sounds are not so different, which made it easier. Mostly the audiences liked us, but not at every show. <br />
-<b>Neon Trees</b>: Ronnie Vannucci, drummer for The Killers, saw Neon Trees play a show in Vegas and invited the band to play some shows with them."It was kind of a big deal for the industry to hear about this little band," Glenn said. "It's been a couple months process but ... it happened rather quickly once the ball got rolling."After playing a few dates with The Killers, major record labels began to take interest in the band. The label that showed the most enthusiasm was Mercury Records, part of Island Def Jam Music Group. Musicians on the label include Fall Out Boy, Hoobastank and Rihanna.<br />
"It's interesting because I know for me and for everyone in the band we've always wanted this," Glenn said. "I think you dream about the big dinner with the record labels- the guys with ties and contracts, but I'm sitting here on this couch and I'm like 'that's already happened.'" One of the heads of the label traveled to Logan to see Neon Trees play and liked what he saw. Shortly thereafter, the Killers helped Neon Trees out even more."Our friend Ronnie ... who has been helping us out, sat them [the heads of the label] down, and said 'I know you're interested in them,'" Campbell said. "'They're the real deal and they're really hard working. Treat them good. They'll be successful.' Apparently a couple days after that they said they were going to send the proposal over." <br />
- <b>Natalie Imbruglia</b> on the Brits - "I think the Killers are going to be there. I think they're pretty amazing and I love the Kings Of Leon."<br />
-<b>Metric</b>- Pitchfork: I recently saw the Killers, who aim to make big songs for big rooms. Are you ever tempted to try to something like that?<b>JS</b>: We've been tempted to go a lot of different directions. But every time we do something that's not natural, nobody buys it, starting with us. We'll try to write a song that's more indie or more mainstream than usual and within 10 minutes, it's like, "I can't listen to this."<br />
Pitchfork: This reverts back to the Killers show-- I'm not sure if they're great at managing that line between cheesy and awesome.<br />
JS: Yeah, like "Is he human..."<br />
EH: "...or is he just a dancer?"<br />
JS: I think that's one one of the worst things I've ever heard.<br />
EH: That lyric is really bad. But it's a very well-crafted song. I'm glad we're talking about this because I think about it a lot, too. The idea of spectacle versus the authenticity of indie rock. It's like, spectacle is shallow, and pretending no one is looking at you is authentic. I agree with that sometimes, but I find the people and shows I really admire don't strictly adhere to the idea of the invisible self.<br />
I think Franz Ferdinand is an example of a band that knows what they're doing-- they understand the function of music in people's lives. There are many functions, but when it comes to a concert it's about performance. If the same people at a show were standing on a subway together, they'd be uncomfortable with their shoulders hunched. But because music is playing and this feeling is in the room, you can have this incredible communion. That usually happens at shows where the performers are putting themselves beyond themselves."<br />
-"In our heads that's who (Coldplay The Killers) we're up against," said frontman <b>Bono</b>."So you know, The Killers... You've got to keep an eye on the youth."<b> </b>zane: you gotta... keep a very close eye on the youth because you're up there singing the greatest U2 song that U2 never wrote, which is all these things. im sure brandon would openly admit thats not their record. bono: yeah he says that but i dont see that, i hearjoy division in that in that guitar break, and just that chant ive got soul but im not a soldier... it has a whole different meaning with war child posters behind your head. and i think the other line is i'm more old than i can take, i got to sing that" Zane just by coincidence i'm sure, i'm sure brandon didn't pass you that one, the hospital pass bono- yeah, no i passed it to myself... zane what is it about brandon that oy uidentify bc i know youre very fond of him as a frontman as well as a person... youve definitely helped that band along the way, you've taken them on the road and stuff.... what is it about brandon that you thinkr reaches peple? bono well ne of thebig lies in indie music is that people don't want to be the beatles, or they don't want to be the sex pistols, or they don't want to be the rolling stones, and it's not true, people don't forma band just to play in their garage, and i just love the musical ambition of the killers, and then if you believe in your music, surely yuore gnna want to take that as far as you can, you know, people say ssongs are lke your children, theyre wrong, songs are like your parents, they tell you what to do...they tell you how to dress, where to hagng out, they tell you what videomaker to work with, but also if theyr're great,... they tell you you better look out for them... and i just loved with the killers that they really want to get their songs on the radio. theyre changing forms, they move from rock into dance music, and in america thats a sin to move into dance music... wheereas in britain here you have more of a tradition of ppl moving around genres, in hte united states that desnt happen because radio is very niche... <b>AND </b>claiming they wouldn't be "the biggest group in the world" for much longer.But Bono insists he "advised" Flowers to make the comments because it would boost the Las Vegas rockers' careers.Bono said: "I actually advised Brandon Flowers to say that. I said, 'Look, if you want to be in with a chance, you've got to give it a bit of attitude. You've been too nice to us in the past because you're always talking us up. Stick in the boot - it will get you further.'"I advised him to offend us. Every band, you've got to kill off the generation that came before you."Bono insists he isn't afraid of chart competition, but claims U2 won't go easy on the younger bands.He added to BBC Radio 1: "Well, we're not going to make it easy for them. I think we're doing out best work. I think 'No Line on the Horizon' is up there with our best-ever work."We love The Killers, by the way, and we love a bit of a tussle." <br />
-<b>Noel Gallagher</b> blog- Noel's 'Tales From The Middle Of Nowhere' (23/02/09)<br />
Spent the day in bed yesterday nursing a bad head. For some reason I watched MTV’s European Top 10. Fuck me, it was painful. Leona Lewis doing Snow Patrol? Ouch! Kings Of Leon doing U2? Ouch! The Killers doing fancy dress? Ouch! Lady Gaga? (I may be showing my age here but who’s Lady Gaga?). It made my teeth hurt! MY TEETH!!That interview with The Sunday Times fella was great. He was good fun. Not often you can say that about a journalist.Still in Venice. Leaving shortly. I genuinely have no idea where I’m going. Are we staying in Italy? I hope so. These kids make for amazing gigs.Wonder how “the shoes” are getting on? I’ll find out soon enough.In a bit.GD. <br />
-<b>Kasabian</b>- Kasabian have turned down all offers to play at festivals this year because they don't want festival-goers to get sick of them.Asked which festivals they were performing at, singer Tom Meighan said: "None of them. We've turned loads down although we are doing The Great Escape festival. We just want to get our record out and promote it and then next year we'll smash it."Next year we'll come back and do a tour because people get sick of the same things every year even though we've been away for a year. If The Killers do it though, let them do it." <br />
-<b>Bono</b>, from the Rolling Stone cover story on U2:When rock music forgets about the 45, it tends toward progressive rock, which is like a mold that grows on old, burned-out artists who’ve run out of ideas. We have a soundtrack/Pink Floyd side of our band, and it has to be balanced by fine songwriting. And it’s an infuriating thing for me to see indie rock & roll give up the single to R&B and hip-hop. And that’s why I love the Kings of Leon album or the Killers album: These are people who have such belief in their musical power that they refuse to ghettoize it.”AND radio show When an audience member suggested that the band visit her hometown of Las Vegas, Bono quipped, "We'd go anywhere to be closer to The Killers. I love the fact that they want to take on the world the way we do." <br />
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-<b>Paris Wells</b> (who I personally hadn't heard of) had to say about the guys: With her media marketing degree and comfortable job, Wells, unlike many of her peers, hadn't actively sought a singing career until a minor epiphany five years ago."I went to Live Aid in London with a friend of mine who was friends with (the band) the Killers," she explains. "I was watching them on the big screen singing in front of 400,000, with Sting, U2, Madonna, and I was freaking out. I looked at the Killers, who I'd been hanging out with the night before and they were normal people. Yet here they were singing some inspirational stuff. I looked at my best friend and said, 'I can do this.' "<br />
-<b>Tiesto</b> <i>What else have you been up to? </i>My latest release is a remix of Spaceman by The Killers, and at the moment I am working on the new single by Calvin Harris. I am obviously doing a lot of gigs too.<i>Do you listen to other genres?</i>Yes, there's a little bit of everything in my MP3 player. At the moment, I'm listening to Bloc Party, The Killers, Muse and Moby. <br />
-<b>Pet Shop Boys</b>:Whose idea was it to involve Brandon Flowers and Lady GaGa in your Brits performance?<br />
"Oh ours. We asked Brandon because the Killers song 'Human' was described everywhere as 'Pet Shop Boys meets Johnny Cash' and that seemed like a quite a nice connection. Initially we assumed we'd ask Girls Aloud to join us, but they were confirmed to do their own Brits performance so we needed someone new. Lady GaGa just vaulted into the charts with 'Just Dance', so we thought 'She's interesting, let's ask her'."....AND "The thesis that I've had for many, many years about beards is that pop music always goes wrong when pop stars grow beards, because they're going serious, they're going natural, they're letting it all hang out. So I mentioned to a journalist about Brandon growing a beard, which I found very alarming, because he has a great pop voice, a great pop sensibility. But he seems to have stuck with the beard. I read this great quote, where a journalist asked him, 'What are you going to do when you shave your beard off?' He said, 'I'm going to put all the hairs in an envelope and send them to Neil Tennant.' Anyway, they haven't arrived yet."AND Brandon also presented their award with a speech that acknowledged the duo’s musical influence and particularly on him as a teenager. <br />
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Singer Neil Tennant says: “I didn’t hear Brandon’s speech until the next day because all I had in my headphones was Lady GaGa warming up. But his speech was gorgeous and I had tears in my eyes.”AND Young hopeful Brandon Flowers of The Killers presented them with the award, explaining how as a 13-year-old he had to choose between a record by Pet Shop Boys and The Smiths as his mother would only buy him one.<br />
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Now he won't have to make that choice as, coincidentally, guitarist Johnny Marr of The Smiths plays on Pet Shop Boys' new record.<br />
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What's interesting about Flowers's tale, says Tennant, is that it was Tennant's raised eyebrow on the cover artwork of the record that made him buy it.<br />
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Pet Shop Boys' designer, Mark Farrow, who they still use, claims credit for that decision. But there's a cruel irony to the tale.<br />
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"When he gave his speech, Brandon actually raises his eyebrow, which is funny because I can't raise my eyebrow on demand," Tennant says, sounding disappointed. "It's like I can't wiggle my ears."AND No biggie, but on 4music yesterday they were interviewing PSB, and they were asked what bands they were liking at the moment. Neil said 'I like MGMT, I liked Last Shadow Puppets last year, I like the Human track by The Killers, and Sex on Fire by the Kings'.<br />
-singer of the band <b>Fischerspooner</b> said this:<br />
“When we started in 2001, it was pretty barren in terms of what was happening in pop music,” says Spooner, whose voice retains the soft southern lilt of his childhood in Athens, Georgia. “There was no way there would have been someone like Kanye West working with [Japanese graphic designer Takashi] Murakami, and there would have been no Brandon Flowers wearing a feather suit. There wasn't this expressiveness that's a part of so much new pop music. The challenge for us now is to continue to find new ways to keep things fresh and interesting and exciting.-You all know what a HUGE music fan I am, so I couldn't pass up the opportunity to chat with artists like The Killers, Lady Gaga, The Ting Tings, Kings of Leon, The Veronicas etc... from from Audrina Patridge<br />
-<b>Spandau Ballet</b> (who are reuniting and going on tour), the drummer said this:They also claimed that their early '80s sound would not be out of place in 2009, naming their favorite current acts as the Killers and MGMT. "I think we'll slot in perfectly," said Keeble.<br />
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The band said they admired current bands such as the Killers and Kaiser Chiefs.<br />
-<b>Sarah Silverman</b> interview in GEEK magazine back in December. She was asked what music she liked and she said:<br />
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SS: The Killers. I love the Killers. They have a new album too.<br />
GEEK: They were just on Saturday Night Live.<br />
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SS: I was there. Yeah. Watching them. They're fucking great. And they're great live.<br />
-<b>James Corden</b> (one of the presenters at the BRITs) mentioned Brandon in an interview with More! magazine:<br />
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A:So what was you weirdest encounter at the BRITs?<br />
J: I'm a really big Killers fan and I've met Brandon Flowers once before but thought he wouldn't remember me. But he was like "Hey man!" And then we just started talking about what a great night it was and how brilliant the Pet Shop Boys were. I just wanted to go, "So, you know, <i>Mr Brightside</i>..." but you're so aware of trying to treat him like a normal guy and not wanting to look like a huge fan. I dunno, I just wanted to talk about a gig I'd been to at the Albert Hall where I thought the drummer broke one of the sticks but I wasn't sure. I just wanted to know...<br />
A: And that's really boring to them.<br />
J: It's really boring.<br />
-<b>Nicole Scherzinge</b>r from yes,<b> the Pussycat Dolls</b> said this<br />
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What has being on big tours like that taught you as an artist?<br />
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My inspirations are a little different -- whether it's funk, soul, R&B, alternative. I can be inspired by the Killers' Brandon Flowers. One day be inspired by Macy Gray, the next day be inspired by Billie Holiday. I've learned from everyone -- from the Black Eyed Peas tour to the Christina tour. I think Britney's production is really cool. I like how she incorporated Cirque de Soleil. I really love theatrical performances. I come from a very theatrical background. I love it when people add those elements into their shows.<br />
-<b>DJ Kaskade</b><br />
Do you see the culture you grew up with resonating with today’s music?<br />
A lot of music didn’t get the play that it should have when we were growing up. The whole new wave movement—unless you were a total freak, you weren’t listening to that stuff. I had older brothers, so I was lucky. They would bring home The Cure. There was a small group of us into this freakish stuff. I was walking around suburban Chicago wearing eyeliner. It wasn’t cool. The Killers are essentially a modification of that. They were inspired by that sound and made it new but it’s all got this new sort of electronic twist to it. From an artist's perspective, I’m inspired by what happened as a kid, when I was getting into music. It’s not a bolt of lightning—it’s just life experience.<br />
-Philip Oakey of <b>The Human League</b> is a fan:<br />
Clashing comprehensively with Snow Patrol's set are electro pioneers the Human League performing their groundbreaking 1981 album Dare in full. People power saw the League's performance moved earlier so as not to clash with the Killers -- themselves no strangers to '80s keyboards. <br />
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"I would have guessed there'd be more people that like the Human League and the Killers than the Human League and most of the other groups," League frontman Phil Oakey says. <br />
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Oakey -- used to playing retro festivals -- is loving the more modern V Festival. <br />
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"They're all decent bands, I love the Killers and I've discovered Elbow, they're shockingly good." -The Ting Tings said in an interview that they really liked Human.<br />
- And people might already know this, but in Rolling Stone I Chris Martin said he loved Human and that he was "a sucker for a good melody."<br />
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-<b>Harry Reid: </b>The Killers Are "Hot"<br />
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid isn't a big media guy. "I don't listen to talk radio; I don't look at the blogs; I don't watch cable TV," he brags. But he does like his iPod. We previously reported he is a fan of Wilco, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, and Tom Waits. But he's recently added a couple of newbies: the Killers and Neko Case. "I'm a fan of the Killers," he says. "They're hot." <br />
-<b>Jared Leto</b>, the singer in 30 Seconds to Mars and the third guy in that picture with Kanye West and Brandon, wrote this in his email to fans: <br />
So, as you may have heard, I, along with a small contigency of studio tanned soldiers took a short expedition to Hawaii and spent a not so tropical but nontheless fun filled weekend locked down in the studio working with Mr. West.<br />
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Kanye sang on a song I wrote called HURRICANE for our new 30 SECONDS TO MARS record and we experimented and explored on some other ideas as well. It was great. And he sounds amazing on the song. We may not have brought back any island tans but we did bring back the final track and it was an unforgettable trip.<br />
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P.S. Brandon Flowers is the nicest guy on the planet and has a great sense of direction. We may not have found our way home that night without him. Thanks Brandon.<br />
-Rab Allan (from <b>Glasvegas</b>) talking about Coachella...<br />
Are you going to make a point to check out particular bands while you’re there?<br />
... I like Brandon Flowers [of The Killers]. He’s always well dressed. I touched his tiger last time I saw him. He had a tiger on his jacket and I was rubbing it [while meeting backstage at a show]. I think he thought I wanted to have a romance with him [laughs]. I like The Killers. I would probably see them. I think I’m hanging about with some people from the record company for a couple days and see some bands. Think everyone else is leaving, but some other people I’m staying with.<br />
-<b>Andy Fletcher</b> from <b>Depeche Mode</b> did an interview for czech press and one of the question was if his children listen to his music and he said they don't and that the only advantage they see that their father is in a world known band is that they can attend many gigs for free like The Killers and many others.<br />
-in in may Glamour they asked <b>Miley Cyrus</b> to say what comes to her mind first when they say a word and when the interviewer said "obsession" she said "The Killers"<br />
-<b>Joel Madden</b> said this on Twitter in reply to someone...<br />
you would like their latest. I love human. <br />
-Big Pink interview:<br />
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<b>Ideally where would you like the band to be at a year from now? and realistically?</b><br />
In a giant pink jet which we just bought off Mary J. Blige , giving The Killers a ride to the next festival. We play together. -194<br />
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References to TK from the Pet Shop Boys fan club magazine Literally:<br />
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May 2007 issue <br />
News section<br />
The Pet Shop Boys remixed the latest single by The Killers, 'Read My Mind', released on February 26. The Killers' singer Brandon Flowers, has often spoken of how important the Pet Shop Boys have been to him. The invitation to remix this song followed The Killers' recent concerts at London's Brixton Academy, which Neil and Chris attended on separate nights. When Neil went backstage and was chatting to Brandon, Neil said that the PSB would love to do a Killers remix. (They had previously offered to do this for a single on the Killers first album, but too late in the day, and had been sent a message back saying that it would be better to wait for the second album). When Chris went backstage two days later, Brandon told Chris it would be great if they could do a remix.<br />
Before all of this, Neil had been continually mentioned in Killers interviews in the lead-up to, and since the release of, their second album, <i>Sam's Town</i>, after Neil had suggested in an interview that Brandon's moustache was a mistake. "My point about that, which has been endlessly quoted to an embarrassing degree," says Neil, "was that I was worried they were moving away from the music that they'd done and trying to make some sort of rock-style serious statement, whereas what was great about their first album was that it was a kind of rock-pop album and they were amazingly glamorous. All I was worried about was that they were going to start taking themselves too seriously, which there are many examples of in pop music on second albums - Terence Trent D'Arby being a classic example. And I still stand by that. But he said, when he was first asked about that in an interview before the album came out, 'Well I think Neil's going to really like "Read My Mind" because we're still writing pop songs.' And as soon as I heard the album I thought, 'Oh, he's right - I do like that.'"<br />
In the wake of this kerfuffle, when they met Neil told him, "I think I owe you an apology, Brandon." (Brandon replied, "I think you owe me about six apologies," to which Neil insisted, firmly, "No, I owe you <i>one</i> apology...") Brandon also recently told Q Magazine, when asked about his facial hair: "When we've finished <i>Sam's Town</i>, I'm going to cut it off, put it in an envelope and send it to Neil Tennant."<br />
To do the remix of 'Read My Mind', the PSB were initially sent nothing but the vocal and some guitars (by the time the other parts arrived it was too late to use them), and so they replayed or played everything else. <br />
It took about four days.<br />
"Chris has pointed out that when we do a remix, what we do is we do something that makes it sound like we have produced it," says Neil. <br />
Neil added a backing vocal, and Chris speaks, and they added sampled cellos. ("Doing the Electric Light Orchestra-type thing", says Chris, "which was fun.") They also added a freaked-out rave section at the end, and they took a part of the last verse and moved it to the beginning. "There's such a beautiful line," says Neil, "<i>The stars are blazing...</i>"'<br />
The "Read My Mind (Pet Shop Boys Stars Are Blazing Mix)", over seven minutes long, is available at download services and also as the second track on the "Read My Mind" single. (The CD single sleeve claims that the PSB mix is only just over four minutes long, but it is the sleeve rather than the disc which is in error.)<br />
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From a fly on the wall report of Neil's performance with Scissor Sisters at Koko in London<br />
...Still waiting - it's gone half past three and still no Scissor Sisters in sight - Neil talks about The Killers, and how Brandon's wife apparently plays "Home and Dry" when her husband returns from trips...<br />
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Transcript of <i>Pet Shop Boys - Neil Tennant In Conversation</i> an onstage event at the National Portrait Gallery <br />
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Michael Bracewell: It's odd actually, that previous image, I often wonder whether Tim Burton maybe watched that prior to styling Willy Wonka, because there's aspects, definitely. Have you seen <i>Charlie and the Chocolate Factory</i>?<br />
Neil Tennant: I haven't.<br />
Michael Bracewell: It's fantastic. The Oompa Loompas even do your dance.<br />
Neil Tennant: Do they? And then he goes and does The Killers...<br />
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Fly on the wall report of PSB Radio City Music Hall gig in New York...<br />
Dave Dorrell says they need to be on some American TV shows to bring <i>Fundamental</i> to more people's attention. They hope Jay Leno may have them on the <i>Tonight</i> show, the show Chris walked off mid-show in 1991. "That's a reason for having us," says Neil. "He might walk off again." Neil asks Dave why they can't get on the show hosted by comedian Ellen Degeneres.<br />
"Apparently," says Dave, "we're not her demographic."<br />
Appropriately, it's at this moment that their American agent arrives and joins in the debate. Neil expresses some frustration that, while a new generation of successful stars like The Killers' Brandon Flowers have been talking about how important the PSB have been to them, they don't seem to be gaining the new American audience one might expect from this. "If I was a 17 year old Killers fan..." he says. "When I was 17, I heard about the Velvet Underground because David Bowie talked about them." <br />
Their agent says that ticket sales are ahead of where they were at the same point on the last tour - 30% to 40% up in most places. Detroit and Denver are the only problems.<br />
"We didn't know that," says Neil, slightly pacified.<br />
"No one told us," says Chris, who has joined the conversation.<br />
"No one told us that we're a roaring success," says Neil.<br />
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February 2008 issue<br />
News section<br />
On October 8th, 2007, Disco 4 was released. It included The Killers' "Read My Mind (PSB Stars Are Blazing Mix)"...<br />
"...In the British newspapers there was a completely spurious story saying Damon Albarn had refused permission for us to use "Boys and Girls [PSB Remix]" but it's a total nonsense - we had never asked. And everyone we asked - Madonna, The Killers, and so on - said yes which was nice<br />
... Also I didn't realise until recently, that the last three remixes we did - Yoko Ono, Madonna and The Killers - were all number one dance hits in America."<br />
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February 2009 issue<br />
News Section - Talking about the Brit awards<br />
"We were asked to do something spectacular to end the show," says Chris. <br />
"So we thought we'd do a medley," says Neil, "and we approached Es Devlin who designed our last tour to come up with ideas for how it would look. And we have two special guests, Brandon Flowers from The Killers and Lady GaGa...<br />
A full report will appear in the next issue of Literally. <br />
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Joseph (Better You Than Me)<br />
This year's annual Christmas single from The Killers - "Joseph (Better You Than Me)" - was originally planned as a collaboration between The Killers and Elton John, but Neil ended up getting involved: "We went to see The Killers at the Royal Albert Hall - we were invited by the woman who used to do our TV promotion at Parlophone and who is now at Universal and does The Killers' TV promotion. We went backstage afterwards to say hello and I was chatting to Brandon and Brandon mentioned that he was doing this Christmas single with Elton. He said that he couldn't think of any more words and asked if I could help him out with the lyrics and I said, yeah. Then I bumped into him again and I just spent an hour with him and Stuart Price and he explained the idea of the lyric which was about Joseph - Mary's husband and the father of Jesus, though not the biological father according to the Bible." Then Neil wrote the extra lyrics as requested: "I wrote it thinking Elton was going to sing it. But then they wanted to keep my guide vocal on it, which I thought was a bit confusing, but I like it."<br />
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Each issue of <i>Literally</i> includes a list of the PSBs' five favourite records to listen to, at the time of going to press. Currently they are:<br />
Neil<br />
Johann Johannson <i>Fordlandia</i><br />
LadyHawke <i>My Delirium</i><br />
Max Richter <i>24 Postcards in Full Colour</i><br />
The Killers <i>Human</i><br />
Mr G <i>Naughty Girl (Paul Mac's extended 12 inch mix)</i><br />
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Chris<br />
Cyndi Lauper <i>Into the Nightlife</i><br />
Nicole Atkins <i>Maybe Tonight</i><br />
Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons <i>The Night</i><br />
The Killers <i>Human</i><br />
Johnny Mathis <i>I'm Coming Home</i><br />
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-"I think there's a difference between modesty and humility. Because I feel very humble and very lucky to be where we are, but I also think that I'm the best at it."<br />
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KOL's Nathan Folowill - “We just never want to have someone ask us again if we’re The Killers.” [on what their aspiration was for the new album- this was right before Only By The Night came out, and sure enough there was no more confusion after that explosion of success...] -Artrocker 07<br />
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Jimmy Kimmell in <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">StarPulse</a> Sept '06- "I love The Killers. I tried to convince them to play here every night. We settled on three."<br />
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JOURNALISTS<br />
Kyle Anderson (Spin)- "The one thing that I always tell people about Brandon is that he's sort
of made a career of being over the top, for the sake of being
outrageous. But he's really a very well-spoken, well put-together guy,"
Anderson said. "He's hyper-aware of what he needs to say and do in order
to get attention, and he's done a tremendous job. I mean my mom is
aware of The Killers, which is always a good barometer if your mom
recognizes a song." [BYU Jan' 06]<br />
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<br />Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-38879287763216751872010-12-30T18:03:00.000-08:002011-12-29T23:33:24.825-08:00Brandon Flowers' Style Timeline, Part 1: Indie Baby Brandon, Hot Fuss 2004<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">intro to a timeline</span></b><u><b><span style="font-size: large;"><br />
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I've decided to create a comprehensive timeline documenting Brandon Flowers the Killers frontman's many different styles throughout the years. I could be wrong, but I really don't think there's ever been a musician that physically changed as dramatically as Brandon did from album to album.<br />
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Yes, David Bowie went extreme with Ziggy Stardust and Lady Gaga changes her persona every day- but they and others have usually held onto the same basic image. If super glam, then it was super glam all the way and they wouldn't be caught dead in a hoodie. And even if they did change drastically- like the Beatles going from Mod to Hindu- they did so gradually. But Brandon really did a 180 flip with every album release, and sometimes even thoughout the same album. He went from gentle, timid indie boy (Hot Fuss 2004) to full-blown metrosexual diva (Hot Fuss 2005), to rough 'n tumble cowboy (Sam's Town 2006-2007), to futuristic alien (Day & Age 2008-2009), and finally to classic dustbowl farmer (Flamingo [solo] 2010-2011).<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">^on the O.C. playing at the "Bait Shop," fictional music venue</span><br />
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The look always went with a matching sound- Day & Age was spacey and Sam's Town western. And, of course, the sound is most important when it comes to a band. But that doesn't mean style should be discounted. As I've shown before, I think style is a huge part of what makes the Killers and Brandon what they are and what they have become - that is, a big fucking deal.<br />
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So we're going to dive in and see how Brandon's style has transformed over time. (<i>disclaimer</i>- yes, I do know there are three other members in the band who transformed as well. And I do love them all. But I won't deny that Brandon is the one I have always been fascinated with. Also, this took enough time to compile as is. nuff said.)<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">2</span></b><b><span style="font-size: large;">004: it was nice</span></b><br />
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This first part of the timeline is most special to me, and it's what made me want to start this whole style compilation in the first place. This is what Brandon and the Killers looked like when I first fell in love with them.<br />
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...When I used to constantly visit the unofficial (now official) message board TKN (The Killers Network). When boat shoes and indie hair were the style buzz words among TK fans. When everything was new and exciting, and it seemed like TK's momentum was unstoppable, and everyone who knew about them loved them. <br />
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They were considered actually, unequivocally cool. (Even the early 2004 breed of hipsters loved them for a good few months. None of them would admit it today, but it happened, and I'll be here to vouch for it til my dying day lol).<br />
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When they were part of an indie brat pack of awesome new bands like Interpol, Kaiser Chiefs, Franz Ferdinand and Bloc Party- all bands that were actually popular at the time. Like, radio and magazine popular, believe it or not.<br />
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It seemed like the reigning pop was finally being taken down by good rock music, not of the crap Nickelback variety, but indie/alternative...<br />
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Can you remember the whole obnoxious debate about what "indie" meant? Good times. I hated it at the time (indie was a genre label that shouldn't be taken literally, duh), but what I would do to make that argument relevant again!<br />
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This is one of the most nostalgic times in my mind, and I still remember 2004 fondly as pretty much the best year I've ever experienced culture-wise. <br />
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OK putting my handkerchief aside now.I've noticed this era is mostly looked over or totally forgotten by contemporary TK fans, not to mention casual fans and people who just like Brandon's style or whatnot. They may have never heard the term "indie hair" (you missed out my friends), they never noticed how actually<br />
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stylish these on-first-glance simple outfits are...<br />
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Hell, they probably can't tell this is the same Brandon Flowers of feathers and blabbermouth fame- back then still with his baby fat and naiveté intact. <br />
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SO, onto the subject at hand- Brandon's "indie style" of the Hot Fuss era, circa 2004. [TK fans call each album release the beginning of a new Killers "era," because they're all so fucking different.]<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><u><b>indie Bflo</b></u></span><br />
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The Hot Fuss indie era was when The Killers were rapidly rising to fame. It officially kicked off in 2003 when the virtually unknown band took their first flight out of the US to London and performed their first British gig, which was reviewed by the NME, and so on and so forth.<br />
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The indie era would come to an end in the very end of 2004, around the time Mr. Brightside was released in the US. In fact the switchover can be pinpointed with surgical precision to the moment Brandon got highlights put in his hair. And then commenced the Hot Fuss glam superstar era. But let's not get ahead of ourselves.<br />
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The style of this first era is kiiind of a big deal because it's what helped The Killers lure their first fans. Oh you know we're superficial bastards. Also, for basically the first and only time in Killers history, it fit in with the common style among rock bands at the time.<br />
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However, even then, TK always stood out a bit because they were more neat and wholesome- not dirty and wild like the other bands (The Strokes, god bless em). <br />
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This era is the most casual and understated of the bunch by a long shot, and it really looks like an anomaly in comparison. It's a product of its time (think the Seth Cohen nerd chic look that was all the rage back then). But even so, some of the ensembles Brandon put together give off such an easy cool vibe.<br />
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The attention to details and style risks he would later show are already hinted at in his young indie days. His constant experiments with indie hair dos, the shirts buttoned up all the way to the very top, the little flower pins, the dabbling in eyeliner and pink clothing. He was dipping his feet (into the devil's water if you will) before he jumped in and got all glittered up.<br />
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That's enough blabbering, now let's get to the pictures. One of the staple clothing pieces in Brandon's indie era closet was the navy or black short-sleeve polo shirt. In the picture above he was crooning in a faded navy blue polo with a burgundy symbol with one button undone. For this casual performance he paired it simply with barely faded, fitted jeans and the usual red Swatch watch that you will see everywhere in these pictures. His hair was swept sweetly to the side, but not quite in its OFFICIAL indie hair™ glory.<br />
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What's that you say? Before we continue the riveting polo shirt discussion, you want to know what this whimsical creature called true indie hair is? Well, I don't blame you! Come hold my hand and I will show you the way through the forest of fairies and unicorns to the land of perfect indie hair...<br />
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<u><span style="font-size: large;"><b>OMG indie hair OMG</b></span></u><br />
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Most important in Brandon's indie era, quite frankly, was his hair. He has never surpassed the indie hair. It was perfect. Flawless. Epic. Godly. The Adonis of hair. And then he highlighted and chopped it off to all of our horror! Sure sometimes the indie hair got a bit long and wild. Sometimes it was too short and wonky. These were all mere relatives of the true indie hair.<br />
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Now this is debatable, but to me, and I'm always right in these matters, TRUE indie hair was and always will be when Brandon had a little wave in front that went across his forehead from the top corner of his side part all the way to the other side and then ended with one adorable little curl pointing to his face.<br />
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It was perfection. Emo hair's got nothing on this, man, this is how a manbang should be done. I don't think I've ever seen it repeated by anyone before or since, which is plain tragic. Get on it, men! Women (or men or whatever you're into) would be pouncing you in mere seconds. It says, "I am a sensitive guy, but the pointy tip of this curl is as sharp as the blade in my back pocket so don't get too comfortable." Brandon's mysterious brooding look in the two pictures sandwiching this paragraph illustrates that message.<br />
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To be fair, the three pictures surrounding this paragraph (all featuring indie hair in its peak, most perfect state) were all taken on the same day for the same early Hot Fuss promotional photoshoot. There was a stylist to touch up any loss of indie hair perfection and very little movement to prevent indie hair corruption. So it's not easy to perfect this look on a day to day basis. But as you see in some of the other pictures in this post (like the first three up in the beginning), a more casual version of perfect indie hair is doable. Just get the right hair cut, put in some styling creme or whatever it is Brandon uses (ask a hair stylist, I'm not <i>that</i> good), and voila. If a guy manages to copy one of these outfits as well and I see him on the street in full indie garb, I will make out with him right there and then, no questions asked. A girl can only resist so much. Moving on.<br />
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^ This picture of the band is a real early classic. As you know by now Brandon's hair is in ideal indie mode, with the sweetest expression ever to accompany it. He is wearing one of his staple outfits of the indie Hot Fuss era- a dark (in this case black) polo buttoned all the way to the top as per usual when he was feeling formal, which was often. He was also wearing his ubiquitous black blazer with thick vertical stripes, of alternating shiny or opaque texture. P.S. pay notice to Dave's olive blazer; you'll know what I mean soon.<br />
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This detail shot from a live performance showed Brandon in the same getup but this time with a navy polo. I'm not sure if the crinkly texture of the blazer was intentional or the product of bad laundering, but Brandon seemed to like it anyway because...<br />
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.... he wore it all. the. fucking. time. On the left during a radio interview; below in a promo photo shoot. Judging by the hair these pictures seem like they were taken around the same time. That's how you can tell time differences in the indie era: just look at the hair. <br />
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On the right Brandon wore the usual striped blazer/blueorblack polo combo, but with faded jeans, with what looks like a kind of criss cross texture, and some cool black Allstarish kicks that I can't figure out the brand of. Please enlighten me if you do know.<br />
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In both the above and right pictures, notice he was showing an open tooth smile, rare indeed for the indie too-cool-for-smiling era. Despite the cool facade, he looked kind of dorky as hell, and I think he never looked that way again after the indie times. Awkward, yes. Always and forever. But dorky not so much.<br />
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Below Brandon again wore the striped black blazer, this time with the fugliest 70's flower shirt known to man kind. Although in this shot and outfit, he actually looks really adorable. I like the extra touches- the lapel pin, the manpurse strap, the blue and white striped belt, the fact his hand is under his blazer a la Napoleon.<br />
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Oh, and notice Dave's olive jacket. It appears here again- and no this is not a post about Dave's style, but this blazer is relevant as you will see very soon...<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">Here is another shot of Brandon's ugly flower shirt, because I know you thought I was overreacting from the previous shot. I mean it's nice that it's retro or whatever but it's just... not okay. Note the flower theme because it shows up again... for the only time in BFlo's career, really. The one time he should have really been ashamed of his moniker- when people were first learning it and he was trying to be indie cool- he decided to flaunt it like nuts.</span><br />
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Here's the striped black blazer again, when Brandon wore it at a music festival (possibly Coachella '04, telling by the palm trees and sweat, but not sure). Here you notice that this blazer is slightly on the longer side, and also how versatile it was. He could wear it with something dressy, or have it dress up a casual outfit for a concert. Brandon once said he would never perform in a t-shirt and jeans, but I guess the only exception was if a blazer topped it all off. And he's not wearing just any t-shirt- that's pure Killers merch right there- the classic dotted band logo tee, but instead of the ubiquitous black, this one is brown (it sells <a href="http://www.theshirtsale.com/proddetail.php?prod=KI-T51">here</a> for only $10 btw). The jeans are Diesel, telling by the left <a href="http://thisisnotadressrehearsal.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/diesel-viker-w20-guys-jeans-pocket-details.jpg?w=500&h=375">pocket</a>. And I highlighted his hair with a detail shot because I think it was adorable. No it was not Official Indie Hair<span class="st">™, but it was a variation of the indie hair- its shaggier brother. I thought his hair looked adorable in this performance, just as much in 2004 as I do now. Also, is it just me or did he have traces of eyeliner on in these photos?</span></div>
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This is not my favorite of Brandon's blazers at all- maybe because he looked so dorky every time he wore it (um, these two photos). Also, his hair did not help. And the fact that Dave looked much better in it (refer back to the two photos of Dave I emphasized). Brandon looks like an awkward teenager wearing his dad's clothes in comparison. It's just too big on him. And his hair looks silly with the bangs so short. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Oasis army jacket</b></span><br />
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like Oasis brothers <a href="http://www2.pictures.gi.zimbio.com/Liam+Gallagher+Gem+Archer+Oasis+Photo+Session+QELIfOXWbM8l.jpg">Noel</a> and <a href="http://www.bestweekever.tv/bwe/images/2011/04/spl271099_002-1303743505.jpg">Liam</a> Gallagher <br />
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...But then you watch the actual movie, and you're all <i>WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK WAS THAT</i>. Why were there only two Phoenix songs, why was Stephen Dorff sitting in a chair with a papier mache mask with the camera stagnant on his face for five minutes, and why did it look like that guy from Jackass was going to hook up with Elle Fanning??<br />
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Well anyway besides all of that, the clothes were really nice. Best of all- and this is something I knew since the trailer came out- I OWN ONE OF THE DRESSES that Elle Fanning wears in the film. <br />
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Here is the dress on her:<br />
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Here is the dress on me (yeah not as nice, but still this is the best fitting dress I have ever tried on)<br />
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It is amazing, so I allow you to be jealous. I got it about two years ago at <b>Urban Oufitters</b>. It was in the sales rack for some crazy reason. I snagged that thing after I noticed how amazingly it contoured my ~pear body shape.<br />
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I just checked now and the brand is <b>ecoté</b>. unfortunately for all you dress hunters, I literally can't find it anywhere online. My greatest skill in the world is online search, and yet I can't find it anywhere. wtf indeed. I tried every combination "ecote," "elle fanning," "dress," "urban outfitters," "purple," "stripes," "sophia coppola," and I looked through all of those hipstery outfits from lookbook on image search, but got nothing. In fact the only other time I saw this dress was at my college last year on the <i>same day I was wearing mine</i>. It looked better on me, though, duh.<br />
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So hopefully you have more luck finding the dress, because I really suggest getting your hands on this thing. It fits like a glove. A body glove. <br />
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Watch it <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9n9hP_LtL8">here in full glory in the <i>Somewhere</i> trailer</a>.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-28796381670878672572010-12-25T12:40:00.000-08:002012-06-24T18:49:19.704-07:00850+ Quotes by Brandon Flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b> Brandon Flowers</b>, singer of <b>the Killers</b>, is quite a quote-worthy man. He is a fascinating and completely self-contradictory human being. But not a lot of people know this. So one day I thought, why not compile as many of his quotes in one place as possible and make people realize there is more than meets the eye with this dude? <br />
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On a personal note, a combination of the following quotes has deeply affected my life, as strange as that may sound when referring to a man who wore feathers on his shoulders every day for two years. These are not mind-blowing quotes by any means. Brandon is no John Lennon. Thankfully, he never pretends to be. However, he is the first (and still really the only) celebrity I have ever genuinely been able to relate to. He is shy and insecure socially, which comes off very clearly in his interviews. This is an incredible rarity, as far as I'm aware. Most celebrities make confident jokes and exclamations in video interviews- Brandon stutters, nervously giggles, avoids eye contact. But he still has so much self-belief. He has made it in a huge way despite his stage fright and critics (and oh, how many critics he has). The things he says are very simple and unpretentious. You will never catch him saying some mightier-than-thou BS about the meaning of art. He has wanted to become one of the greatest musicians in the history of the world, and he never apologizes for that naked ambition. I have been reading every Killers/Brandon Flowers-related article obsessively since 2004, and I never get sick of hearing his opinions and views on the world, even when he gets repetitive (you know, that will happen after reading 1000 articles...). I think he is one of the sweetest, most honest, most intelligent, and unfortunately most misunderstood and underappreciated celebrities on the planet. I really think I would be a very different person if I hadn't looked up to him for the past six years, since I was 15.<br />
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Just a few of the lessons I got from him: to set your goals real high up there. It still blows my mind to see in these quotes that he was already expecting the Killers' future success when they hadn't even released Mr. Brightside yet. He always believed in the Killers and already had plans for their arena tours when they just started playing tiny gigs. Another lesson: fuck the fucking critics. After Sam's Town came out with a pouring of <a href="http://www.slate.com/id/2150959/">indie-mentality-tinged</a> negative reviews, his rejection of music snobs and journalists (*cough*Rolling Stone*cough*) taught me at 16 how to doubt those supposed tastemakers and realize that people who avoid the "mainstream" miss out on a lot fun. Who knows, I could have easily been a hipster today if it weren't for him, considering the other music I listened to. Shudder, indeed. Instead, I've been pretty badass ever since. (p.s. I wrote an essay about Brandon as a supplemental essay for my top college choice, and I got in (and go there now). I'm pretty sure that essay may be a big part of the reason.)<br />
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Thank you so much to <a href="http://comunita.thekillersmusic.com/forumdisplay.php?f=7">TKC</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/killersquotes">@killersquotes</a>, <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/2005/02/01/">_killmenow_</a>, and <a href="http://www.thekillersfansite.com/articles1.html">TKF</a> for making it a hell of a lot easier for me to compile all of these. My absolute favorite quotes/parts of quotes are bolded. However, honestly, I love nearly all of his quotes so I suggest reading all of them (it'll only take ten hours!). Even better, read the source articles at one of the links above. You might learn a thing or two. <br />
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If you have a question about specific sources or contexts, leave a comment and I'll get around to answering. These are in completely random order with no attention paid to chronology or more/less favorite quotes. Although, I bolded way more quotes towards the end, and I'm not sure if that's because I got less picky or they got better.<br />
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- <b>Maybe I deserve credit for saying what other people <a href="http://www.thefader.com/2009/05/01/brandon-flowers-takes-break-from-busy-schedule-to-continue-being-an-idiot/">just think</a>.</b><br />
- My brother is one of those people everyone wants to be around. <b>I think he's got a great combination of goodness and coolness.</b> <b>When you're the singer of a band, people only want one of those qualities.</b> So it's been difficult, but I hope he rubbed off <a href="http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/57889">enough</a>.<br />
- If you don't like us, we're not giving up on you yet. <br />
- People started some kind of petition to try and get some other- I think their exact words were 'more epic'- band to headline. But <b>those people can fuck off.</b> [<a href="http://www.coachella.com/forum/showthread.php?t=23087">Coachella</a>]<br />
- Nobody gives me any credit for the verses that are beautiful.<br />
- I’m definitely not as cocky as I was <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2008/02/22/shockingly-cocky-quotes-no-18/">made out to be</a> in the beginning. I’m not that way at all. I think that I’m quite likable.<br />
- We’re not going to be critically <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/person/the-killers">acclaimed</a>. <b>It’s not going to be until the end of our career that we’re given a chance.</b><br />
- There's a great quote by Abraham Lincoln- 'Whatever you are, be a good one.' I have that hanging in our kitchen.<br />
- I guess it bothers people that it’s not grammatically correct, but <b>I think I’m allowed to do whatever I want.</b> [<a href="http://popwatch.ew.com/2008/09/25/killers-human-s/">Human</a>]<br />
- One time we were on the same flight as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Wilson#Mental_illness">Brian Wilson</a>. And just before we take off he says, ‘If this thing goes down over the Atlantic it’ll be the end of all of our lives!’ He just shouted it out! I was like, ‘Oh shit! <a href="http://www.independent.ie/health/case-studies/celebrity-health-brandon-flowers-1471352.html">Thank you</a>!’ He’s crazy.<br />
- We were very different in Las Vegas. We'd be playing in bars next to rap-metal bands. <b>People thought we were crazy and girly.</b><br />
- A boy's got to look good.<br />
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- My t-shirt should really say 'some girls like guys who drink cider' because Dave's drinking it in nearly every picture! Personally I like to think our band is too refined for cider.<br />
- Here's me in a nice white suit, flashing some crazy rock moves. My motto is: when you're on stage and need that something extra, bring out the <a href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQ3wpA8-Ewlj5FNZ67qqMRmll98F7b6LZlYL8_oMikIHCn0tED3dg&t=1">jazz hands</a>.<br />
- <b>I was quite a porker when I was younger. I never went swimming or anything like that because I didn't want anyone to see my body. I always assumed that people were looking at me, and if I heard someone laughing while I was in a restaurant it would kill me.</b><br />
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- I would like to touch people.<br />
- I drink coke for breakfast, lunch and dinner.<br />
- We normally try to <a href="http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQQ6myyw_5jIwjV0dV9lXrQddv4vpVykAruzG4N5hm2LWiDzkh5&t=1">hug</a> the fear out of each other before going on stage. Either that or we just punch each other for playing a song badly the night before!<br />
- Our fans are great - although the guy on the right with the tape over his head is probably the point where 'fan' becomes 'fanatic.'<br />
- <b>If you work at Spin or Rolling Stone and someone wrote some sweet article about how amazing the record is, all their buddies and all the writers at the place are going to make fun of him. That’s how it is and it’s just pathetic.</b> It didn’t used to be that way. The journalists are now the rock stars. <br />
- I've always liked dressing up.<br />
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- I got my ear pierced there. It wasn't called <a href="http://preciousslut.net/">Precious Slut</a> then.<br />
- I don't really have a slogan, per say, but I think people should be nicer to each other. I think bands should be nicer to each other. I think everybody should be nicer to each other. There you are. <b>Be nice.</b><br />
- Somebody gave me a stick that said "Brandon Flower's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcVpYpLG2GQ">Magic Stick</a>"... and I guess that's kind of weird.<br />
- When we finished Somebody Told Me we thought, uh, I thought people in Germany would love Somebody Told Me. I didn't, ya know, it's nice that the world seems to like it, but um, yeah, I specifically, yeah ya know.<br />
- It was just so massive, and it just, just hit me. It just slapped me in the face and the way it felt with how <a href="http://www.muzu.tv/gb/planetrockprofiles/the-killers-interview-music-video/13557/">huge</a> it was.<br />
- <b>I always feel as though someone is staring at me.</b><br />
- It was just barely three years ago that I was driving and I heard him [Bowie] on the radio, and it changed everything. I took two classes in college before I realized that I just couldn't do it. I just left the last one and I heard <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVYbwpe99MM">Changes</a> on the radio.<br />
- I thought it was Bob Dylan and I just loved it, because I've never understood the Bob Dylan thing, and I was like, 'OK, I'm starting to get it now.' So I looked into this Changes song and found out it was David Bowie, and it just opened up this whole thing for me. Ever since then, Hunky Dory and Ziggy Stardust have been my favorite albums.<br />
- He was pretty drunk. (about getting the Bono Talk)<br />
- It's strange, the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i663qCY-q5Q">bigger the place</a> we play, the more comfortable I feel.<br />
- We're so <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6P42GjLgsw">new right now</a> that it's hard. We're not really going to affect people or touch people until they know the record and come see us. So right now, I just hope that it's exciting for them and that they can catch on to how good the pop songs are and be moved sometimes. We're really nice and we're good at playing our songs [laughs]. And that's what's supposed to matter.<br />
- <b>I don't think I actually want to kill <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenny_Was_a_Friend_of_Mine">anyone</a>.</b><br />
- Q: You're a big hit with gay indie gentlemen, were you aware of that? B: I assumed that. Q: Why, do you get a lot of boys throwing themselves at you? B: Er, <a href="http://www.oklahomarock.com/blog/?p=883">sometimes</a>, yeah. Q: How do you feel about it? B: Well, we're here for boys and girls. We don't turn anybody away! Q: Ever gone there? B: <b>Er, no. Not yet.</b><br />
- I met a couple of them [rappers] at a Universal party. It was cool to meet <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/81568.html">Jay-Z</a>. I watched someone go up to him and say how much they loved his outfit. Jay said, "Thanks, dog, it's Purple." I was really confused, because it wasn't purple. Then I learned it was a Ralph Lauren Purple Label suit.<br />
- Hello! <b>We're called the Killers but I promise you, this won't hurt a bit.</b><br />
- Fucking asshole. [to Dave as he <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2005/jan/22/popandrock1">locked him out</a> of a car]<br />
- When you're 15, and you're imagining this, it's part of the excitement...and then I went and got engaged.<br />
- It’s definitely difficult to have mystique and all that because if you don’t go do an interview with the radio, they just won’t play it. It’s really terrible. It’s really terrible. That’s where mystique just goes out the window. <b>If you want to be successful, you’ve gotta give your fuckin’ toes and your stomach. And we’re givin’ it, and I can’t be ashamed because we want to be successful. It sounds dirty because I’m giving so much of myself but there’s no other way to survive right now. Only the fittest of the fit survive right now.</b> <br />
- I'm very self-conscious about the way I look.<br />
- <b>We're very old-fashioned. We're into handshakes, and the world isn't.</b><br />
- We're gonna have six months off soon, and I'm gonna get really normal.<br />
- Dave was 27. [joking, on when Dave lost his virginity]<br />
-<b> I'm getting better at not being myself.</b><br />
- I do my own <a href="http://www.sugarscape.com/files/images/brandon_0.preview.jpg">makeup</a>. I'm proud of that.<br />
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- How do you know that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ac2qN57rSMg">Andy</a> isn't, in fact, a girl?...But that doesn't mean it's [<span id="goog_2130654402"></span>Andy, You're A Star<span id="goog_2130654403"></span>] a gay <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atM7CYdF0wM">song</a>... or certainly not as gay as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wm9y2QPHF7A">Michael</a> by Franz Ferdinand. Listen, I just write stories, bizarre, weird, entertaining stories, and only sometimes are they autobiographical.<br />
- <b>It bothers me that I'd be more credible to certain people if I had a drug problem. </b>Why? That's bullshit. I'm not interested in drugs because I've seen what they can do. Take Brian Wilson. I don't want to be like him. What does it matter today that he wrote Good Vibrations? The man goes around talking to himself.<br />
- <b>They listen to music better in Britain. People hum along to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0Sf7H-c260">keyboard</a> parts. That's something that never happened anywhere else. I think they're just more excited and less... there's a cool thing out here. There's a camaraderie about the English. When you see a bunch of dudes in a bar <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwnizKFW8wY">singing</a> 'Don't Look Back In Anger...'</b> <br />
- Hand lotion is my favorite thing in the world. Oceans of lotion.<br />
- I guarantee I'm better than anybody who does drugs... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGeo-2acmK0">Ronnie</a> plays the drums like he does because he's not wasted and we're an awesome live band because of it.<br />
- Maybe [we'll wear] some little white shorts and some boat shoes. That might work for us. Yacht goth. Some eyeliner. There you go.<br />
- I look like a twerp.<b> I'm such a tart!</b><br />
- <b>If I woke up and nobody knew who I was, I'd go out and start another band.</b><br />
- I probably spend too much money on <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/03/brandon-flowers-runway-looks-dior-homme.html">Dior</a> jackets. They make me happy.<br />
- This last song is about skin. It's about bones. It's about blood. but most importantly, it's about hearts.<br />
- That's funny. Except <a href="http://famousmormon.org/entertainment/brandon-flowers">polygamy</a> ended about a hundred and fifty years ago.<br />
- I want to be the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1zMxbhOO0">Phantom</a>! Maybe when I'm, like, thirty. I can't do it now. I'd need to take <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/triplej/musicnews/s2530018.htm">voice</a> lessons.<br />
- [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMB3M43AEpc">Thunder Road</a>] has my favorite line. I'm such a sucker. It's 'Hey, what else can we do now except roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair/Well, the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere.' <b>I'm one of those people who really rolls down the window at that point!</b><br />
- Ebay people. I almost came to blows with one today. We pulled up to the gig, and it's two in the afternoon, and there's these four guys standing outside, and they all have <a href="http://hollywoodautographnews.com/?p=1545">blue</a> markers and brand-new CDs. And they're obviously not fans. So I said, Okay, I'll sign, but I won't take a picture. This guy got angry, so we started yelling at each other, and he told me to go buy some eyeliner and flipped me off, and I blew him a kiss and that was it. Other than that, fans are usually quite nice.<br />
- I had this nice <a href="http://lookslikeleather.blogspot.com/2011/06/pink-leather-blazer.html">pink</a> Dior jacket, but I was sweating so much that it ended up a weird purple color. <b>Rock n' roll is very hard on your clothes, you know?</b><br />
- That's where the blazer was introduced. It kind of sums up our band in a nutshell. But it's not salmon! That was the worst thing. Just call it <a href="http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/340170/brandon-flowers-and-dior-homme-spring-2005-pink-leather-blazer-gallery.jpg">pink</a>! That's what it is. I think we'd have to dip into the old <a href="http://redriverautographs.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/elton-john-z04.jpg">Elton</a> and <a href="http://blogs.villagevoice.com/dailymusto/The-Official-Liberace-Website.jpg">Liberace</a> wardrobes to top that one. I'm not going to tell you how much it was, but it still hurts, I'll tell you that.<br />
- Fame- what you get is no <a href="http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/david+bowie/fame_20037102.html">tomorrow</a> [word association]<br />
- I would stop people at stoplights. Get out of my car and knock on peoples windows before I met Dave. I was on a mission.<br />
- I'm really nice.<br />
- I'm going to embrace the rain! We all have it in us when the rain comes! <a href="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/10258621.jpg">You</a> guys get it more, so when the rain comes it's more exciting for <a href="http://www.storycorps.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/blogger/blogger/3450/1037/1600/IMG_6970.jpg">us</a>.<br />
- No, I haven't, but I'd like to have sex in a tent. No animals, though.<br />
- I'm a festival virgin! We've only played one, and I've never really been to one. I'd probably say don't do mushrooms. Woodstock is over, let it go.<br />
- And to meet Frodo.... [why came to MTV <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1499911/new-xbox-be-unveiled-by-elijah-wood.jhtml">event</a>]<br />
- I've always liked dressing up. Even if it was only going to church or something, I always enjoyed Sunday for that, like I knew I got to get <a href="http://amandamckinley.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/brandon-flowers-should-be-the-next-bond.jpg">dressed</a> up. And that's just how I've always been.<br />
- I'm trying to bring back the boat <a href="http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17100000/RAWR-face-and-boat-shoes-brandon-flowers-17175452-318-524.jpg">shoe</a>!<br />
- We're getting a lot of young girls that come because of MTV...or Dave's <a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/12300000/Dave-Keuning-Paparazzi-david-keuning-12394090-689-1000.jpg">pants</a> or whatever it is.<br />
- <b>Eric [<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgP43sOOpaJY4h3mtHmKYQk2rr4ejsQK6CX3JreJtCwF9tVAcUzR3gkhknblc76dFidwJlI9uDVzQvYuNyamGI09Dv8NshaWMeEhdf3I2vpLX1jTtHlejFvGZbb3mqmxL745DzECuTI-WI/s400/Eric.jpg">Roberts</a>] was telling me that I will change. But I don't think I'm going to. My dad's still a bellman. I drive a Hyundai with a dent in it. The window's taped up.</b><br />
- I'd share a tent with Ricky from Kaiser Chiefs. We have a closeness. An unspoken <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao1rjgLuEbg">closeness</a>. I can't elaborate.<br />
- What do you want me to do? A personal ad? Hmm . I guess it would be something like: <b>Uncomfortable yet good-looking person, that's myself, looking for another uncomfortable and good-looking person, to share a room with.</b><br />
- I'd had a little bit too much to drink, and at one point I fell off the stage. And nobody caught me! It was sad. It was a sad thing. And the boys kept playing...and so, I just got up, and we finished the song. But I think it would have been a lot better if someone would have caught me.<br />
- Everybody lives in this <a href="http://www.rbf.com/images/2008/about_us/history/Las%20Vegas.jpg">valley</a>, around the city, and somewhere on your lawn, or on top of a wall, you can look down and see these <a href="http://images.picturesdepot.com/photo/l/las_vegas_strip-208821.png">lights</a>.<br />
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- Dave loves Micheal Jackson. And even Dave thinks he's guilty<br />
- Arm wrestling with scorpions [about how the band settles its creative differences]<br />
- I thought we were going to win best rock video, but you just can't beat those Green Day <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1508513/green-day-clean-up-at-vmas.jhtml">people</a>.<br />
- When music kills you, at least it doesn't hurt.<br />
- We make music for people.<br />
- <b>This night has just turned out to be a potpourri of loveliness.</b><br />
- <b>Rolling Stone? They gave Paris Hilton <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/music/paris/critic-reviews">more</a> stars than they gave <a href="http://www.metacritic.com/music/sams-town/critic-reviews">us</a>.</b>[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
- I'm gonna come <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoJ4uvflRf4">grab</a> some <a href="http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/tt189/Victim1016/HoneyTongue.gif">honey</a>.<br />
- <a href="http://stereogum.com/3448/dont_call_him_an_artist/news/">Artist</a>. <b>Just shoot me if I ever refer to myself as an artist. Call me "rocket man" instead. </b>[Jane, Oct. '06]<br />
- You know, people always ask us if our songs are factual or not...And, don't kill me, but... Jenny really wasn't a friend of mine. But...Andy was. <br />
- People want modesty... <b>I call it bullshit modesty, and I don't like it.</b><br />
- <b>I'm not <a href="http://www.sputnikmusic.com/news.php?newsid=3883">gay</a>. I can't even be bothered to start some intrigue about it.</b><br />
- It's better than a buffet at the <a href="http://www.yelp.com/biz/cravings-las-vegas#query:mirage%20buffet">Mirage</a>. [after seeing James and Arcade Fire at T in the Park festival)<br />
- I got a <a href="http://www.bbgunworld.com/images/pt80_nolaser.jpg">BB gun</a> once, it's a gun that shoots little pellets. It was during the first Gulf War, and my dad brought back pictures of Saddam Hussein for me to shoot at. So I was shooting at one of them one time and I ran forward to it immediately after I'd fired to see how good a shot I was, but it ricocheted off the shed and came back at me square in the head. I learned my lesson. I almost lost my eye that Christmas.<br />
- [his fave quote-] "You don't have to be a poet to say something profound."<br />
- I always feel like there's something wrong with me because I don't have some dire, some sort of awful outlook on life. It seams like you're not allowed to— like it must not be real or it must not be good if you are happy to be here. And I'm very happy to be here. I love having a body that's fully functioning. I love traveling and getting this opportunity.<br />
-What song do I hate? I think Daughters, by John Mayer, would be a good candidate. I don't know why he bugs me so <a href="http://www.esquire.com/features/man-at-his-best/ESQ0805MAHBMUSIC_40_2">bad</a>.<br />
- We're like navigators on this new album. We're just out to find the best songs and the best parts for each song and...and we...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3s8Aympo-4">danced</a> a lot and we smiled a lot more than we've ever smiled.<br />
- I'm embarrassed when I see old footage. <b>If I die...I'm serious, like, I don't want people to see <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5sBkshzjYVjaFrvr7FG_SIvO7O9PcSARcZB3TG2cCsakJJeCfDcAl-vLtE_2KlObXzfV36MQqLbfh-JgmHi70OLbuQ7HPX34E6grsLzNuz6EC0hPB0SEGRJoyGmjtO0NHe0GPfmRqLfo/s640/brandon_brian_havens_dave_no_credit_t610.jpg">this</a>.</b><br />
- <b>I <a href="http://www.vogue.co.uk/spy/celebrity-photos/2008/09/03/gq-men-of-the-year-awards-2008/gallery/image/8?adTag=&source=">feel</a> like the stranger at the end of the bar getting bedroom eyes from some exotic temptress.</b><br />
- I was manhandled by this girl, she threw me in the bathroom and put eyeliner on me and <b>I liked it, I liked the belonging. </b>[About his first concert, The Cure, when he was 13- his brother brought him along.]<b><br />
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- Music makes my blood flow. I don't know anyone who doesn't have a favorite song. I just want to be the messenger.<br />
-I can't tell you how many times I got called a 'faggot' for liking the Smiths. <br />
- I don't know. <b>My mom would say it's because they are jealous.</b> [TK haters]<b><br />
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- When you grow up in that world [LV], entertainment gets in your blood... The <a href="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/16842888.jpg">flashiness</a> and the <a href="http://lasvegastvshow.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Las-Vegas-TV-Show-12.jpg">glamor</a> catch your attention.<br />
- I grew up loving a lot of English bands ... That has a huge effect on you. If I was listening to hip-hop as opposed to Morrissey when I was 13, I would probably be a very different musician. But that's what I was drawn to when I was growing up.<br />
- <b>When I was younger I was chubby. It gave me a terrible sense of self-image, and I guess I carry that around with me still.</b><br />
- I am a self-confessed <a href="http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/17100000/coke-t-shirt-brandon-flowers-17122738-500-667.jpg">cocaholic</a>.<br />
- I've always had this thing about it not really mattering where you`re from, because there`s always been this big cloud over America saying you have to live in LA or you have to live in New York to make it. I always knew it didn't matter as long as you had the songs.<br />
-America is still getting used to the word gay, and when you've got a band that's seen as this gay thing, instantly there's going to be a wall that's going to get put up. [On Pet Shop Boys]<br />
- When you look at America and see a big hamburger, or whatever it is that you see, they definitely took a bite out of it. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMS58ORfWwE">[Pet Shop Boys]</a><br />
- Thinking of becoming an entrepreneur, I would love to rent the World of Coca Cola <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Coca-Cola">Museum</a>.<br />
- <b>Controversy is <a href="http://music-mix.ew.com/2009/04/09/the-killers-bra/">never</a> a bad thing.</b><br />
<b>-</b>I've always wanted to see Radiohead. That was fun. I mean I saw them from about eight miles away but I was there! [2004 Coachella]<br />
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- It is hard to <a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c2/Elvis_impersonators_record.jpg">stay</a> normal in Vegas.<br />
- We want to be important and to last.<br />
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- <b>I think we are the cleanest band in the world, and we are also the busiest. I think these two things go together.</b><br />
-<b> I'm allowed to think that it [Sam's Town] is the best album in twenty years, but I'll have my opinion and other people are going to have <a href="http://stereogum.com/2573/killers_making_one_of_the_best_albums_of_the_last_/news/">theirs</a>.</b><br />
- That sucks a bit. I don't like 'Are we denser?' as an alternative. I really care what people think, but they don't seem to understand. They think it's nonsense, but I was aching over those <a href="http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081015065134AAlt8zk">lyrics</a> for a very long time to get them right.<br />
- I mean, man, he's good. What's the song about the two brothers? Where
he lets his brother leave at the end, after he beats the guy to a pulp? [Highway Patrolman] <br />
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- Crossfire's done very well. I knew it was a great song but I didn't know it would be so big. Critics maybe come to the album having written a review before they heard it but it's a great record and there's a reason I'm here. <b>We've had awful reviews in the <a href="http://stereogum.com/3479/rolling_stone_pans_sams_town/news/">past</a> and it hasn't hurt us so I don't know why I care.</b><br />
- My favorite Cars song is Heartbeat City. I haven't met them. I heard early on that Ric Ocasek didn't like us. I've met just about every one of my other musical heroes, such as Bono and Elton John. I was surprised when Bernard Sumner from New Order said he liked us.<br />
- [Gunnar] is a tough <a href="http://celebritybabies.people.com/2009/08/11/brandon-flowers-welcomes-son-gunner/">name</a>. I had to have something that combats against the Flowers.<br />
- Q:What is your wish list for Santa this year? B: A sandwich <a href="http://www.fanpop.com/spots/brandon-flowers/picks/show/756025/tried-brandwich-salt-vinegar-chips-with-hummus-on-white-bread">named</a> after me.<br />
- Q:Why don't you think you're cool? B: My name is Brandon Flowers, I'm a Mormon and - I like to play <a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/image/photos/10400000/Brandon-Flowers-Playing-GOLF-When-he-was-young-the-killers-10422590-194-261.jpg">golf</a>. I’ve always been self-conscious. I know it’s strange, considering this is what I do, but I still feel self-conscious.<b> If I’m in line at the bank, or I’m out walking — whenever I’m exposed in any way and there’s someone that can see me, I feel so strange.</b><br />
- Bless 'em, they are devoted. I see some of the same faces every <a href="http://www.vegasnews.com/wp-content/uploads/41709-brandon-flowers-of-the-killers-serenades-the-crowd-at-the-grand-opening-of-the-joint-at-hard-rock-hotel-5701.jpg">night</a>.<br />
- The idea of taking a year and a half <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/49294">off</a> from being onstage scares me a little bit. Being on the road is something I’ve been cultivating. I feel like I’ve grown a lot, and I’m feeling comfortable onstage. I don’t want to lose that.<br />
- I’ll tell you how it happened. Every now and then I get these freak phone calls, and one day I was in the <a href="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/2193899.jpg">Belagio</a>, in Las Vegas, and it’s Bono on the phone. And I’ll never get used to that. It could be 30 years down the road, and it’ll still seem weird. He’s someone I really admire. He wants to know if I will be on a Gap ad. I didn’t want to do it, but I offered, instead, to write a Christmas <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/the-killers-why-were-having-a-red-christmas-426562.html">song</a> and donate it all to the thing. So he said, ‘Great.’<br />
- I want us to be a positive force. <b>People think that we’re overconfident and cocky, but it comes from excitement. It’s not ‘I’m better than you,’ it’s that I can’t wait till you hear this song because I know what it does to me physically.</b><br />
- I call it the veil, it's one of the doors to the stage, something happens when you <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJ0hv-qWSQ">walk</a> through it I can't explain but it's life changing. And now I just want that every night.<br />
- Being a Mormon in Las Vegas prepared me for the lion's den. It's the ultimate rock & roll stage. Without Las Vegas I would be a wreck.<br />
- <b>We all need to focus on the positive, don't we?</b><br />
- Be nice to each other.<br />
- I think it's important [to be romantic]. <b>I don't mind watching sappy movies, either. You can learn things.</b><br />
- To be honest, <b>I have a never-ending personality crisis</b>.<br />
- I’m only playing 2 or 3 times a year. I just don’t have the time. I can still whip just about anybody though. I love <a href="http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lkkbjxGIDH1qcl3apo1_500.jpg">golf</a>. I miss it.<br />
- Length is the weak point in my game. If I could hit a ball longer I’d never have been in a band.<br />
- At any given time there are songs cooking.<br />
- The Killers as a band, we do have an edge, and we have a bombast about us and we have the capacity for doing something great– I still think that’s in us.<br />
- It’s undeniable: I love pop music, I’m a pop tart.<br />
- I don't know what I'm doing. <b>I've never had a stylist but when I look back at <a href="http://cache2.asset-cache.net/xc/98662544.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=77BFBA49EF878921A343B2C87A49D8F53A5E2075ED80527024E438193E8641E11ABEFA0F1FDDCFBDE30A760B0D811297">some</a> of the pictures I think I should have had a stylist!</b><br />
- I wonder how much talent has been wasted on people partying like they were the Stones before they deserved it.<br />
- You see these kids and they act like they're the Rolling Stones but they haven't had a hit yet. <b>You can read all you want about Keith Richards and Mick Jagger, but you aren't them yet. They wrote hits first.</b><br />
- I've been very lucky. <b>We've just had great fans… and I work hard. It's a combination of both of those things.</b><br />
- I just love making music and <b>as I get older I realize I shouldn't worry so much about critics and things.</b><br />
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- Sexy. The way his voice cuts through live, it just blows me away. [adjective for David <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFe6oqtjD_8">Gahan</a>]<br />
- I hope we keep learning and growing, and that I don't embarrass <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUtuTKvP4wE">myself</a> and that's it.<br />
- In America it's about the kind of bag that a woman has, or that car you drive, even though you go home to a small apartment. To appear to have a certain lifestyle, that's the problem in America.<br />
- I feel like the exhibitionist in me was always there, but it definitely took some coaxing to get him out. <b>Perhaps it says that I'm this really vulgar attention-seeker. That desire, that need, maybe comes from being a <a href="http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01109/snf20bran3-380_1109257a.jpg">strange</a> child who desperately craved attention.</b> But ultimately I've got great songs. The songs come first, and I'm able to deliver them in a way they need to be delivered.<br />
- It's not such a big thing to give <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/42787">up</a>. Booze dehydrates you. I knew I would be better if I stopped, I feel like I have longevity now. We started becoming a much better live band so I knew it was the mature thing to do. <br />
- Music is my job, as well as my love. I don't know how rock'n'roll it is to stop drinking and smoking, but I do think that drinking and smoking simply because you've read it's rock'n'roll is dumb and utterly cliched. <br />
- I was sucked into all of that and I somehow felt like it was expected of me. It was something I was excited about at the time. There are some great stories about people I admired getting messed up. For a time you feel like you want to be a part of that.<br />
- I would say that I got most of my wisdom by stopping. To me the harmful thing is excess. No good comes of it. It's just pain.<br />
- As sexy as [Freddie Mercury in <a href="http://members.multimania.co.uk/queenfoto/fm/Freddie%20at%20the%20Hammersmith%20Odeon.jpg">70s</a> and Morrissey in <a href="http://www.behyped.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/morrissey-if-you-a-are-a-musician-depression-590x909.jpg">80s</a>] were, they didn't have the raw, animal sex appeal of Jagger [in the <a href="http://thephilter.com/oldimages/Mick%20Jagger%20dancing%20on%20stage-1.jpg">60s</a>]. Jagger was a sex beast.<br />
- I have no idea where the fear came from. Maybe from thinking that they were trying to hide themselves. <b>When I was six or seven years old, if I saw a man with a beard I'd cling to my mother. I was just convinced that they were going to take me away.</b><br />
- Morrissey. he was the complete opposite of what I was, of my parents, of the town that I lived in. When I started listening to Morrissey, I lived in Utah in a small town, it didn't even have a stop light, people drove around in tractors. Somehow I was able to identify with him because I was in such a strange place. <b>There was something so glamorous about him, that just didn't exist in Utah, and never will!</b><br />
- Contrary to popular belief, I do have enough humility and understanding to know that we're not number 1. we do have a place in there somewhere- it would be maybe in the nineties. We're still young and we're going to creep up on people. [where the Killers would rank in a top 100 rock n roll bands list]<br />
- I do believe that it's written in our hearts to be moral.<br />
- I think when I'm writing lyrics, if there's a story involved, I have my own version of it in my head and I do my best to describe it. I sometimes wish I could see what other people see when they hear it.<br />
- We went to Lake Tahoe, and it was just beautiful. Went and did a hike. Jumped in the lake. <b>It’s kinda like going back in time.</b> Stuff that it seems like you only see in movies. And it’s been a breath of fresh air.<br />
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- I’ve started to go to national parks and campgrounds on days off. And <a href="http://i910.photobucket.com/albums/ac302/daymanlover/22256_103502193003763_1000003194722.jpg">I'm</a> barbecuing. And instead of running on a treadmill, I’m running out in nature. It makes it all worthwhile for me.<br />
- <b>Bob Dylan said it best – you can’t be Jewish and be cool. And you can’t be a Mormon and be cool! But I’m trying my best!</b><br />
- I don't really go to after-parties or anything so I drift towards an instrument. So the songs keep coming.<br />
-We want to be the next U2! We haven't been shy about saying that so I guess that's pretty extreme. [2004] <br />
-I don't know what it is. People just have a fascination with Las Vegas.
It's really like two cities here. There's a really normal side and then
there's the strip. Most people just see the strip when they hear Las
Vegas and we really are from the normal side of the stage. [2004] <br />
-I've got pretty tough skin. A lot of times people
focus on the keyboards and eyeliner and it's pretty annoying. I mean
there aren't a lot keyboards in the songs and a couple of us wear
eyeliner every now and then and it's just whatever, we just kind of let
it bounce off. [2004]<br />
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- The <a href="http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/15800000/Back-In-Style-The-Killer-Jean-Jacket-brandon-flowers-15830458-911-1370.jpg">jacket</a> is an Alexander McQueen I bought at Selfridges in London five years ago. I've worn it 90 percent of the days over the last five years, so it's molded to me and worn out in the right places. I guess I have a love affair going on with it.<br />
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- <b><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_%28Brandon_Flowers_album%29">These</a> songs have dust on them.</b><br />
- With any new album, I try to listen to the music that's coming out of me and then represent it with what I'm wearing.<br />
-It's all been real positive for us. We get to record music
for a living. That's our job. It shouldn't even be called a job. It's so
great.<br />
-I would probably just shut up. I mean you're always afraid to say stupid
things, whether it's in interviews or anywhere else but I think it's
better saying nothing at all when it comes to him. He seems to be a
touchy individual. [2004, if he met Moirrssey] <br />
- I really like to have a good solid <a href="http://sp5.fotolog.com/photo/5/11/106/brandon_god/1282451859766_f.jpg">pair</a> of boots on!<br />
-Yeah, that just came to my attention a few days ago but <b>I didn’t know that other people called <a href="http://ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com/49108828.html">me</a> BFlow... I'd rather have it like 'Brando.'</b><br />
- I’d actually like to clear that up. I've never said anything <a href="http://www.thefader.com/2009/04/07/the-killers-brandon-flowers-disses-kurt-cobain/">bad</a> about Nirvana. It wasn’t even taken out of context because...<b>if you read it and actually use your brain I’m not saying anything bad at all.</b><br />
- There are obviously groups that I don’t like but what good does it do for me to tell anyone? It’s better to try to be positive.<br />
- I've met (Noel and Liam Gallagher) and they’ve been kind to me. I’m one of the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSA4eHEFBq8">lucky</a> ones.<br />
- The most I’ve won is a couple of grand. I’m not a huge gambler but the adrenalin of it can draw anybody in so you’ve got to be careful.<br />
- I've been asked what hotel I live in a few times. A lot of people don’t realize that there <a href="http://images.cdn.fotopedia.com/flickr-2870928217-image.jpg">are</a> homes in Nevada away from the strip.<br />
- <b>All I want to do <a href="http://www.clashmusic.com/news/the-killers-working-on-fourth-album">next</a> is make the best Killers album ever. We haven’t hit it out of the park. Yet.</b><br />
- We became a really powerful <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GMmNaVbZLA">live</a> band by the end of Sam's Town, and I really think it's because of the <a href="http://www.buzzgrinder.com/2006/the-killers-sams-town-bad-reviews/">bad</a> reviews.<br />
- <b>It's going to be unavoidable at some point that we're here for some reason, and that we have done something good and lasting.</b><br />
- Whether they like it or not, not only do we represent America, we're proud of it.<br />
- Some people think the songs are okay and hate the lyrics. <b>It's a small thing, and silly as it may sound but we've never been on the cover of Rolling Stone. It's frustrating. We belong there. We've earned it.</b><br />
- We've given all that we've got, but it's just not appreciated by critics.<br />
- What paper are you from? The Irish Independent? <b>Did you guys give me an awful review? There was a bad one, I think that was you guys.</b><br />
- I'm fine with being at home, but this is my job. I don't relax, that I know of. I'm <a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/brandon-flowers-release-solo-album">fine</a> not relaxing.<br />
- I mentioned that I was lonely a few times and it's gotten blown <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/51522">out</a> of proportion. I wasn't sitting alone, rocking back & forth, crying.<br />
- I'm looking at myself in the <a href="http://imaginarymen.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/princess-brandon_2.jpg">mirror</a>. [answering what he's doing right now]<br />
- As soon as [the label] heard about Flamingo, I was bombarded with texts and emails and statistics about how this was gonna fail. It was a little discouraging but <b>I've always had a strange amount of self-belief... I don't know where that comes from.</b><br />
- <b>People call me careerist, and use the word in a negative way. I don't understand that. This is my job. It's what I do best.</b><br />
- Playing for President Obama was inspiring. It was great to play for the soldiers. I found that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsNSI507mHo">gig</a> very rewarding.<br />
- My mom was a great influence. We never had much money, but our house was never sad. She had a joyful spirit and <a href="http://www.spinner.com/2010/02/17/the-killers-brandon-flowers-mother-dies/">was</a> always smiling.<br />
- I love music, but I want to spend more time with <a href="http://i53.tinypic.com/21pspc.jpg">my</a> children. I'd like to be around when they start school.<br />
- Going on stage is like putting on a veil. I become much more excited up there.<br />
- Vegas is in my blood. For all its faults, it's exciting. If anyone can sing about it, I can.<br />
- I really liked my jacket with pheasant feather epaulets. Some people thought it was strange but it made me feel in control. I felt <a href="http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/293018/brandon-flowers-and-dolce-and-gabbana-jacket-with-added-feather-epaulets-gallery.jpg">powerful</a>.<br />
- <b>Don’t trust anyone. It’s not a pretty business. I still try to be optimistic.</b> [music biz]<br />
- I love the geography and the <a href="http://www.koalie.net/Walks/200310-CA-J7/20031004131632.jpg">desert</a>. In the summer you can drive into the mountains to escape the heat – it drops 30 degrees. <b>I love the excitement and colors of The Strip and the people of Las Vegas.</b> I can’t think of <a href="http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/ss-090408-las-vegas-15ss_full.jpg">any</a> lows.<br />
- The first few gigs were very difficult. I didn’t know if I belonged on stage. We did bars and open mic nights at coffee shops. I didn’t realize you had to win the audience over. There are great pictures of me singing on the floor next to girls in the audience who are talking to each other and completely uninterested. <br />
-I didn’t get good grades at school. I would probably have worked in one of the casinos for tips. [if wasn't in a band]<br />
- I worked at a Mexican fast-food restaurant when I was 16. Every night we had to clean the grease out from the fryers. This mist of grease vapor would coat your skin. That was the worst bit. Your skin isn’t great when you’re 16 and the grease vapor didn’t help.<br />
- <b>You can’t please everyone – I’m slowly learning this.</b><br />
-When the blows come, it’s nice to have people there to share them with.<br />
- Rock & Roll used to be about not having limits and that's disappeared somewhere along the way. We're trying to bring it back.<br />
- We come from Vegas and our cloth is a little bit stranger than other people's. It's a little bit more glossy and I think that's exciting.<br />
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- <b>Without sounding arrogant, we're really one of the best live bands in the world right now.</b><br />
- It's really fun, hopefully, to come and see a Killers show. We want it to be an adventure for people.<br />
- I'm more comfortable now. Recently I've been thinking maybe it's not a fluke. Maybe I deserve it after all. If I do, I'm not going to waste it. Man, I want to shoot for the stars!<br />
- I'm certainly not afraid of the grays. <b>You're never gonna see my dyeing the grays.</b> I already have quite a few...<br />
- My dad's a kind of classic old handsome dude. I hope I'm headed there. I seem to be.<br />
- It's amazing the attention you get from women. <b>If you're a guy it's weird how much credit you get carrying a kid around. When I have both, they act like a dream's just walked through the door.</b><br />
- Time seems to go faster now than it ever has; I realize I'm not getting it back. I'm starting to take notice of an hour, whereas before I never did. I have a real fear of missing out on things with my family.<br />
- And still I don't get recognized! [on wearing Killers T-Shirts]<br />
- When The Killers started I was very aware that I wasn't ready and it was scary. I started to feel I was getting too big for my britches. It made me want to learn to try and be better. Now it's starting to feel like we belong.<br />
- There's a couple of guys from church who I'll golf with now and again.. But I guess I don't really... <b>Jeez! I guess I don't have a best friend!</b><br />
- It was a total culture shock. <b>I mean, I wasn't necessarily a city kid but I knew I wasn't like them. </b>[moving from LV to <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdCJTR6GAKu9Bec_K0YARvYUpw9HvIb6fjHf9SyilVERiNSzZ2ztAYIPnuBdkv1f6dpz3fi0UH4mcwUV_B72d2cq2eAkUWpOQYdnM5tQMUn-TqE2KqzGIvXmFmYESUhHYxwKV4dtujgAqB/s1600/Nephi,+Utah+002.JPG">Nephi</a>]<br />
- Looking back, I understood pop music when I was 4. I realize that now. I could follow melodies and knew how they worked even then.<br />
- That feeling when you're losing money, your body knows you did something wrong. <b>When you lose you feel... dirty. </b>[gambling]<b></b><br />
<b>-</b>We don't realize how successful we are yet, I don't think. Every now and then, I'll be in the supermarket and
somebody will be following me with their phone, or yelling at me or
something stupid. But that's really rare.<br />
- I've stopped drinking and smoking completely because I don't want my children to even see it.<br />
- I remember going to this casino with mom in our truck, going up and down every aisle in the parking lot. It wasn't till I was older I realized we were looking for my dad. To see if he'd come home. But I understand why my father did what he did. That's the other side of Vegas. It's literally addictive.<br />
- <b>It used to be more about families. Now it's just... sex.</b> [LV]<br />
- When he asks the stranger who finds him to tell his boy that his daddy is proud of him… I don’t know why, but that gets me every time. [Give My Love to Rose by Johnny <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PElmanrBJRs">Cash</a>]<br />
- My wife and I bonded over this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlMOJoyx6L0">song</a> when we first met. I’d never heard it before and she played it for me while we were driving through Vegas. Both of us were crying in the car at some point. [Tom Waits’ Ruby’s Arms]<br />
-There's no way she could be shaking that ass like that [with a Wonderbra
for the ass]. Or watering down a car [in the video for "These Boots
Are Made for Walkin'"]. Some of the camera angles were right up on the
butt cheeks. That girl is spot-on. [Jessica Simpson] <br />
-We were <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqse4JundrM">going</a> to perform the song Tranquilize together on Saturday Night Live and it was going to be the highlight of my life, but then the writers’ strike happened. [on Lou Reed]<br />
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-<b>You can <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgssmJJv6Ew&feature=related">give</a> me some weird, ugly chord change, and I'll turn it into a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no6_COroeLY">pop</a> song. I can't help it.</b> I just really love that stuff.<br />
- I guess we're a <a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_fWxm4Wi3mgg/S7vgpvGmHNI/AAAAAAAADt4/LaSr20MTTk0/s1600/The_Killers.jpg">little</a> more clean-cut than <a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-gpn_yTZBxoI/TZXnCYzKplI/AAAAAAAAAIA/vTWK2E33qg8/s1600/The-Strokes.jpg">The</a> Strokes or <a href="http://i196.photobucket.com/albums/aa92/remotecontrolrecords/white-stripes-col-04.jpg">The</a> White Stripes and in a sense we still have to pay our dues but that doesn't mean we can't write a good song. <br />
-<i>Meanwhile Flowers puffs on a Davidoff with queenly daintiness and relates how his father once caught him dancing in his bedroom to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QES-eQ4lR5U">Erasure</a>.</i> "<b>He just said, Ya like that kinda music huh, son? and walked out</b>," <i>he says, face falling into his hands</i>. [had to include <a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/q2004article.html">article</a> excerpt because it's too good]<br />
- We've got a <a href="http://www.worldbestspot.com/Spotimage/Ceasars_Palace.jpg">Rome</a> and a <a href="http://www.fpereira.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/paris-las-vegas-14.4.jpg">Paris</a>, and even an <a href="http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/18133754.jpg">England</a> in Vegas.<br />
-We all are fans of big songs. I love hits. To be upset
that we used a major label or to feel dirty or something because of
that, I mean, give me a break. Have you ever heard of Radiohead and U2
and the Beatles and the Rolling Stones? It's just ridiculous. I'm not afraid to go all the way with it. <br />
- I don't want to really be influenced by someone right now. Maybe it's an ego thing. <b>Everything today sucks...</b><br />
<b>-</b>I know people in America are eventually going to hear the song and it's
not a bash on people that like indie music or anything like that. It's
just the arrogant little kids with their black converse that are rude to
people. I mean it's all across the country. They think they're all
something special and they need to just give it up and like music. [Glamorous Indie Rock n Roll, 2004]<b> </b><br />
- It's cliched, but we went for Chicago-style pizza. It was awful. <b>I still love the cheap pizza</b> - Little Ceasar's, Pizza Hut.<br />
- <b>It's fun to write about dark things.</b> Some of the characters are real, but none of the murders are true, though, I promise.<br />
- <b>If you don't believe it, it won't happen.</b><br />
- Morrissey really was unbelievable. Everybody did want to touch him. If our fans felt that way about us, that would be awesome. [little did he <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/bree%27s+emotions">know</a>...]<br />
- We're not going to crash. We write great songs and we're not going to stop.<br />
- <b>I can make myself miserable in minutes with what my mind can conjure up.</b><br />
- I liked the way Morrissey performed and owned the audience - the way people wanted to touch him. That led me into his music.<br />
- I'm a sucker for sunsets. <b>I've been all over the world, and it's a beautiful world, but there's no sunset anywhere like the sunset in <a href="http://pc-nature.com/images/phocagallery/wallpapers/sunset/02/thumbs/phoca_thumb_l_Vegas-Sunset.jpg">Vegas</a>.</b><br />
- It's a magical place to me. We moved from here when I was eight or nine and I always had the desire to return. [LV of course]<br />
- I feel like I have to show people that what I'm doing is good, that it's worth the effort. but I work that way. It's how I thrive.<br />
- People over here (UK) aren't afraid to admit that they like something. If they hear a good song they're gonna clap and scream.<br />
- It's really just a play on words. But <b>it gets people confused. That's good. </b>[Somebody Told Me]<br />
-I was really torn when I was 8 because I had one sister who loved, like, New Edition. She was trying to put me in rayon shirts while my brother made me listen to The Cars.<br />
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- Other kids were buying Tool and Nirvana and I was buying the Cars and Psychedelic Furs. <b>I was pretty alienated as a kid.</b><br />
- I've been to some beautiful places all over the world but when I fly back to <b>the dirt and the dust of this city</b>, I'm at my happiest.<br />
- I still get butterflies about the strip - the lights and the glitz. I love the hustle and bustle. I still get off on it.<br />
- I worked the graveyard shift a few times and somebody ordered condoms to their room. I <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhReYwshC1BwN1yIy1x-TWkb-1Pt0M-3gjKfJNAB1U6QK2RI6_KI_7P5_Qt4r12khGTQI9KRA5LcsBCEWxrYHZ-9z2r5loP4j7NZMcEwUFSpTxAzTJ9PG1i-Tu_PFi8Ea2C826B9cLNWlke/s1600/bellboy+ad.jpg">went</a> and picked them up and brought them to his room. When the door opened there was an orgy happening. There were a lot of naked bodies; flesh was everywhere. But they tipped me 20 bucks!<br />
- My 1st job was at a golf course on Flamingo. Sam's Town is on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flamingo_Road_%28Las_Vegas%29">Flamingo</a>. I met my wife at a clothing store on Flamingo. <b>That's my 'hood.</b><br />
- Maybe people just don't like us. When we meet other bands, they're just never that cool. <b>They think we're commercial.</b><br />
- I would be devastated if Morrissey didn't like us or Bowie didn't like us. You want to make music for everybody but they're the chiefs<br />
- I'm very self-conscious about the way I look. And that's because I had four paranoid sisters always in front of a mirror primping.<br />
- You always hear jokes <a href="http://wgasig.blogspot.com/2009/02/if-hes-boss-i-quit.html">like</a> 'If he's the Boss I quit', stuff like that. I didn't really know how important <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Springsteen">he</a> is, how good he is. He's so inspirational.<br />
-In America, it's a different word, 'indie'. [American artists] hide
behind either the fact that, I mean, if they are able to write a good
pop song, they'll veer away from it right when you think it's about to
get good ... just because they don't want it to be too 'obvious'. It's
either that or they're hiding behind the fact that they aren't able to
write a great pop song. People like us, y'know, the second we get an inkling of success, it's just something for them to laugh at. It's really weird. <br />
- <b>You just believe every syllable that comes out of his mouth. With Morrissey you don't know if he's telling a story or messing with you. I like the directness of Bruce just singing his guts out.</b><br />
- It's just nice to find something I love that much at this age. I felt as if I was a young kid again, It didn't feel any different from when I got (the Smiths') Louder Than Bombs, when I got Greetings From Asbury Park, it was the same type of excitement. <br />
- A German doctor <a href="http://www.exposay.com/the-killers-singer-replaces-smoking-with-herbal-remedy/v/6279/">gave</a> me some kind of chamomile concoction that I pour into water, put a towel over my head and breath it in.<br />
- I believe there are melodies and certain chord changes that are meant to go together.<br />
- From <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1ktj70_8lk&feature=related">Metallica</a> to Ozzy <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7bioMNfq4k">Osbourne</a>, whoever's had anything to do with reality TV, it's taken away some of the magic. It's hurt the way I look at their bands.<b> It's exciting to have some fantasy.</b><br />
- A chocolate-covered strawberry. [if he had to replace his head with something]<br />
-I guess I'm just an epitome of an American. I was raised on McDonald's. It's comfort food, you just know it's going to be good.<br />
- Will I be ditching <a href="http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/16200000/brandon-and-tana-brandon-flowers-16204779-400-593.jpg">her</a> and getting a celebrity girlfriend? I don't think so.<br />
- We love The White Stripes, Ambulance LTD, Interpol, Louis XIV... What's funny is that none of them would name us as a contemporary <b>We brought them to another level, all the bastards!</b> Sorry. We're taking what they're doing and making it OK for people to listen to.<br />
- I think bands are scared of me because of what's going <a href="http://stereogum.com/1344/speaking_of_the_killers/franchises/wheres-the-beef/">on</a> with The Bravery and because I speak what's on my mind about <a href="http://stereogum.com/2799/brandon_flowers_wants_to_beat_emo_bands_to_death/franchises/wheres-the-beef/">other</a> bands.<br />
-<b> I love chocolate cake.</b><br />
- Louder Than Bombs by The Smiths is an amazing <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louder_Than_Bombs">album</a>. It opened up a whole new world for me because a lot of the words Morrissey was using I's never heard before. <b>I had to look them up in the dictionary!</b><br />
- I read a review where the writer said 'Don't be mistaken, The Killers are not any better than their peers. Their choruses are simple.' <b>But isn't it a wonderful thing to have choruses that are accessible?</b><br />
- It's just amazing to be in the driver's seat. <b>We don't know where the truck is going, but everybody is invited to come with us.</b><br />
- I'm here for all music and mankind, regardless of whether it is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff0oWESdmH0&ob=av2e">rock</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIZdjT1472Y&ob=av2e">pop</a> or <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sp81g1WCrn8">country</a> or whatever it is.<br />
- I keep my castles in the <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/3563682/Brandon-Flowers-The-Killers-can-be-bigger-than-U2.html">sky</a>. That's what keeps you going.<br />
- A lot of our songs have optimism in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hw2vBYBE24Y">them</a>. That's what rock'n'roll is based on: 'What can we do? How far can we take this?'<br />
- Until <a href="http://defaultprime.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/Nickel.jpg">recently</a> all that mattered was that your arms looked like you were lifting 40-pound dumbbells and your hair was properly highlighted. Then the White Stripes came out with amazing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMOpPz1ETIw">catchy</a> songs, and they proved you could just be yourself. It opened the door for us.<br />
- I specifically remember the day I got out of a math class in college and heard 'Changes' on the radio. I loved it.<br />
- We are treated so differently from country to country. <b>In France, I was treated like I was David Bowie. In L.A., it's like Scott <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Stapp">Stapp</a>.</b><br />
- I have not been <a href="http://www.nme.com/news/the-killers/22962">quiet</a> about how good I thought our album was, but seeing <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-7AwA1Xp_0">other</a> bands makes me realize we can do better and need to.<br />
- Some people say that's an ugly thing, but friendly competition is great.<br />
- [Art] is supposed to come from an ugly place. I'm the opposite. I believe in God. It's kind of confusing but my story is almost too nice.<br />
- I'd love to find a style for the rest of my life, but this time it's more <a href="http://emmavonjordan.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/brandon-flowers-flamingo-8.jpg">classic</a> American, like Steve <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX17rxwzAtZY6f-JhvvS0bX2ILUBkWYDu2t3xrrPNRcZw0ch0gBR40TkYUVPs6_7z1ac34ULB4ov9__EYtZeoKfyEd58rnB_OB9H2ILCrbS6Fu_0zULdTQrlyM9iyWtuAUyLYEddAghmM/s1600/ad0f5ad96a5841ce_large.jpeg">McQueen</a> or Robert <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWJpnjBRF6cHh6QWBXDu7h8L54nSSQFbTy_vAVmdG5DGLlZZ3qgP3Mk7G7MkAFHDMrHfNl906KjyomEkwOg_JTm3E4E9XuS2ir6fsJGW0LYXdBeUm2ErhvxZk-YHL0U_FuAlNlJUPaWO-b/s1600/HorseWhisp.jpg">Redford</a>.<br />
- My wife says I'm like a cartoon character - I tend to wear the same thing over and <a href="http://handsomeclothing.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/123145636155438img_1661.jpg">over</a> again once I settle on a look.<br />
-We're trying not to get sucked into it. People want us to have a book
out right now. They want us to have a DVD out right now. We're holding
off on all of it. <br />
- My check-in name! [Tijuana Heston] My buddy's grandpa's name was Tijuana which I thought was great. I cant really explain the 'Heston.'<br />
- I try to go running, but the truth of it is I wear all those ties, belts and baubles to <a href="http://www4.images.coolspotters.com/photos/340170/brandon-flowers-and-dior-homme-spring-2005-pink-leather-blazer-gallery.jpg">hide</a> my bloated rock star figure.<br />
- I need to work on my attention span.<br />
- I think Chris <a href="http://static.cinemagia.ro/img/db/actor/03/19/99/chris-martin-688981l.jpg">Martin</a> knows what I meant by ['I got soul, but I'm not a soldier']. <b>In fact, he is the only person I've ever met that within a few minutes of talking to him, I could see <a href="http://www.coldplaying.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=6583">he</a> totally got me.</b> You know, he is <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/martin-offers-the-killers-his-cast-offs_1014806">very</a> competitive. He said to me: 'You know, I'm your only competition'. I love that! It just makes me want to run back to the tour bus and write a song that wiped the floor with anything Coldplay have done.<br />
- I'm not sure about his singing voice but how about Daniel Radcliffe? <a href="http://wallpapers.free-review.net/wallpapers/72/Daniel_Radcliffe.jpg">Yes</a>, Harry Potter! Either Potter or that <a href="http://fashionfilesmag.com/ffmag/images/fashion_news/vol_69/Prada%20Mens%20Campaign%20FW11_Tobey%20Maguire_01.jpg">guy</a> from Spider Man who I'm always mistaken for... Tobey Maguire. I'm always being asked if I'm him! [who would play in The Killers- the Musical]<br />
- I make sure a bellhop carries my bag up to my room when staying at hotels just so I can tip them. I mean, <b>I don't want a cookie or anything but I know how much it means</b>.<br />
- I've never considered myself much of a singer, more of a songwriter. <b>I'm no Mariah Carey.</b><br />
- I lose my temper fairly frequently. <b>I'm currently nursing a sore finger because I punched the window out on our tour bus.</b> I think it's because we had such a terrible show last night. Or it may have been because of the lack of interest in the <a href="http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/the-killers/2007/madison-square-garden-new-york-ny-6bd7b64a.html">show</a> we did at Madison Square Garden a few weeks ago. It was the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1xj6YPTlE0">gig</a> of our lives, and not one review. Not even a sniff of a comment, good or bad. <br />
- I'm looking at my hands right now...and I can hardly believe I'm alive. The human body, fruit, water, it's all just too perfect; something has to have created all this.<br />
- I remember its power shocked me; as soon as I'd pulled the trigger, I realized what I had in my hands could kill a man.<br />
- I bought a small model skull from a truck stop the other day, which I now have ceremonially mounted on my keyboards. <b>I think it reminds me of my hometown in some small, pathetic way.</b><br />
- To me, music is incredibly important. That's why I want to make big, bold statements.<br />
- Sometimes I like to just sit down and see what happens, and then other times an idea will pop into my head and I’ll record it onto my phone. <b>I’ll be looking like a crazy person singing into my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBXIOTjMkvM">phone</a>.</b><br />
- I've never felt great about The Killers records; I've never felt like they from front to back were like a piece of art.<br />
- I read a lot of our reviews, and I remember reading a review of Hot
Fuss and somebody actually compared a part of one song, or mentioned
that it was 'Springsteen-ish.' And I thought 'Weeeelllll...' Yeah, at first, that's probably how I took it. I didn't know. And like
everybody else, I immediately thought of Born in the U.S.A. But it
stuck with me, and every now and then, I'd be listening to a classic
rock station and "Born to Run" would come on. But I started paying
attention to it, and then I just said, 'F--k it - I'm gonna buy some.'
So I started off with the Greatest Hits, just to see what would happen.
And that was it - I had to go buy everything as soon as Thunder Road
came on. And then it was The Wild, the Innocent and the E Street
Shuffle, and then it just took off. I had to have everything.<br />
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- People consider Duran Duran a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA">guilty</a> pleasure. I <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovJT7sDo0JQ">don't</a> see them that way. But I don't feel like we're a baby Duran Duran.<br />
- I still have posters on my walls. Morrissey, Bowie, the Beatles, so it's really weird to be in the situation we're in.<br />
- Is it a Monday night? You people sure are making us feel like it's a Monday night. <b>In Killers' Land it's always the weekend and I want this to feel like it's Saturday night!</b><br />
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- We’re learning that [Americans] like the <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Killers/Sam%27s+Town">guitar</a> Killers, whereas you guys in the UK and the rest of the world have got this more melodic <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/The+Killers/Day%2B%2526%2BAge">pop</a>-orientated album. (might be written wrong)<br />
- It's hard to put us into a category at the moment. <b>I don't think we know what category we're in.</b><br />
- You know, we are around each other more than most people are around their families. So we better get along. For the most part, I think we are learning to tolerate each other.<br />
- <b>I think <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1529924/killers-brandon-flowers-love-with-us.jhtml">it's</a> just one journalist going with what other journalists have said.</b> That's not to throw Bruce under the bus 'cause he's great and if we're compared to Bruce Springsteen, I can definitely live with that.<br />
- Festivals are my oxygen and I need to keep on breathing.<br />
- I get to hang out with Elton John. <b>I'm such a fan that it's hard not to act like a teenage girl in his company.</b><br />
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- I want <a href="http://celebritybabies.people.com/2011/04/05/brandon-flowers-welcomes-son-henry/">lots</a> of kids. A big bouquet of Flowers children.<br />
- Do I miss alcohol? Oh, absolutely! My wife doesn't. She's glad I'm no longer drinking and I can't blame her because I did it to excess. Maybe I was trying to behave like I thought a rock 'n' roll singer should behave.<br />
- The women, the drink, the drugs? I'm not going to pretend that was easy to deal with. It was a dilemma for me. Erm, it was more about drink for me. <br />
- <b>Being in a band is very much like being a permanent adolescent.</b><br />
- There's nothing more empowering than the feeling you've brought all these people together to celebrate the brilliance of music.<br />
-Um, it's really weird because ... there's nothing that we've ripped off
directly, you know what I mean? It's just us writing songs, not thinking
about anything other than trying to write a good song. So it is
annoying sometimes because there are bands like the Strokes that admit
that, like, Last Nite is just obviously American Girl from Tom Petty.
And he [Strokes frontman Julian Casablancas] doesn't hide from that.
Y'know, Julian says, like, 'I stole it.' But everybody's like, 'Oh,
that's so cute!' But with us it's, y'know, we didn't do that.
You can't pick out any part of any of our songs and say, 'This is this',
you know what I mean?<br />
-They're not our songs anymore, really - they're a part of the world now, and that's really amazing to me. <br />
-I dunno. There's nothing we can do but ... just sell records. <br />
-We were so scared and skeptical about how people would accept When You
Were Young because it's not a typical Killers song. We
had that song for six months before anyone else heard it. We knew how
good it was, but we were nervous waiting for people to get it. <br />
- Without British music I wouldn't be sitting here talking to you now. It was British music that showed me the way.<br />
- <b>That's when I'm reaching for the stars. That's when I feel the magic soaking my spine.</b> [playing for big crowds]<br />
- As soon as we started writing our <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ithwm854CI8">first</a> songs, I knew we were capable of being one of the biggest bands in the world.<br />
-No. Hopefully we'll be going for quite a long time, but I think we'd be different than the Stones. I
mean, we'd definitely grow up with our music and wouldn't be afraid to,
y'know, when we're 50 or something, have some acoustic guitars and
maybe sit down. I'm not gonna run around like I'm trying to be 23
again. <br />
- If we fell, would you catch us?<br />
- <b>I wanna have a couple of songs that are in the psyche of people. One of those where you <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGdGFtwCNBE">know</a> it's that good it's gonna last forever.</b><br />
- Tonight is the first night I've gone two nights in a row without a beer. I'm proud of that. ['04]<br />
- <b>I still feel like I'm going through puberty. I still feel like that chubby 13-year-old kid.</b><br />
- The guy who does Burberry Prorsum, Christopher <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=christopher+bailey&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=666">Bailey</a>, Hedi <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=christopher+bailey&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=666#um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=hedi+slimane&oq=hedi+slimane&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=21977l23532l0l23703l12l10l0l4l4l0l225l1002l0.4.2l6&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=8d980d1b1507786d&biw=1280&bih=666">Slimane</a> when he was at Dior and Paul <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=christopher+bailey&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1280&bih=666#um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=paul+smith&oq=paul+smith&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=38098l39545l0l39857l10l8l0l4l4l0l96l357l4l4&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=8d980d1b1507786d&biw=1280&bih=666">Smith</a>. [favorite designers]<br />
- The people who owned [New Frontier, demolished in July 2007] said they’ll give me the <a href="http://0.tqn.com/d/govegas/1/0/J/P/lvsigns0011.JPG">sign</a> for free. So I’m going to put it on my land I was telling you about. I only have to pay them to load it onto my land. I’ll light it up at night and it’ll say “Frontier” in the desert. It might be too big. <b>Look how big it is! It's ridiculous! It's so cool.</b><br />
<b>-</b>It was very exciting to be asked to do support dates because we are all
huge fans - this is the one band that we all come together on. They have
credibility, they have rock songs and they are able to touch people's
hearts which is why personally, for me, they edge out The Rolling Stones
to the second best band ever. The Rolling Stones have Angie and they
have Wild Horses but they don't have One or Where The Streets Have No
Name but U2 have that and they have the rock...<b> </b><br />
- <b>Obama is my <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl8jWENYoN4">man</a>. I have my own personal reasons why. I just don’t want to seem like I’m jumping on a rock’n’roll bandwagon. That’s all you’re getting out of me!</b><br />
- Well, I’m not an ambassador. I don’t know if it needs to be coming out of my mouth. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA1IMSRN2Xk">We</a> think we still have bodies. Flesh and bone. But I don't get this body, no. Different body. Same soul. I get a more perfected version. Uh, not like Fabio. Everybody’s not gonna be sexy all of a sudden! But it’s perfect in the sense that you’re not gonna die. Um. I try and stay away from this! Because people say I’m deluded all the time. And stupid for believing.<br />
- Ammon cries when I go to the store. And then if I’m gonna go for a month I think ‘Is he gonna remember me?’ It’s hard. It’s scary.<br />
- Y’know, I still don’t feel like a man, but having a son has taken me a giant step closer. I’m trying my best to become one. A good one.<br />
- <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pibG6vB8wqM">She</a> was wearing a pink trench coat... She worked at Betsey Johnson; <b>she was cooler than me.</b> I believe in fate. She’s perfect for me. I knew early on. She’s just different, creative, full of life. [Tana]<br />
- He watched us sound-check and I was just petrified. If only I’d said ‘Hello,’ maybe we’d be pen pals now. Fax pals. [Sighs.] Too late. [Morrissey]<br />
- <b>I was… husky. I just loved food. I still love food. I have an addictive personality. </b>I don’t shoot up, so I have to watch it if I’m gonna be up on stage and feel worthy. You grow up looking at Iggy <a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-6-1fkSQGTXw/TbAaWGDDLXI/AAAAAAAAAGs/qukVnD7eBpY/s1600/Mick_Rock-Iggy_Pop%255B2%255D.jpg">Pop</a> and <a href="http://geek-tragedy.net/morrissey_88promo.jpg">Morrissey</a>, so I guess it <a href="http://i610.photobucket.com/albums/tt189/Victim1016/Brandonshirtless2009.jpg">gives</a> me a <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/flowers-defends-decision-to-censor-concert-photos_1095652">complex</a>. It’s just hard for me — I have to stop myself.<br />
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^<span style="font-size: xx-small;">This was srsly one of Brandon's meals on the Day & Age tour, Ray posted the pic on his Twitter. Yes I saved it, I never denied that i was an obsessed freak y'all.</span><br />
- Manscara! [giggles] <b>I’ll have my lawyer look <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1039275/Introducing-Guy-liner-Manscara--new-metrosexual-make-just-men.html">into</a> it — we should be seeing a little of this <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0u1Q36YscUdeI8rx43uk0GJ0s-3miw2XRi4bgvcHgAleTt3rBh_H4uFyv8wDJfJJhbwFmP5TphMlFgolEWMfiwMiwY6b9SBB5D938xr-IoI7YrVoL4GcfA9hHHtNWLipfizt3uuX3I-I/s1600/orig-316441.jpeg">profit</a>.</b><br />
- <b>I know I would feel petrified if I wore a T-shirt on stage. </b>I would! I couldn’t even get through a song.<br />
- <b>I don’t understand why more people don’t wear sequins — they’re wonderful <a href="http://obsessee.typepad.com/.a/6a01053694df79970b0115703a1efa970b-pi">under</a> a spotlight.</b><br />
- I am very old-fashioned, I guess. And the older I get, the worse it is. But <b>I dunno if that’s what people want to hear!</b><br />
- All I know is there’s too much negativity and seriousness out there — there’s cynicism everywhere you go.<br />
-We kind of have that attitude, I mean it's whatever happens is gonna
happen anyway, but it's nice - we're not opposed to our records doing
well in the charts, so hopefully they will. [2004] <br />
- I think there’s been moments when we’ve overdone trying to be serious; we were too young. There should be more moments of being carefree, at least when you come to see your favorite band. Hopefully your favorite band!<br />
- Have you been to Los Angeles? Well, our sunsets are better!<br />
- I bought some land. I love the city too, but <b>people don’t realize the beauty in the ancient dirt.</b> I try to capture that in our songs, how I feel <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/36113180@N00/2681497682/sizes/l/in/photostream/">when</a> I’m looking at the sunsets in the mountains.<br />
- As soon as we hit turbulence, I instantly start praying. I'm never going to love to fly, but I can't freak out like I used to. I'd cramp so much that I'd be sore for days.<br />
- A good song will find its place. I knew that about Mr. Brightside. As small as we were, I knew one day a lot of people would hear it.<br />
- People are putting us down for being ambitious, and <b>there are critics who want us to fail.</b><br />
- <b>I'm just trying not to look stupid and apparently some people don't think I'm doing a very good job.</b><br />
<b>-</b>I feel the same mentally as I did when I was 12.<b> [Dummy, fall '06]</b><br />
- I want people to realize that we're a brave American band. We really are out to do something with this.<br />
- Who doesn't want a good review in Rolling Stone? We don't get them.<br />
- Playing these shows and bringing so many people together, such a positive celebration, it's like a drug.<br />
- I'm nervous before any shows because it's not about how many people
there are. If you're worried about someone taking you apart they could
be five feet away or way in the back. You have to deal with it.<br />
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- <b>We really do have the best fans in the world.</b> Thank you all.<br />
- I don't think we've whored ourselves - and <b>I won't be doing a Pepsi commercial</b> - but we want to do a lot of work.<br />
- When I think of Morrissey, I think of the flower in the back pocket or Mick Jagger and the scarf around his neck. It's great if people think of my mustache and boots when they think of Sam's Town.<br />
- It was a pretty big risk to release it as the album's first single. <b>I mean it doesn't even have a real chorus.</b> [When You Were Young]<br />
-That's, uhhh.....that's, errr....Ya know, I don't know if I'm actually prepared yet for that one. [what he would say if he met the Boss] <br />
-Sales-wise, I guess it's doing fine, but we've still got a lot of work to do. Everywhere in the world it's getting great reviews, except America. They
don't appreciate it. We didn't get the cover of Rolling Stone for the
first album (Hot Fuss) and we sold five million records. And we're nowhere near getting the cover after what they have said about this album. It's
really hard for us because Rolling Stone is such a staple in rock ' n '
roll music and they are not embracing an American band doing what we
are doing. I'm confused - Paris Hilton and Britney Spears get on the
cover. It's frustrating because everywhere else has really taken off. <br />
- We're nowhere near getting the cover after what they have said about this album. [Rolling Stone Sam's Town review]<br />
- <b>Record companies aren't used to dealing with smart bands wanting to be successful on their own terms.</b><br />
- <b>I'm the romance and this is a kiss.</b><br />
- ...which sucks because the songs are beautiful, no matter how ugly my tongue can be.<br />
- I can't help it. I love so many different types of music I don't want to be tied down.<br />
- Where the White Boys Dance is a real slut.<br />
- I don't even know if I knew where Panama was before we played there.<br />
- Sexy dancing is always encouraged.<br />
- LETS LIFT THE ROOF OF THIS SON OF BITCH!<br />
- You ever seen Brokeback?<br />
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- Dave said 50 more years? Huh. Well, Dave's a little bit out of it. He'll be, like, 80 years old by then. Though having said that, that might be about the time I can slip down to the Strip and start crooning in one of those hotels. As long as I'm still singing, I'd do that in a heartbeat.<br />
- We are sky diving wizards, and <b>the difference between wizards and magicians is that the magic is real.</b> That's what I believe about The Killers, and eventually we're gonna hammer away at people's heads until it's just undeniable. I promise.<br />
- I love everyone.<br />
- <b>I trust people, and they're assholes.</b><br />
- Your receding hairline is becoming a problem. Ask Dave about hair plugs.<br />
- Interviewer - Do you trust your fans? Brandon - Yes, they're smart!<br />
- *beeeeeep* HEY!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!<br />
- People need to learn that we all bleed red.<br />
- I've got pop in my blood. If you cut me open a chorus will come out.<br />
- Are you serious? <b>I can't imagine never having eaten a Twinkie.</b><br />
- I'm not a rocket scientist, but <b>if it's not hard then how is it even going in?</b><br />
- ...Melody is what makes the world go 'round.<br />
- <b>The Killers are the pie and I guess the looks are the cherry.</b><br />
- Pretty soon we’ll be in Britain and when we play that song and get to ‘Higher and higher’ it won't matter what Rolling Stone wrote any more.<br />
- And now<b> I’ve almost been shredded down to nothing from all these reviews.</b><br />
- I said it was one of the best albums in the past 20 years, not the best. There’s a big difference.<br />
- Yeah, I'm pretty easily led! It brings a lot more drama to my life than I'd like. People around us and the record label and management, it upsets them. [journalists goading him to say controversial things]<br />
- Off the cuff, <b>I say ugly things sometimes</b>, and people go off of that, instead of just letting the songs speak for themselves. That's partially my fault. I need to let the songs speak for themselves, too, maybe. At the same time, I just can't help it. <b>I tell people what I think.</b><br />
- I felt like, as a- I hate to say 'artist'- I'm not doing my job justice if I'm not representing where I'm from.<br />
-We're from Vegas. The glitz, the glamour. You go into a diner or a
7-Eleven, and there are pictures of Sinatra and Elvis on the walls.
Performing is in our blood. <br />
- You know when your family comes to town and you go to a buffet? [Laughs] I grew up with that, but I love it.<br />
-Not intimidating, just unbelievable. I was always confident, probably
always will be about the songs and writing songs, but sometimes you feel
like slapping yourself in the face. You can't believe that it's all
happened so quickly. You're amazed that these people even know who you are. <br />
-It was a holy place. I wish I could show you a picture of it. It was
covered in posters. There'd be a big picture of Elvis wearing a bow tie
that just said 'The Smiths' [the artwork for The Smiths 1987 single <i>Shoplifters Of The World Unite</i>]. You had The Cure wearing face paint [the artwork to The Cure's 1985 single <i>In Between Days</i>]
- all that kind of stuff. I remember Morrissey being on the cover of
the NME, with the halo [from 1985] - stuff like that. You just wanted
to know about these people 'cause they were so cool. My brother seemed
like such a cool person. But he was a teenager, so he wasn't going to
be that nice to me, a kid.<br />
-I would sneak in. I knew he'd be angry if he found out, but I
would go in as soon as he left the house... [playing his music] That didn't come 'til
later. I just used to go in there because I liked it. Then I got to
the point where I'd actually take a tape out and put it in. It took
more guts to do that. [older brother's room] <br />
- I myself love the smell of a casino. That's kind of nostalgic, I guess, from when I was a kid.<br />
- There are moments where we just look like amateurs between songs and <b>I have a real tough time talking to the crowd still. </b><br />
<b>-</b>My big story - and this is not made up - is that when I had just met
Dave, our guitar player, the Elevation Tour came to Las Vegas and I had a
hundred dollars and my brother had seen them in Salt Lake City. He said
you have got to see this show; you have got to see it. So I used my
hundred dollars on getting a ticket from a scalper and I got into the
heart! I was expecting to be watching from the top, but the ticket was
the real deal and it was weird when they came on because it was one of
the most amazing shows I have ever seen.<b> </b><br />
- I have an unexplainable drive. I don't know exactly where it comes from, but it borders on obsession. There's something special about bringing that many people together and celebrating that way. I want that! <b>I am greedy and selfish but I want that every night.</b><br />
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- I wonder if it's weird that I get manicures! My dad didn't get manicures, I don't know if I should. Why do I? Because they give you a massage at the end of it. It feels nice.<br />
- Seriously, the last time I heard steel drums was in The Little Mermaid! I don't know if that's a good reason or not to use them.<br />
- We were these poor kids and the whole idea of being a band was to put ourselves out there as this glamorous thing. Almost the opposite of the Strokes - these wealthy kids who are these dirty rock 'n' rollers.<br />
- <b>It's not really lipstick; it's more of a gloss.</b><br />
- I've never tried to emulate anybody, but I've been singing along for 10 years, so I'm sure there's a little Sinatra that comes out in my singing every now and then.<br />
- [Hunky Dory] is the most important record to me, ever. There's not one song I skip past.<br />
- I never said we were trying to reinvent the wheel. We just want to keep it rolling. [Billboard, Sept. '06]<br />
- I wish people would take their preconceptions about jackets I've worn or eyeliner I've applied and just listen to my words. There are some lyrics I'm proud of that haven't gotten any attention. I guess it takes time...<br />
- People are so afraid of what I call our 'sophisticated bigness'. <b>They think it's impossible that you can sell a lot of records and have half a brain. But we're doing it...</b><br />
- My older brother was one. His room was like a temple. I wasn't allowed to go in there. I would sneak in as soon as he left. It was a whole other world in his room. That's where I fell in love with music. [nonmusical influence]<br />
- My favorite line from Alphaville's "Forever Young" is 'Hoping for the best but expecting the worst'.<br />
- <b>I'm working to get over the barrier I have about really believing that people are at the shows because they like us.</b><br />
<b>-</b>I was ten and the first song I played was <i>Sing Your Life</i> by Morrissey. I remember dancing about to it.<b> </b><br />
- You can't save the world with music. But I can try. I have the same job as Bruce Springsteen. I have to go as far as I can with it.<br />
- I know I say things that other people don't. I process what I'm thinking and say it anyway. I won't wear a muzzle.<br />
- I understand that there are people out there who want us to fail, but, I'm sorry, this is what I've been put on earth to do. [Spin, June '06]<br />
- Oh, that's another thing Eric Roberts said to me. <b>He said: 'Have you fucked a showgirl yet?' And I said 'No'.</b><br />
- <b>I wear Rolling Stones and David Bowie shirts from Hot Topic.</b><br />
- Oh man, does this make us whores? [Killers shirts at Urban Outfitters]<br />
- Liberace had his lover surgically altered to look like him. <b>That's bad, when you wanna have sex with yourself.</b><br />
- I guess I'm somewhat showy.<br />
- It seems like you are always trying to prove yourself. I think it's a
good way to be. I think you should always have a level you are trying to
surpass. If you look at all great artists they are the same. They work
hard at what they do to get where they are at. You do have to burn
brightly to shine. [2004] <br />
- Dude, we should get custard! Oh man! <b>He's never had custard, for hell's sake!</b> We gotta go to Luv It. It's the best frozen custard in Vegas.<br />
-You can't say you expected it but I expected it eventually! I am a
perfectionist and I knew it would happen but for it to happen so
quickly, it kind of scares me as I don't want to do so much so soon. I
feel like we have earned it but you know I want to play 15 hits, like U2
do! I want to go up there and earn it, so we are going to earn it.<br />
<br />
- Listen to 'All These Things That I've Done' and what a beautiful, moving song that is - and I'm saying that from a listener's (standpoint) not from the person who wrote it. It's such a wonderful piece of music that moves people, and <b>people just want to write about transvestites and whether I'm wearing eye makeup or not.</b><br />
<b>-</b>We never mean any harm, but it will be very difficult for other bands to
follow All These Things That I've Done. It has turned out to be a song that can blow people away. It's a live song. It thrives in that environment.<br />
<b>-</b>In Europe, as soon as people heard my accent, I was treated poorly. People see us as devils, and we're getting a bad rap because of
the war. I wanted to make an album that was human, that reminded people
what's great about America. [USA Today, Oct. '06]<br />
- They say Jen doesn't want to have babies and stuff, so you gotta sympathize with Brad.<br />
- That was a high point for us. We're kind of scared 'cause we've had so
many of those on this album. What are we gonna do for the second
record? We have to play on Mars or something to beat Live 8. [Spin, Jan. '06]<br />
- People come to Vegas to get rich. Most people aren't going to get it. But that thought keeps a gleam in their eyes. It's a good thing. Other people grow out of it. They lose that gleam and become cynical bastards.<br />
-A lot of bands are getting cynical about hooks and lazier with lyrics and melodies. <br />
- The glamorous façade was fun. I grew up very poor. You sign a record deal, you get a little money. It's exciting. But how much fun is it going to be if people only care about what color jacket I'm wearing?<br />
- It's difficult because there's a certain level of expectation of someone in our shoes. People expect a certain level of debauchery. Sometimes we don't live up to that. A lot of times we don't. Then <b>there are people like this Pete Doherty who gets taken dead seriously because he has a heroin problem.</b><br />
- I don't think I'm here to represent every American and humanize America with Sam's Town - but I was trying.<br />
- My parents are sweet, humble people.<br />
- There was a lot of pressure, even if you're never in a band growing up,
you hear about the sophomore slump and blah blah blah, you have your
whole life to make the first album, and all these things are true. We
started to realise, we had months and months and months to make the
first album and there was no pressure, and then all of a sudden there
are people that are hungry for more music, and people that want us to
fail, and we want to prove-- we want to convert everybody and just do
the best we can, but I think we're really happy with the outcome. <br />
-I wouldn't exist without that
song [The Cars' Just What I Needed]. That was the one. I remember driving around with my
mom when I was 13, and we're living in Nephi - a really small town - and
I felt so cool when I put that song on. Like: 'I have something that
none of these kids I'm going to middle school with tomorrow have.' That
excitement is what music's about, isn't it? That's why I understand
the mentality of people that don't like us because we've sold so many
records. I used to like it when no one else knew about a band. So I
get that - I do. <br />
- You know when they say a pregnant woman glows. That's what I felt like when I was falling in love with his music [Springsteen].<br />
- It's not all gold and glitz.<br />
- My son is growing up somewhere right now and he doesn't see me. That is wrong.<br />
- <b>I hope that someone will tell us when we're not good anymore... I hope my wife will...</b><br />
- The music I hear on the radio in America is awful, so we have to do something.<br />
- To some people, success means having a record deal and being able to pay the bills. This band wants to take things as far as we can.<br />
- <b>As a band, we're not very good socially.</b><br />
- I think [Hunter S. Thompson] was very concerned with the direction of where we were headed in America and it's amazing how simply worded he put it, just by saying 'I'm afraid that we're raising a generation of dancers.' It says so much. So I stole it and made it into this song. <b>One ironic thing is Hunter S. Thompson hated disco music. </b>[Human]<b><br />
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- In terms of our fans, I'd like to think they're smart and open-minded and don't want us to keep reinventing the wheel.<b> If you've been a fan for a long time, you're prepared for change.</b><br />
- Hell, we're so old-school we don't even pay someone to blog for us.<br />
- I'm not very good at talking to fans. I don't think we try to be mysterious on purpose but most of this blogging and twittering doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I grew up before everyone had a computer and a Web site. It's not that we don't care about our fans, but we don't see the need to communicate with them in that way.<br />
-I like things that are made up just as much as my own experiences. For
me it makes it more interesting. I don't treat it as therapy or
anything. Every song is not my diary. [2004] <br />
- I'm obsessive about a lot of aspects of the band — ridiculous stuff, really, like T-shirt designs and other little things.<br />
- <b>I think acknowledging I'm different from people in most bands is enough of a statement in itself</b>.<br />
- There's a big misconception that you can't be artistic or sophisticated and be big.<br />
- We were doing this scene [Mr. Brightside]. It's like my first acting ever, and between the takes I'm talking to him [Eric Roberts] about fame. I told him we went to Graceland. And he says, 'It's almost grand, isn't it?' And I was like, 'Yeah.' And then he smiles and says, 'But it's so fucking white trash.' About Graceland! <b>Who says that? He's evil! he's the devil.</b><br />
- <b>There’s nothing wrong with writing songs that people will like.</b><br />
- We’ve grown as a band but we still want to write these big songs. <b>I want people to know where the chorus is and love it.</b><br />
<b>-</b>They're in their 60s. I was raised on the morals and values that seem to
be eroding or dying now. We're going downhill, it seems to me. The work
ethic has changed. My dad was a hard worker and still is at 64. People
today are lazy. [parents]<b> </b><br />
<b>-</b>I'm excited about it and the plan is to make it as soon as possible.
Actually, that's my plan but not everyone else's! I'm a little younger
than the rest of the band, got a little more fire in me. But I want to
get it out as soon as possible, the new songs sound great.<b> </b><br />
- <b>We don't want to be 'that [synth] band' forever. We'll let someone else be that.</b><br />
- We're still just playing gigs every day. The only thing different is maybe the hotel's a little nicer.<br />
- We are the hounds of hell. And I promise you that our bite is much worse than our bark.<br />
- I always feel like someone is staring at me. It means I won't do certain things. I wouldn't sit here naked after a shower, for example.<br />
- <b>Because I'm not the most secure person in the world, when we play a gig I'm very conscious if someone walks out of the room or laughs.</b><br />
- Once you get political, you're in a whole new area. And we're not there yet — I don't know if we ever will be.<br />
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- I read [Kerouac's] On The Road while we were making this album [D&A]. I'm a little late there but it's been a whole new world for me.<br />
- <b>If you’re the loner, there are always going to be people that you want to be, even if it’s just for one day. I’m not sure I should tell you who Andy is...</b> He was my friend in eighth grade: a football player and the popular kid. <br />
- I know the right time to send flowers. Sometimes it's not on the calendar and it's not about Valentine's Day- it's knowing when to do it.<br />
- When I listened to the Cars’ ‘Just What I Needed’ or ‘Double Life,’ <b>it made me feel like the coolest person alive— which I wasn’t.</b><br />
- Award ceremonies are... alright.<br />
-That's how we got noticed! Our manager picked us up, when he saw us on a
local website. We'd half heartedly put a demo we'd done up there. You
know, today man - the internet is leaps and bounds ahead. It's
everything. It's everything, it's your audio, your visual, your
communication system. It's great. [2004] <br />
-It's not like the '60s, '70s and '80s now. There are only a few bands
around that are really good, that just do it. I mean, there's what,
five or six of us? ["For the record, in Brandon's estimation, those bands are Franz
Ferdinand, Razorlight, The Strokes, The White Stripes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs
and, of course, The Killers."]-2006 <br />
- I've never been against making people dance. The music I grew up with made me dance even if it wasn't labeled as dance music.<br />
- My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him.<br />
- I sang about Grandma Dixie and my brother being born on the Fourth of July. <b>Guess what? My grandma's name is fucking Dixie, and my brother was born on the fucking 4th of July.</b> The album is very real. I was being honest on Sam's Town, and it bit me in the butt.<br />
- All the anger I had toward what people were saying about Sam's Town made me want to prove how good the music was.<br />
-I've just always liked the idea of it. A lot of my favorite bands have
had that on their albums. Not usually on their first album, but you
never know how many you're going to get to make nowadays so might as
well do it. [2004- having a gospel choir on stage for ATTTID at Coachella] <br />
- The reaction to Sam's Town took me to a bad place.<br />
- My music lights a fire under me.<br />
- <b>When I hear other people, I want to be better than them. I won't apologize for it. It's nothing dirty.</b><br />
- You can't compete with hip-hop. <b>That doesn't mean I don't want to be as big as a rap star. I do- I'm always competitive.</b><br />
- Every day I drive down that street and I can still see the slab from the trailer park where my mom and dad's families lived and they met. I love going to restaurants where my mom and dad took me 20 years ago.<br />
- People have been ridiculous with the amount of attention paid to the saxophone. <b>They've been like children about it.</b><br />
- People who want to be big have haircuts and muscles. I guess that's why the Killers are so unique.<br />
- <b>Some of our best tracks are slow risers.</b><br />
<b>-</b>I've bumped shoulders with Kasabian and Muse (also on the bill) but never talked to them. It
will be fun to do some band-bonding because we are usually in our own
little world and bands can treat each other like gangs at festivals. I am trying to get over that and go up and talk to people and find out they are not as evil as you make them.<b> </b><br />
- I think artists of my generation have too big egos to be inspired by each other. Although I’m not afraid to say that Arcade Fire and Coldplay’s new stuff makes me want to do better.<br />
- <b>I always feel like there's something wrong with me because I don't have some sort of awful outlook on life.</b><br />
- We all just kind of said, you know, fuck it. You know, people laugh at sax solos. <b>We just said, fuck it.</b><br />
- The landscapes [on 'Human']— that would be more Stuart. <b>We'd do the meat and potatoes, and he adds the galaxy.</b><br />
- We learned that you can’t please everyone, but we’ve got faith in what we do, faith in our fans and faith in the soon-to-be-converted.<br />
-<b> Sam’s Town was a giant success. That’s a misunderstood truth.</b><br />
- <b>I don’t even know why people want to talk to me.</b><br />
- I can't leave it [Henderson]. I take comfort in taking my son to the park where my mom took me to the park.<br />
- <b>The sky used to be the limit, and it's not anymore. It's about 200 feet, and beyond that people think you're being comical.</b><br />
- I just want to kind of be normal for a week.<br />
- People either say [Sam's Town] is really good or really bad. <b>I'm happy that it's not in the middle.</b> It's either 'I hate this with all the blood I have in me to hate,' or 'I really love it, and I think it's better than Hot Fuss, and it's going in the right direction.'<br />
- I listen to it [Hot Fuss] as much as I listen to anything else, which is sort of pathetic.<br />
- <b>We don't want to get lost in the confetti, but we want to have confetti.</b><br />
- It's good to be different, because you see things in a different way.<br />
- <b>I think I get a little weirder as I get older.</b> It's almost like I'm allowed to.<br />
- I'm a worrywart. My mom gave me that gift… I was paranoid when I was a kid. If I saw someone with a beard, they were gonna kidnap me, there was no doubt in my mind.<br />
- <b>I didn't kiss a girl 'til I was 19, so I was deathly afraid of it, and I think that still exists in my brain.</b><br />
<b>-</b>The record company want us to keep touring, because Hot Fuss is still
selling, but we are tired now and you can lose touch with reality. I
want to go home and drive a car, do ordinary things.<b> </b><br />
- <b>In high school I wouldn't say I was unlovable or untouchable – but nobody wanted to!</b><br />
- I get frustrated with everything. I think people are lazy.<br />
- <b>Vegas goes through phases. Ten years ago they tried to make it a family thing. Now it's 'come and cheat on your wife.'</b><br />
- <b>Anybody that ever picked up a guitar and says they didn't imagine playing a song in front of thousands of screaming people is a liar.</b> Nobody just sat down and said, 'I've gotta bare my soul and be an artist.' I'm not afraid to admit what I want.<br />
- I love this life, it's amazing. I love to breathe in the air. I think it's a gift to have a body. I want to experience having kids.<br />
- If I got a dollar for every time I was propositioned up to some MILF's room, I'd be a rich man.<br />
- So far, people have been really good about it. No one's called me a faggot or booed me off the stage- yet. [on wearing make-up]<br />
- I'm a big horror film fan. I enjoy the thrill of being scared, particularly when it affects you for days afterwards. It's invigorating.<br />
- U2 I give more respect than even the Stones, because they write songs that they should be writing at their age. I'm not gonna try to write 'Somebody Told Me' again when I'm 40.<br />
- I'm an optimistic person, but<b> I would've assumed if we did win [a Grammy], it was because somebody did somebody a favor or something.</b><br />
- We're an intelligent band and we have intelligent songs, and these people who interview us are used to these kids, which we're really not. We have the mentality almost of an underground band, but they're asking us mainstream questions. That's where we're colliding.<br />
-We're happy in the direction that we're going. I've
said some things that have kind of backfired. I didn't really mean for
that to happen. I expected them to help what we're doing. That's kind of
a shame. It's taken away from people listening to the album without
sort of a prejudice, so to say. You know, in twenty years nobody's going
to know what was said. When they get Sam's Town, they're not going to
know about me saying that stuff. That's not going to be attached to it.
That's the beauty of it. I think it's going to last. When I hear "When
You Were Young" on the radio, I'm so proud. I know that that will
eventually get through. <br />
- <b>Anyone who thinks we are a one-hit wonder will think again.</b><br />
- They said that? That's funny, really funny. [on The Bravery saying he felt "threatened" by them]<br />
- <b>Look, I'm not supposed to be doing this any more but, well, you're poking me and so I'll say this: to me, The Bravery just aren't real.</b><br />
- I've never actually said anything bad about anyone who didn't deserve it, but, occasionally, it is brought on by jealousy. <b>When I hear a good song, it really does piss me off.</b><br />
- Great music is great music but image is priceless. <b>I'm not saying I'm in this position because I'm good-looking, but it certainly helps.</b><br />
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- I still don't have much money. I don't know if money will change me.<br />
- <b>I don't want to reveal too much about myself - or it'll ruin my mystique!</b><br />
- I was always into jackets with jeans and vintage T-shirts, but then the beloved Strokes came along... [Q: And franchised the look?] Well yes, so I had to find something else. <b>I chose a more dandy kind of route.</b><br />
- The highlight of my life is Noel [Gallagher] saying to me that he'd learned All These Things That I've Done on guitar.<br />
- [Q:Fall Out Boy said some not-so-kind things about you] B: Yeah, but I don't know why. I never said anything. <b>My coat-tails are getting dirty.</b><br />
- [Q:Your fans seem to want to know your favorite color] B: <b>Chrome.</b><br />
- Putting on a suit, a little make-up ... It feels the right thing to do.<br />
- I believe that we live on. Maybe the body dies, but I think you get a new one. I look at the trees and the sun, the air and the water. Everything is just too perfect, down to our digestive system. [Jane, Oct. '06]<br />
- A rental car in Savannah, Georgia. In the middle of touring we had a week off. I have a problem with flying
so instead of going home, my wife came to me and we rented a car and
drove around. Just pulled off on some dirt roads... [craziest place he had sex] [Jane, Oct. '06]<br />
- In my case she would have to be..... evil. [laughs] [How a girl can get a song written about her]<br />
- <b>America is last in line to believe we are what we are, and I will not stop until they understand.</b> They will understand one day...<br />
- I was driving home one day and it dawned on me the man who sings Human doesn't wear a mustache. So that's when I decided to shave.<br />
- I remember kicking a boy that my mom babysat and hurting him and feeling guilty for the first time in my life. [earliest memory]<br />
- <b>Who are we to deny the world pleasure?</b><br />
- They don't write about it when we give each other hugs and kisses.<br />
- I'm not very good at talking about the songs. I'm better at singing the songs.<br />
- <b>I'll say it was a terrible experience, and I was a lot older than most people.</b> [first time he had sex]<br />
- <b>I'm a romantic guy.</b><br />
- Eventually I’m going to enter the salt-and-pepper stage of my life where I’ll have a “distinguished attractiveness.” <b>But really, I could have decades more of hotness. </b>[Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
- [Q:gypsies: hot or not?] B: Hot! <b>I would defend a gypsy. </b>[Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
-Jean Paul Gaultier started to make eyeliner for men. <b>Once you have the beard and you put the eyeliner on, you get a whole new thing going — a gypsy thing. </b>[Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
-I gotta give Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow credit for Moses because it’s such a strong name... [Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
-[Q:Hot or Not: Hot new sexual position?] B: Uh, is there a new one? [Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
-[Q:Hot or Not: Beards?] B: Beards are hot right now. [Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
-[Q:Hot or Not: Global warming?] B: Depends on how you look at it. <b>Al Gore is hot. </b>[Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
- There really is no downside to being as hot as I am. Except maybe that my hotness has caused car accidents. [Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
-<b> I went through a low self-esteem phase from 10 to 18. Things changed when I started playing music. </b>[Blender, Sept. '06]<br />
- I love Las Vegas. But whenever we play there, you see it in people's eyes, that they're just hoping you mess up or something.<br />
- I love Las Vegas. I don't think I'll ever leave.<br />
- I just read an interview Morrissey did where he was talking about how excited he was when 'This Charming Man' came out in the charts at No. 59. So it hit me like a ton of bricks when 'Somebody Told Me' was No. 19.<br />
- In England they look at you like you're an alien if you say you're from Las Vegas. We've had people ask us what hotel we live in.<br />
- Condoms. People would call down and ask me to bring condoms to the rooms, so I'd go to the gift shop and buy their condoms.<br />
-I hate that. Like writing a song you can hum somehow
cheapens it? It makes me think of this quote by Morrissey. Everybody
knows how he read Oscar Wilde, Keats and Yates when he was growing up
and that he wanted to be a writer. He was talking to this journalist
who asked why he hadn't become a writer, and Morrissey said: 'What I do
is more powerful than what you do because I can write down these words
and you get it to a melody. How can you beat that?' I'm of the same
opinion. I don't understand why a good melody that's memorable is a bad
thing. <br />
-I was propositioned quite a few times, -I'd get the call at my bell desk... but I declined.<br />
- It's difficult staying normal in Vegas. You go to school with girls who say 'Well, when I get outta high school, I may as well strip.' But there are good girls there. I got a good one. She's a manager.<br />
- We don't hear those kinds of uplifting records that could change your life being made anymore so we decided to make one ourselves.<br />
-hey didn't embrace us, they still don't. They write nothing but bad
things about us, and that kinda.. hurts your feelings. When you go home
and, you go all over the world and you're so excited and really proud
of what we've done and you go home and you have all this negative
energy. But we get past it. <br />
-<b> I'm paranoid all the time because of YouTube.</b><br />
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- The other bands in Las Vegas hated us. They still do. <b>We don't get much love in Las Vegas. But their girlfriends like us.</b><br />
- The great thing about Vegas is the tips. You've always got this wad in your pocket, you know it's there, you want to count it all day It's exciting. I loved it.<br />
- I think sometimes I get my way a little bit, but I've definitely not gotten my way every time, so it's definitely not a dictatorship.<br />
- I wouldn't say I was a rebel, but I don't think the make-up would go down so well at church.<br />
- <b>Do you think someone spat on my burger?</b> [upon seeing bubbles of meat juice in his burger]<br />
- I didn't realize the lesson I learned from Morrissey at the time but I do now. He didn't deal with me in a bad way, but his bodyguards did. I know now it's ridiculous taking a guy a pizza and telling him how much you love him. As a kid you don't know that. Now I make sure not to embarrass people who approach me. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
- I think we're ambitious, and people aren't used to that any more. <b>You grow up and you're told anything's possible, to reach for the stars. But you know, when somebody's doing it they get slapped on the hands and that's strange. </b>I guess your supposed to do it quietly. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
- <b>Morrissey owns a piece of my brain.</b><br />
- I like to play some roulette and blackjack, and take my wife to dinner - keep the economy going.<br />
- I don’t sleep as much, <b>I play a lot of keyboard and drink chocolate milk</b>, so it has been creatively stimulating giving up drink.<br />
- I do dream about having physical confrontations with the band quite a lot, but it’s been a long time since it really happened.<br />
- We flew over tornadoes in Texas once. It was scary and terrible, like King Kong was punching the airplane. There were a lot of people praying and crying— I was doing a little of both. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/248660.html">FHM</a> Oct '06]<br />
- I don't have anything to say to the crowd. I feel like its boring for them to watch. So me and Dave talk about DVDs, apples, bananas..<br />
-I see us being around as long as U2 but in the way they have done it.
They can do nothing wrong, it is a weird thing, they are special, you'll
have to wait and see if we are special too - I think we are. I've have
always felt that way, but maybe every person in a band feels that way.
You never know.<br />
We'll see! <br />
- Life would be miserable if we went around listening to what everyone said about us. So fuck it! Here's our Christmas song.<br />
- I'm wearing mint, man!<br />
-I feel like Frank Sinatra when I sing it. With
maybe a little bit of Morrissey and a little bit of Elvis, too. [Bones] <br />
-Yeah, we've had problems with other bands. You know, when you walk in the room it's like... [ whistles the theme to <i>The Good, The Bad And The Ugly</i>.] We're like gangs. <br />
- <b>I’m telling you what I feel. I want to be better than you.</b><br />
- I mean... it goes both ways. Sometimes I hate myself... but I love myself too.<br />
- I'm very particular about the way I do my T-shirts. The moment I take them out of the dryer is very precise. I like them still a little damp.<br />
- We just kinda.. stared at him. (McCartney)<br />
- I've forgotten how beautiful the voices were of the people of this Grand Rapids, Grand...fuck!, Dallas area! <b>And they ask me why I don't talk so much inbetween songs.</b><br />
- When I get into the jacket, I feel good and strong and...triumphant! [feather jacket]<br />
- I'm a solid eight, I think. Getting more manly, a little bit more rugged. Wisdom I'd say six-and-a-quarter but I'm growing, I think.<br />
- <b>I'm more confident in my handsomeness than I am in my wisdom.</b><br />
- I fell and slit my pants, up the crack... Someone got me more trousers and I was behind the curtain with a person on each leg trying to take off my boots. I had black underpants on so no-one saw anything. Commando would have been a disaster. A YouTube phenomenon.<br />
- <b>I didn't know I could be so selfless. I would do anything for my kids. Anything.</b><br />
- I'm afraid for the future. I'm gonna raise my kid good.<br />
- I would like to be an idol to everyone. Not just teens.<br />
- <b>My dad isn't a talker. It's hard for him to give you much.</b> But that song has drawn me closer to him. [Thunder Road]<br />
- Ronnie's always talking about how deodorant gives you cancer, so I don't wear it.<br />
- <b>I think I was a vampire for about four Halloweens in a row. I’ve always leaned toward the dark side, I guess.</b><br />
- Our main selling point really is that we are the greatest band ever to have come out of Las Vegas.<br />
- I'm not saying I'm in this position because I'm good-looking, but it certainly helps.<br />
- Conundrum, desert and Ammon -- it's my son's name. [favorite words]<br />
- <b>You know what I would change about this moment? Nothing.</b><br />
- I used to wear a lot more glitter. Now everyone's wearing makeup. <b>I mean, Green Day? Come on. At least leave us the makeup.</b><br />
- For the next album, I'm gonna be a hunk of burning love.<br />
- Neon Tiger is about a tiger.<br />
- When I do an interview in Europe I get treated with respect, like I’m David Byrne.<br />
- <b>Saxophone has become the mustache of Day & Age.</b><br />
- If Vegas was in heaven, that's what a Killers gig is like.<br />
- I still take out the trash and vacuum, I change my baby's diapers. I think we're pretty solid.<br />
- I tend to have a chip on my shoulder.<br />
- You buy a sandwich and hope that it pleases the palette. I'm in the business of writing songs and I hope they please your ears.<br />
- I feel more comfortable with a microphone in my face than probably walking down the street.<br />
- A guy came up to me once, he worked at GQ, and he said "you have great GPS!" and I said "what is GPS?" and he said "great personal style."<br />
- When I'm high, I feel lazy and it doesn't motivate me. Some people love to write, but it makes me want to watch TV.<br />
- I have never done illegal drugs in my whole life. Not even a drag of a joint. [o rly]<br />
- I just don't know how I feel about a million Europeans singing "I don't want to be an American Idiot."<br />
- I wash my face with... My wife got it for me... What's it called, hon? Philosophy. It's really good stuff. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
- You don't have to be a poet to say something profound, but a poet in the midst of jealousy helps.<br />
- I don't know how their nipples don't fall out.<br />
- <b>The people who are sitting down - you're killing me. We are not The Fray. </b>[in concert]<b><br />
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- If he didn't have the helmet on, it wouldn't have freaked me out at all!<br />
- Basically we're just ripping off Moulin Rouge.<br />
- <b>They take your money, and your women. That's kinda what we are. Pirates.</b><br />
- Earlier, I met with my tailor here, Joseph, for about an hour. <b>People in Las Vegas can’t really get their heads around how tight I want something to be— it blows their minds. But Joseph, he understands me.</b><br />
- No. I've always been very aware of my sexuality. I'm very comfortable with that.<b> I do like women. From very early on. Probably too early.</b><br />
-<b> I'm on a mission to bring back the boat shoe.</b><br />
- My parents took me to see Silence of the Lambs when I was 7 years old. <b>That could explain a lot.</b><br />
- They would live in huts but they would have Doritos.. so they're almost for real.<br />
- <b>I think we scared all the girls off with the facial hair from Sam’s Town.</b><br />
- The occasional bra is tossed on stage. I usually don't touch them.<br />
- Are you serious? I can't imagine never having eaten a Twinkie.<br />
- I think they would probably kick the band out and I would be the next American Idol.<br />
- I don’t know what Gossip Girl is.<br />
- Thank you for having us and our feathers.<br />
- I had an epiphany in the shower the other day.<br />
- Would Elvis be the same if he dressed like the guy who mows your lawn?<br />
- Free Martha, man.<br />
- How am I gonna celebrate? <b>Well I've put away at least three bottles of water, yeah its crazy times.</b><br />
- <b>We're gonna play this last song as hard we can. Are you willing to receive it as hard as you can?</b><br />
- Word to the wise: Start a band, just on the off chance that one day you will get to pet Brobee.<br />
- Well, before a show, you know, to relax, we like to kill someone.<br />
- <b>Our fans are very smart people!</b><br />
- <b>I really do believe the world is better with The Killers in it.</b><br />
- Briefs. I think it's a very grown up thing to do.<br />
-Yeah, in the Palms, and then we went to London to finish it because we
fell behind. A lot of it was my fault, because I didn't have the lyrics
done....So we took three months longer making the album than we anticipated. <br />
- <b>Sainsburys humus and salt and vinegar crisps, and you put it on two slices of white bread and it's.. lunch.</b><br />
- I don't look so hot in cheerleading uniform.<br />
- <b>Pirates are alright.</b><br />
- When you're prolific you should put it out. In the '60s and '70s, it was sometimes three albums a year for people. That would be ideal for us, since we love to write and play new stuff, but that's just not how it is anymore. So it'll be a good year and a half between records, but the sooner the better. We want to stick around and give people good things to listen to.<br />
- I had a brother who was 12 years older than me, and he was into the Cars, the Beatles, Morrissey, and The Cure. He was always watching U2's Rattle and Hum and Morrissey videos. I would sneak into his room when he was at school. He had the coolest posters.<br />
- I could get shot for this, but I don't think having a museum in your town makes you better than anyone else. I'm really sick of that attitude. Maybe that's me being ignorant. But we did fine without it. I mean, you can watch movies and read books, and there is music, you've just got to find it. We did it all on our own.<br />
- <b>I learned the difference between good girls and bad girls. I can tell the second I meet someone.</b><br />
- I remember hearing girls behind me in english class talking about turning 18 and being old enough to strip. It wasn't weird at the time.<br />
- The White Stripes would be on it. The strokes, Franz Fedinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon. Those are my favorites. You could throw Interpol on it. <b>I don't like The Stills.</b> [mixtape]<br />
- <b>I don't know if I see drugs or slutty girls or something it just might be me who turns away.</b> I don't know it it's just the way I am, saying 'I'm going to bed now' or if it's from being raised Mormon.<br />
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- The androgyny means we appeal to boys and girls. That's really important to us. [Somebody Told Me]<br />
- It's about a football player from my high school. <b>Teachers favor the football players and wrestlers. It's made known: these guys are special.</b> In fact, the teachers encouraged the hierarchy, as a lot of them were coaches too...<b>it's a song for a loner.</b> [Andy]<br />
- Every band gives a thought to their image. <b>Even the ones who don't appear to care, or look like they haven't bothered, have made a conscious decision specifically not to look like they've made an effort.</b><br />
- The song is a cliché. But that's good because it makes it more memorable. And that's what you want songs to be. [Somebody Told Me]<br />
-Like, two stars in Rolling Stone. But there have been a
lot of great things said about it too, most of it from England and
Europe. A lot of great press has been written about the record. [MTV, Oct. '06]<br />
- People over here (UK) aren't afraid to admit that they like something. If they hear a good song they're gonna clap and scream. In the US it's much harder to get people to appreciate you.<br />
-Fonzie was at our show... He was there for Morrissey though. He liked us. We converted the Fonz. <br />
- Yeah, somebody's gotta do it. We love bands like the Strokes and things like that, but we want to take it - not necessarily just mainstream - but to a bigger level, even song-wise. <b>I mean, the Strokes are great, but they don't have U2 quality, like stadium.</b> And we're not really afraid to say, 'I wouldn't mind playing in a stadium with big songs.' <br />
- I don't think great bands come out of great music scenes. I don't need some local person to inspire me.<br />
-We were so worried about what was going to happen in these past few
months, as you watch other bands slide into oblivion after big debut
albums. It's scary. <br />
-I watched the other [Vegas] bands worry so much about these small gigs that didn't mean anything. I mean, it meant something to play out, but they worried, you know, about other local bands... My head wasn't with the local scene, it was always above it.<br />
- I mean, if I made chairs, I would want people to buy my chairs, you know? <b>So I don't care if it's a cool person, I don't care if it's somebody people think is an idiot, you still want them to buy it. I want as many people to hear it as possible.</b> ... We all like the big bands, and we're not afraid to be one.<br />
- First of all, I was a bell-man. And it wasn't as exciting as it's made out to be. It was usually just miserable. I'd make like $2 on the graveyard shift. It was Western-themed, and sometimes, when the rodeo was in town, I used to have to cart these really heavy brass sculptures into the cowboys' rooms, like an old man smoking a pipe, or a cowboy riding a bull. <b>I don't know what was going on with that.</b><br />
- It's OK to be young at heart, but humping someone's leg is ... well, a little too young.<br />
- Everything today sucks ... Bands like The Stills bother me because they're all style and no substance. It's totally obvious that these kids don't love the classics like we love them. <b>They're just in it for the now.</b><br />
- <b>Yeah there's got to be some kind of continuity to our sound at the moment as people are just getting to know us. We want to do a great first album, then the second album will be a little bit different and the third will be a total change. People may think they know our sound but it changes constantly, each song is different.</b><br />
- I was a bellhop. I saw people get drunk and lose all their money, so it was a good example of what not to do.<br />
-Do you know that <i>Rolling Stone</i> didn't want to put us on the cover
last time? They didn't think we were stars. We
sold five million albums! What more do they want from a band? <br />
- The only one who hasn't lost a step is Morrissey. He's my hero.<br />
- That's a funny thing. What's a guilty pleasure anyway? I guess it's something you like for its quality in spite of it being uncool at the time. People used to call Duran Duran a guilty pleasure. Michael Stipe was doing an interview recently and he was saying that he used to consider them his guilty pleasure even though he would insult them publicly. He regretted it, saying that today he believes that they were a strong band. So, <b>I don't really mind the characterization so long as people eventually come around to appreciating what we're trying to do. </b><br />
- I knew she was screwing someone else. I guess I should have done something but I'm not a violent person. But it really affected me. I would physically throw up... jealousy is a terrible, terrible experience...I wouldn't be here if we hadn't written Mr Brightside. I have no regrets. And they've split up now, so I hear. <b>She knows she fucked up.</b><br />
- I grew up thinking that people were watching me. <b>I know that makes me weird but it's who I am.</b> I like people watching me.<br />
- Bands want to pick fights with us. <b>We're not New York cool</b>, we are proud to have a pop element to us.<br />
- <b>I'm not gay. I can't even be bothered to start some kind of intrigue about it.</b> Bowie could nurture that sort of mystique, but this is an age where everyone knows everything about you in 10 seconds.<br />
- It's just too easy for people to think, Oh, they're from Vegas so they must be shallow and fake. But I would say the opposite. We formed a band and did things in the face of everything around us. There was no one like us in Vegas or even in America. We gambled and that's the only thing that comes from our hometown.<br />
- We're definitely not afraid of pop -<b> I love pop music. I understand a lot of the indie thing, but you ask me what my favorite bands are, and I'd say the Beatles and U2 and bands that were not indie bands. </b>They sold records and wanted people to hear their music, and that's what we want. So I'd say we're a rock band that has pop sensibilities.<br />
- But as for the rock… what people considered rock ‘n’ roll - it just wasn’t real. You’d see these guys in their videos and their photo shoots, and it was just obvious. They’d have on brand new clothes, and their hair just got perfectly highlighted. …the record labels would kick people out of bands if they didn’t look right… people were on diets… we’re getting away from that. I mean, I think that’s still gonna exist, but a lot of bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Strokes and the White Stripes and us and Franz Ferdinand – we’re all real, you know what I mean? We all dress ourselves and write our songs.<br />
- Mr. Brightside is a true story, man. It’s just a song about how dark and deep imagination can take you.<br />
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- <b>It’s like when you’re young, and you just know songs – I want to have songs like that. And indie bands aren’t going to have those kinds of songs - they’re just not.</b><br />
- We’re definitely not afraid of pop – I love pop music. I mean, that’s what I’d say the Beatles were. Even at their most experimental, they were a pop band.<br />
- It’s beautiful at night – it’s such a pretty city at night.<br />
-I've admitted before, I can't help but want to look at the press and see
what people are saying," he said. "I realized how many people didn't
like us while we were making this album. I guess you can't please
everybody. Anyhow, it's getting through all of that and getting past all
the people that want it to be a sophomore slump so they can say that.
It's getting through all that and saying, 'This is what we like. <br />
- The market is insane. It's dog-eat-dog. So we want to write better songs than everyone so we can keep going. <b>Because as fast as this is happening, it will go away just as quickly if the second album sucks.</b><br />
- I don't sing about wanting to kill myself, and there's not all this publicity about what a cokehead I am. People think there's no way we can be this good. <b>Maybe if I was on heroin or talked about how difficult life is, it would help.</b> But this is what we are, and I'm glad the people who come to the shows and buy the records seem to like it.<br />
- What's happening is people are picking the good stuff out of the '80s. It was taboo for a while, but that was just the hair metal or the stupid clothes, whatever they wanted to make fun of. But there were some awesome bands, and that's what's getting recognized again.<br />
- Being in other places has made us all appreciate Las Vegas even more. <b>People are a lot friendlier there, the food is great and it's cold everywhere else.</b> We were in New York in January and it was sick. I don't know how people do it.<br />
-I'll do stuff that some people don't want to do, 'cause I want people to
hear the music. The <i>Rolling Stone</i>
[refusing a cover story] thing made the record label think: 'What can we do to make them stars?'
If I go on vacation with my wife, do they have to send somebody to be
there to take pictures of me? Is that how you become a star? I don't
want that. I walked down the red carpet one time and I realized I don't
like it. But you don't have to walk down the red carpet for people to
hear your music. We do still have some of that indie blood running
through our veins. <br />
- Bands used to make albums like U2's, huge uplifting efforts that could change your life. But we don't hear those kinds of records being made anymore, so we decided to make one ourselves.<br />
- I was propositioned quite a few times, but I declined. And a couple of times it was with a couple of women -I'd get the call at my bell desk ... But I never did it.<br />
-I love the desert. I always thought that I'd wanna live in England, because I had this fascination with Manchester, Oasis and New Order. But when I finally went to England on tour for a few weeks, all I kept thinking was 'I wanna go home.' I love my home.<br />
- I've been given this great position to be in. I feel really lucky. <b>It's almost too good to be true. That started making me feel like it's inevitable that something really bad's gonna happen.</b><br />
- He watched us play, watched the whole set. And on our way back to our dressing room he asked if I wanted to [sing with him], right after we played. <b>It was great. I was dying! I had a perma-grin. </b>[Springsteen]<br />
- I’ve already got the tickets, we’ve got the babysitter. I would not be in this band if Pretty in Pink didn’t exist. Echo & the Bunnymen, New Order, the Smiths and Psychedelic Furs — the music on that soundtrack is the stuff that shaped me.<br />
-<b>Well, we all have a little Duckie inside us.</b><br />
- This could be the worst that we've ever looked. So it's bound to start looking up. America is a special place, and people have always looked to it as a place of hope, and I think that's still alive. And I believe in it, and I'm proud to be from there. <b>Nobody wants to see their country or people looked at the way we've been looked at recently.</b> You can just feel the itch. People are waiting for a renaissance.<br />
- That didn't help us out either [in America]. People love Green Day. Anyone that maybe would have been on the fence with us, that was a real decider that they didn't like us. [Green Day controversy]<br />
- I don't wake up and say, "I'm the greatest."<br />
-When you walk around Liverpool, you think of The Beatles, or you go to
Manchester and you think of The Smiths or Oasis. I want you to come to
Las Vegas and think of <i>Sam's Town</i>. And I think we've started to capture that, which is a truer version of The Killers, 'cause that's where we're from.... I used to live across the street from Sam's Town. Maybe it'll be like our Abbey Road where people go to take pictures.... I wouldn't mind it. <br />
- I can see the Strokes play or Franz Ferdinand play and it's real, and I haven't gotten that from the Bravery. I think people will see through them.<br />
- <b>Emo is dangerous. There's a creature inside me that wants to beat all those bands to death.</b><br />
-He should feel grateful that he's [been] given the gift to write pop songs - which he needs to write again! [Thom Yorke, '06] <br />
-You have fucking Green Day and 'American Idiot'. Where do they film their DVD? In England. A bunch of kids screaming 'I don't want to be an American idiot.' [The Word, Nov. '06]<br />
-You have the right to say what you want to say and what you want to
write about, and I'm sure they meant it in the same way that Bruce
Springsteen meant 'Born In The USA' and it was taken wrongly, but I was
really offended when I saw them do that. I just thought it was really cheap. To go to a place
like England or Germany and sing that song - those kids aren't taking it
the same way that he meant it. And he [Billie Joe Armstrong] knew it. [The Word, Nov. '06]<br />
-People need to see that, really, there are the nicest people in the
world here! I don't know if our album makes you realize
that. But I hope it's from a more positive place. [The Word, Oct. '06]<br />
-<b> I saw it as a very negative thing towards Americans. </b>It really lit a fire in me. [Green Day filming American Idiot DVD in UK] [The Word, Nov. '06]<br />
-I think the facial hair looks good. It will be around for a while. <br />
- I think people are lazy, and that goes for making music too.<br />
- It's brutal. Yeah, it's brutal... The great thing that came from it is it put- <b>I always had a chip on my shoulder, but the chip really got bigger.</b> We started to play live and I really sang my guts out, I wanted to show them how good this album is - 'look at these people's reactions to it.' <b>We became a really powerful live band by the end of Sam's Town. And I really think it's because of the bad reviews.</b><br />
- My mom actually cleaned hotels at one time so I'm very cautious of leaving messes at hotels. So I guess I'm a walking contradiction.<br />
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- If The Killers would've come up from New York, we would have either not existed or we would've just been a very small maybe indie band- because <b>there's just so much pressure to be cool everywhere else. I had no idea these words- 'indie' and 'hipster' and all this stuff just did not exist in Nephi, Utah. And I liked it because I liked it.</b> And we make songs that we like. It doesn't matter... we don't understand the idea of discriminating people from your music and not wanting this group to like you or that group to like you. It's always just been about shooting for the stars<br />
- I mean we're going for it. When I sit down at a piano or when the band gets together and we're jamming- we are trying to write something better than Where the Streets Have No Name, you know. <b>Why... wouldn't you want to?</b><br />
- The weirdest thing about it was my mom had gone through with my brother 12 years before me liking this particular type of music that I ended up liking. and the last thing you want is your mom to know... y'know kids in my school, cause I lived in this weird town in Utah, these kids had never heard of New Order or Morrissey... but my mom knew it, and so sometimes I struggled with that. [laughs]<br />
- <b>I think people are afraid of their idols. We hold them up so high that we don't think its possible to achieve what they've achieved.</b> There's been so much rock'n'roll history and so many people that we hold up here that it's really difficult to overcome and put yourself in their shoes.<br />
- Led Zepplin and Nirvana are two of the most talented groups of men that have ever played instruments. They were very gifted individuals. All I was saying was that we hold them up so high that we don't allow young bands to reach their full potential and we don't believe that they can reach their full potential. We don't believe that they can be there. And <b>I believe that as gifted as they were they were just humans, and that it's possible to get there.</b> It's a very optimistic positive thing actually. I believe there are young bands that can do it, and I believe that I can do it. I want to.<br />
- To the haters, I have faith in you.<br />
- I think it's good to keep 'em guessing, throw them a curve ball.<br />
- This has been the first time in my life I've been able to grow a mustache, so I'm kind of excited about that.<br />
-On 'Sam's Town' I talked about my Grandma Dixie and I was embarrassed to
show it to anyone but I've obviously overcome it now. I don't know why
because it seems like such an easy thing. I don't know why but on the
first album it seemed so much easier for me to make up things. I really
love that song, I just took my time on it. <br />
- I mean who's the U2 of the 90s? U2.<br />
-<b> I've never heard of Shed Seven. But I guarantee we're better than Shed seven. So I really don't care to talk about Shed Seven anymore.</b><br />
- <b>I understand you should take advantage and make a DVD and sell 200,000 copies and put money in our pocket. But you can't top the excitement I had buying that first DVD of Morrissey after 20 years. I'd like to make our fans have that excitement.</b><br />
- Maybe cool bands never got big enough to play in stadiums. Bands like Matchbox 20 and Creed did. If the Beatles were around they'd play in stadiums. If you just want to play at small shows, what are you going to do? Stay in the one town for 15 nights? I still love playing in dirty, sweaty small places, but I'd love to have 15 hits and go and play in a stadium.<br />
- <b>We're going to up the ante. The world wants it. They want a big show, a big tour, something exciting. We're going to try to be that band.</b><br />
- Now, rock bands are actually starting to make people dance instead of elbow each other.<br />
- People compare The Bravery to The Killers and The Bravery are offended. I took offense to that. I mean, we sold them our van, they use our press people... When we moved up to a bus, yeah. I mean, we've done nothing but open doors for them. That's all we're saying - they could have been more gracious about that.<br />
- I've never really had a taste for tea. I've probably only had about 5 cups of tea in my whole life.<br />
- If we have one or two songs on every record that remind people of something in their lives, it'll help our music last forever. And that's what I really want.<br />
- I don't think I will be staying in a tent at any festivals this year. These days I prefer the Four Seasons.<br />
- I came out with a big mouth. And I feel bad for my band, because they've got nothing to do with it.<br />
- There's something to be said about a song that's so catchy that the first time you hear it, you love it. But there's something more long-lasting about about these new songs. And <b>there's not a day that goes by that I don't see, looking into the audience, the songs growing on them more and more.</b><br />
- I said it a long time ago; I don't know how it crept up. It wasn't taken out of context, really. The point was, if they're so punk rock, why don't they make their DVD in Washington, D.C., instead of in England with a bunch of English kids singing "I don't want to be an American idiot"? <b>Do it in front of the White House or something.</b> [Green Day]<br />
- In New York we're usually scared to death. And I don't have anything to say to the crowd. <b>The whole "entertain us" Nirvana line is true - people want that. It's like you have to be a great songwriter and a comedian. Which sucks for me, because I'm not good.</b> I feel like it's real boring for them to watch.<br />
-I just wasn't ready for it. I remember being in a bathroom
at our gig in New York and I heard two guys speaking outside saying,
'Oh, Bowie's coming tonight and make sure he gets in and gets this
table.' There was a pause and the guy goes, 'David Bowie?' That was just
shocking to me. And we play and I can just see him and I'm sure it was
the worst show we've ever played. I wasn't ready for that. Maybe in a
couple of years I will be.<br />
-I was worried about a sophomore slump when I was twelve years old. I didn't even have any plans of releasing an album.
It's just something that you know about. It's just something that's
there. So yeah, we were nervous. <br />
-<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I saw The Flaming Lips in New York. A real treat. They take you to another place, and</span></span> </span>Wayne Coyne has a gift. <b>He has charisma like Jack Nicholson.</b><br />
- When I go past Strawberry Fields, or see a sign for Vauxhall and you think of Morrissey, that's what I want you to feel when you see the sign for Sam's town. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/255224.html">Q</a> Dec '06]<br />
- On Hot Fuss I was trying to write hits. We wanted success. Sam's Town is more a natural statement of who I am without trying to second guess what people might think. <b>I am Brandon from Las Vegas, I love my town and I love America. I want to stand up for my country when so many bad things are being said about it.</b>[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/255224.html">Q</a> Dec '06]<br />
- When we came out with Hot Fuss I was very young and a bit dumb and I wanted to be like all the guys in bands I read about in the British music press. <b>They all seemed so smart and witty. I came out trying to be cool and saying stupid things about bands I'd never met. I really did think it mattered whether Morrissey liked me or not. Now... I don't.</b><br />
- I felt like there was maybe some match-making going on. I was taken to this girl and I couldn't tell if she was 10 or 20. They were like, have a picture taken together, you two look great together. [Donatella Versace and her daughter; Q Dec '06]<br />
- You met my father, right? Sam's Town is about his America. I was born late, a surprise. None of my contemporaries are raised by people like him and my mom anymore. They met on a trailer park aged seven. He left school at 15 and they started dating when they were 16. He raced cars. They had Elvis and the Beatles and cars made of metal, and people were nice. Classic America. Now we've got Paris Hilton and designer this and that. <b>Nothing I see about 2006 will be remembered as classic.</b><br />
- We just have to make the best album that we can. And we're doing it. <b>This album is one of the best albums in the past 20 years. There's nothing that touches this album. And that sounds like I'm being cocky, but I'm just so excited. </b>I hope that helps people. I hope people hear this album and realize that you don't need to worry about the second album. [MTV, May '06]<br />
- It's one of the best albums of the past 20 years. I'm serious. Nothing touches this album.<br />
- <b>It used to be if you threw a TV out of a window, there had to be some cosmic reason behind it, some mythology. In the Sixties, it was probably exciting and new. But now, when I hear about people doing that, I just think they're asses.</b><br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- None of us have a live-fast, die-young thing. I love the earth, I think it's beautiful and I want to stick around. It's the same with our career. We could leave now, and there's gonna be people that will remember us in 30 years. But we want to stick around.<br />
-It is difficult for us because we do shoot somewhere down the middle,
which is a good thing I guess. We have our ambitions but we also have
our reluctances. There are some bands that are too reluctant and
discriminate against people and there are people who do everything and
are just whores but we are real. <br />
- Well, I still have those tugs of wanting to do things that I think I'm supposed to do because I'm in a rock'n'roll band. And it sounds fun when you read about it - people hanging out in hotel rooms for three days together. <b>But David Gilmour said he wished he hadn't done any of that stuff. And that's <i>David Gilmour</i>.</b><br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- Well, bands are businesses. The Killers is a business. And we have to be happy with what our company's producing. We approve every picture, every article, if there's ever going to be anything in movies or... A lot of bands leave it up to their manager or their label but we don't. We want to look back on our career and be proud.<br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- <b>I don't know. I feel pretty cool, sometimes.</b><br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- Right now, we are the best band. We raised the bar with this album.<br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- The Strokes are good. The Kooks are good. But they don't have this album. We're waiting for it to explode.<br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- Yeah, it's like prayer. Doctors say people who have religion are more likely to outlast diseases. Like if a Catholic and an atheist have cancer, then the Catholic's got a better chance. it's the optimism, the faith. <b>Music is like that - it gives elation and a belief in something that's good. When you pay your $25 to go see a band, and it's like a religious experience, you can beat cancer.</b><br />
[whether music can save lives; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- There's so many. Like when I was 15, seeing Morrissey for the first time in Salt Lake City. It was for Maladjusted - totally underrated album. Every bit as good as You Are The Quarry. The anticipation for something that is better than you are. And it absolutely was. That was the best moment in my life. [religious music experience; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]<br />
- We grew up with the billboards of Sinatra and Engelbert Humperdinck. So we definitely got some of the showmanship. And we got the optimism. <b>Vegas is an optimistic place - everyone wants to win a fortune and have a sweet life.</b>[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]<br />
- I love Sam's Town. I don't regret saying that. <b>I'd put it up against OK Computer. I'd put it up against Achtung Baby. It's what I'm here for: Thom Yorke's not gonna make another Ok Computer; he's making a bunch of noise.</b> I was reading an old interview with Springsteen about how he went into Born to Run wanting to make the best rock & roll album that'd ever been made. People think it's pretentious, but I looked at that album and I looked at Hunky Dory, and Springsteen and Bowie were 24 when they made them. I was like, 'I've got to up the ante.' [Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
- I'd rather be known for writing good songs than be the next Axl Rose.<br />
- <b>My dad always wanted old phones around, old cars to work on. You're not going to want my wife's Prius to work on in 50 years. You're not going to want my Blackberry.</b> And with that there are human things we are losing too. Little kids with these things [cellphones]. That sucks.<br />
- <b>We're also the toughest rock act. Which is pretty sad!</b> [VMAs]<br />
- I feel kind of bad that his name has been attached to us, because <b>what if he doesn't like it? All I did was tell a journalist that's what I was listening to.</b> The album doesn't sound like "Born to Run." <b>People get brainwashed into thinking that's what it sounds like because of what they've read. </b>[Newsweek, Oct. '06]<br />
<b>-</b>We're going to be [touring] up until the 21st. So we'll make it home just in time
for Christmas. I just want to kind of be normal for a week. It's
difficult when you first come home and you're living out of your
suitcase on buses all year. It's hard to come home sometimes. But it's
going to be fun. I'll probably go to the mountains and hang around and
ski, and do all that stuff.<b> </b><br />
- They said I'd put a curse on the record. I still feel that way about the album, though. I don't take it back.<br />
- I get along with people. I love people. I want to help people. <b>I was upset that people thought of me as this bitchy, pompous person who wears expensive jackets. That's all they were seeing. It's not how I was raised.</b> It's not how I want to be perceived, it's not how I am.<br />
- I'm honest. I get it from my dad. I was raised on the phrase, 'Tell it like it is' and that's a good thing. <b>People asked me what I thought about a band and I told them.</b> Now I'm seeing that may not be the best thing. I appreciate what other bands are doing. We're lucky to be as successful as we are. Everyone's out there doing what they're doing and there's nothing wrong with it. I kinda have a different view now.<br />
- <b>Bands these days are like gangs - pirates and cowboys. </b>I'd love to bridge that gap. Heaven forbid we'd do a duet with somebody like they used to, but we'd like to bring that back.<br />
- I still love the mystery of Morrissey. We've already done far more than he would have done. We're somewhere in the middle, which is where I see our band. <b>I understand indie. I understand that mentality, but I can't deny the excitement of being humongous, of bringing tons of people together to celebrate. We walk the line.</b><br />
- Morrissey put a DVD out and I was so excited after waiting so long for it. I'd have been less excited if on every single there's been all this extra footage.<br />
- You have these new types of bands, emo bands, who are on their website every day talking to their fans. They want to put everything out... <b>I'm going to dig a hole for myself here again, but they're setting themselves up to be short-lived.</b> They have to milk it while they can. I like to have some wonder about bands. I want the Killers to have that wonder. <b>You have these emo bands, as soon as they start getting hair on their chests, their careers are going to be over.</b><br />
-<b>It's ridiculous. If you had an imagination of what Babylon is like, it's this place. It's so bad. The world is strange...</b> [The Palms]<br />
- <b>I just love the smell of casinos.</b> It was nice to go in there and have that smell, that noise. They pump a lot of oxygen into those places, so there's the combination of fresh air with cigarette smoke, the slot machines... I don't know what it is, but it's a great smell.<br />
- <b>It's very alive in there, even though it's completely depressing, people losing their money.</b><br />
- I think When You Were Young shreds Mr Brightside. I'm happy I'm in the band I'm in because I think we're really good, but when I think about music in general, it feels as if there's a drought. That's why we have to prove we can do it again.<br />
- I'd play songs over and over, hit the rewind button, hear it again. It was real exciting for me. [Springsteen]<br />
- <b>I'm lucky because she was my girlfriend before we ever played a gig, and if I wouldn't have had her, well, every girl you meet, you just don't know what their agenda is. </b>[wife Tana Mundkowsky; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Paste</a> Oct '06]<br />
- Me and a singer for another one of the opening bands are watching U2 play, and right before they came out <b>he turned to me and said 'Wow! this is <i>it</i>!' 'Well what is 'it?'' and he said, 'Well, it's not gonna get any better than this.' I'm not telling you who it was. But that's when I realized that we're different. And it doesn't mean that we're cocky, or that guy is inferior or anything. It's just that we're <i>different</i> than other people, because that <i>isn't</i> it for me. </b>Opening for U2 is not my pinnacle. I wanna have opening bands myself at that Cardiff stadium in 10 years. So I guess we're still looking up, still shooting for the stars. [probably about Starsailor member; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Paste</a> Oct '06]<br />
-Everybody has the vision emblazoned in their brain of the bandanna and his ass in front of the flag, and everybody knows the fucking seven singles from Born in the U.S.A. But I never realized that there was a 21-year-old Bruce Springsteen out there that I could go buy, and just how ahead of his time he was, and how smart he was. I mean, I had no <i>idea</i>.[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Paste</a> Oct '06]
-'Lost in the Flood', 'Sandy' and 'Brilliant Disguise?' What a great way to describe everyone - 'Is that you, baby, or just a brilliant disguise?' I never thought, 'Is <i>my</i> wife like that?' I looked at my wife differently after that song, I'll tell ya. I'm still with her, I still love her. But I'm just saying, Bruce has got that... that <i>ability</i>. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Paste</a> Oct '06]
- In 20 years, I want it to be us. You'll start to heat the Killers on classic rock radio. That's what we're here for. We wanna be around. And I think we're just beginning to make our mark.<br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Paste</a> Oct '06]
- I was about 12-years-old and I had just bought my first cassette, the Cars, and <b>I was very proud of myself because I was, you know, developing. I was becoming this musical man, it felt like.</b> I was into this rock 'n' roll band, the Cars, and it felt like my world was getting bigger.<br />
- I thought when it came out that it was bulletproof — even against critics. [Sam's Town] [Dose.ca, Oct. '06]<br />
- People focus so much on our English influences. I think it was talked about a lot. It almost made me feel bad about myself. Not that we’re not proud of those influences, because that’s where a lot of the great music in the world has come from, but I wanted to represent where I was from, and this is just kind of an overblown version of that — the bow-tie and boots.<br />
- I had a chip on my shoulder because people didn’t like the band — that lit my fire. That put me on the stage and got me in people’s faces, because I knew how good ‘Mr. Brightside’ was and I knew how good ‘Jenny was a Friend of Mine’ was. It was fun playing in those bars and thinking, ‘I know how good these songs are and eventually everyone’s going to know.’<br />
- You are instantly considered a professional at something [after that success] and now there are business decisions that we have to make. When you’re thrown into that, you’re forced to grow up. We’ve all grown up quite a bit in the past few years.<br />
- I just say what comes to me, and that's what came to me [when asked]. [20 year quote] [Detroit News, Oct. '06]<br />
-I don't feel bad about it. We're excited about (the album). I'm not going to put my tail in between my legs. [20 year quote] [Detroit News, Oct. '06]<br />
-I'm in a rock and roll band, and we're here to take it as far as we can go. <b>And if we're not trying to make the best album in the last 20 years, then, you know, I don't know what the hell I should be doing, but it ain't this. </b>[Detroit News, Oct. '06]<br />
- I was just driving down the road one day, and I heard 'Born to Run' for the hundred thousandth time, but that day it sounded different. I don't know, I felt like I was hearing it through a man's ears, or through a different person's ears, and I just wanted to buy more of it. It's just such a surprise to fall in love with something again. [Salt Lake Tribune, Oct. '06]<br />
- If you look at music, it's like climbing a tree, and so many people get caught on one branch. We want to swing from branch to branch, and there's so many different songs and different genres, why [would] you want to get stuck on [one]?<br />
- I think the best bands are able to throw away things that aren’t up to snuff. We’re able to do that. You’ve got to be able to say: “This isn’t good enough and I can do better” and push on. [The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
- We don’t worry too much about chart positions or anything about that but no matter what this album does in the first and second week, <b>in 20 years when you look back I think Sam’s Town is going to be one of the greats. </b>[The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
- Sam’s Town is a casino hotel which I grew up near in Las Vegas. It was always a part of my life, a monument for me. I wanted to make my mark on Las Vegas in a similar way to things I see in Manchester which are associated with Smiths songs. Like Abbey Road will always be part of The Beatles. I love those types of things. They’re marking their territory and feeling proud of it and that’s how I feel about Las Vegas. [The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
- I was taught to be like that. My dad always said: “You tell it like it is.” It’s stuck with me, I guess, and now some people hate it. But from now on I’m just going to focus on things that I like rather than dislike and tell that like it is — to keep the guys happy! [The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
- It just came out of thin air. <b>Songs are out there and it’s just about being lucky enough to be in that moment to grab it. </b>[The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
- Both of our Glastonburys have been wonderful and memorable. <b>Maybe we’ll headline Glastonbury next year. Who knows? No one’s asked us yet.</b> [The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
- Those disputes ended up being in bad taste in so many ways. It wasn't a good look for us. It also associated us with bands we didn't want to be associated with. We've moved on.<br />
- Yeah, I recently wore this gold suit, and the pants took it over the edge. They were gold and they didn’t have any pockets in my butt. <b>I looked like a figure skater. I didn’t plan it that way.</b> I had the specifically made for last summer’s festivals, but I’ve since swapped the pants for a black pair. In fact, the guy who made the suit actually made Elvis’s gold suits. We went to Graceland and I saw a picture of Elvis in the entire gold outfit. Then I walked down the hall and saw a picture of Elvis with just the Gold jacked and the black pants. I think he had the same revelation. It was a very expensive suit. I’m not telling you how much.<br />
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- <b>We’re not ashamed of covering Romeo and Juliet. It's one of the finest songs ever.</b> Brilliant melodies.<br />
- I’m part of each of them. My torso is probably more Morrisey and my forearm is Neil Tennants. Oh, and my other arm is Robert Smith. It’s a terminator amalgamation of different people.<br />
- We used to get pimps going to the hotels a lot. They would promise a good tip as you loaded the car. They never would. <b>Pimps and gypsies, terrible tippers.</b><br />
- Has to be Coca-Cola, really. Bin the rest: keep the Coke. As long as I have Coke, I don't need to eat. I think my mother used to put it in my bottle when I was a baby.<br />
- My one tip is: keep it on. You know it actually looks better the next day. After it's smudged a bit. [eyeliner]<br />
- Absolutely, I remember if we saw someone famous in the hotel we'd get a buzz because it meant our earnings would go up that night. I try and do just that. I even make sure a bellhop carried my bag up to my room when staying at hotels just so I can tip them. <b>I mean, I don't want a cookie or anything but I know how much it means.</b> I got a massage from a 50 year old woman a few days ago. Yeah you thing you're going to get some hot blonde 20 year old, right? Anyway, I did try to persuade her to not do the massage but she insisted. It was mothers day. so I gave her a good hefty tip.<br />
- When I was living in Las Vegas with a few friends, we smoked weed laced with PCP one night. around the rougher neighborhoods they have those police search copters, the ones you always see on TV following gangsters in cars. We call them ghetto birds, and after we'd smoked that stuff, we jumped into a car and were convinced we were being followed. we got to the house, closed the blinds and just sat on the floor in the dark, practically crying. That was the last time I smoked that stuff.<br />
- I'm struggling a little bit with Truman Capote's fist novel at the moment, Other Voices, Other Rooms. I liked his short stories but I need to work on my attention span.<br />
- It's kind of a shame. We'll sell out the Vegas show but it'll be a lot of people from LA. The people who filled Sasha's aren't going to be in the front as they were before we sold any records.They're going to be bitching about it on blogs.<br />
-No, it was a personal experience. It's a very long story, but really...
err... I'm a very jealous guy, I'm very old fashioned and I don't like
my women to have male friends. [Mr. Brightside] <br />
-The line of pop is dumbed down now, we like to take it back to the day
when it wasn't, when you had The Cars or The Beatles. When there was
big mainstream bands making real pop songs. We don't mind being big but
we want to do it our way. We wanna be for the people by the people. <br />
- I don't even remember that much of the performance. We'd been touring in America and hadn't really been in England much, but we came over in the summer to play some festivals. Something had happened while we were gone- the love of the Killers had seriously elevated or something because the place was going crazy. And when we walked out onstage, I don't remember ever having felt like that before. We were totally embraced by everyone there- it sort of caught us off guard. And <b>I felt like a rock star for the first time.</b> [Glasto '04]<br />
- Well it's just like Christmas really, isn't it? <b>In America we believe in God and have Christmas, in England everything is more secular. It's like you guys believe in Glastonbury and that's beautiful.</b> I've never seen such an exciting scene. It's completely magical, like there's something in the air, I guess. That's not to bring down the other festivals, at all. Bringing people together for music is always a positive thing. But Glastonbury is just special.<br />
- All of the bands that have really done well have wanted it just as much as we want it. Things don't fall into your lap, it's about a hunger and a desire and, of course, we do have that.<br />
- If Green Day are so punk rock, why don't they play in front of the White House? I was personally offended by The Green Day DVD (Bullet in a Bible live at Milton Keynes). Why record it in England? Why not in Washington DC? I'm not trying to pick a bone with anybody. But I was offended by seeing a bunch of English kids screaming "I don't want to be an American idiot." I don't really want to get involved in politics: it's not really my place. I feel like I don't know enough about what's going on. I don't think a lot of people know enough. It's our human right to be upset with war- nobody wants war, but there is a lot of the other side that we really don't know. But it's exciting to think that we could have a Black president. It's exciting to think we could have a woman president. It's a step in a great direction.<br />
-Yeh, things have changed. But the song is about a girlfriend I had many
years ago. I trust my instincts and feelings a lot and one night I was
lying in bed and I couldn't sleep. I simply had to go by her house, and
so I did, but she wasn't there. So I went by her favourite bar. And
there she was - with another guy. So sometimes it pays to be
superstitious. The relationship ended immediately and I'm now happily
married. [Mr. Brightside] <br />
-<b>I still think Americans are the best people in the world.</b> Europeans are supposed to be so open minded and liberal. but I flew over here and listened to these British people complain about Americans for two hours, I guess they assumed I was English as I was sitting right next to them. But I didn't say anything. <b>People should realize that we all bleed red if you cut us open. In my experience Americans are the most welcoming and warm people in the world. Regardless of how many books they read or whatever specific qualities it is that people put on a pedastal. I love them, they're my people.</b> I started to fall back in love with America as soon as I left and it had nothing to do with Bruce Springsteen. There's a Tom Waits lyric,'I never saw my hometown until I stayed away too long'- that goes for anybody.<br />
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-We'd always talked about doing a Christmas song. There have been some great ones. John Lennon, Tom Petty... those are amazing Christmas songs, and we figured it was about time people had another good one, you know?</div>
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-I probably should've called it "A Great Big Sleigh," because that's what Santa rides, but it doesn't sound very Christmassy at all. <b>It sounds like you're going on a killing spree!</b> Besides, sleigh' doesn't rhyme with 'red'- the next line!</div>
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-No matter what we do, it doesn't even matter how much of ourselves or our guys we put into something, <b>people still try and take it as a laugh</b>, you know? Saying that we're cheesy or whatever.</div>
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-We played our new [Sam's Town] songs in Vegas first and we got a really lukewarm reaction. We had to come over here, to Blackpool, to get the boost of confidence we needed. <b>The love we get here in Britain is like nowhere else. </b></div>
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-To be honest with you, the change in what we wear came from seeing The Horrors on the cover of NME. We're just trying to jump on their bandwagon. <b>We figured, 'Hey, those guys dress in black all the time and they seem to be getting a lot of press, so...' We felt that we weren't getting quite enough press!</b> [joking to NME]</div>
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-All of a sudden it just clicked, bones, brass, Tim Burton! He'd never done a music video, so we didn't think he'd ever say yes, but it all worked out. It was really exciting. At first we were afraid of him, but he instantly crushed that. My favorite film of his is probably Sleepy Hollow, but The Nightmare Before Christmas is amazing too, I just love the music on that film.</div>
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-We would love to take Sam's Town to Glastonbury, to the Pyramid, next year. Michael Eavis hasn't asked us yet, but I think they generally start asking people in the next couple of months, so I'm hoping we get the call real soon. It would be amazing to go back there.</div>
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-We are tight-rope walking, skydiving wizards. And <b>the difference between the wizard and the magician is that the wizard's magic is real</b>; it's not an illusion. Merry Christmas.</div>
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-It was wonderful for me because I haven't met many people that aren't
fans of his. I've never really met someone that
doesn't like what Tim Burton does. It's a pretty amazing thing. It's
astonishing really. We were afraid of him at first. He breaks the ice
really quickly. You just want to hug him. <b>Not like he's a clown or
anything, but there's something really lovable about him.</b> We quickly got
over being afraid of him, and we all warmed up to each other. It was
kind of surreal. You don't think he's going to say yes to doing your
music video. I still remember observing the video from behind the scenes
and watching him. You see him directing people and things. I was right
in front of the camera at one point and he just walked on [the set],
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-I'm so tired. Your time off goes by so quickly. They think they're being so gracious by giving you two weeks off, but you really spend it all catching up on bills and keeping up on trying to sort out your car or whatever. You turn around and it's time to go again. [2005]<br />
-We didn't use too many vocal effects. On the first album, we used auto-tune, and I didn't even realize what was going on with these machines and the computer. I was adamant about not using it this time [Sam's Town]. You really hear what my voice sounds like, for the first time.<br />
-<b>I have an addictive personality</b>, so I worry about getting into poker too much. And being from Vegas, most of us have a family member with a gambling problem. But I like the occasional turn of the roulette wheel, or a little blackjack. I think I lost a couple hundred bucks during the making of Sam's Town.<br />
-<b>We never really considered them rivalries, we were just asked what we thought about something, it wasn't like we were upset about these bands. We answered with honesty</b>. I should have just said 'emo was dangerous' and not named any bands. I don't want to put negativity in the world, we get it a lot from other people, why should I do that back? We are just normal people so it was strange for something that we said to be used, so we might as well use it for positive things instead of negative. We just wanna put on a great big show.<br />
-We had a song called "Little Angela." But one cool thing about Alan and Flood is that, even though it was intended to be a B side, it was taken very seriously. So we're playing the song and, looking through the glass into the control room, I could tell Alan was upset. <b>When Alan and Flood argued, they'd go out into the hall, and it really felt like Mom and Dad were fighting</b>. I heard Alan say, "We're trying to make ' Peggy Sue' [into] ' With or Without You,' "which came as a blow because he was basically saying my lyrics weren't good enough. So I started singing melodies, and in two hours it was a whole different song. I think it's the best song we've ever written. [The Sun, Sept. '06]<br />
-It has caused alot of unnecessary drama. I said it a long time ago; I don't know how it crept up. It wasn't taken out of context, really.<b> The point was, if they're so punk rock, why don't they make their DVD in Washington, D.C., instead of in England with a bunch of English kids singing "I don't want to be an American idiot"? Do it in front of the White House or something.</b><br />
-The trumpets reminded me of Oingo Boingo - growing up, I was a big fan, still am - Danny Elfman was in Oingo Boingo, and he does the music for Burton films. A light turned on. We couldn't believe he said yes. It's so great. It makes you feel like a kid when you watch it. [Bones]<br />
-It was an honor. A few days before it happened, we met him at a party in L.A. after our gig at the Troubadour. And he wasn't sure if he'd make it to New York. <b>The reason, he said, was that he'd "just come back from London, where they had all these black cabs, and I just can't rap my head around it.... He's a strange man, but he's cool.</b> [Axl Rose introducing TK in the VMA's].<br />
-I like new Razorlight album - bombastic glam. And the Strokes album [First Impressions of Earth]. ' You Only Live Once' is as good as it gets.<br />
- 'Read My Mind.' <b>I love playing it and watching the crowd react, then playing ' Somebody Told Me' and knowing that it stands up. </b><br />
-it's my tribute to Jim Croce. [his mustache]<br />
-it's joyous. <b>Our songs are going to do the world good.</b> [ST]<br />
-<b>I'll tell you right now. you think you'll write some shit about us, and then you won't see us again... you can't judge it by hearing it in somebody's office, one time, and waiting for the next person to run in and listen to it after you. We've been living with it for months and months, so we know what it is. </b>[before beginning of cover interview, <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/255534.html">Spin</a>, Dec '06]<br />
- <b>This time around, we've got to prove to all of you that it's for real, that it wasn't a flash in the pan, that we can do it again.</b> It's a scary thought, that you've got to prove what you do is viable. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/255534.html">Spin</a>, Dec '06<br />
- <b>It's gone from wanting them to hear it and like it, to wanting them to hear it and make them think, 'shit,we gotta do better.</b>' [their musical heroes]<br />
-I saw him working at a kiosk in the Aladdin, and I just thought <b>'It worked out all right.'</b> [ an early prospective TK guitarist. Before he left Brandon's house he sneered, 'good luck with your Duran Duran thing.'- <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/255534.html">Spin</a>, Dec '06]<br />
- We have control that other bands don't... but the record label has a faith in us, because they know that we want to do what we're doing. We want to be big, and <b>they're not sitting there, biting their nails and thinking, 'Are they gonna make some freak show?'</b><br />
-on the album, you have the sense of hope sometimes, that it could be that good again. And then there are the other times where it feels like you're just saying, 'so long, bon voyage.' [depiction of classic America in ST]<br />
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- <b>There was something about his songs, that it seemed no matter how bad it got, there was nothing that a cigarette and a saturday night couldn't fix.</b> We're trying to hold on to that idea and rip it back. [Tom Petty]<br />
-They don't know what to do with us. [pretending to be a critic] 'It reminds us of things that happened in the 70's when there were real bands that could play music, so they must be ripping them off. There's no way in hell they could really be doing that.' <b>It's unbelievable to them because it hasn't happened in a long time, and we're here to say, 'It's happening. We're cut from the same cloth. God forgive us. It's not our fault.'</b><br />
-He suggested Jacknife Lee from Dublin, whom I believe to be Bono's secret brother. [who Bono suggested to produce Sam's Town]<br />
-<b>The guy that builds your house, you don't want him to build it almost perfect- almost as good as he could. You want it done right.</b> [on wanting to be the best]<br />
-<b>I want boys. Maybe a girl. Normal stuff.</b> [children]<br />
-I have been watching a lot of westerns. The Outlaw Josey Whales and Tombstone especially. [ST look]<br />
- <b>I'm not going to deny my faith. I don't go into it blindly. That's the misconception; poor, stupid people are religious. My parents are those poor, stupid people in other people's eyes. That offends me because they are happy. </b>They've been married 43 years and my mom whistles she's so happy. And whether there's an afterlife or not, which i believe there is, I'm a better person morally for having had a faith.<br />
-We believe in the literal gathering of israel and in the restoration of the 10 tribes that zion will be built upon the american continent that christ will reign personally upon the earth:and,that the earth will be renewed and recieve its paradisiacal glory.<br />
-yeah, that is weird [believeing in a new jerusalem and living in sin city]. but there are some mormons who believe confronting that temptation every day is a test. it makes you stronger..... I believe he is coming, yes [Jesus]. But i'm not going to sit here and tell you where or when.<br />
-does bono believe that? [that God made Bono a rock star] Man..he has a gift, that's for sure. I guess you can argue all night where that gift came from..but no, I don't feel like that. and <b>i'm not trying to convert anyone. There are three other guys in the killers. I don't think they'd buy that for one second.</b> <br />
-I adapted some of John Lennon's lines from strawberry fields for the final track exitlude:<b> It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out. Wow. those lines. right there,man. That's my story. </b><br />
-No one listened to the record. At the one in New York people sat and listened, but this one we were background music. [at the listening party in LA where everyone jumped in the pool]. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]<br />
-That's not... We're not really... Don't get the wrong idea. <b>Last night isn't typical. We don't get in trouble every time we go out. That's just Dave. Seriously, if he has a fuse at all, it's about that big. </b>[at the listening party in LA where everyone jumped in the pool]. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]<br />
-That was probably the best one, last night. Touring gets pretty repetitive. We did 300 shows in a year once and <b>you become like robots. I would be doing shows and not missing a word, but I'd be thinking about conversations I had and what I did that day. </b><br />
[good tour stories; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]
- I feel I've been preparing for this all my life. [to be a rock star]<br />
-We liked all the same bands - everything from Sinatra to New Order. You know, all the major English bands of the Eighties like the Smiths, the Cure, Duran Duran. That's a pretty rare find in Vegas. [on Dave]<br />
- I hit him pretty fast. I was going about 50. He was drunk. He just walked out into my lane on the freeway and I was honking and hitting the brakes but I couldn't stop in time. I hit him. It was terrible. Pretty traumatic. He hit my windshield, smashed it up. They never told me what happened to him. <b>His shoes fell off. Their shoes fall off, did you know that? I don't know why. </b><br />
- There's so many. Like when I was 15, seeing Morrissey for the first time in Salt Lake City. It was for Maladjusted - totally underrated album. Every bit as good as You Are The Quarry... <b>The anticipation for something that is better than you are. And it absolutely was. That was the best moment in my life. </b>[gig that was a religious experience].<br />
-Oh, I was also Morrissey's busboy at one point. When I was 18. I was at Spago at Caesars Palace. <b>He ordered the mushroom pizza. </b> [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]<br />
- It felt really powerful. [sort of religious experience listening to Jenny Was a Friend of Mine in the studio].<br />
- I heard it [Born to Run on the radio], drove right to a record store and bought a Springsteen greatest-hits CD. <b>I want to put a Springsteen poster up on my wall. I've never believed anybody -anybody- like I believe him. He's a prophet. </b>[Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
-The Boss gave me this feeling back that I thought I'd lost.<b> It got to the point where I'd go see Morrissey and I just wasn't shocked, or we'd see the Cure, and the mist went away and you saw Robert Smith's hair and it just wasn't the same. You want to see a god onstage. You want to see something larger than life and unattainable. I was like, 'I could do that.' </b>[Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
-[It has] one of the greatest guitar lines ever written. [WYWY] [Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
-<b>It was ambition; it was my own selfishness.</b> [ridiculing other bands]. [Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
- It's sad. <b>It's 'cause hip hop is so big, and I don't know if there's ever going to be a turnaround. It just pisses me off. Nothing against hip hop, 'cause it's entertaining, but every song is just 'how I got out' -it's never we. Some good stuff comes out every now and then, but most of it's pushing that selfish motivation that's tearing the world apart: 'I've gotta get my Louis Vuitton bag and my Mercedes.' If you listen to U2 singing 'One,' they're singing about everybody. That's so much more beautiful than that crap. </b>[Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
-I used to be a busboy. I'm gonna help 'em out. [about putting all the scraps and utensils on plate during interview] [Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
- <b>Backstage, it's lawless. But it makes you stronger when you beat it.</b> [rockstar temptations] [Blender, Nov. '06]<br />
- We've embraced our Western roots! That's what the album is about and we thought we might as well go with it. Maybe I'm going to be reincarnated as [the outlaw] Josey Wales. [Newsweek, Oct. '06]<br />
- "The Sound of Music." Maybe I can be the Captain. <b>The salt and pepper is coming.</b>[which musical he would do].<br />
-Oh, I have hundreds. [white hairs].<br />
-No, I'm just going to let it happen. <b>I'm a natural man. </b>[on whether he will dye his white hairs]. [Newsweek, Oct. '06]<br />
-Just kind of no-holds barred, just throw it all away and do what comes naturally for us-to make a big(sound). It's fun and exciting: that's what rock' n' roll music should be. <b>Ever since grunge, it kind of took things against that in a way, even though it's seen as such a positive movement. The Rolling stones were having fun-you know what i mean? It wasn't about limiting things, it was about encompassing things. And I think we're trying to do that and bring that back and have some fun along the way. </b>[what trying to do with ST; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">Gray Matter</a> Oct '06].<br />
-people want what they wanted from the first album. But <b>if you do it too much like the first album, they'll complain that it's exactly like the first album. And if you change too much..[laughs]. You've got to find a middle ground. I think we pushed it a little bi</b>t: I thing we took a little bit of a step over the middle ground, towards the new direction. But we didn't lose the pop sensibility that we had, so I think that will keep us in people's hearts. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">Gray Matter</a> Oct '06]<br />
-We're big fans of what they've done and their careers and the choices they've made. I was a little afraid of them at first:you think of Flood and Alan and the things that they've done and your kind of expecting black magic or something to be involved. But they're actually really lovable, and all six of us in a room is wonderful. Everyone gets along great.<br />
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-I remember how my dad,when he would have a few days off or the weekend or whatever,he would say "I don't have to shave" cause he didn't have to go to work.so I'm taking advantage of not having to work a normal job [laughs] [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">Gray Matter</a> Oct '06]<br />
-I think we're always going to dress up;I think that's the Las Vegas in our blood.But the [look] is a little bit more of where we're from: it's the wild west,y'know,and I feel a lot more comfortable and like my self now a lot more than I did on the first album.<br />
-We had a real confidence because of the success of Hot Fuss, so we thought we'd take advantage of it. <b>We didn't want to make a shy album. We wanted to keep going and keep building on this. </b>[NME, Oct. '06]<br />
- We wanted to come back unashamedly and this was the perfect way of sounding confident and strong. <b>Everybody puts their tails between their legs when they make their second album, but we wanted to come out all guns blazing</b> and that's what [the song] Sam's Town sounds like. [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-We were recording in a hotel casino and I was messing around on a piano.
Next to me was a room key-card that said 'we hope you enjoy your stay'
on it, and it all just took off from there.[Enterlude] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
- The melody came from a dream. I have musical dreams, but I rarely
remember them. This is the only time I've been able to remember one. It sounds ridiculous but it was Kurt Cobain on a ship, in the clouds! He was singing this melody and I remember thinking he sounded like Bob Dylan, so that made it even weirder! (the dream that inspired Enterlude) [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-We knew right away this would be a single. <b>We had the record label breathing down our necks. They were worried that we wouldn't write another Somebody Told Me - and we didn't want to, so they were really worried.</b> [WYWY] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-It will be tougher, especially due to downloads. 10 years ago 'Hot Fuss' would have sold 14 million copies instead the 5, it did sell. <b>I don't entirely know if we still want to be the biggest band in the world, but it seems as though there's a place for us in the Top 5.</b> When we opened for U2 last year, we experienced life on the top. [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-I remember driving home after we made a rough recording and I slept a little easier ever since that night. [WYWY]<b> </b>[NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-<b>The song's about the idea that saviours can come in different forms, that's a lot of it. </b>[WYWY] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-This was kicking around for a long time and then at the last minute we
added some acoustic guitars and it really made it feel like the desert,
which all ties right into the album. It's like Talking Heads and Johnny
Cash. [Bling] [NME, Oct. '06] <br />
-I guess it's like a medal for my father. It's glorifying the person who does a great job raising his kids, just going to work everyday. <b>A lot of people in bands write about the working stiffs. I wanted to make something that was the opposite, because that's what my family is and I'm proud of it. </b>My dad is 64 years old, he raised 6 kids and now he's got 20 grandkids and I guess that's what the ending of the song is about. When you see him playing with his grandkids he's a happy man. [Bling] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-I feel this is a good bridge to Hot Fuss. [For Reasons Unknown] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-Uncle Jonny is my mother's brother. He's the black sheep of the family. Every couple of years something would happen. He's done everything from shoot himself to drug addictions yet somehow he's ended up alright. He's really a nice guy. He's heard the song and he's happy to be immortalised because he's a rocker, he's always got a Zeppelin shirt on. Jonny deserves the song's riff (laughs). You don't usually use the word riff with us, but this is one of the greatest riffs of all time. I guess it's a little bit inspired by being on the road with U2. We learnt a lot from watching them. [Uncle Johnny] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-It's a romance, it's sweet but it's twisted in some ways. [Bones] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-It's our attempt at a ballad. It's a unique song, with the way it goes at the middle 'don't give the ghost up'. It's for my wife. I wanted people to believe it like I believe when I hear something I love. I want that on every song, but this one has a moment that you never know if it's going to happen again - we just got lucky. This is me. We didn't have many vocal tracks so this is the closest to what I sound like in the shower (laughs). [My List] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-It's a strange one. Some people already hate it; some people like it, but the ones who love it are diehard. I love it! [This River is Wild] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-If ever there's been a musical journey this is it. When I listen to it I don't want it to end. Each chorus is different, that's untypical of us, so it's our shot at doing something different. This is also the most literal song here. I was born in Las Vegas but I grew up in a small town in Utah called Nephi, and the whole idea of escaping it and the excitement of that prospect is all captured on this. [This River is Wild] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-Basically it's a bargain with God. I have a big problem with flying and the first thing I do if there's something wrong is I pray. Just bargaining, 'I'll be good if you let me live!' [Why Do I Keep Counting?] [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-I grew up on Cheers! I was with Woody Harrelson the other night and I told him what an effect Cheers had on my life! (laughs) I felt so ridiculous! [NME, Oct. '06]<br />
-We're not artists, there's only a couple in the world and Anton Corbijn is one of them.<br />
-What does it all mean? The bighorn sheep is the Nevada State animal, that's all I'll give you! [the cover artwork of ST] <br />
-I hope that people didn't come out just so they can go home and say the new album isn't as good as the first one. [first show with ST material] <br />
-people don't realize how unique this city is, because it's all about the strip. But there's such a small town feel all the out of the way restaurants and bars and people playing bingo. The sunset is wonderful, the people are nice and it doesn't get cold. I love the lighting too. It's the most beautiful city at night. I love it here.*<br />
-Vegas is my hometown,and it's turned into a place that's really sentimental to me,"he says."i think a lot of people can identify with that.<br />
-he quit school when he was sixteen. he just worked hard,raised six kids on twenty five grand a year.growing up,I had the values of a dad born in1944,and i still do,in some ways. [on his dad]<br />
-The same type of ideal i had for manchester because the smiths,I had for las vegas because of elvis and frank sinatra.<br />
-when i was a kid,we'd drive down the freeway and you'd see sams town from miles away.you'd get closer and closer and it'd get bigger and bigger.it was a beacon,our center.I still feel that way.we're in a good place.<br />
-I've had time to digest the album, sit with it and live with it, and I know it's that good. It's just a matter of time before everyone else gets to love it like I do. [ST]
- We've sold five million records and we can't get on the cover of Rolling Stone, but they'll put Lindsay Lohan on the cover.<br />
-He's saying that from experience. They made October. He's looking out for us. But we are set in our ways so much that we're not going to try to make Kid A on our second album. I don't think we'll ever make an album like that anyway. I think Hot Fuss is a great first album. There should be room to improve. It'd be sad if you could only go backwards. [On Bono advising TK, "spare us the interesting second album"]<br />
-[They are messages] that you don't really know if the world's gonna recieve or not. I remember singing the chorus of all these things that ive done into dave's cell phone,and thats how we would write songs.But now it's just universal thought. people in Italy get it: people all over the world get it. And to actually get to this point has just been great.
- that was the highlight of my life. because a year and a half before that,i was sitting on my bed at home,learning osasis dont look back in anger,so to come full circle,where he's learning one of our songs,I'm done. I could be done right now. I could tell my kids that story some day,and i'd be happy. [Noel Gallagher telling Brandon he learned ATTTID on guitar; Paste Oct '06]<br />
- He does this show in Vegas, so whenever were home and hes doing his show, he gets bored because he's cooped up in a hotel and he wants to do something. So we'll go off to his show we've done it a few times and go eat dinner with him afterwards. And it's a nice change of pace for him, and he's the coolest fan he knows everything about every new band, what he likes, what he doesn't like, and why he likes us. He likes that we have soul, he says. [Elton John; Paste Oct '06]<br />
-Rock 'n' roll guilt? I live with it every day. It's hard, having a wife and doing this, being gone all the time and around what we're around . But I was brought up religious, and I think that's been a nice balancing for me. Some people would say it's a terrible way to live, because I live with guilt. But I think it keeps me in a good middle ground.<br />
[Paste Oct '06]
-It's part of that constant temptation. I mean, we went from Las Vegas, which is already bad enough, where you've got flyers for girls, it's open 24-7, and you can get a bottle of vodka at 5:30 A.M. We went from that, to that with no rules, if that's possible. And that's how rock 'n' roll is - you go on your bus, you live in your own little world, and there's no police there. So 'When You Were Young' is about that struggle, and I think a lot of people can relate to it.<br />
[Paste Oct '06]
-It's difficult, I admit it . This city has gotten so much worse, even since I was a kid. Now the new thing on the strip is, not only are people throwing those books in your face, they have these trucks with billboards on the back of them, just driving around. And it's just pictures of women, and the phone number to call to get these women. It's just a gigantic moving sex billboard, and it's crazy. But it all goes back to how I was raised, I guess. I hadn't gone to church in a long time until I got married, and I've recently been going again with my wife. And I feel like I've missed out - I really <i>missed</i> it.<br />
[sexual temptations in LV; Paste Oct '06]
-'If all our days are numbered, why do I keep counting?' is the line, because I just wanna <i>live</i>, and it's no way to live to always be thinking about dying - I'm trying to get over that" ['Why Do I Keep Counting?'; Paste Oct '06]<br />
- And that was what was so wonderful about it I havnt felt like this in so long,and i was worried that i never would again.and whats cool is that it wasnt just bruce springsteen that led straight to tom petty.I didnt knwo about the damn the torpedoes and now i do,and i love it.so it was just great to find these new things and to want to got to a record store again an flip through things.and now i just feel really excited.<br />
- There's just been a <i>lot</i> of stuff like that happening to us lately. Meeting Springsteen? I dunno if I'm prepared for that one yet. But being around New Order and things like that are what we're here for. As classic rock moves into its new phase, you're starting to hear Pearl Jam and Stone Temple Pilots on classic-rock radio. Metallica, even. But in 20 years, I want it to be us. You'll start to hear the Killers on classic-rock. That's what we're here for. We wanna be around. And I think we're just beginning to make our mark.<br />
[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Paste</a> Oct '06]
-Dave put out and ad in a las vegas paper.Every week,i would scope out the classifieds and look at who the bands would list as their influences.It was always "Staind!Tool!Korn!Staind1Tool!Korn! "Dave's ad said something about the beatles,and that was enough for me.I went to his house,and it was love at first sight.<br />
-We're not afraid of having big hits(big songs)are just what come out of us.A lot of people say it's because we're from vegas and its so over the top with the glitz and glamour.I don't know what is i've always been a fan of the big songs on the radio.my favorite arena-rock song?with or without you by U2.The way it builds its one of the best pieces of work that's ever been written.by the end if youre not singing along,if you're not screaming along,you're not living. [Giant, Oct. '06]<br />
-I've always been attracted to performers. I think everybody is.who doesn't have a favorite singer?mine changes all the time Morrissey,bono,mick jagger,bowie. is it weird to meet my idols?yeah,but i always wished i had the gift of the gab and would be able hold on to them.one night bowie came to watch us play we met him,but he left after a minute.I wished i was somebody else,that i couldve kept him intrigued enough to maybe go out and have a drink.I just kinda stared at him. [Giant, Oct. '06]<br />
-We've never been in the situation where people are anticipating something that we're doing.its frustrating because apparently alreadyupset a bunch of people by saying how good i think the album is.I cant help it if im not making what i feel is the best album out there,then i'm in the wrong job.when i talk about how great this album is its not because i want to shove it down peoples throats.but if somebody asks me what i think about it,i'll say i think its the best album in twenty years. [Giant, Oct. '06]<br />
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-so many bands are afraid that a common person will like their music,heven forbid Kimmy,who goes to mcdonalds and doesnt wear black converse, likes our music!were fans of pop as much as rock.Tony visconti said to me "you dont have to be a poet to say something profound."that gives me a lot of strength because i'm not surewhat i am.i'm not sure if im a songwriter or an artist or a musician.I dont like any of those words i feel like a normal dude. [Giant, Oct. '06]<br />
-sometimes you get so caught up in making sure the performance is right that you allmost dont get to enjoy being onstage.this time were gonna do it right and enjoy it.its easy to take suceess for granted because you get cought up in the negativity of touring and doing photoshoots i was about to complain about doing an interivew the other day,and this kid goes,thats awesome!i hope i get to do that one day!and it hit me I felt like as ass. Three years ago, I was that kid. [Giant, Oct. '06]<br />
- Sam's Town is it. It's gonna be the one that keeps rock & roll afloat. And I can say that 'til the cows come home, and it can sound as cocky as you want.
-People make fun of Born in the U.S.A. and [his] look, but I love all of it. There's a song from his first album called 'Lost in the Flood' that's just...I mean, it should be essential listening for people. I'm 25 years old, I had no idea that existed, and I'm just really grateful now that I got to get into it.<br />
- So many people cower down and put their tail between their legs, because of all the negativity that surrounds a band for their second album,'' he says. ''But we're just back swinging. Because, I mean, why not? It's our job.<br />
- I know most people put on a t-shirt and shorts and feel comfortable – and there’s nothing wrong with that. But for some reason, I like being pinned-up and confined in a suit. It makes me happy. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
-When we did our first video, for “Somebody Told Me,” they had clothes for us at the shoot. At first, you take offense. But there was a jacket that was one of Hedi’s (Slimane, creative director of Dior Homme) and I ended up wearing it and taking it from the shoot. I’ve kind of been a Dior fanatic ever since. For some reason, it just makes me feel regal – a rock ‘n’ roll prince, I guess. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
-My dad never used shaving cream so just Bic it, straight on the face with a cheap razor that comes 12 in a pack. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
-The first time I put on eyeliner, I was 13 or 14. The Cure had Wild Mood Swings out, and my brother took me to Salt Lake City to see them. We stopped to pick up one of my sister’s friends on the way, and she was a huge fan, so she took me in the bathroom and slapped it on me. I mean, I don’t feel uncomfortable without it. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
– it’s just fun to wear every now and then. It kind of becomes a Gypsy thing, though, when you do it with facial hair. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
- I used to work as a busboy at Spago. I still get a real big kick out of going to the Mirage and seeing the tigers. Plus, we now have a Dior Homme at the Wynn. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
-I love golf, but I only get to play every now and then. My cousin, Craig Barlow, is on the PGA Tour and it’s fun to turn the TV on and see how he’s doing. My other favorite golfer is Jesper Parnevik. He’s a Swede, and he wears J. Lindeberg who designed my tux for my wedding. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
-I’m into patent leather. Burberry Prorsum is making these…They actually call them golf shoes, I think, they’ve got the big flap over the laces, and they come in brown and black. And I have these white and gray Louis Vuitton western wingtips. And cowboy boots. A man needs a good pair of cowboy boots. [GQ, Sept. '06]<br />
-We've gotten away from what The Beatles did and what started it all, and what Elvis songs were like, and it needs to be brought back. The experimentation has gone far enough. We lost the song. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">Associated Press</a>, Oct '06]<br />
-It's just a real pleasant surprise that I was going to fall in love with something. I'm 25 years old and I thought that was over. ... You kind of lose the innocence of someone showing you something special, something being god-like. [about the Boss- to the <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">AP</a>, Oct '06]<br />
-I think bands are lazy. It's so much easier to do anything, even down to recording. The whole world is lazier, so it's also showing its face now in rock music and pop music and it's just crap. I'm excited when I hear my own songs, and we would like to be the messengers of good songs. [the <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/240129.html">AP</a>, Oct '06]<br />
-We were all wasted and I'm at the urinal - because men go to the urinal, we have to do it... [hears Somebody Told Me] I look...and it's Bernard Sumner from New Order, going 'Brandon, I just love that single!' I thought, 'I don't know what else I can do now. We've reached a point where it's like I don't know where we can go from here.'[New Order singer singing Somebody Told Me at the urinals, at NME awards- Paste, Oct '06]<br />
-Messages that you don't really know if the world's gonna receive or not. I remember singing the chorus of 'All These Things That I've Done' into Dave's cell phone, and that's how we would write songs. But now it's just universal thought - people in Italy get it; people all over the world get it. And to actually get to this point has just been great. [voicemail messages he used to leave Dave; Paste Oct '06]<br />
-I wanted to humanize us with this one, and it's a great introduction to the album. [the song Sam's Town; Paste Oct '06]<br />
-In England and in Europe, it's exactly what we wanted, it's been great. In America, they've been a lot more cynical about it. It's really discouraging, you know. I mean, we didn't get great reviews on the first album and we still sold five million records and so I understand that it doesn't have that big of an effect. But it's just discouraging. We really feel like we made a great album. [on reaction to Sam's Town; the <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">rockradio</a>, Sept '06]<br />
-People talk a lot about the '80s, but a guy that gets overlooked a lot is Peter Gabriel. It's got such a dreamy quality. It takes you to a new place every time. ["Solbury Hill"; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">Urge</a> Sept '06]<br />
-This one is just scary! [The Cure's "One Hundred Years"; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">Urge</a> Sept '06]<br />
-I know the band kind of writes off Pop, but it's got some really great songs, like "Staring at the Sun." [U2; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">Urge</a> Sept '06]<br />
-It just has such an amazingly loose feel. [Rolling Stones' "Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">Urge</a> Sept '06]<br />
-[Holds out one hand] Han Solo. [holds out other hand] Josie Wales. [clasps hands together] It's the Killers of 2006. [Describing the new tour; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">T-Minus Rock</a> Sept '06]<br />
-What's funny is we're from the desert so when we play these little shows we've been going out and gathering some tumbleweeds. But you don't have it out here as much on the East coast. So we were phoning up some Hollywood places for sets and nobody's invented fake tumbleweed yet... So I think we're going to patent that. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">T-Minus Rock</a> Sept '06]<br />
-We don't see him very much because we live so far away. But when we go to the office we might see him. [Asked about the game Guts Jay-Z plays with guests]... We don't know about Guts. Maybe he doesn't like us very much. (laughs). [Hist: 'Maybe he thinks you have LOTS of guts and doesn't want to'].. Yeah, he knows we're from Vegas. So we might have an advantage. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/235582.html">T-Minus Rock</a> Sept '06]<br />
-Do you think music can save lives? [questions the interviewer; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">GQ UK</a> Nov '06]<br />
-It's a lot more fun for us if we're able to experiment. We're not going to turn around and become a country band, but we should be allowed to play a few country songs! [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">Complex</a> Sept '06]<br />
-We've had five decades of rock music. There's so much to learn from. You're a fool if you're not pushing yourself to evolve. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/251176.html">Complex</a> Sept '06]
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-Sometimes you forget. You get so caught up in business and being an adult that you forget to have fun and enjoy things and be nice to people. I think that's what's great about being a kid, you don't have those worries. We've had such a hectic schedule over the last few months that it's nice to do something like this. [AGBS]</div>
-When I was a bellboy at the Gold Coast, I was on break and I heard someone freaking out on my walkie-talkie. They sounded scared and there was screaming for security, but I didn't pay much attention<br />
-I was eating. When I came up later, the situation was still happening. A hooker was fighting a john, hitting him with her heels. The weird thing was, that night my mom had to go to the ER. When I visited her, I saw that guy getting treated. He was bleeding from his face - the hooker got him pretty good. [craziest thing he saw in LV; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/248660.html">FHM</a> Oct '06]<br />
-I'm just being honest. It does make people want us to fail. But Sam's Town is right up there with OK Computer, Achtung Baby and Nevermind. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/248660.html">FHM</a> Oct '06]<br />
-I've apologized for my comments. I don't mean any ill will toward anyone. I'm still getting used to being in the position I'm in. If I worked at McDonald's and somebody asked me my opinion about Fall Out Boy, nobody would care. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/248660.html">FHM</a> Oct '06]<br />
- Yeah, weekly. When I fly now, I listen to a tape of a session I had with the good doctor. I hear him talking and let my body become a blob. I'd never flown before I was in the Killers. One thing that set me over the edge was the time a woman died on one of my flights. I still don't know what happened, but I'd been asleep for probably 10 minutes when I woke up to screaming and saw the steward pumping on this lady's chest. It was traumatic. I tried not to watch. [Whether sees a therapist for flying fear; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/248660.html">FHM</a> Oct '06]<br />
-It's hard. I smell the crew smoking. It smells so good. [quitting smoking; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I think it causes my wife a lot of pain. Her family, too. And she hears stories. And my mom went through it with my dad. [why he quit drinking; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-And my dad's dad was an alcoholic. It's a strange thing to think that it's in my genes, but I believe it is. I think I use that as an enabler, which is not really the best thing to do. I mean, it's a great excuse. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-[Laughs uproariously] It's harder to sleep at night. [whether misses drinking; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-Salvador Dali would hold coins in his hand before he went to sleep so he would wake up just when he started to go to sleep or something. I've had dreams of entire songs. Parts. Solo. Chorus. Enterlude is the only one I really remembered. It's strange. It's fun. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-"American album" is ridiculous because the music is so English to me. I wish I knew what people would have thought if I hadn't mentioned I'd been listening to Bruce Springsteen when we started this album. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-Ha ha! Yeah. I regret the backlash it's created, but it <i>is</i> one of the best albums in the last 20 years. That's not a ridiculous comment. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I'd never had a passport before I came here. None of us had ever left. And leaving made us realise how American we were. But then I started to notice the way that I was treated. I refuse to say "fuck" onstage and I definitely refuse to say, "Fuck George Bush." [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-If there's a herd of people, you say "fuck" and you are the greatest thing. You could be the opening band and you'll get a bigger reaction than The Killers if you say "fuck". It's easy. So I refuse to say it. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I notice bands saying, literally, "I'm sorry we're from America..." [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I can't really explain it. I got that it might be overcast a lot. I don't know. It was just magical to me. That was it. I realise now it was because it was so far away and so unreachable. [Britain; [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
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- Nephi has only recently got its first stoplight. There just wasn't anybody there for me. I had friends, but then the music thing happened and that made me feel separate. I wasn't an outcast. No one was mean to me. I just didn't want to go and see Korn after school. I hated The Offspring. I'll never forget my mom cooking [for me] my last night in the house. It was difficult. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-It wasn't much better in Las Vegas, though [laughs]. I went from a school that had 350 kids to one that had 3000, one that had been built as a penitentiary. I was in a school with a lot of gangs in Vegas. We had Bloods and the whole bit. The Mexican kids were the Morrissey fans. They'd come at me with pompadours, see me in a Morrissey shirt and they'd wave to me, but they were also violent, so I kept my distance. That was funny. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I know exactly where it's from. "I love the romance of crime" [from Morrissey's Sister I'm A Poet]. From that line... Just growing up and hearing that all the time. I can't escape it. Morrissey owns a piece of my brain. [lyrical interest in violence; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-The biggest thing in Nephi was that one car was stolen. In seven years I was there. One car. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I didn't know what I expected. Our first trip to England was great. It was September of 2003 and you had a heatwave and it was in the 90s, and we stayed at The Columbia Hotel, so I was in heaven. It was, "Oasis wrote a song [Columbia] about this place and we're staying in London!" Nothing's let me down, it's just that I've come to realise that it's just a place with people... [disappointments with Britain; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-You people write those catchy songs. Why do British people do that? [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I don't think I know enough. That's a big weight to put on my shoulders. It's getting heavy for me now just to succeed still. We've got to prove ourselves. I want to sell more records than Hot Fuss with Sam's Town, even if it's just to prove Rolling Stone wrong [laughs]. [getting involved in politics like the Boss; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-No. Not really. No. I wouldn't say that. I'm getting onstage every night singing, "Somebody told me that you had a boyfriend who looked like a girlfriend", so... [whether he doesn't share political views because they're unfashionable; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-Maybe it will come later. I'm just able to grow facial hair for the first time in my life so maybe... [political involvement; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-We had a lot of things happen. There were a lot of hookers and escort services. Pimps. Weird people. I mean, the whole bit. Canes and Cadillacs; purple trenchcoats. One time a guy tried to kill himself and he didn't succeed. He shot one of his eyes out; he was crawling through the hallways, screaming. I wasn't the one who stumbled across him in the hallway so I didn't see him. [things he saw as a Vegas bellboy; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
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-One time I got a call from someone saying, "Could you buy me some condoms?" Going up there into the room... people on beds... I'd never seen anything like it. [the life of a Vegas bellboy; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-Yeah. I got a 20. [whether got a good tip as bellboy; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I tried. I didn't succeed. I just went around with my cousin, going to concerts or swimming pools. For some reason that was a lot more fun and a lot less exhausting than chasing girls. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I tried things, but it was never a big thing. I never became an addict. You're 14 years old, you start listening to Bob Marley, you've got to try marijuana. It's a rule. Now I know it makes me lazy and I don't like that feeling. [Pause] I was 15. I kind of embellished there...[<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-It's something you're supposed to do. If you're 19 and you're worthy, there's not even a question about it. My brother went to Chile. But at 19 I'd just bought Hunky Dory. I meet people all the time who say, "I was raised Mormon", like, "I was raised Mormon and I'm cool now." They don't know I'm still into it. I think it's a great thing to question at that point, and now I'm back it means a lot more than if I just did what I was told. I think it's OK to question it a little bit. [skipping Mormon mission; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I'm learning what makes me happy and makes my wife happy, because I obviously have something that makes me want to do this. You know I'd give it up if she asked - which she never would. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I want to be a navigator. We've found all the land on earth already, there's no more to look for, so I'm just looking for songs, I guess. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I don't really think about it. I don't judge anybody. I mean, for some reason I think I've always been a fan of gay pop stars. The happiest time of my life was driving to San Francisco one time with my dad in our Geo Metro, playing Elton John, Otis Redding and Buddy Holly. We just listened to them over and over. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road and Daniel. It's about the happiest time in my life. I didn't care if Elton was gay... or I didn't know. [when asked about Mormon church being anti-gay; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I felt like I was doing my job! I'm a huge David Bowie and Morrissey fan. I'm doing something right here! And then... I don't know. It wore off. I realise how much work it must be to keep up something like that. People have done it. I don't want to do it. I just know that I tried it for an album and I'm done! [Laughs] So forgive me. I love my wife. If I want to have kids, it's not something I wanted to play around. [Pause] I wasn't even trying to do it. It was just something that happened. [fans suspecting he was gay; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-The whole religion and gay thing. I have a lot of gay friends. I want to stay away from the religion thing, I don't want to offend anyone. [worrying about last part of interview that took place few days earlier; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-We have four really different personalities. You know that Ronnie is more boisterous and funny, and Mark is so silent - there's a lot of truth in him being kind of grumpy. And Dave is kind of a future astronaut. His head's already there. He's just waiting waiting to take his body there. He's on a list to go to space. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-Man, I was just on a roller coaster. We had just sold all these records, I was in the studio with [Achtung Baby co-producer] Flood and if U2's coming to town we just call someone and we get to go. Last time I saw U2 I paid $100 for a ticket from a scalper! Four years later I'm at a bar with Bono and these guys. "Why don't you come to souncheck tomorrow/ We'll figure the song out." I can't explain how... [pause] you get so immune to it. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-U2 are just great. They're so loveable. And they knew what my favourite U2 song was. You can't beat it. When I come home, that's the song my wife plays - In A Little While by U2, as well as Home And Dry by the Pet Shop Boys. She gets it on right away and that's my song. And I'm singing it with Bono and my wife gets to sit in the front row watching me do it. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-I did Celine Dion, Mike Tyson, the Reverend Al Sharpton. [famous customers other than Morrissey when he worked at Spago; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-Afterwards he was sat in his private dining room and he could see directly in to the kitchen where I'd be making an iced tea or cutting bread. And he'd look at me and we'd lock eyes and both look away. He was probably watching what I was doing with that knife. I understand that now. [Morrissey, when superfan Brandon was his busboy at 17; <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">Q</a> March '07]<br />
-On the first album, I think we adopted a look that wasn't necessarily ours. I wanted to be like all the guys in bands I read about in the British music press. It mattered whether Morrissey liked me or not. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">BRITs</a> Feb '07]<br />
-I was always proud of where I was from. But you always think the grass is greener somewhere else. [BRITs Feb '07]<br />
-The goal now is to keep progressing and growing and collecting an army. [<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/275048.html">BRITs</a> Feb '07]<br />
-Not our best day's work [after performing to reticent Vegas crowd; Q Dec '06]<br />
-The songs we dropped all sounded like an extension of Hot Fuss. As soon as I was back in America they didn't seem relevant. [Q Dec '06]<br />
-Well it's supposed to be finished in about eleven days from now. What's annoying about it is that we didn't set the deadline; the record label shouldn't have picked a date to put it out. I mean, it was wishful thinking.. but we still might finish. [Faster Louder, late '06]<br />
-It's slower than we hoped for. I just think we're taking too much time basically. We're talking about other things too much - it's a weird thing to bring up, but if you took the time of conversations that had nothing to do with making this album, to make this album - whether it's what's going on in the world, or what we think about something, or a joke, or what happened last night, or whatever it is - we'd probably be a lot closer to finished. Ya gotta talk I guess.. but I don't know.. [Faster Louder,late '06]<br />
-I think we're all changing, but not necessarily in the same way - it's not a bad thing. For me - people don't understand how important mixes are, and I didn't really realise how important mixes are because I'm still new to all this. I'm realising I've changed the way I want my voice to be heard. I don't want so many effects on it, and I don't want this and that, and it's changing the way the band sounds, so we're kinda conflicting there, but I think we're starting to find a good place. [Faster Louder,late '06]<br />
-I guess that we're apparently these synth-loving Anglophiles.. that's what's getting on the nerves. There's nothing wrong with it, it's just that they don't understand how much it really is just about the songs for us. I don't go around looking for vintage keyboards - I used a $350 keyboard on 'Hot Fuss' that anybody can buy. I'm not some techno-geek.. and there's nothing wrong with techno-geeks, but I just don't think that people understand that I'm really not as.. proficient as maybe they would think. [misconceptions; Faster Louder, late '06]<br />
-Sam's Town' is a name of a hotel. When I was younger I grew up in a place called Henderson and there were no freeways to get to Las Vegas from Henderson. You basically had to come down this highway called Boulder Highway - that was how you got to Arizona; that was how you progressed away from Las Vegas. So to get to Las Vegas, that was also the same Boulder Highway. Now it's grown so much and there are freeways all over the place connecting you. Whenever we would go to Las Vegas it was very exciting, even though we were almost in Las Vegas - you could see it if you're high enough in Henderson. It was still an exciting thing because you'd have family in town and you would probably be going to the Mirage (hotel), or if your mom was going shopping, the movies - anything like that; that all existed in Las Vegas. So the only way to get there was down Boulder Highway, and you could see Sam's Town on the right - that always solidified it for me that we were actually getting somewhere because you were then in Las Vegas when you got to Sam's Town. It's this local place that's western-themed. So anyway, for me, that's what this album feels like; we're getting somewhere exciting now. We've started something with "Hot Fuss" but now we're moving on down the road. [Faster Louder,late '06]<br />
-We'd shoot over to catch his show every now and then, and one day he dropped in to see us in the studio-it was quite an honour... Elton said we should really hone in on what we're doing and not lose sight of what's important, which is songwriting, and that it's our duty to write the very best songs we can. [laugh:] It's easy for him to say-he's so brilliantly prolific. [Inside Entertainment Oct '06]<br />
-I'm comfortable with where I am right now. I feel that I'm the man I'm going to be for the rest of my life and that this new album is telling the story of me getting there. [Inside Entertainment Oct '06]<br />
-There's definitely a moment there that captures that. The way that it rolls on and you don't get bored and it just explodes and you feel young. [similarity between This River is Wild and Thunder Road; Inside Entertainment Oct '06]<br />
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-People get stuck on one thing, but there's so much music out there to learn from. [Inside Entertainment Oct '06]<br />
-I saw him at dinner at my mom's birthday about a month ago and he said, 'I hear that I'm being immortalized.' Uncle Johny's a rocker, so he's excited. [Inside Entertainment Oct '06]<br />
-The canvas is huge for us right now. Nobody's looking over our shoulders telling us what to do. We're getting to make the kind of music we want and connect with people through our songs- that's what rock and roll is all about. [Inside Entertainment Oct '06]<br />
-I was flipping through, Bullet Bible came on, and you'd think that's punk rock and you're doing your American Idiot DVD in the UK. That's not punk rock. It means something different to those people, to the English and German people. Totally different meaning to the kid from Oakland. [explaining Green Day critique; The Hour transcript, Oct '06]<br />
-We're big hopefuls, because we're not part of anything, there's no grunge with The Killers. You have Franz, Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Arcade Fire, Kasabian, Kings of Leon. They belong on the radio. The problem is that it's difficult for the record labels. They need groups of things, they need emo. They need to sell to people. We're lucky because we're outside of all that. [The Hour transcript, Oct '06]<br />
-Love her... ["Cool"] is about the bass player again; you can totally tell. [ Gwen Stefani] [Spin, Jan. '06]<br />
-I didn't figure him for much of a drinker. I figured he's a pothead. [Eminem] [Spin, Jan. '06]<br />
-Have you heard the Hilary Duff version of "My Generation"? She sings, "I hope I don't die before I get old." [Spin, Jan. '06]<br />
-Jack seems like a romantic guy. [Jack White] [Spin, Jan. '06]<br />
-There's this ELO song that I had no idea about. The Thrills have been
trying to get me into ELO ever since I first hung out with them. And
then I'm with my friend driving to LA and he put this song on from his
iPod, 'Livin' Thing.' It blew my mind. I put it on repeat the
whole night for that drive. It's this song that somehow captures a
feeling of sheer elation. [MOJO, Jan. '06]<br />
-The record company was paying for us to
stay at this place in Beverly Hills, nicer than any place we've ever
seen. We arrive there, the valet opens the door, and...I couldn't help
it, I jumped out and I started dancing, singing (sings) 'It's a livin'
thing!', right there in the lobby of this swanky place. I just couldn't
help it. It just does that to you. ['Livin' Thing' by ELO] [MOJO, Jan. '06]<br />
- Now we need to stay up here. That's the true challenge. But you should see the view. [success] [BYU, Jan. '06]<br />
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-His aura is huge, and I'd like to be inside that bubble with him. [U2's The Edge - the coolest person he'd want to sit next to at the Grammy's] [Rolling Stone, Feb '06]<br />
-He makes me ill. I wanted to love him so much when he first came out. He
has this sweet voice, and there's a cuteness to it, and then you see
him in interviews and he's like a lion. It just ruined the whole package
for me. [Rolling Stone, Feb. '06] <br />
-Gold Digger, how about that? I'll give Kanye a little love now. I wish we'd written Gold Digger. But without the actor. [After saying Kanye's personality sucked; and adding another jab at Jamie Foxx when asked- 'I think he's confused about who he is.'] [Rolling Stone, Feb. '06]<br />
-I'm from Henderson. I still live in Henderson. I love Henderson. [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]<br />
-We had the fire. It wasn't just a spark, it was a fire. [early ambition] [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]<br />
-We auditioned and we met people and nobody was into what we were
playing. At the time, imagine five years ago if you said you were
playing music and you were into David Bowie, Duran Duran and Oasis.
There was nobody. They thought we were crazy.[Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]<br />
- You go to any of your hip coffee shops or bars and you're gonna hear
kids bitching about living in Vegas, and how there's no culture, and I
realized I was different right away. I love it. [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]<br />
- He [WB rep] took us to the label and they kept asking to hear more. Record labels are really afraid to pull the trigger. [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]<br />
- Warner Brothers turned us down. They said I didn't have enough sex appeal. [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]<br />
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-Once you get in NME and they say thta they like it, it's like gold. Then
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- I had people all over MY walls. I just took my posters down. It was a
sad day. I just bought a house and I had to take down my Depeche Mode
and Morrissey posters. I felt strange doing that. [why it's not weird teenagers have his posters on their walls] [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]</div>
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- I knew this one before we even played a gig, so she's been around. We
just made our first demo when I met her. She's not in it for the money. [Tana] [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]</div>
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-A lot of people would've just spit one out right way and tried to ride
on it, but I think we're the working men of music right now. [working on second album] [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]</div>
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-I don't know. Yes! We feel it's going to shut the mouths and open the ears of all and be our imperial album. [Sam's Town] [Vegas Rocks!, Feb '06]</div>
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- Springsteen touches on the American dream, and that's everybody's dream.
And it's such a great idea — whether or not it's still happening today.
Most of the songs are about getting to that place, of making it to the
promised land. I don't think it's about getting rich; it's the idea of
working hard and having your castle in the sky. [MTV, May '06]</div>
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- We're all from working-class families, and that's why our songs are
good, because we don't do it half-assed. Nothing was handed to us, and
so we don't settle. [MTV, May '06]</div>
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-We're not afraid to throw a song away because it's
not good enough. A lot of people won't do that. [MTV, May '06]</div>
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-We're still influenced by English rock and pop music, but we're all kind
of transforming or getting older... I mean, I don't really know anything about Manchester, England. I've
been there a couple of times, and I realized, 'This feels like the
Smiths, but it's not me.' [MTV, May '06]</div>
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- Yeah, I heard about that. Our lawyer sent us something about it. I never
said anything bad about him, I just said I didn't want to share our
A&R guy, and I still don't. He's a
busy guy, but he should just be busy with us. I don't know if
I'd go to dinner with him. I mean, I go to Nobu all the time. [Pete Wentz offering to go out to dinner to end 'feud'] [MTV, May '06]</div>
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-I can't walk around with a chip on my shoulder all the time. I have to realize that people aren't going to like us. [MTV, May '06]</div>
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- Franz Ferdinand's second album went away quickly in America. And watching that, for us, is scary. [Spin, June '06]</div>
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-It'll be bigger than <i>Hot Fuss</i>, because we've still so much to prove. So far, we've made a scratch on the door. Now we want to make a dent. [pause] We want to take the whole door off." [Sam's Town] [Spin, June '06]</div>
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- We're proud to be from Las Vegas. And ours will be the
first album made in a casino! [Blender, June '06]</div>
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-Springsteen made me understand my dad, so it's like I got re-raised listening to him. [Blender, June '06]</div>
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- Before, our music was an imagination I had about England and Manchester
bands I love. Now I think, 'Why am I writing this song? Does this really
come out of me...or New Order and the Smiths?' [Blender, June '06]</div>
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-Not to get hippie, but
we've gotten in touch with ourselves and how much we love America and
Las Vegas. [Blender, June '06]</div>
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-We write hits and have never been shy about that, but this album is
connected to life. I hope that doesn't
scare our fans - they seemed so happy with our songs about killing girls. [Blender, June '06]</div>
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-We still sound like the Killers. Just more heartfelt. [Blender, June '06]</div>
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-Our plan is simple: to make every song bigger and better than Hot Fuss. [Q, Sept. '06]</div>
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- It's shaping up to be a lot more serious than the last album - I guess
that's because the band is growing up. We're not singing about teenage
girls anymore. [Q, Sept. '06]</div>
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-It's
really like two cities here. There's a really normal side and then
there's the Strip. Most people just see the Strip when they hear Las
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- We all have our own bands that we like, but U2 is the main one for us as a whole. We want to be the next U2! [Campus Circle, '04]</div>
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- People want pop punk over and over - it's got to end eventually. But
hopefully they'll be wanting something new, and we're definitely willing. [Campus Circle, '04]</div>
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-I think this debut album is so solid. I'm not really worried about it at
all. Nobody is writing classic, amazing songs
anymore, but we're going to do our best. If you put us up against most
of the other bands, we are killers. [Campus Circle, '04]</div>
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- There are people who want us to write ‘Somebody Told Me' again and we just don't want that.</div>
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- You kind of become a robot playing the same 11 songs every night,
especially the amount that we did it- we probably played 500 shows on
the first album. So it was just like a new breath of life I guess, to
write some new songs and now to to use the studio. [BBC Radio 1, July '06]</div>
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-I would say that the album is like a glamorous fairground. It sounds
like a band in 2006 who has had 50 years of amazing
music to learn from, and I think that's what's been missing with a lot of
people lately. [BBC Radio 1, July '06]</div>
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-We're not stealing. And y'know, you're not gonna see us
have a little smile on stage because oh isn't this cute, we stole from
Tom Petty, y'know what I mean? I'm sick of seeing that
stuff. I'd rather have said, okay I've learned from it and I've
internalised it, and this is what the Killers sound like because of it. [BBC Radio 1, July '06]</div>
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- There's always gonna be a place for fun songs, but then there are the songs that give people chills. I like those more. [Rolling Stone, July '06]</div>
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-I have trouble getting my thoughts down. I want to be able to get a message across simply. [Rolling Stone, July '06]</div>
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- You get so many bands whose lyrics sound like a retard writing poetry. The kind of stuff you write for English class when you're
eight. [Rolling Stone, July '06]</div>
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- We were on our tour for two years. And all of our fantasies about
Europe and Japan and those places became reality. And at the end of it
all, when we went home, it made me realize how in love I was with
America, how much I missed Nevada. Absence made the heart grow fonder. [NME, June '06]</div>
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-There's a line in onen of the songs on the record, 'When You Were Young', that talks about 'Burning down the highway skyline'
that's all about Vegas. In the UK, the sky always seems so small
because everything's built on this small island. Where we live, there's
this wide open desert with this skyline that's just... inspiring. [NME, June '06]</div>
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-For me, this is the album. I feel totally
empowered by singing it. Even my voice itself, it's not as affected any
more, it's not quite so... created. There's a spiritual element to the
music that wasn't there before, there's something a little more... real
about it. [NME, June '06]</div>
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- It's something that's become a real problem for me since we got
successful. But I feel as though if I talk about it in interviews, it
lessens the chances of my fears actually happening. Like, I've talked
about it, so it would have to be a huge coincidence for it to actually
happen to me. Does that make sense? It seems way more improbable than
if I didn't talk about my fears of what might happen. That's why I've
been seeing a psychiatrist, once a week for the last few months. To
talk about my fear. [fear of flying] [NME, June '06]</div>
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-You wouldn't believe where we recorded the album. We
were in a place called the Fantasy Tower in the Palms Hotel, and Las
Vegas right now should have a big sign over it saying 'WELCOME TO
SEXTOWN'. It's only interested in attracting sex tourism. You know
what the city's motto is? 'What Happens In Vegas, Stays In Vegas'. It's
terrible. It's basically a haven for infidelity and corruption. For
me, I wanted to run from the car to the studio and block everything else
out. It's fine for us because we live there, but I don't think it
would be wise for a band to go out to Vegas to record an album. [NME, June '06]</div>
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- He is just the nicest man, and people forget how important he is, how
many lives he's soundtracked. And when it comes to
new music, he's more on the ball than anyone I know. [Elton John] [NME, June '06]</div>
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- We were all sitting around at an aftershow, and we were all pretty
drunk, and Bono leant over and said, 'Come along to our soundcheck
tomorrow', and I was like, 'Yeah, he was drunk, he'll forget about it.'
But sure enough, the next day, I got a phone call saying, 'Soundcheck's
at five, don't be late.' So I got to this empty arena and Bono said to
me, 'We were thinking of playing 'In A Little While' tonight, I know
it's your favourite song, do you wanna sing it with us?' I mean, it was
amazing. I'm still not used to hanging out with U2, and I still learn
so much from watching them play. Did Bono slip me any answers? No, I'm
still waiting on the Bono talk. I don't think we're getting it. He's
scared to give it to us! Could you imagine how good we'd be if we had
it? It wouldn't be fair! [NME, June '06] </div>
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- You don't realize what you could be getting yourselves into, with Fall
Out Boy, and what kind of impact it could have in a way that you don't
really want. Culturally, if it gets as big as
it is in America, it could change an entire generation of people growing
up here. Emo, whatever you want to call it, is dangerous. We don't
wanna dislike anyone, and we've never met Fall Out Boy, but there's a
creature inside me that wants to beat all those bands to death. They
just all go into the happy emofunnel and everyone loves 'em without
thinking. 'Oh, Fall Out Boy likes you? Fuck! I'm gonna go buy your CD!' [NME, June '06]</div>
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-This album will be a springboard for us to do whatever the hell we wanna
do. We want every album to
be more exciting than the one that came before. We want every album to
be a new debut. [NME, June '06]</div>
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- I really
appreciated Lennon for how strong his solo work was. A lot of people
lose it - whatever "it" is - and he didn't. [Newsweek, Nov., '05]</div>
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-"God" ends with this beautiful thing where he says, "I was the Dreamweaver but now I'm reborn/I was the Walrus, but now I'm John<i>.</i>"
It just melts my heart every time. It shows that he kind of came full
circle. He went through the drugs and everything, but came back to being
John and being proud of it and telling the whole world. [John Lennon] [Newsweek, Nov., '05]</div>
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- I'd like to take it all back. These people are just doing what they want to do, just like I am. I'm
actually a nice person and I love people. I just am opinionated, and
sometimes jealous. It's not something I'm proud of. [emo controversy] [Spin, June '06]</div>
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-I don't even know what their music's like, or if I would
even like it. That made me feel even worse, to
think they could have been fans of ours and I hurt their feelings.
That's just stupid. [Panic at the Disco] [Spin, June '06]</div>
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- It was basically started by a man named Sam Boyd. He was one of the
founding fathers of our wonderful sin city, and I don't know.. it's kind
of a rags to riches story, and it's a nice story. He was a nice man. [Sam's Town] [KROQ, July '06]</div>
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- They didn't embrace us. They still don't. They write nothing but bad
things about us, and that kind of.. hurts your feelings. When you go all over the world, and you're so excited and really proud
of what we've done. And you go home and have all this negative
energy. But we get past it. [MTV, Aug. '06]</div>
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- I wasn't able to grow a mustache before, so I'm kind of embracing this
manliness. I think I've been watching a lot
of westerns. I'm very inspired by Clint Eastwood. [AOL, Aug. '06]</div>
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-I grew up in a town right outside of Las Vegas called Henderson. It was exciting when family would come to town [and] we would
get to go to Las Vegas. The real landmark was when you got to Sam's
Town. You knew that the best was yet to come, but you were almost there. I feel like that's where we are right now. It's exciting. I feel like
we're writing great songs and I'm happy to be alive. Hopefully, the best
is yet to come for us. [AOL, Aug. '06]</div>
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-When I first saw "Crazy," I thought, 'I love this song, I love the
video, maybe we can take them on the road!' Then, at the end, it said,
"Gnarls Barkley," and I said, 'Fuck!' I just knew they weren't small
enough to open up for us. [RS, Aug. '06]</div>
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-I would pick Madonna, for "Hung Up." I just love the song, and I'm not ashamed of it. [VMA's video of the year] [RS, Aug. '06]</div>
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-We get a lot of attention for negative things, so we're really happy to
be here on a positive night where we can focus on the music. [San Fransisco gig, MP3 Live.com, Aug. '06]</div>
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-We're not cocky. And I don't mean to sound cocky.
We're just proud of this record. At the end of the day, it's all in the
ear of the beholders. We don't believe the hype. We believe it's a
good piece of work. [Billboard, Sept. '06]</div>
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- We ended up in a dungeon. This guy we know has an incredible house with a
room underneath it that was built hundreds of years ago. He made it
into a wine cellar and a theater. We were hanging on the chandeliers. [Jane, Oct. '06]</div>
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-Tom Cruise? I love him but he's getting so strange and no one knows what
the Scientology thing is all about. So I would be the one to deliver the
news. [if he could spy on a famous person] [Jane, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I think you could pick a fantastic outfit and be happy for the rest of
your life. You'd want to be comfortable, but kind of classic, something
James Dean-y. Some good jeans, good shoes and a good belt. [Jane, Oct. '06]</div>
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- That's what's so cool about England, that there are so many venues for
music which hold such history. You go into a little bar and see pictures
of Oasis playing there when they were first starting out. We still get
excited about it. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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-I think people should be excited about Sam's Town because it's an
exciting album. I really like that Achtung Baby sound by U2 and maybe
we're going that way. But for anyone trying to find a reason not to like it, it's still us and we're really proud of it. The change came about because we were listening to different music like
Bruce Springsteen and U2. I feel more comfortable with this sound now. I
am so excited about it. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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-We've been so blessed to have the love that we have in the UK. It's a country that's so excited about music. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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-Basically, the goal now is to keep progressing and growing and collecting an army. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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-Hot Fuss sold six million copies and if this album sells six million and one then I think we've done a good job. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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- I am an American and so it sounds more American but I think it still can
be loved by everyone. I hope so - I hope the British aren't offended! [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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- I've never played the guitar in front of people in the past because it was a confidence thing. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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-Flood did Depeche Mode's Songs Of Faith And Devotion, which is an album I've loved since I was very young. When
it came out it was the heaviest and darkest thing I'd ever purchased
and it took me a long time to get used to it. I was only 14 then but now
I think those songs are just beautiful. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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-I have had a lot of pressure on me because of my religion. I don't want
to make a big deal out of being a Mormon because of my family. A lot of
attention is put on me because of it. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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- Singing with New Order at T In The Park was exciting. I was so nervous
and Pete Hook was making fun of me about half an hour before I went on. [The Sun, Sept. '06]</div>
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- I believed for some reason that these people were going to change my life. And they did. [The Smiths, The Cure] [Fashion Rocks, fall '06]</div>
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- You can have fun and be out there and be smart, and you don't have to be
standing onstage looking at your shoes. Your black Converse. [Fashion Rocks, fall '06]</div>
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-I still remember being in the control room and listening to 'Somebody Told Me,' and I knew at that moment. It was undeniable. [Fashion Rocks, fall '06] </div>
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-Our sound hasn't changed that much, but the sentiment or where the song
is coming from has changed. It's from a much more real
place. [Fashion Rocks, fall '06]</div>
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- I think it's actually hot in here. I'm in London where their tends to be a lack of air conditioning. [whether he's causing the heat] [Blender, Sept. '06]</div>
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- I've watched the show - I'll admit it. But, I lean towards David Copperfield. [Criss Angel, mind freak] [Blender, Sept. '06]</div>
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-My ex-girlfriend, two girlfriends back, really liked to listen to Suede a
lot. And they're a good band, but I can't listen to Suede without
thinking of her, and I really don't want to think of her. That kind of
has ruined Suede for me. [MTV, Nov. '06]</div>
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-I can honestly say that there's nowhere in the world I'd rather be right now. [Vegoose Festival in LV, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I don't know what it was like for Morrissey to grow up in Manchester -- I
loved to fantasize about it when I was 15 -- but I do know what it was
like to be raised in Las Vegas, Nevada, by Americans, and I did the best
that I could to recollect that. [LV Review Journal, Oct. '06]</div>
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-We didn't want to make an Americana record, and I don't think we did. We just made a good album. [LV Review Journal, Oct. '06]</div>
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-It's got nothing on the Belaggio, but I used to work across from Sam's
Town and live across from Sam's Town, and you just have to see this
place. [Spin, Oct. '06]</div>
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- I saw Noel a few months before we started the album. He had the same mentality about our band as
he had for his own - just go and make the album... He likes our band... We've hung out after one of our shows and he was a real regular dude. He's funny, real funny. He's a happy guy. [MTV UK, Sept. '06]</div>
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- Every week, I would scope out the classifieds and look at who the bands
would list as their influences. It was always, "Staind! Tool! Korn!
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-We tried it on him once and all the guys were just like, hmm. (shakes head.) [makeup on Ronnie] [MuchOnDemand, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I have to tell someone about this. I sleep like this (puts his fingers pointing to his chest and wrists up.) I just have to. [MuchOnDemand, Oct. '06]</div>
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-People who are actually friends with Jason Lee have stopped and talked to Ronnie and did not know it wasn't Jason. [Newsweek, Oct. '06]</div>
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-It's strange, all the fuss about the beard. The thing is, I've never been able to grow a beard
before. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-Rock music is pop music. If you have a hook in a rock song, it's a pop
song. The Beatles are pop. The Stones are pop. I think the words rock
and pop can go together just fine. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-Yeah, it's difficult to hold true to the values you believe in. But my faith is there for me. It's not as
if I stay in every night. Sometimes I go out with the band. But I try
to avoid the temptations and that's the difference I think - the fact
that I try. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-It kind of shows its face. It's nothing that I set out to do, but it's
something about myself which I can't deny. It's a scary torch to be
carrying, but y'know, we're not all about Jesus. We still have the
ruckus running through us. I think it's possible to be spiritual
without sacrificing your credibility. Look at U2 - they touched on
those issued in a way that was tasteful and positive. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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- It shows you how sweet they are that the track I did with them was 'In A Little While', which they know is my favourite song. [U2] [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-The first time I met them I was totally star-struck. People over here
don't realise it, but in America bands like U2 and The Beatles seem so
exotic because they're so far away. That's why we react so strongly to
the music. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-He told me that if a journalist doesn't like you and writes a bad
interview, go back and have that person interview you for the next
album. And if he doesn't like that record either, then make sure he
interviews you again. You got to keep letting them know that you're
doing your thing, that it just doesn't matter what they say, because you
know where you are going with this. [U2's Bono] [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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- Elton's advice to me was just to always work hard, to never get
complacent and take things for granted. Of course,
that's easy for him to say, considering that at his peak he was capable
of writing two or three albums every year. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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- That was a real awkward experience, for us and for him. What do you do? It's David Bowie. I just stared at him, I
was like, 'Ashes To Ashes' - love that song. He's not going to realise
what an effect his music had on me. You want to tell him, but he hears
that all the time. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I'm from Las Vegas. Showbiz is in the town's blood.
Everywhere you go, ever the 7/11, there are pictures of Sinatra and
Sammy Davis Jr. As a kid I moved to Utah and I identified with
Sinatra. Living where we did, he represented the big city to me. When I
was 16, my folks let me go back to the city, to Vegas. 'My Way' stood
for the things that drew me there, that sense of glamour. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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- It was great to have a different inspiration. It made the new album
exciting for us. I don't know what we would have done if we'd been
influenced by the same people as on the first album. You don't want it
to be the same old same old. [discovering Springsteen] [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-When I was 15 years old music changed the way I thought. I
took a lot of time with the lyrics on this record because I don't want
to be responsible for making anyone stupid or hurting them or taking
them around the wrong path. I'm very proud of the lyrics. I think
they're positive. It's hard to be positive. I wanted to represent what
we were really about on the album. On the first album we were just
representing a fantasy of the kind of music I had grown up with but
which I didn't know anything about. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I think we have a command over the crowd in a good way. It's good for us and it's good for them. I guess before I go on stage
there's a trigger I pull inside of myself. It's an excitement that
gushes over me. It wasn't always like that. It's come with touring so
much. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-If I had to go back to one of my old jobs it would be working at
Stallion Mountain golf course in Nevada. You do
pretty well out of the tips and, also, you get to play golf for free. [Hotpress, Oct. '06]</div>
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-We feel like these songs deserve to be seen and heard. So it's gonna be
really fun, hopefully, to come see a Killers show, and it's, you know,
we want it to be an adventure, and we're working on that. It's almost
gonna be like futuristic fairgrounds. I've been saying it's like Josey
Wales meets Han Solo. [Sam's Town tour] [The Rock Radio, Oct. '06]</div>
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-It feels great that it's out. There just seems, like, such an excitement about it. The world's
hungry. [Sam's Town] [LV Review Journal, Oct. '06]</div>
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-Those poor guys came from England, and they would go sometimes two weeks
without leaving the Palms. They needed to get out. There were
big talks about going to Red Rock and going to Hoover Dam, but it never
happened. We just didn't realize what we were getting into making this
album, I don't think. [Flood & Moulder] [LV Review Journal, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I'm so proud that people want to hear what we're doing. We just couldn't ask for anything more. [LV Review Journal, Oct. '06]</div>
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- It's getting a little better. People are starting to accept that we aren't responsible for all the
wrongs in the world. We'd go round and as soon as I opened my mouth and
they heard my accent, I would get treated poorly. That was getting
really frustrating for me. [Americans in Europe during Irag war][The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-If you're walking down the street and there's only enough room for one
person, I'll be the person that goes in the dirt. Little things like
that I try to be conscious of. [The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-The next line is, 'It'll all work out'. That's a continuing theme on the album. [Enterlude] [The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-I'm just a fan, and if I'm not a fan of something and you ask me my
opinion..." He shrugs. "But I'm learning. There's a lot of people that
are hating what we do and sick of us, and I go on the internet and read
about that. And that negativity has affected me. It's made me start
to realise that I'm putting that out into the world too, and I feel bad
about it. So I'm trying to focus on things that I like. I like The
Kooks! [The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-It's such a positive force. And to get all these people together - I
just really feel excited by that. I feel like a lightning rod when
we're singing some of those songs. [The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-We've always talked about U2. When you're standing out in the crowd and they do <i>Where The Streets Have No name</i>. Or <i>One... </i>That's something to
strive for. You feel a spirit in the room. I just want there to be
classic songs like their used to be. One day U2's gonna get too old!
Then what are we gonna do? Shit! We need some people to rise up. [The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-No! We are! There's no doubt. [when asked whether Franz Ferdinand might be the next U2] [The Word, Nov. '06]</div>
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-We saw bands getting ripped for making their album twice, Franz
Ferdinand and other bands like that. We don't want to rewrite 'Mr.
Brightside' and some of these songs. We already wrote them, and we're
proud of them, but you know, you want to move on. [Detroit News, Oct. '06]</div>
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- There's that feeling you get when you're in a stadium and U2 plays
'One,' what that means to everyone there. And it doesn't have to be to
that many people. You go from U2 size where they sell 35,000 every night
to where Morrissey always sells 2,000 a night, but when you're there,
there are moments that are just - people say it's a substitute for
religion for some people. We're believers. [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-For me, the things that were deliberate were to sing like an American,
because I'm an American, and to sing about what I know about instead of
fantasies. Fantasies are OK too, but I just felt like I wanted to make an album that people could relate to right now. [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I guess the American thing came from people who were talking about how
English we sounded, and me actually singing with a fake accent....
Americans are getting a bad rap right now, and we felt that everywhere
that we went, whether it was Germany or France or wherever, there's a
look that you get when they hear you open your mouth.... It's
because of the war and everything that's going on. It's understandable,
but to an extent it's not fair because we're just people that were born
here, and we're not ashamed of it, and I wanted to sing about growing up
here and things that I know about and humanize us in a way. People don't see that, they see us like monsters. [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-Some indie kid on a blog, we expect that. But those are
ones that we expected to be smarter. Like Mark was saying, they're so
used to people not being good that they don't want to believe it. They
just want to believe it's a rip-off. [disparaging reviews from top journalists] [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-You can't
find a moment on this record that's stolen from anything. I mean, this
is real music that we're writing; I think it's been so long that they're
not used to it. Everybody just waits for U2 to make another album to go
see a stadium show or to have something be exciting and big and smart. [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-A lot of the album is about things that are dying - values. The way that I was
raised, it seems like kids aren't getting raised like that anymore. Sometimes
it feels like we are trying to hold on to those values on the album,
and then there are other times when it sounds like we're kind of sending
them off in style, kissing them goodbye. [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-I'm not rigorous, but I'm not moderate either. I'm medium well [laughs]. I think it gives it a push and a pull.... It keeps my
life interesting I guess.... [how religious he is] [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-You're almost expected to be a certain way
if you're in a rock 'n' roll band. And it's tempting sometimes. You
know, you read stories, mythical almost stories of Led Zeppelin, David
Bowie, Depeche Mode and everybody, and it sounds like so much fun. So
that's there, you know, just the things around us that we can't control
- I guess we could control it a little more, but we want to have a
little fun too. [L.A. Times, Oct. '06]</div>
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-At first it was hard to tell. Everyone sort of stares at you during the
new songs; they're just taking them in. But now that the album's been
out for a couple of weeks, we're starting to see something happening.
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-They flow with the other songs really well. We'd been playing those
songs for so long, and so many times. It's a big breath of fresh air. So
many people are making such a big deal about the new songs being so
different, but we don't feel they're that much different. Especially
when we play "When You Were Young" and then "Somebody Told Me" almost
every night, and it's not that strange.</div>
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-I think we're gonna play bigger places, but we're not gonna play
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<span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"> </span></div>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-63677700692733633022010-08-19T00:40:00.000-07:002011-01-25T12:48:25.246-08:00Brandon Flowers' Priceless Quotes- 2004 [Blast from the past]He has so many, and we all know the usual Twinkie quotes that are everywhere, but there are some gems from the way way past. And what a shame if they got forgotten forever. I will add to this list over time-<br />
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[ETA- I compiled literally a bazillion of Brandon's quotes '04-'10 <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2010/12/brandon-flowers-850-quotes.html">HERE</a>.<br />
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2004<br />
(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/spins1.html">Spin</a>)<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"I had a brother (Shane) who was 12 years older than me, and he was into the Cars, the Beatles, Morrissey, and The Cure. He was always watching U2's Rattle and Hum and Morrissey videos.I would sneak into his room when he was at school. He had the coolest posters. Like The Cure from The Head On the Door. Where their faces are painted. When my great-grandmother died, he didnt go to the funeral. We were all in the car waiting for Shane and he never showed up. My mom went in the house and ripped every single poster on the wall in half because she knew that was the worst thing she could do to him."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"I could get shot for this, but I don't think having a museum in your town makes you better than anyone else. I'm really sick of that attitude. Maybe that's me being ignorant. But we did fine without it. I mean, you can watch movies and read books, and there is music, you've just got to find it. We did it all on our own."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">-- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">On living in the less sophisticated Nephi, Utah and Henderson, Nevada</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"It was really weird because other kids were buying Tool and Nirvana and I was buying the Cars and Psychedelic Furs. I was pretty alienated as a kid.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">listening to different music than most kids when he was 12 in Utah</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"My dad was a produce man. He worked in grocery stores for 35 years. My mom just babysat kids and raised us."</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">"I learned the difference between good girls and bad girls. I can tell the second I meet someone."</span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">--growing up with four sisters </span><br />
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</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"I remember hearing girls behind me in english class talking about turning 18 and being old enough to strip. It wasn't weird at the time."</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--bad girls in Las Vegas </span></span><br />
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</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"I was really torn when I was eight because I had one sister who loved, like, New Edition. She was trying to put me in rayon shirts, while my brother made me listen to The Cars."</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"The White Stripes would be on it. The strokes, Franz Fedinand, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Kings of Leon. Those are my favorites."</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">-- </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">'04 faves for a mix tape (sigh, those were the days in music)</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"You could throw Interpol on it. I don't like The Stills" (LOL)</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--When the interviewer suggests Interpol and the Stills </span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"It's very important. I mean, It's important in everybody's life. Basic relegion is the reason we have morals. I am actually a mormon, not an ex-mormon. I occasionally drink and smoke, but i'm trying-I'm human."</span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--religion</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"> was just as important to him back then, apparently</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana;"><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"></div></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"None of us is really a party animal."</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"(stammers) I don't know if I see drugs or slutty girls or something it just might be me who turns away. I don't know it it's just the way I am, saying "I'm going to bed now" or if it's from being raised Mormon."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">-- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">On which situation would make it difficult to resist temptation</span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">"It's true. The hotel held a lot of roackabilly conventions, and Morrisey's guitarist, Boz Boorer, would always come. I got to know him a bit. One time he asked me to store his bags while he went to have a drink. I shouldnt have done it, and I still feel bad, but I went through one of them. I just wanted to see what Boz was listening to. One of the CD's said "The Album" and it had all the tracks from You are the Quarry on it. I knew they were making a new record and I recognized the song titles. I called Ronnie and he was going to come and burn it because it wasnt out for months. But I put it on the CD Player at work, and it was only the music, not the vocals, so I called Ronnie back and told him not to bother.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">--naughty bellhop </span><br />
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</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">"It was always in me. My dad is a big dreamer, so I got that from him... </span>But, yeah, making the transition has been weird. I always wanted this.</div><div>--<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">going from awkward chubby preteen to heartthrob</span><br />
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</span></div><div>(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/article43.html">NME</a>, March)</div><div><br />
</div><div>"It's really just a play on words. But it gets people confused. That's good."</div><div>"The androgyny means we appeal to boys and girls. That's really important to us."</div><div>--'Somebody Told Me,' already showing his calculating genius<br />
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</div><div>"It's about a football player from my high school. Teachers favour the football players and wrestlers. It's made known: these guys are special. In fact, the teachers encouraged the hierarchy, as a lot of them were coaches too"...it's "a song for a loner".</div><div>--'Andy You're a Star' (oh yes)</div><div><br />
</div><div>"It's about a couple breaking up; all the boy cares about is keeping the whiskey they bought."</div><div>--'Leave the Bourbon on the Shelf,' part 1 of the murder trilogy</div><div><br />
</div><div>"It's OK making the decision to split up, but when somebody finds somebody else, it's terrible; it's the worst feeling in the world."</div><div>--still discussing the trilogy<br />
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</div><div><div align="left" style="font-family: Times; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">"She found another boy. It was kinda ugly!"</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">-- </span>How his last relationship ended<br />
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</div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">(<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/22839.html">Radio 1</a>)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">I think The Killers are going to be a little bit more organic on the next record."</span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">--</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">on next album after Hot Fuss</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/22839.html">Radio 1 Music Exposed</a>) </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Every band gives a thought to their image. Even the ones who don't appear to care, or look like they haven't bothered, have made a conscious decision specifically not to look like they've made an effort."</span></span></div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"The song is a cliché. But that's good because it makes it more memorable. And that's what you want songs to be." </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">'Somebody Told Me' could be 'Rio' - with chest hair. But I do think we have more of an edge than Duran Duran - we're more about rock and roll and bands like The Rolling Stones."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">--'</span>Somebody told Me'<br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"People over here (UK) aren't afraid to admit that they like something. If they hear a good song they're gonna clap and scream. In the US it's much harder to get people to appreciate you." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">(<a href="http://clatl.com/atlanta/making-a-killing/Content?oid=1246814">Creative Loafing</a>, March)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"When we play that song over here, we get bottles thrown at us."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium;">--On playing 'Glamorous Indie Rock & Roll' in the US as opposed to UK-</span> </span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"It's shown them that, you know, it can be done -- even out here in the dirt."</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">-- </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">The Killers' success encouraging younger LV bands</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">(<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/119501.html">LV Review Journal</a>, April)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"Yeah, somebody's gotta do it. We love bands like the Strokes and things like that, but we want to take it -- not necessarily just mainstream -- but to a bigger level, even song-wise. I mean, the Strokes are great, but they don't have U2 quality, like stadium. And we're not really afraid to say, 'I wouldn't mind playing in a stadium with big songs.' "</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"A lot of kids -- they want to be a little weird and things like that. And none of us are really like that. I love pop songs. You can give me some weird, ugly chord change, and I'll turn it into a pop song. I can't help it. I just really love that stuff, and we just try to write the best songs that we can."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">--before the days of 'Tranquilize' </span></span></span></span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"At the time, I was really big into keyboard music. And they closed with 'Don't Look Back In Anger,' and it just shook me. That made me really want to get a guitar player. And that basically led me to find Dave, and just (tone down on the) keyboards."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">-- </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Seeing Oasis at the Joint changed his band plans</span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"We haven't had any negative press, yet."</span></span></span></span></div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/sftharticle.html">The Independent</a>, June)</span></span></span></div><div><br />
</div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"We are a great rock band - it's as simple as that. We're as good as The Strokes, Kings of Leon and The White Stripes." A smile plays on his lips. Sitting next to him, the bass player Mark Stoermer, looking deadly serious, nods in agreement. Not since Oasis first swaggered out of Manchester have a new band oozed quite so much blind self-assurance.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"Peter Hook's the man! With his jeans, leather jacket and hairy chest, he's a burly man in a tank top, yet he plays these beautiful bass lines."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">-Peter Hook of New Order </span><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"I liked the way Morrissey was, on stage. The way he performed and owned the audience - the way people wanted to touch him. That led me into his music." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"I don't think great bands come out of great music scenes. I don't need some local person to inspire me."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"We're a real band with a great talent for writing catchy songs." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"I can make myself miserable in minutes with what my mind can conjure up".</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px;">"He's bought our single - that's nuts!...</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">Morrissey really was unbelievable. Everybody did want to touch him. If our fans felt that way about us, that would be awesome...[when they opened for him] Apparently he was tapping his foot," he gasps.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">**~*~*~*~Flowers spots a group of girls he recognises and regains his composure. "Hey, look, it's our favourite fans," he says, affectionately. "We're the next Duran Duran because of them." Is he serious? Are they really on a journey to stadiums and yachts, platinum discs and beautiful women? The glint in his eyes says they are. "If you don't believe it, it won't happen."~**~*~*~*~</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
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</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"There's been this whole nü-metal and pop-punk thing, and it needed a change. Real songs, you know ... I mean, I don't think people are going to be looking back at, you know, Creed in 20 years and saying, 'Oh my gosh,' you know?" </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"Now it seems like there's more bands, like us, whoever it is, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and things like that, you know, we all put our own clothes on and write our own songs and we like great music. And it all comes across a lot more real to people, I think." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"No, I don't really think of us like that. ... I actually kind of thought that had come and gone, that whole new-wave type of thing. ... I do like a lot of the '80s new-wave stuff, I do. But I just, I like David Bowie just as much, you know, from the early '70s. I like John Lennon."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"I watched the other [Vegas] bands worry so much about these small gigs that didn't mean anything. I mean, it meant something to play out, but they worried, you know, about other local bands. ... My head wasn't with the local scene, it was always above it." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"I mean, if I made chairs, I would want people to buy my chairs, you know? So I don't care if it's a cool person, I don't care if it's somebody people think is an idiot, you still want them to buy it. I want as many people to hear it as possible. ... We all like the big bands, and we're not afraid to be one." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/killersarticle.html">?</a> UK Times, May)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">When a radio disc jockey asks whether the Killers are the best band in the history of Las Vegas-</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">“No. We’re the best band in the history of the world.”</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">“The problem is not that we failed but that we were more ourselves. People who are on our side call it ‘coming out of yourself’, when really they want you to fake it...I think we need to find a middle ground... A half-fake.” </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">“America’s the market that’s the hardest. We have the big dogs behind us, but there are so many bands that do. If you’re not Kid Rock, it’s going to be really hard.” </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">“We’re an intelligent band and we have intelligent songs,, and these people who are interviewing us are used to these kids, which we’re really not. We have the mentality almost of an underground band, but they’re asking us mainstream questions. That’s where we’re colliding.” </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">“He was just so gung-ho about us. In meetings, he would be like, ‘I’m going to burn this building down for the Killers.’”</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">--</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">ex-Warner bros record company boss Lyor Cohen</span><br />
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<div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">(<a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/140695.html">Metromix</a>, Sept)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"I've always loved crime shows on TV, and I love horror films. "The Ring," "The Exorcist," "The Omen." The old man in "The Exorcist"--oh my gosh. He scares the hell out of me."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"It's fun to write about dark things."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"It was awful. I still love the cheap pizza --Little Ceasar's, Pizza Hut." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">-Chicago deep dish pizza </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">Interviewer mentions he was a bellhop-</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"First of all, I was a bell-man." [lol]. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">And it wasn't as exciting as it's made out to be. It was usually just miserable. I'd make like $2 on the graveyard shift. It was Western-themed, and sometimes, when the rodeo was in town, I used to have to cart these really heavy brass sculptures into the cowboys' rooms, like an old man smoking a pipe, or a cowboy riding a bull. I don't know what was going on with that."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"He humped his leg at Coachella. Whatever. Isn't he in his 40s? Grow up, dude. It's OK to be young at heart, but humping someone's leg is ... well, a little too young."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">-- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">Andy Dick and TK's lawyer</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"Yeah, well, I don't want to really be influenced by someone right now. Maybe it's an ego thing. Everything today sucks ... Bands like The Stills bother me because they're all style and no substance. It's totally obvious that these kids don't love the classics like we love them. They're just in it for the now." [meeooww]</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"Ah, I don't know. We put it out with a fire extinguisher, which wasn't very Hendrix at all. It was definitely not one of rock's greatest moments."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">-- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">An amp caught on fire on stage, interviewer asks if it was a Hendrix moment</span><br />
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<div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">(LV <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/_killmenow_/170709.html">Review Journal</a>, Sept.)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">"</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">You know, I'll be honest, though. Our crowd has never been that great in Las Vegas. You know how the kids are there.... </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">So a lot of [Vegas kids go to Killers shows] just to basically set their minds straight that we're not worth what's happening, you know? And you feel it. I feel it the second I walk out onto the stage, every time we're in Las Vegas. And it's not a positive feeling. And it's hard, because I love Las Vegas."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"This could be a really good thing for local bands. Without us, nobody would've ever thought of Las Vegas for a band. I mean, it's been a long time."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"That really hit us over the head. There was 15- to 20,000 people at our gigs, two nights in a row. And there's just so many people, you can't see the ground. And every person's fist is up in the air for `All These Things That I've Done' or `Mr. Brightside.' It feels great."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">-- </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">NME tour</span><br />
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<div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"It's hectic. When we finished the album, we were all happy with the way it turned out. (But) we didn't know how busy it was gonna be."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Every now and then, I'll notice a couple of people that follow us around for a couple of shows, and I feel almost embarrassed to do the same thing that I might have done the night before. But for the most part, it's all new people, so I've gotta get used to that."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/cardiffarticle.html">Cardiff Barfly</a>, March)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"Yeah there's got to be some kind of continuity to our sound at the moment as people are just getting to know us. We want to do a great first album, then the second album will be a little bit different and the third will be a total change. People may think they know our sound but it changes constantly, each song is different. "</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/killersliven.html">Eagle</a>, April)</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"You want to hate them for it, but they write good songs. The decline of the starving artist is a little annoying. The only reason it would bother me is if they were pompous, and some of them are."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--An onslaught of successful bands like Interpol and The Strokes coming from affluent families</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"[Vegas is] like a cheap L.A. The fake culture crap gets fed here a year later." </span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--separate from LA and NY scenes</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"I was a bellhop. I saw people get drunk and lose all their money, so it was a good example of what not to do."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">--ooh he said bellhop </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"The only one who hasn't lost a step is Morrissey. He's my hero."</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">-as opposed to other classics such as David Bowie and Iggy Pop</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/savingprayerarticle.html">Xpress</a>, Oct)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"Yeah, I guess it's kind of annoying, but really I'm just happy people are talking about the album at all. We knew what a long shot it was going to be getting into this. We've been amazingly lucky." </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--on getting overhyped</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"That's a funny thing. What's a guilty pleasure anyway? I guess it's something you like for its quality in spite of it being uncool at the time. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">People used to call Duran Duran a guilty pleasure. Michael Stipe was doing an interview recently and he was saying that he used to consider them his guilty pleasure even though he would insult them publicly. He regretted it, saying that today he believes that they were a strong band. So, I don't really mind the characterization so long as people eventually come around to appreciating what we're trying to do. I guess we're a little more clean-cut than The Strokes or The White Stripes and in a sense we still have to pay our dues, but that doesn't mean we can't write a good song." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"No, they make awful music now. I just got the new album and it's laughable. If you want the model for a band that lasts, look at U2."</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--Whether Duran Duran are still good</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"I don't know what it is. You know what it is? U2 accept that they're getting older and they write songs about being 40-year-old dads. Duran Duran still write about being young and glamorous. I think it's about maturing with your songs instead of trying to maintain this artificial image."</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/q2004article.html">Q</a>, Dec)</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">"We've got a Rome and a Paris and even an England in Vegas." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">"I knew she was screwing someone else. I guess I should have done something but I'm not a violent person. But it really affected me. I would physically throw up... jealousy is a terrible, terrible experience...I wouldn't be here if we hadn't written Mr Brightside. I have no regrets. And they've split up now, so I hear. She knows she fucked up." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">--ex-gf and inspiration for Mr. B</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">"I grew up thinking that people were watching me. I know that makes me weird but it's who I am. I like people watching me." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">"Bands want to pick fights with us. We're not New York cool, we are proud to have a pop element to us." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">"But he did mention us onstage, which he never usually does. We cling to that nugget."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">--Morrissey never said hello</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; line-height: 17px;">Meanwhile Flowers puffs on a Davidoff with queenly daintiness and relates how his father once caught him dancing in his bedroom to Erasure. "He just said, Ya like that kinda music huh, son? and walked out," he says, face falling into his hands. </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">--One of my favorite Brandon quotes evar</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">"I'm not gay. I can't even be bothered to start some kind of intrigue about it. Bowie could nurture that sort of mystique, but this is an age where everyone knows everything about you in 10 seconds." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">"It's just too easy for people to think, Oh, they're from Vegas so they must be shallow and fake. But I would say the opposite. We formed a band and did things in the face of everything around us. There was no one like us in Vegas or even in America. We gambled and that's the only thing that comes from our hometown."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/nextuparticle.html">Nat'l Pos</a>t, July)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"It slips and slides…it goes up and down. I mean, I got up at four this morning, so I’m tired. But tomorrow I’m playing with Morrissey. So, I mean, it’s just like that."</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;">"We're definitely not afraid of pop -- I love pop music. I understand a lot of the indie thing, but you ask me what my favourite bands are, and I'd say the Beatles and U2 and bands that were not indie bands. They sold records and wanted people to hear their music, and that's what we want. So I'd say we're a rock band that has pop sensibilities." </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"I’ve been trying to figure out the answer to why it happens the way it does. And I think it’s because they want the new thing now. In America, we do want new things, but the way our radio system is, a song will be played on the radio for six months. And there, your singles are like every two months. And then on to the next one, and on to the next one after that. They just want to keep adding. So we’d released a second single there when Somebody Told Me had just come out in America. So it’s going to be going (in the U.S.) for a while, and we’re already onto our third one over there now. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--Why UK is easier to break</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"Yeah, things are definitely changing. Even if I wasn’t in a band, and I wasn’t part of it, I would be happy about the trend. I mean, it was hurting. </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Hip-hop dominates, and it still will, and I don’t think it ever will stop, really. But as for the rock… </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">what people considered rock ‘n’ roll - it just wasn’t real. You’d see these guys in their videos and their photo shoots, and it was just obvious. They’d have on brand new clothes, and their hair just got perfectly highlighted. …the record labels would kick people out of bands if they didn’t look right…people were on diets…we’re getting away from that. I mean, I think that’s still gonna exist, but a lot of bands like the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and the Strokes and the White Stripes and us and Franz Ferdinand – we’re all real, you know what I mean? We all dress ourselves and write our songs. </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"So that’s one good part of this new change, and another thing is the songs are better. More classic songs…even it sounds more ’80s, there’s great chord changes and great structures, and that’s what was missing."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"One thing that was just weird was that, if you look at the way songs were with Creed and things like that, what all kinda started it - which ended up not being anything like it at all - was Creep from Radiohead. You had this verse, and then the distortion kicks in, then the chorus, and that just fueled something, and it led all the way up…and I mean, you hear it in Creed. I mean, every single song. Matchbox 20, all those bands…I really think that had something to do with it. But it just ended up being contrived…I like the new stuff."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">I definitely am a people-watcher. I like both aspects of songs. I like the personal song, and I like whatever you want to call it - call it “fake” or whatever. That’s half the fun – that you can write about absolutely anything you want. So I do enjoy writing about things that I watch, or just things that I make up. There are a couple of songs that are personal songs…I think it makes for a good mix. "</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Mr. Brightside is a true story, man. It’s just a song about how dark and deep imagination can take you."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"I want people to wake up…it’s like when you’re young, and you just know songs – I want to have songs like that. And indie bands aren’t going to have those kinds of songs - they’re just not." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">We’re definitely not afraid of pop – I love pop music. I mean, that’s what I’d say the Beatles were. Even at their most experimental, they were a pop band."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"I love Las Vegas. I go to other cities and I just want to go home even more. ’Cause you have the city aspect of it, but it’s really wide open. You see the sky, and you can park your car and go places – it’s great. I love it. I love the desert, the mountains…"</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"Yeah, sometimes. I’m not a big partier, though. But I still enjoy going shopping…buying CDs at Virgin in the Forum shops at Caesar’s – I love going there. And it’s beautiful at night – it’s such a pretty city at night."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--Whether he likes the 'good times' side of LV</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">"None of us are really…no good stories from us. We’re all pretty sober guys."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">--TK as partiers</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/todieforarticle.html">LV Su</a>n, Sept)</span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"This girl was waiting for me when I came out. And she was like, 'Why are you in Henderson?' She had no idea we were from Vegas or anything. It was funny." </span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> -fan at movie theater</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"I mean, I love Las Vegas. I don't think I'll ever leave. But whenever we play there, you see it in people's eyes, that they're just hoping you mess up or something." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">He's one of my heroes, so that's just unreal. Things like that are still shocking." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--Noel Gallagher choosing to play All These Things That I've Done on Radio 1</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">"The market is insane. It's dog-eat-dog. So we want to write better songs than everyone so we can keep going. Because as fast as this is happening, it will go away just as quickly if the second album sucks." </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/retroarticle.html">Oakland Press</a>, Oct)</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;">"I don't sing about wanting to kill myself, and there's not all this publicity about what a cokehead I am. People think there's no way we can be this good. Maybe if I was on heroin or talked about how difficult life is, it would help. But this is what we are, and I'm glad the people who come to the shows and buy the records seem to like it." </span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10px;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 9pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">"He grew up right in the time of U2 and the Smiths and everything. I remember him having NME covers on his wall, blasting the Cure and everything. So to have us be on the NME cover and have Morrissey and Duran Duran talking about us in interviews, he's just in shock. I love it." </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"> -brother Shane</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><br />
</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"Getting compared to anybody that's great, like that is wonderful. But to say that we're just an 1980s band, that bothers me 'cause we're not. If we took the keyboards out, nobody would say that, I don't think. </span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"So far, we haven't been compared to anybody who makes us cringe - except for, like, Gary Numan. All I know is 'Cars,' so I don't know what part of him they're comparing us to. Everyone else has been OK, though."</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/killerinsticntarticle.html">LV Sun</a>, April)</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"><br />
</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;">"In England they look at you like you're an alien when you say that you're from Las Vegas. We've had people ask us what hotel we live in. </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">It's funny, but it's actually also been a blessing, because it separates us from other bands out there." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"One of my favorite bands is the Smiths, and I just read an interview Morrissey did where he was talking about how excited he was when 'This Charming Man' came out in the charts at No. 59. So it hit me like a ton of bricks when 'Somebody Told Me' was No. 19." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"What's happening is people are picking the good stuff out of the '80s. It was taboo for a while, but that was just the hair metal or the stupid clothes, whatever they wanted to make fun of. But there were some awesome bands, and that's what's getting recognized again."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"All of a sudden (the Cure's) Robert Smith is like a god again. And Morrissey has a new album coming out and people are freaking out about it. Even Duran Duran is suddenly getting lifetime achievement awards." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"It's nice for us to know, but I don't know if other people are going to realize that. They'll probably just assume that we jumped on."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--TK predate the 80's revival trend.</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"Being in other places has made us all appreciate Las Vegas even more. People are a lot friendlier there, the food is great and it's cold everywhere else. We were in New York in January and it was sick. I don't know how people do it."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">(<a href="http://thekillersfansite.com/oaktarticle.html">Oakland Tribune</a>, Aug)</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"Rodney likes us. I'd heard that he did, but I wasn't sure. Very cool. Looks like we're gonna hit the big time after all."<br />
-After KROQ's illustrious DJ Rodney Bingenheimer praises the band in person</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"Bands used to make albums like U2's, huge uplifting efforts that could change your life. But we don't hear those kinds of records being made anymore, so we decided to make one ourselves." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"You know, outside of the strip it's pretty normal. But it is difficult staying normal in Vegas. You go to high school with girls who say 'Well, when I get outta high school, I may as well strip.' ... But there are good girls there. I got a good one. She's a manager at Urban Outfitters." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--already repetition starts to show up, and early Tana mention</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"I was propositioned quite a few times, but I declined. And a couple of times it was with a couple of women -I'd get the call at my bell desk ... But I never did it." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--life as a cute bellhop</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"Condoms. People would call down and ask me to bring condoms to the rooms, so I'd go to the gift shop and buy their condoms."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"My big thing when I started writing songs was, if I had an idea, I'd call Dave's phone and leave a message, from my phone at the bell desk. I used that bell phone to call in many ideas. I loved doing that, and I still do it sometimes -- ring up, leave melody, lyrics, everything." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"At the hotel, I saw miserable people who'd come from L.A., and they were just pathetic. So I learned from watching them." </span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">--gamblers</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;"><br />
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111; font-size: 12px;">"I love the desert. I always thought that I'd wanna live in England, because I had this fascination with Manchester, Oasis and New Order. But when I finally went to England on tour for a few weeks, all I kept thinking was 'I wanna go home.' I love my home."</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 17px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #111111;"> </span></span></span></span></div></span>Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-77232556117831483232010-06-10T01:13:00.000-07:002010-06-14T03:35:09.177-07:00What's Wrong with "Get Him to the Greek"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWNUC1c0qmHyAgm4orgon7lK5KfZKVsViw4XWa8oUuGa_8Y6-g1jsRGwM4owA4eObknFVhFcKPcNoVJlg4Ob29FQY8So_KZ923qxPsT3VvsEwABEONIvq0LPS15KK-UXnIcicQnHBxf0/s1600/get_him_to_the_greek_wallpaper_01-535x348.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEWNUC1c0qmHyAgm4orgon7lK5KfZKVsViw4XWa8oUuGa_8Y6-g1jsRGwM4owA4eObknFVhFcKPcNoVJlg4Ob29FQY8So_KZ923qxPsT3VvsEwABEONIvq0LPS15KK-UXnIcicQnHBxf0/s640/get_him_to_the_greek_wallpaper_01-535x348.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
"Get Him to the Greek" could have been a classic comedy. Halfway through I was still laughing unstoppably, and so were my parents. It's a novel and potent concept for a film. Rock stars, fame, and the crumbling record companies are compelling topics that have not yet been delved upon on film recently, besides maybe "Control" and "Anvil." But never in such a huge Hollywood film. Apatow! Diddy! Krugman! (?). Now finally here was a movie that was doing so in the most brutal, albeit hilarious, depiction I have seen since "Spinal Tap." I am intensely interested in the music business- I've followed every career move and interview of my favorite band, The Killers, for 6 years. I've similarly "studied" many other musicians and celebrities, although not quite as intensively. But I know a thing or two about the topic, and watching the first half of "Get Him to the Greek" was therefore absolutely delightful. The nods at executives making their stars feel invincible, the nerdy nothingness that those who organize their lives really are, the incomprehensible mindset of those who know that millions admire their every gesture. GREAT actors. Damn, almost the whole cast was amazing and spot-on. It was all there, and it was delightful for a music biz nerd like me.<br />
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But, then, something changed. And everything went downhill. And I left the theater frustrated and muttering about what a shame it was that the whole second half destroyed what could have been a milestone film. If this film had reached its potential, it could have been hugely successful, would have led to copycats... maybe would have revived rock music. Who knows. Yes I'm exaggerating, but then the horrendous turn this film took really left me dumbfounded. Before I keep babbling about nothing, I'll let you know just the major points that pissed me off about "Greek." In fact, you can apply many of these to most recent films graced with the Judd Apatow label. "Anchorman,""40 year-old Virgin", "Superbad" were instant classics, "Knocked Up" also good. "Forgetting Sarah Marshall" was really funny. Then, "Pineapple Express" funny but overindulgent and lost. "Walk Hard," "Funny People," "Year One" I haven't seen, but from what I hear I should continue avoiding them. Apatow has been going downhill, while films such as "The Hangover" with the same exact humor as "40 y/o Virgin" have grabbed that prized instant classic designation. Why? Maybe some of the problems with "Get Him to the Greek" will help you understand. And maybe they'll teach Judd a lesson or two about how to keep his entourage in check. Dude, I watched "Freaks and Geeks" last month. That shit was <i>amazing</i>. You know quality. Don't lose it in the face of success. Now moving on. The trouble with "Get Him to the Greek." Obviously spoilers ahead:<br />
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1. I'll start by saying that I really did love the first half or even 3/4. A lot. "African Child," the video and promo and backlash and all. The fictional ups and downs of Aldous and his wife's careers. Aldous' talk with Jackie in the phone- when asked who was with him, he said "just an affable lil' twit," referring to Aaron. True to celeb life and funny. I applaud. Diddy was #1. Hi-la-rious. Holy shit he blew me away. How can he be so successful AND be so funny. It's crazy. He really hit a home run with literally all of his lines. Jonah Hill was really funny and perfectly understated. Russell Brand was perfection. I am already biased because I love him and have read My Booky Wook and I think he is a comic genius, but he really was flawless in his film. Yes the character is practically him, but still. He was just really, really fucking good and funny. I loved that Elizabeth Moss was cast as Aaron's girlfriend. She is one of my favs on Mad Men and she managed to be funny even with some of the bland lines she was given (perhaps you can already guess what one of my problems with the film is). The Jeffrey and rubbing wall fur. The moment when Aldous stuck the adrenaline syringe in Aaron (Jonah Hill) and the latter's eyes went crazy with his face filling the screen- I don't think I've laughed that hard in a few good weeks. But then rapidly, suddenly I and the rest of the audience stopped laughing mere seconds after this moment. I don't remember what happened, but the attention was taken away from this climactic hilarity scene. It was a really queer moment and I felt gipped. I wanted endless milking of that laughing a la "The Hangover." Why stop when you just had the audience in the palm of your hand? This wasn't an artistic, let's-not-just-do-what's-expected-of-us kind of decision. There was no good logical reason behind it. Before this moment the film was already showing signs of falling apart, but after it everything completely tumbled. And for no good reason. It's really a shame.<br />
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2. Now for the criticism. In no particular order. The decision to bring the story to Las Vegas. It made no sense. How could Aldous change the flight so quickly, and how couldn't Aaron stop him from doing it? If it was so very important for his career to bring him to L.A. I get and appreciate and support the fact that comedies take crazy unrealistic turns for the laughs, but this turn wasn't particularly funny. It slowed the film down. Momentum was building up to the moment they return to L.A., and suddenly it was cut off, because Aldous wanted to see his dad from a sudden bit of advice dished by the ever wise Aaron? Bleh. Not good enough, sorry buddy (writer). Why couldn't their flight have had to take a sudden stop in LV? They had to take a road trip and stopped in LV? I don't know, anything else that was less an abrupt and slightly annoying/baffling detour, more a crazy twist that still kept the momentum going.<br />
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3. Aldous' dad. Terrible actor for the part. Not funny at all. Sucked the life out of every exchange that involved him in the Vegas scenes. Even Russel couldn't save it. Sorry, the guy just wasn't right. He contributed a hell of a lot to the film's slow-down. When Aldous and father were talking about their issues in a booth at the Rat Pack club, I started fidgeting and rolling my eyes. This was only the beginning of my reactions. I'm just being honest.he should have been an extreme sort of character. Hilarious, strange. Instead he was just a bore and a terrible, terrible person one had absolutely no sympathy for.<br />
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4. Sentimentality. This single-handedly killed the film. Why? WHY? Was there sentimentality in The Hangover? No. Was the film awesome? Yes. Coincidence? I don't think so. Sentimental boo hoo Aldous' parents are terrible and Aaron is such a caring perfect specimen of the human race and Aldous performing with his broken arm is so amazing etc etc in a crazy comedy film do not belongeth. Either this is a drama or a comedy. You can't do both. Perhaps it's possible to find a middle ground, but this film proved that it's extremely difficult- even nearly impossible- to pull that off. And starting the whole first half of the film without a trace of the sentimental misty-eyed cheesiness, before blasting a whole shitload of the stuff at you during the last fifth, is a disgusting thing to do to your viewers. We're not idiots. We're not a combination of a cross-section. perhaps some don't expect much of you, and so won't think much of the stupid turn. But real fans came in there. people whose expectations built throughout the film. Why shit in their faces? Why? Did some idiot producer say adding a cheesy happy message (or ten of them, why not) would save the film? add $10 million more to the gross? Perhaps, but you know what? You also lost $500 million from future DVD and paraphernalia and re-release money. Oh, and you lost cult classic status. But it was worth the $10 mil, right? Sorry, you can't cut off the last 45 minutes of a film and put that up for consideration for classic status. If a big chunk of a film sucks, the film just isn't up to par with the bests. Too bad. Guess you should think twice about listening to those all-knowing producers, eh? <br />
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5. Now for a problem less all-encompassing but still important, to me at least. Someone with a big role in creating this film knew very little about real, awesome rock concerts. And it's a crying shame because it made the film about 10% less effective. This was most glaringly clear at the end of the film in the concert I am sure the filmmakers intended to be a OMFG AWESOMENESS ending glorious rock concert, but instead came off as an indulgent boring useless piece of film that should have been cut to no more than two minute, if even that, at its state. First of all, Aldous constantly looking back at Aaron to smile and be like "dude how awesome!!111!"? No. Just no. Wouldn't happen, shouldn't happen. Stupid stupid stupid and unnecessary. We know they're happy, give it a fucking rest already. The audience members at the Greek? Aw hell naw man. All of the supposedly die-hard sold out crowd in the GA section gave me second-hand embarrassment. Every floor audience member stood five feet from the other, i kid you not. Dude. This is coming from a diehard Killers fan- when you go see your favorite band and are lucky enough to have floor spots, you jam to the front as closely as you possibly can to the stage. This means you learn to be very cozy with your neighbors. I'm sure the extras cost a bunch ($100 a day each adds up), but spreading them out like that was terrible. It was instantly obvious, at least to me, and I'm sure equally so in a subconscious way to everyone else. Not to mention, every time the extras waved their hands and fist pumped and clapped with fake smiles, they looked like the fakest bunch of posers I have ever seen. Basically lamest concert ever. What the filmmakers really should have done was film a real band's audience at a real Greek Theater concert. They could figure out releases and all of that- no one minds being in the audience in a film. Finaly, Aaron was backstage watching Aldous perform and exchanging the aforementioned buddy-buddy exchanged of euphoria. But when he was leaving in his great "yesss I succeeded" moment, he walked through the audience. Uh, what? Since when do you have to walk through the audience to exit from the stage? I'm sure the filmmakers thought this was extra exciting to see him walk through extatic people with a satisfied smile. And I'm also sure I would easily overlook this detail if the film hadn't unfolded as it had. But as it were, I was so disappointed and pissed off by this point this this just stirred the pot even further. I literally seethed and just thought, WTF. WHO MADE THIS STUPID DECISION. <br />
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6. girlfriend<br />
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7. too long<br />
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8.feeding lessons to audience- we should be allowed to figure it out on own instead of spoon-feeding<br />
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9. flashes of news stories and youtube vids at beginning- too much<br />
bazillion famous actors etc at beginning- just feels like overindulgent and bloated now. showing off big budget. keep it small and real, much more preferable.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-267724027669887402009-12-29T19:32:00.001-08:002010-05-30T17:39:14.839-07:00Brandon Flowers the Trendsetter: Feathers on Shoulders*Scroll down a bit if you're a feather-aware BFlo obsessive and just want to get to the good stuff*<br />
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</div>This post is about feathers.<br />
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</a></div><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5421097131113424034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Qo0leIrJEi5had_31zpiuDPYZgEp94fsYtEWl_SVbxt5UiRIxO5Y8wZu4AIWsqw1p5JuPfuru_ADjvmK7q-cj3JfAcHfTlhVEBQKSIgDL7uKkc76nMtx8h8WoWGx_MOR24WDI8_6Q3k/s400/farrell-grehan-the-feathers-of-a-pheasant.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 300px;" />Feathers on Shoulders.<br />
As worn by this lovely man, Brandon Flowers of the Killers:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSP9GmfrgvJiYH2ZO_5fEWG8kaG-f4ruIpv3xPQs388A2l3f5jvUtwe6IzuB4riYJYYBahjHb-m3iWr5Uc4IBWi9OTIZNYYRlWg95Q1K7l1C_IkMEG_GhI09uTOoonPjO8_n3-XJyn3Rw/s1600-h/TTR_flowers_575888a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883747425487842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSP9GmfrgvJiYH2ZO_5fEWG8kaG-f4ruIpv3xPQs388A2l3f5jvUtwe6IzuB4riYJYYBahjHb-m3iWr5Uc4IBWi9OTIZNYYRlWg95Q1K7l1C_IkMEG_GhI09uTOoonPjO8_n3-XJyn3Rw/s400/TTR_flowers_575888a.jpg" style="display: block; height: 185px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 385px;" /></a>And many others, both famous and not, soon after him. Yeah, he's looking at you all badass-like because he knows he can start a ridiculous trend with a snap of his fingers.<br />
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Before I go into more details and pictures, I want to explain my <span style="font-style: italic;">Theory of the Feather Epaulets</span>.<br />
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Brandon has started many trends. Thanks to the Internet's impressive memory, I have the ability to prove this point instead of just looking as if I'm talking out of my ass. He was at least very instrumental in the inception of these trends, even though he never gets any actual credit other than in (uhum) obscure blogs. He's not 'cool' enough / not famous enough in Middle America to get major media credit.<br />
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You might scoff, but I can prove that he was among the creators if not the main originator of the following major revival trends, and many more:<br />
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--<a href="http://stereogum.com/archives/video/indie_rockers_hang_out_on_e_street_053301.html">The Bruce Springsteen hero worship</a> going on in the past year and a half or so in the indie music scene. Brandon was already at it in 2005, and when he discussed it in 2006 most were either <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1529924/20060501/killers_the.jhtml">shocked</a> or <a href="http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1540559,00.html">laughed</a> or <a href="http://stereogum.com/archives/rolling_stone_pans_sams_town_003479.html">bashed to no end</a>. However, today it's pretty much a rule that alternative rock fans must glorify the Boss <a href="http://www.blender.com/guide/68419/killers.html">(mini-proof). </a><br />
-<a href="http://www.usatoday.com/life/lifestyle/fashion/2009-05-05-guyliner_N.htm">-'Guyliner'</a> (eyeliner for men) in 2005. He stopped that year but the trend continued into '07 and even today with Adam Lambert and such. <a href="http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=guyliner">(mini-proof)</a>.<br />
-<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/08/fashion/08CODES.html">-Mustaches</a>- his debuted in early '06 and got a ridiculous amount of backlash. Choice quote - "who grows a mustache <a href="http://www.aronheller.com/documents/articles/cns/The%20maligned%20mustache%20Will%20it%20ever%20come%20back.htm">these days</a>?!" Well, no one can ask that today. The stache became a bona fide trend in early 2007 and is still worn by Bflo-hating <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&um=1&q=hipster+mustache&sa=N&start=0&ndsp=18">hipsters</a> in Brooklyn and liberal arts colleges, including mine <a href="http://damasquedman.blogspot.com/2006/11/great-mustache-comeback-2006-volume.html">(mini-proof</a> and <a href="http://prestonajm.livejournal.com/16283.html">another</a>).<br />
-<a href="http://no-mans-blog.com/2009/07/20/ray-ban-wayfarer-theories-of-influence/">-Wayfarers.</a> Yup, those Risky Business sunglasses you see all the hipsters and <a href="http://queenoftheposhandbroke.blogspot.com/2008/05/weighing-in-on-wayfarer.html">everyone</a> else in the fucking world wearing? He virtually spearheaded that revival back in 2006 <a href="http://stylenews.peoplestylewatch.com/2006/11/15/wayfarers-make_/">(mini-proof)</a>.<br />
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Phew. Trust me, music snobs and hipsters would prefer to keel over and die than admit that their trends were started by a man they want dead ("I hate Brandon Flowers" in quotes returns over 2,000 results on Google). But that's okay. They don't have to. I'm here to document it anyway.<br />
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So. This finally brings us to feathers on shoulders.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgc4Hlwqw2Wj6NzslWSVwzQzJjMbxntm6POj6FYtOsO2lkT-E_F6ZydjIScBtUlalxMDPlLj16NBkGsbv9dZq-KmbsMOrF_c_8PBjc9OPqygPojXb9EJP5ZZzdsUK2j_g69Oc9ofv0PQ/s1600-h/3410_i1_brandon-flowers01.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883355921641506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZgc4Hlwqw2Wj6NzslWSVwzQzJjMbxntm6POj6FYtOsO2lkT-E_F6ZydjIScBtUlalxMDPlLj16NBkGsbv9dZq-KmbsMOrF_c_8PBjc9OPqygPojXb9EJP5ZZzdsUK2j_g69Oc9ofv0PQ/s400/3410_i1_brandon-flowers01.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 326px;" /></a>My <span style="font-style: italic;">Shoulder Plumage Theory</span> (the name changes) is that Brandon eventually had enough of this BS. He was all, "WTF? Everyone keeps copying my shit and I don't even get any credit in the end? Fuck that. I'm gonna do something crazy." (Obviously Brandon Flowers talks like that). So he hired <a href="http://www.oxfam.org.uk/shop/content/diy/about_mrsjones.html">Fee Doran</a> aka 'Mrs. Jones' to make a nutso feather monstrosity of a jacket for him. She did Kylie Minogue's <a href="http://img.celebies.com/img/p/658/19550_kylie_unknown_shoot0007_122_543lo.jpg">outfits</a>, so he knew she was up for the challenge. He mst have said something like, "Oh Mrs. Jones, please create a garment that I and only I would wear and no one else in their right mind would possibly want to copy. Especially not hipsters." Or something. And she <a href="http://horiwood.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/brandonflowersfeathers1.jpg">did it</a>. The feather jacket was born. And many others would come after it, designed by others as well. All with feathers. Brando became a bird shoulder man, basically.<br />
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Now behold, the many feather epaulet jackets (and other, slightly more vague shoulder adornments) that have graced BFlo the bird master:<br />
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On the cover of Paper magazine, a sort of mixed plumage... thing on a blue blazer. Paper magazine, as in hipster magazine #1?!! What?! Yes, yes. He was on the <a href="http://www.papermag.com/?section=article&parid=3410">cover </a>this year. Deal with it and simmer down, hipsters.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yI7B2fK60I4mNpu6Ip5TKiaF1ZLRdg0DuchHOorvc7jdGm6z28IY1AV816gHVxgcmgxHLUdwSBMS5hOt_QYha-5N8xlO0qR01oP3SDw5ddD5OlYoSjMPBEHIn4qVDlJ_YCajh-f9KaQ/s1600-h/brandon-flowers-paper-magazine-cover.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863522645928482" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2yI7B2fK60I4mNpu6Ip5TKiaF1ZLRdg0DuchHOorvc7jdGm6z28IY1AV816gHVxgcmgxHLUdwSBMS5hOt_QYha-5N8xlO0qR01oP3SDw5ddD5OlYoSjMPBEHIn4qVDlJ_YCajh-f9KaQ/s400/brandon-flowers-paper-magazine-cover.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 363px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 275px;" /></a>Here he is wearing a... um. This is really difficult. Power Rangers villain cape? Disney bird prince fighting gear? I don't think anyone knows, but IT has feathers on the shoulders, that much is clear. This was from a musician photo shootthe <a href="http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/web-exclusive-rock-candy/">New York Times magazine</a> did at Coachella this year when TK headlined. Brandon is in fact pictured here with Jenny Lewis of Rilo Kiley and Conor Oberst of Bright Eyes. ...Um woh, get an inhaler or something hipsters. Eesh. You can get through these trying times. They're probably not friends in real life... Yes, take that seat. it's okay.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTWA5sEg0OQTOtwBJT_OH8rX7zIizTFgs97b8zD1_xy9YVj8haVGyRwXTJdxll5mK5FrUIjD_VCI-cKpsaRhFqX5WK-c1bwXSBmqFz_yTQQxGSdD5dx_ZEszoyK8utYkjfQCnvmLOWu8/s1600-h/nytjennylewis.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864176531043138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBTWA5sEg0OQTOtwBJT_OH8rX7zIizTFgs97b8zD1_xy9YVj8haVGyRwXTJdxll5mK5FrUIjD_VCI-cKpsaRhFqX5WK-c1bwXSBmqFz_yTQQxGSdD5dx_ZEszoyK8utYkjfQCnvmLOWu8/s400/nytjennylewis.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 293px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Here he is at a <a href="http://promo.q4music.com/q4music/killers/">Q magazine photoshoot</a>, which was apparently inspired by a movie called <a href="http://www.madmaxmovies.com/making/madmax2/images/MundiMundi/WezFaceoff.jpg">Mad Max</a> or something. I don't even now. Feather football warrior gear? Eh, I give up.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLGfuI7dMmV6nf6OdbTSp6Mj60AMFhh09ZR6M-VWEJQ318D23TdI4TdwkRSrEiUveky8x5i9-WsOp32NlfRoapN5UgNGE6nTMkvFCrWjhK4WNuBG274gW0fY5KfF92m7Lzjsqkcd6ciw/s1600-h/Picture+9.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883740119468098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCLGfuI7dMmV6nf6OdbTSp6Mj60AMFhh09ZR6M-VWEJQ318D23TdI4TdwkRSrEiUveky8x5i9-WsOp32NlfRoapN5UgNGE6nTMkvFCrWjhK4WNuBG274gW0fY5KfF92m7Lzjsqkcd6ciw/s400/Picture+9.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 425px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 218px;" /></a>Lest you think he's a one-time feather football dresser, Brandon dressed in a red version of the aforementioned garb in the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hc16Y9fiCvQ">Spaceman video</a>. This, ladies and gentlemen, is the ultimate feather explosion.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZEItkCM0wDmGnGKeXS-te8jF5vOz2jy0gXAgwHTs3OpM5TeokbEt_nDFX7TUZRVSf4ABBjWuD8GA0v7hfgNCiazTu4VYDibCuUvg98BxMzY4aWoR_V8TwyqMmbWlwhG1InSse1biC6k/s1600-h/brandonnme.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883731657505394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGZEItkCM0wDmGnGKeXS-te8jF5vOz2jy0gXAgwHTs3OpM5TeokbEt_nDFX7TUZRVSf4ABBjWuD8GA0v7hfgNCiazTu4VYDibCuUvg98BxMzY4aWoR_V8TwyqMmbWlwhG1InSse1biC6k/s400/brandonnme.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 245px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>He wore it again for his article with Depeche Mode's Dave Gahan in <a href="http://www.blackbookmag.com/article/unholy-alliance-the-killers-brandon-flowers-and-depeche-modes-dave-gahan/7047">Blackbook magazine</a>. He is with his baby son <a href="http://celebritybabynamesblog.com/2007/07/17/brandon-flowers-baby-waiting-for-a-name/">Ammon</a> (born July '07). That baby is too angelic for words. Good genes? You betcha. No pictures available of little <a href="http://celebrity-babies.com/2009/08/11/brandon-flowers-welcomes-son-gunner/">Gunnar</a> yet (born July '09- uh oh, close birthdays), as far as I know. But what is he doing, wearing this thing with his son around? Poor Ammon must be traumatized. The fact that his dad is holding him like a sacrificial offering doesn't help.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVjLTmbWvhg97XU071edGTjojTMjpumiFuE71-wIFHPJvccwU9RHCmcj_CIQoXnX1LrPOOY_ZaBpU5Qu4Ta-aaNqbWJmOfl_1wtkc6e5b9uYFAx6561f1LOwTJM0aramHDaI7Cav35YM/s1600-h/brandon.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883372372120402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIVjLTmbWvhg97XU071edGTjojTMjpumiFuE71-wIFHPJvccwU9RHCmcj_CIQoXnX1LrPOOY_ZaBpU5Qu4Ta-aaNqbWJmOfl_1wtkc6e5b9uYFAx6561f1LOwTJM0aramHDaI7Cav35YM/s400/brandon.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 371px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 411px;" /></a>In a <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/gallery/2009/jul/18/brandon-flowers-fashion-shoot">photoshoot</a> with The Guardian, those Brits used their ever-present wittiness. Oh ho ho. Birds... on his shoulders... get it?? Because he wears... yeah, ok.<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883366034209186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjv02lrjjqnHBlm0AFRcW6nBXv0NhLLI-mUN-A_QM30WzQsRoo8i7_L1DZIWawHECa8CSgXqw4Hbq1zg05xQJKVwhHg00X8dWp-0kbMyuG5EVtUTsiB29XYp5x5BHSf2ROnq2qVYNyqhM/s400/Brandon-Flowers-004.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 408px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 304px;" /><img /> Brandon wore a full-length black feather shoulder coat in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W-plLIxHMsI">the World We Live In</a> video. As far as I know, the only other time he wore it was in the "Zombie Hands" Halloween bonus video/song for TK's fanclub, The Victims. <br />
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Now to the big business. Brandon wore this jacket/blazer/sequined feather kitschy mess of a divine creation. Of course, it was designed by Mrs. Jones. I would say he wore it in about 10% of the Day & Age tour. This included the World We Live In video and TK's Coachella performance, which I believe at least one of these pictures is from:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdnI9-hsIjRe_vqyyXmvBZZWhsnI07vmJPFOAOQrefLQusIXCKNpbnO9Ed4YTZAzuvhsg7z_YojVxhNnyDmhDKkJQcTnbLFZYVYiXs6YwydNo0w4-lI1bNbZKhsFwGl3rv-0t35Ku3b8/s1600-h/brandon-v-festivals-around-australia--large-msg-12401137894.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863794302824594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDdnI9-hsIjRe_vqyyXmvBZZWhsnI07vmJPFOAOQrefLQusIXCKNpbnO9Ed4YTZAzuvhsg7z_YojVxhNnyDmhDKkJQcTnbLFZYVYiXs6YwydNo0w4-lI1bNbZKhsFwGl3rv-0t35Ku3b8/s400/brandon-v-festivals-around-australia--large-msg-12401137894.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 411px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 273px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUmq8bvLnUqbNt_x9SwILEAAMKzWLmuZbVwteZPFa9iHp69XHDtojjdLN2OtNYzBbApasrU0_2ZPf1W9cKj-YCw781_ONuJIZdsgeAIwCI0cozNG3DNss-9uRoqypOxqwgZJHHxz-VAQ/s1600-h/brandon-flowers-brandon-flowers-6790934-610-416.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863506697054418" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtUmq8bvLnUqbNt_x9SwILEAAMKzWLmuZbVwteZPFa9iHp69XHDtojjdLN2OtNYzBbApasrU0_2ZPf1W9cKj-YCw781_ONuJIZdsgeAIwCI0cozNG3DNss-9uRoqypOxqwgZJHHxz-VAQ/s400/brandon-flowers-brandon-flowers-6790934-610-416.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 273px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>And finally. The big kahuna.<span style="font-style: italic;"> THE</span> feather jacket. I kid you not, Brandon has worn it in 80% of the performances in the 2-year Day & Age tour. He is obsessed with it. It is really kind of scary. Homeboy is crazy, I've never denied it.<br />
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Human music video:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyQf7zoIolHykxg45ztoE0DcYZduopvGS185SN6OfeaRSfJvrffyI6OqAXz-oG1w_9m3B_maIUT65wJJ8hy_Rx1J6xOVmouFBvHPFMcYbQ3CuPd1N3sdIXlAUTBgKDFyxBWOSkVtgNfg/s1600-h/Picture+8.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864836687924610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiyQf7zoIolHykxg45ztoE0DcYZduopvGS185SN6OfeaRSfJvrffyI6OqAXz-oG1w_9m3B_maIUT65wJJ8hy_Rx1J6xOVmouFBvHPFMcYbQ3CuPd1N3sdIXlAUTBgKDFyxBWOSkVtgNfg/s400/Picture+8.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 370px;" /></a>Camping. you know, the usual. (<a href="http://www.spin.com/articles/spin-interview-brandon-flowers">Spin photoshoot</a>).<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1LFRs9puSnAj-Q13lAH1A4jVkHmDoLJBKVvtDCi0nRhhLsMT5mXAb1rBkAexkI6zzwyztkNAU-iL3Ra9hmiwKXW3w7igXzu09C06i8_bLnrRt_n-kbdOB3D1K2Q736qVYaEObBr4pEQ/s1600-h/spin-brandon-flowers.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864852430550770" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX1LFRs9puSnAj-Q13lAH1A4jVkHmDoLJBKVvtDCi0nRhhLsMT5mXAb1rBkAexkI6zzwyztkNAU-iL3Ra9hmiwKXW3w7igXzu09C06i8_bLnrRt_n-kbdOB3D1K2Q736qVYaEObBr4pEQ/s400/spin-brandon-flowers.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 352px;" /></a>Bran quote from a Q magazine <a href="http://www.thekillersfansite.com/qmag09-1.JPG">interview</a> (read it- he <span style="font-style: italic;">cries</span>), to show you how damn serious he is about his feathers:<br />
<blockquote>"The feather epaulettes were my most fabulous style statement. When I get into the jacket I feel good and very triumphant. It's the old cliche of putting the mask on. I don't know if I could get up in front of 70,000 people at festivals without my feathers on."</blockquote>Smirking on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4d_qpah5AU">Jonathan Ross</a>. Notice the plumage fuzz from too much wear. I don't think i can overstress the fact that he has worn this jacket at least a million times. Literally. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNJTpTKzXVI2FF6nwnKO534do-GFNqskG9HM5P3fTOJYGNX4J4n4uwA0llQL1QEmLkGncJAbF_-WTudYPDIOuXvlbkMwG2Y9wHV6F6bboICeGBEz6rknnPeEDiSfZj2OR-Dwp9cT7ySw/s1600-h/brandon-flowers-on-friday-night-with-jonathon-ross-brandon-flowers-7049871-1280-1024.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863513663601218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYNJTpTKzXVI2FF6nwnKO534do-GFNqskG9HM5P3fTOJYGNX4J4n4uwA0llQL1QEmLkGncJAbF_-WTudYPDIOuXvlbkMwG2Y9wHV6F6bboICeGBEz6rknnPeEDiSfZj2OR-Dwp9cT7ySw/s400/brandon-flowers-on-friday-night-with-jonathon-ross-brandon-flowers-7049871-1280-1024.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 320px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Now I know I seem to have an agenda. And I'm not going to try to say that I don't. I place Brandon on a pedestal where only other exclusively amazing things such as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middlesex_%28novel%29">Middlesex</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Sloppy-Firsts-Jessica-Darling-Novel/dp/product-description/0609807900">Marcus Flutie</a>, my mom's strawberry jam crumb cake, and the first day of break reside... but just because of that, it doesn't mean I'm completely 100% biased in this account. To prove this point I give you:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim0yCXNYLekt1CNFvxA7s88LH9RgDAOcRDf0_LsoZFVmzww4LbVIlj2GLWfdLozgTWxnjsBGAXiGLzJimKE7-ulSNRfRAMbJXtQNzoZ8LIdbRU-SfUx1qjV1JaqmQAWvxIqIU4UhPAwOU/s1600-h/mammamia.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864165246547922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEim0yCXNYLekt1CNFvxA7s88LH9RgDAOcRDf0_LsoZFVmzww4LbVIlj2GLWfdLozgTWxnjsBGAXiGLzJimKE7-ulSNRfRAMbJXtQNzoZ8LIdbRU-SfUx1qjV1JaqmQAWvxIqIU4UhPAwOU/s400/mammamia.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 259px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 414px;" /></a><br />
Meryl Streep and her feather-epaulette-laden backup singers in the movie version of <span style="font-style: italic;">Mamma Mia</span>, which I openly admit came out before Brandon ever showed signs of going bird crazy. As far as we know, Mrs. Jones might have copied this look when she made Brandon's jacket. I doubt it, but I'm saying it's not impossible. The <span style="font-style: italic;">brilliant</span> idea of sticking feathers on your shoulders is not <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span> novel.<br />
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Also, Patrick Wolf (who coincidentally <a href="http://www.nme.com/photos/40-funniest-quotes-of-2009/161432/17/1">hates</a> BF's look- "I think Brandon Flowers looks like he’s just walked out of Primark and bought a Casio synthesizer.") wore a feathery jacket in a photoshoot slightly before Brandon. But the feathers form more of an uneven cape than epaulets. And he could have been dressed by a stylist with no personal choice. And can you tell I don't like him because he's trash-talked Bflo multiple times? Moving on. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixEuEFJFeX6H6l7Cpz2Fk52pk9PWsP5PoFzKEEJXpWbaDiEPph3gQNQunhsQpKyLeWR7BuPTNlqV7Md58BgRx2nh7vF1A4k71487Livr0HiuHX-CGq-AkiXEyjkwmXZ1F8uNlc-SpQMs0/s1600-h/1811821735_a79cc15d1a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863502662010498" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixEuEFJFeX6H6l7Cpz2Fk52pk9PWsP5PoFzKEEJXpWbaDiEPph3gQNQunhsQpKyLeWR7BuPTNlqV7Md58BgRx2nh7vF1A4k71487Livr0HiuHX-CGq-AkiXEyjkwmXZ1F8uNlc-SpQMs0/s400/1811821735_a79cc15d1a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>More tellingly, Brian Eno of Roxy Music, (a band Brandon has always said to be influenced by), wore a featheryjacket long before Brandon, in the 70's:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHFGSlPE_-YfgP-3jKK-d3Y_-4TrIXTGFUz1-QEN1V8aAYqadL8lcDQrgu_njzcsNcpi7kGvht0TmSuWQKX_MxfD63JiAUD62k6vNam4pFJsqOT-1m8O9p4Dh9876ohCrUsuMaI9eXNU/s1600-h/brian_eno_343357a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422816447626331618" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJHFGSlPE_-YfgP-3jKK-d3Y_-4TrIXTGFUz1-QEN1V8aAYqadL8lcDQrgu_njzcsNcpi7kGvht0TmSuWQKX_MxfD63JiAUD62k6vNam4pFJsqOT-1m8O9p4Dh9876ohCrUsuMaI9eXNU/s400/brian_eno_343357a.jpg" style="display: block; height: 295px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 185px;" /></a>However, these do not disprove my point. I don't claim that Brandon invented shoulder feathers (nor mustaches, nor guyliner...). I'm just saying he borrowed on them from decades earlier for his own use when almost no one else in their right mind was doing so.<br />
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Then after a lot of backlash and screeches and taunts, something started changing. This happened every time. The so-called tastemakers slowly followed- sometimes subconsciously, at times deliberately, and at other times bashfully obscuring where they got the inspiration. People gawked when they first saw some of these unfamiliar looks on Bflo - I know I did. But as he wore them more and more, they got ingrained in our brains and many people adopted them for their own use, forgetting or not knowing where the return of the trend originated in the first place. It's not a huge problem, but credit is due where it's due!<br />
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Back to feathered shoulders. Brandon was up for a big surprise. His plan failed. He thought no one would put feathers on their shoulders after they saw him, and he would finally be left in peace to his own strange ways. He was plan ol' dead wrong.<br />
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Lily Allen popped up wearing an angelic white dress with feather shoulders.<br />
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Over half a year after Bflo started wearing nothing but feathers, Natasha Khan of Bat for Lashes displayed wing-like fixtures in her <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek3coSedm7o">video</a> for the song Pearl's Dream (even <a href="http://stereogum.com/archives/video/new_bat_for_lashes_video_pearls_dream_071672.html">Stereogum</a> pointed out the BF similarity).<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8n6LXqm4CdrYCofqHu399WADECrS-blvo_AKBU9sssBW6UarcalWFrf_MtiE15C7Z9lnaRKZfHUNaRpKfmCQcFNruOIHdUIsRljnrk7ordkHvUwk6yKLeHntJbb64OGVDbqBa5F8Pls/s1600-h/Picture+4.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864537290152002" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA8n6LXqm4CdrYCofqHu399WADECrS-blvo_AKBU9sssBW6UarcalWFrf_MtiE15C7Z9lnaRKZfHUNaRpKfmCQcFNruOIHdUIsRljnrk7ordkHvUwk6yKLeHntJbb64OGVDbqBa5F8Pls/s400/Picture+4.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 210px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>And again she wore plenty of shoulder (peacock) feathers while picking up her Mercury Prize.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_5OmcpXmNItMr2dK8aIpi2v19OjFwHPuHd9gwbXCZDO12C2HD6PJyWLt5BNkg3ePUQvzpayC2ctKiRfqm9ImDEsAKClOrqZTB_Ihd-JQFoWIHytaVO8Vh99YdHjXC-rioEYk2eHJtPE/s1600-h/1189001470_natasha_khan_of_bat_for_lashes_with_her_nomination_trophy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863498854717698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6_5OmcpXmNItMr2dK8aIpi2v19OjFwHPuHd9gwbXCZDO12C2HD6PJyWLt5BNkg3ePUQvzpayC2ctKiRfqm9ImDEsAKClOrqZTB_Ihd-JQFoWIHytaVO8Vh99YdHjXC-rioEYk2eHJtPE/s400/1189001470_natasha_khan_of_bat_for_lashes_with_her_nomination_trophy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a>January '09, not long after Lady Gaga's first single "Let's Dance" hit #1 on the Billboard charts, she wore a black blazer with black feathers. At the airport, where else. And this was before she really went batsh*t with the outfits. You can say the similarity was a coincidence. However, Gaga has specifically stated before she wore this that she loved TK and was inspired by Brandon's style so...<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjxOtlxhkhMSEYSKrNnycGJIcwmxic-IOJATikUq5KjNafnOZUUlO1xNvS61f0gWv3aZwcEAGk2ijEZlnvzc5KAfiNFp80JmYs6uErNA72b0M9FnhiO5CPVN2RA4Qqz55YEJ6yakTtGLI/s1600-h/Picture+3.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864533799354034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjxOtlxhkhMSEYSKrNnycGJIcwmxic-IOJATikUq5KjNafnOZUUlO1xNvS61f0gWv3aZwcEAGk2ijEZlnvzc5KAfiNFp80JmYs6uErNA72b0M9FnhiO5CPVN2RA4Qqz55YEJ6yakTtGLI/s400/Picture+3.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 357px;" /></a>Brandon does it better. Just saying. Very off-topic but she looked much <a href="http://selfserviceuk.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/lady-gaga-bad-romance-spark-cone-bra.jpg">healthier</a> weight-wise back then, no?<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1vzM-LTYqZUvExO1h4wTGuJwUUZwq2oZaYNhJPlz5AfBFh_t5qyB7-h1lNlPxiywQRLGnzeQ6AXXPYYBYYr14LqBQF7TLfVidaT0wmVAAmJTonzvye6iKMOKdHiUTr0-06GMTerJ8Ik/s1600-h/Picture+2.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864526579853426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgc1vzM-LTYqZUvExO1h4wTGuJwUUZwq2oZaYNhJPlz5AfBFh_t5qyB7-h1lNlPxiywQRLGnzeQ6AXXPYYBYYr14LqBQF7TLfVidaT0wmVAAmJTonzvye6iKMOKdHiUTr0-06GMTerJ8Ik/s400/Picture+2.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 372px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>The lovely Juliet Lewis, who is <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/45612181@N00/1163496226">friends</a> with The Killers (her band <a href="http://www.myspace.com/julietteandthelicks">Juliet and the Licks</a> or the New Romantiques, or whatever her band is called these days, <a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewPicture&friendID=452436172&albumId=1057657">opened</a> a huge show for TK at Arena di Verona in Italy) wore plenty of feathers on her shoulders this past summer at music festivals and <a href="http://liveon35mm.wordpress.com/2009/05/23/juliette-lewis-and-the-new-romantiques/">concerts</a> (lots of floaty feather photos at that link). Yes she did <a href="http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=viewImage&friendID=452436172&albumID=1057657&imageID=10554061">wear</a> them at the TK concert.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh126UaCbXjN-fXmFYgzykpNGlCfG3JrhMpZdd2w-U-CRrk9UWJW_jKZ30WGZBpD2RJauLI3dLQWt56Ao5m14cOx53D2gw2SpSjiOcXSSG926pvKbS9Ky9MpBGoy5ieyEBZhhMnN5-cOUY/s1600-h/DSC_0172_medium.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863806211034146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh126UaCbXjN-fXmFYgzykpNGlCfG3JrhMpZdd2w-U-CRrk9UWJW_jKZ30WGZBpD2RJauLI3dLQWt56Ao5m14cOx53D2gw2SpSjiOcXSSG926pvKbS9Ky9MpBGoy5ieyEBZhhMnN5-cOUY/s400/DSC_0172_medium.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 274px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 414px;" /></a>Britney Spears (or more likely her stylists) adorned her shoulder with hairy feathery things. <a href="http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/03/04/britney-spears-circus-fashion-brandon-flowers-meets-george-michael/">MTV</a> first pointed out the Bflo parallel.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4K7t0Xqxi-2Fd-PuXnee0CAr9ZFb2NT4Urb7X1RfAI9lwHy8xKj4giT-fwDPNXXtxLLACSR6KsT-p9hc46Y-noCZxEzAqERRX1vP3LdZHibJVCJt-l4mjOezPR_32XmXFqAjBVrBYhM/s1600-h/britney_090304_01.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863801575977778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjn4K7t0Xqxi-2Fd-PuXnee0CAr9ZFb2NT4Urb7X1RfAI9lwHy8xKj4giT-fwDPNXXtxLLACSR6KsT-p9hc46Y-noCZxEzAqERRX1vP3LdZHibJVCJt-l4mjOezPR_32XmXFqAjBVrBYhM/s400/britney_090304_01.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 292px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>You want more Gaga? I'll give you <a href="http://www.osoblog.tv/2009/10/lady_gaga_has_another_crazy_fa.html">more</a> Gaga. <a href="http://www.stylebubble.co.uk/style_bubble/2009/08/dust-off-my-shoulders.html">Style Bubble</a>'s Susie Bubble discovered that these are beetle wings, not feathers, but close enough. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioGt_Esb8gfpGKPzL2YQPHy95KHTtXNSmI4C4Rs4okIaUzzphURdQtw1gu4ZCPw5fKMASQaPiPyjSPN7rXJD7slUI4yZ8Gq9DCGrAJoOtmKezP1tkXHfpOrDp-rTXZr2viJd4lrWzIHrE/s1600-h/lady-gaga-billboard-awards.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403678159185698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioGt_Esb8gfpGKPzL2YQPHy95KHTtXNSmI4C4Rs4okIaUzzphURdQtw1gu4ZCPw5fKMASQaPiPyjSPN7rXJD7slUI4yZ8Gq9DCGrAJoOtmKezP1tkXHfpOrDp-rTXZr2viJd4lrWzIHrE/s400/lady-gaga-billboard-awards.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 185px;" /></a>Most recently and prominently, dirty-looking "Tik Tok" sensation Ke$ha (God that fucking $ in the name... gag me with a spoon) wore a bunch of black feathers on her shoulders at a Z100 winter concert festival. She combined the look with invisible pants a la Gaga.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-XV6g0_78ZdCgNeW1Dpam20D5jDC_CML1K13xZW-gy0oE56h5UT8qFpfZiRMe-0_7WQvNKLn_EFJTBUCtUF5aympYx02XdfDGDBVK2p2OcythV5dbtLsBeoK74uTRIib_OQNsPUnPWc/s1600-h/012.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863129726975746" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf-XV6g0_78ZdCgNeW1Dpam20D5jDC_CML1K13xZW-gy0oE56h5UT8qFpfZiRMe-0_7WQvNKLn_EFJTBUCtUF5aympYx02XdfDGDBVK2p2OcythV5dbtLsBeoK74uTRIib_OQNsPUnPWc/s400/012.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 423px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 288px;" /></a>Imogen Heap (SO MUCH LOVE) also wore dark feathers while performing. I see the women are drawn to darker feathers than Brandon's pheasant ones. <a href="http://gofugyourself.celebuzz.com/go_fug_yourself/2009/12/freaky_fug_friday_imogen_heap120409.html">Go Fug Yourself disapproves</a>, but I like. Biased? Me? Naaahhhhh.<br />
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Newest to the group is long-time Killers fan and Brandon-admirer (she said he was her celeb crush or something about a year ago. No comment.) MILEY CYRUS. Miss Disney pop princess herself got alll dressed up in feathers galore, yet most prominently on her shoulders of course, for her new video "Can't Be Tamed," which just premiered on <a href="http://www.eonline.com/uberblog/b179357_exclusive_miley_cyrus_cant_be_tamed.html">E!'s website</a>. Everyone on <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/46491217.html">ONTD</a> claimed she's copying Ke$ha but HELLO, we know the real originator! How easily they forget...<br />
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Finally, last but not least, the homewrecking bitch is back. I told you <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/08/brandon-flowers-and-case-of-purple.html">I did not trust her around Brandon</a>, and now you see I was not (just) in the fits of a jealous rage. Sienna I-must-suck-the-soul-out-of-every-good-thing Miller was not just hugging Brandon in the <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskkmBLfJfIuhWeUIauLDVg44J5AXfq25a8MoCyDW5Mao5pfMF2atHKj-nLntjwi_yXynHOljPChq0LbtaMjJ38b8_jADpO6S6KJvQEmT0AJjxXt_u4_FIxL-IsQLC-Awr8nX-FEIqcsQ/s1600-h/thekillers--large-msg-123669199785.jpg">infamous picture</a>, she was latching her evil claws on and raping him of all his good taste and purity.<br />
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She failed, luckily, and all she escaped with was <a href="http://smokeye.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/sienna-miller-elle-style-awards-feathered-shoulder-jacket/">this</a> creeptastic stalker jacket at the 2009 Elle Style Awards. It really takes a great deal of head-scratching to figure out where she got the inspiration from this jacket from. Hmmmmmm.<br />
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Moving on, Kenley of Project Runway preferred a pop of color. Purple. I like. Even though this girl was a huge b*tch on the show, I always thought she looked impeccable. This might have been slightly before, or right around the time Brandon first wore his feathers. So, again, proof that he was not exactly first, but definitely a big push. I don't see Kenley wearing those damn things to every single public appearance. <br />
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In addition to TV and musical performers, feathers made a <a href="http://www.thefashionspot.com/news-and-trends/news/37662-trend-feathers">huge splash</a> in the fashion world almost immediately after Brandon first wore them. Remember how Urban Outfitters, Forever 21, Target and every other store suddenly sold a million feathery earrings, headbands, necklaces, tops, etc etc about a year ago...? That happened a few months after Bflo.<br />
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Some <a href="http://www.ellecanada.com/fashion/trends/bird-call-fashion-takes-inspiration-from-feathers/a/26366">instances</a> were pretty extreme. <br />
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Many feathers showed up on the <a href="http://www.newyorkcool.com/archives/2008/February/fashion_Philippe_and_David_Blond_Fashion_Show_February_2008.htm">runways</a> in the past year after Bflo. And yes, often on the shoulders.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKRivlaD3_U0Lyvym3_9uimHwYqw-S6X0jysCZSwZVwe4SNO_icSbOpzp6uvcxRQw-CMx0SB7KZ3ZgGAdC-PJJHWiRtCtrYU7yhV3XQVwrCVvgrGUon4ro1JG9rItEIxb4IxK3HVS92I/s1600-h/fashion_david22.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863814497776066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgKRivlaD3_U0Lyvym3_9uimHwYqw-S6X0jysCZSwZVwe4SNO_icSbOpzp6uvcxRQw-CMx0SB7KZ3ZgGAdC-PJJHWiRtCtrYU7yhV3XQVwrCVvgrGUon4ro1JG9rItEIxb4IxK3HVS92I/s400/fashion_david22.jpg" style="display: block; height: 375px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 250px;" /></a>Prominent fashion magazines were also susceptible to the feather invasion. <a href="http://vogueaulieududine.blogspot.com/2009/10/feather-shoulders.html">Vogue</a> this year:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJA-gOfALWzkrz7DJoPxQHx2C193OLBphQmna63vpCDC1WecnYsJ_LYs2oMn5UQPrs9lnhy0akjxozINPuS3ViE31Oe8IeaAkEabpcLzzMF47cT6Lg_4ejcBvSFn_an2INduU_mbA2mg/s1600-h/numero.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864171544082866" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguJA-gOfALWzkrz7DJoPxQHx2C193OLBphQmna63vpCDC1WecnYsJ_LYs2oMn5UQPrs9lnhy0akjxozINPuS3ViE31Oe8IeaAkEabpcLzzMF47cT6Lg_4ejcBvSFn_an2INduU_mbA2mg/s400/numero.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 307px;" /></a>And also from Vogue, a few months ago. The caption says: "Quirky interest around the shoulders is a major movement right now." Oh really, Mrs. Wintour? I wonder who exactly started that 'movement.' <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKvD7Yu8k4qE4-11Plx6HDoXTkfJSxeQ19Y9KL8caZ6Rs0Vnud84_UMWY_blYcQgDU2-q6IqArQq9mDS1kvvvCCLlsKAtEksqvkKJFDpOyB-V4Xl9CEV1usGqLcOOO7lOU-1Nvq1EUSc/s1600-h/img161.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422816459024489394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizKvD7Yu8k4qE4-11Plx6HDoXTkfJSxeQ19Y9KL8caZ6Rs0Vnud84_UMWY_blYcQgDU2-q6IqArQq9mDS1kvvvCCLlsKAtEksqvkKJFDpOyB-V4Xl9CEV1usGqLcOOO7lOU-1Nvq1EUSc/s400/img161.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 282px;" /></a><a href="http://obsessee.typepad.com/obsessee/2009/09/forward-march.html">This example</a> from British Vogue is not even debatable- it is virtually a carbon copy of Brandon's pheasant feather epaulets.<br />
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<img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863122456437810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8MGJgp1473et_iA0BpzWriSS5iwpVESySDsg9vJwGxeUxJ-ciwddXPbJPvc5g-EieYQMcoXyVjaoxAwBe5KZDJLGsuvW1lI3FTT3Kh7jduIneUajqaS7Tm_wRcAHzigBEHLMCBlRYk88/s400/6a01053694df79970b0120a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 257px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /><img /> Lily Cole <a href="http://smokeye.wordpress.com/2009/06/11/sienna-miller-elle-style-awards-feathered-shoulder-jacket/">wearing</a> <i>golden</i> feathers.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOucx5ktlziRkubS15JiOWfdzNnwGGFX0RXGujh2KDuBoyQVICMqo-mJu3AhYc8Xf3yc-XsBXVp2hKKVuAP8wW6Gck-7Nu3zjU1etYyRBnEo8zSEHjbLV-7LWVyFdQSOknM_B7gwKQcCM/s1600-h/feathered-shoulder-pads.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403674101093234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOucx5ktlziRkubS15JiOWfdzNnwGGFX0RXGujh2KDuBoyQVICMqo-mJu3AhYc8Xf3yc-XsBXVp2hKKVuAP8wW6Gck-7Nu3zjU1etYyRBnEo8zSEHjbLV-7LWVyFdQSOknM_B7gwKQcCM/s400/feathered-shoulder-pads.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 314px;" /></a>Some interpretations of the look are admittedly, er, impractical... but definitely interesting. <a href="http://www.fifi.com.au/fashion/13148/issue-274-3/">This</a> girl would look so badass on a motorcycle, with the feather "wings" fluttering in the wind... <img alt="" border="0" height="400" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420863812489812290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLMPKm9BycKukDubmFLnt5hv_KOuSBZOXldzfNpp1jYYviVOHWnqFKIvH5ShuBbTzVGHuYBcgCY0w5rNmmyIeRpge6fK-n21GBYFpCbhVn-rPp-oaqiYnMAfOas5jqXZicjUtOiQ-Qaw4/s400/fashion-cue-feather-jacket.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 293px;" width="293" /><br />
<a href="http://www.pristinesmut.com/">Pristine Smut</a> (indie label) "feather shoulder decor." Found through <a href="http://www.outsapop.com/2009/06/not-just-shop.html">here</a>. Positively regal. <br />
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Bridal wear. This is absolutely stunning. She looks like a goddamned angel with the delicate white wings. I want <a href="http://westaussiewedding.typepad.com/west_aussie_wedding/2009/11/feather-shoulder-pads.html">this wedding dress</a>.<br />
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Another commercial product, but not quite at the chain store level. Yet? Who knows. But one has to be pretty daring to wear feathers on his/her fucking shoulders. This<a href="http://youwereneverlovelier.wordpress.com/2009/09/07/lou-lou-loves-you-lavinia-collection-exculsive-first-look/"> lovely piece</a> is Lou Lou Loves You, Lavinia collection... some indie <a href="http://www.louloulovesyou.com/">British brand</a> apparently.<span style="font-size: 85%;"><span style="font-weight: bold;"> </span><span style="font-size: small;">£90 so no joke. </span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnn_kFzOKBc7Asiv54yZi2rvUJ6mIyVCaSI4z1VHn47RqEYWLCfTuwlsxUKJCNhfiX2SpcEUmv3IOGV6UOMjvN_ajtd7lo18GBFIrknQWCDn96O3ajyHDGsAviRTehisdcX28hfOznOc/s1600-h/lou-lou-loves-you-feather-epaulets-double.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420866051576788322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrnn_kFzOKBc7Asiv54yZi2rvUJ6mIyVCaSI4z1VHn47RqEYWLCfTuwlsxUKJCNhfiX2SpcEUmv3IOGV6UOMjvN_ajtd7lo18GBFIrknQWCDn96O3ajyHDGsAviRTehisdcX28hfOznOc/s400/lou-lou-loves-you-feather-epaulets-double.jpg" style="display: block; height: 178px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 426px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89HDuC-QUtUfqboaoSa-A_kxnUO20RoO4jTbE0mqM9fe8COs0Ettcocw3QadC1fmU6DAVeRrKZrGAuKT2r8cN01B-_X5Np5wOGfVGRcLg4vxaOhYqUZzWt-n8Cj-SFkOuqnQ0wJhpMN8/s1600-h/feather+shoulder+piece+2.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403668642461906" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj89HDuC-QUtUfqboaoSa-A_kxnUO20RoO4jTbE0mqM9fe8COs0Ettcocw3QadC1fmU6DAVeRrKZrGAuKT2r8cN01B-_X5Np5wOGfVGRcLg4vxaOhYqUZzWt-n8Cj-SFkOuqnQ0wJhpMN8/s400/feather+shoulder+piece+2.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 309px;" /></a>Beyond the considerably privileged and exclusive examples thus provided of feather shoulder appearances,<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAxghm_ntLNxIMAJy_ncd4jkUt6wz7iczIHhHOP7CwU99splSZgJN_nB2YfQS02AMwdD2NtWuKyS0wEtWBVp3-9fDll2J2M8pQpsZjN4zrZK6TI1GSAhu7h4Cuwnzqf7PauwZwdYyOEo/s1600-h/Picture+3.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403690466224514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidAxghm_ntLNxIMAJy_ncd4jkUt6wz7iczIHhHOP7CwU99splSZgJN_nB2YfQS02AMwdD2NtWuKyS0wEtWBVp3-9fDll2J2M8pQpsZjN4zrZK6TI1GSAhu7h4Cuwnzqf7PauwZwdYyOEo/s400/Picture+3.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 364px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXq3lmwTVktq1Cv7WCILAmOjNgVCZC_xFAfe4xMftZY_QQAMwVGz10r7RTgLGF5vz6b4ASC_iHKC7t3umeycVfO-4cOMBQtYNftStgMJIRtqc7Z7f_yXw8m2EhsOEDiVRTZpVZ4Ii1z4/s1600-h/Picture+5.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403984761293810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSXq3lmwTVktq1Cv7WCILAmOjNgVCZC_xFAfe4xMftZY_QQAMwVGz10r7RTgLGF5vz6b4ASC_iHKC7t3umeycVfO-4cOMBQtYNftStgMJIRtqc7Z7f_yXw8m2EhsOEDiVRTZpVZ4Ii1z4/s400/Picture+5.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 353px;" /></a><br />
replicas of Brandon's feather blazer have popped up in guys' pictures all over the web. Why? Halloween costumes, of course! The past two Halloweens have been prime times to either mock or revel in Bflo's Day & Age era stage uniform.<br />
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Those who take it seriously usually look pretty serious business. This kid had his <a href="http://the-elixe.blogspot.com/2009/11/personal-update.html">fashion designer friend</a> create the costume for him:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMdqeJUDl8sk4gw7Qh1nI0hRA1Ub1_PlKB1rdaoUVr9s27Ffh74GwmDPRS4KHZAssEdg8XZ1-eC12_dSjWeejBQPFXhGiXOqgS-QL1qbMnU2tYYiSX1UMganmoHUbdF5bjlZCRXi-bvTU/s1600-h/4097509528_638807f82f.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5422816450119858610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMdqeJUDl8sk4gw7Qh1nI0hRA1Ub1_PlKB1rdaoUVr9s27Ffh74GwmDPRS4KHZAssEdg8XZ1-eC12_dSjWeejBQPFXhGiXOqgS-QL1qbMnU2tYYiSX1UMganmoHUbdF5bjlZCRXi-bvTU/s400/4097509528_638807f82f.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="http://pullteeth.blogspot.com/2009/01/happy-new-years.html">This guy</a> made it himself. You know what, now that I think about it I don't even know if he did it for Halloween. Maybe it was just for kicks. As you do. Hey, if I was a guy I would totally replicate each of Brandon's outfits. It's not like I don't copy a bit here and there anyway. Ok I just checked and he wrote that it was a masquerade. Well same difference. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKfJehw3GAGxoIF6mnw1b8pEEbusIrlXTfrj6kJD3drlJR0SqNTQcKiXJ7T3n7CIkd5vA9VaqcB3e7xknI7UeHyeYXNlDcOqqi3nGIKHQgBVxb2pBs_G_Pxzc0jS24oUKgzve1p_umjA/s1600-h/IMG_7507.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864163797084050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJKfJehw3GAGxoIF6mnw1b8pEEbusIrlXTfrj6kJD3drlJR0SqNTQcKiXJ7T3n7CIkd5vA9VaqcB3e7xknI7UeHyeYXNlDcOqqi3nGIKHQgBVxb2pBs_G_Pxzc0jS24oUKgzve1p_umjA/s400/IMG_7507.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Then the mockery. Even Ray Suen, The Killers' traveling traveling backup multi-instrumentalist ("the new Ted") decided to dress as Bflo for this past Halloween. He posted pics on his twitter to fans' amusement. You can tell he's not serious business because of his expressions. See.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_a4GhmhAxCsVwZvFhM33bhTAWxkeCffJI4okbAFBV_XruUgKeViZ3XgiAQWwfJg7oTHo8FWrX5qSU5sMchJnvvtZh2L3CuxIWlId9H4fy7FRQP9DNY5fm4xjd3UmialW7VYXKKQLDvp8/s1600-h/39604687-7cb6a7b6e1ab7115a7b09d455d069e1d.4aec5a57-scaled.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883363707392450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_a4GhmhAxCsVwZvFhM33bhTAWxkeCffJI4okbAFBV_XruUgKeViZ3XgiAQWwfJg7oTHo8FWrX5qSU5sMchJnvvtZh2L3CuxIWlId9H4fy7FRQP9DNY5fm4xjd3UmialW7VYXKKQLDvp8/s400/39604687-7cb6a7b6e1ab7115a7b09d455d069e1d.4aec5a57-scaled.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>For this one he wrote that he must have misplaced one of the feathers, muaha.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlNFpRP8AsPQrthak_K1ai8cEZU-HONoUjOFUC2Lglqswi3NqM58O3jeWXJGMMBQPONxmlqr8NpbgwvMiWa_5_7RzgTXKPC5b9Ckff9Cri3vIufuU87-wPYEygL9s8BEyEnsClVJyhdQ/s1600-h/39843863-b578e9369ac28f92f53f887f33708b06.4aed9dc4-full.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420883357486448194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFlNFpRP8AsPQrthak_K1ai8cEZU-HONoUjOFUC2Lglqswi3NqM58O3jeWXJGMMBQPONxmlqr8NpbgwvMiWa_5_7RzgTXKPC5b9Ckff9Cri3vIufuU87-wPYEygL9s8BEyEnsClVJyhdQ/s400/39843863-b578e9369ac28f92f53f887f33708b06.4aed9dc4-full.jpg" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbQgP5zefCBE9B0KSYzjFXOjtOr-eWB9dhQRi8miQnkgMvNeJEDNn30BSU0-ANf5hcbP1jEsHWeu2x2Vtry7CF9K6GYi5HgAa86a8HxaQ2KDQbGOmv6LLpMhVzbLbC0_mFiB2JwexPqA/s1600-h/Picture+4.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403975978145138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBbQgP5zefCBE9B0KSYzjFXOjtOr-eWB9dhQRi8miQnkgMvNeJEDNn30BSU0-ANf5hcbP1jEsHWeu2x2Vtry7CF9K6GYi5HgAa86a8HxaQ2KDQbGOmv6LLpMhVzbLbC0_mFiB2JwexPqA/s400/Picture+4.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 301px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Finally, we reach the last step in the journey of Bflo's feather shoulders- normal everyday people. Well, not exactly, These are more of the fashion-forward types that like to experiment and post the resulting pictures online. You're not going to see my mom with feathers on her shoulders any time soon, let's put it that way.<br />
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Those who do take fashion risks have been eager to try Bflo's look. <a href="http://makemi.wordpress.com/2008/12/20/broad-appeal/">This girl</a> made two different, equally awesome epaulets:<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1OCVMWVmIWAuDhFAZWoOrcASDJSqtngrGXctJ7K-NsCSvKweBZ7oMiWCfn7vKgTVtm9C_1wgiswePdjwL4sDCisUjiNwHUItC8-2YIMNjc47phQuPqLREf8_l-WkAq5Uo21MgNmtiuWo/s1600-h/photo-26.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864521267791570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1OCVMWVmIWAuDhFAZWoOrcASDJSqtngrGXctJ7K-NsCSvKweBZ7oMiWCfn7vKgTVtm9C_1wgiswePdjwL4sDCisUjiNwHUItC8-2YIMNjc47phQuPqLREf8_l-WkAq5Uo21MgNmtiuWo/s400/photo-26.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXT7heB847rnbd0ZfPB-h7zWX5jFU850fwr3VYScgRvlAPq0DaWAHP_jXf6M1GSY_L3OFNYCRT56DCxn9-skKEQ1GXWg35h2dKloio646paqiiOvQVdM081VaZJRkyyhK8ieGhUW8n3_g/s1600-h/photo-22.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864179414983826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXT7heB847rnbd0ZfPB-h7zWX5jFU850fwr3VYScgRvlAPq0DaWAHP_jXf6M1GSY_L3OFNYCRT56DCxn9-skKEQ1GXWg35h2dKloio646paqiiOvQVdM081VaZJRkyyhK8ieGhUW8n3_g/s400/photo-22.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="http://lookbook.nu/look/277349-birds-of-a-feather">This girl</a> posted a Bflo feather look on Lookbook. The feathers are similar but everything else is way more casual and girly. Very versatile, these shoulder feathers are. (I really need a new word for 'shoulder.' And 'feather' because 'plumage' is not enough. I have seriously used those words a million times in this post. Sorry if you have a headache!)<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkyh6pt0VEl1BXOmj9z1RBTn2lLByeTDZb0O3_CqPF3wIMLZ7kOO4gwVV7cNUqsiCAS0nKGnEf5-UECvjOqdPnFpHT3RDVFRk4c1jcqIzHGGCm0rpRZ6M-KTgf51Su4rzgbs7YyMijvBg/s1600-h/Picture+6.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864825191431106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkyh6pt0VEl1BXOmj9z1RBTn2lLByeTDZb0O3_CqPF3wIMLZ7kOO4gwVV7cNUqsiCAS0nKGnEf5-UECvjOqdPnFpHT3RDVFRk4c1jcqIzHGGCm0rpRZ6M-KTgf51Su4rzgbs7YyMijvBg/s400/Picture+6.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 318px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjH2xxGFZoKrQiOYueshyphenhyphenHRtlwLRWcUQ-CK76OykipexgI8BUJI3jXD0AOO7tnW89dq2BLFmuXGYcVNwcrAETbMjWjjS2S126hqVtuGaiyXWh-aI727dKPpnwTjP1TBmn4bIUFKS1iUU/s1600-h/Picture+8.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426404015404043922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghjH2xxGFZoKrQiOYueshyphenhyphenHRtlwLRWcUQ-CK76OykipexgI8BUJI3jXD0AOO7tnW89dq2BLFmuXGYcVNwcrAETbMjWjjS2S126hqVtuGaiyXWh-aI727dKPpnwTjP1TBmn4bIUFKS1iUU/s400/Picture+8.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 373px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>yesss! A guy, not dressed in a costume! And <a href="http://rickyjamesflynn.blogspot.com/2009/10/help-me-fly-away-diy.html">looking damn amazing</a> if I may say so myself.<br />
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Finally, <a href="http://lookbook.nu/look/286411-Because-flowers-never-last-forever">another stylish girl on Lookbook</a>, totally owning the feather shoulder look and making it her own. She called the outfit "Flowers are forever." Flowers. Yeah. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWz1dEXceERxR5b_KOXhm4R3WygCmC2lBnTV3QWBHCOsNd9JIVjtCL4uUJ0v9opnYxGsaCMsRBzDnSiPimuoCP1MU9TCA39uIu1NUZuIvip4VhXzBPLPhJYOSS3uZYV-ul2qJ_h_Nz0E/s1600-h/Picture+7.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5420864833228895266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnWz1dEXceERxR5b_KOXhm4R3WygCmC2lBnTV3QWBHCOsNd9JIVjtCL4uUJ0v9opnYxGsaCMsRBzDnSiPimuoCP1MU9TCA39uIu1NUZuIvip4VhXzBPLPhJYOSS3uZYV-ul2qJ_h_Nz0E/s400/Picture+7.png" style="display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 245px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69NXHGneLudUnoweA9bPOuVZOATYswAr0SZXPx8zNU6eAoCDIMUUVVhjhFFWH_QWHnftRi0dDdgjmyxGWWYntdj5mJPNGUkTBemHKPc73y0Q8uVX9U0wDnqCqn7xWZXXq2BlbwPOU_VI/s1600-h/Picture+7.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426404008156893410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh69NXHGneLudUnoweA9bPOuVZOATYswAr0SZXPx8zNU6eAoCDIMUUVVhjhFFWH_QWHnftRi0dDdgjmyxGWWYntdj5mJPNGUkTBemHKPc73y0Q8uVX9U0wDnqCqn7xWZXXq2BlbwPOU_VI/s400/Picture+7.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZnPWGV24ODJfnYvqJDgpJ0ZsvJdVTW9WM9TxvtRMjFiwKoivvxGFQiAQpU0gZsUtA2NYma20Q_bzQh-bY3IqUS-9hMBXnwIRxQrYzIHL-V8TYTq3omYqbh7erEmhkFT5R7Ct9GjC1Ts/s1600-h/4077649488_0b73192017.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403022988670626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZnPWGV24ODJfnYvqJDgpJ0ZsvJdVTW9WM9TxvtRMjFiwKoivvxGFQiAQpU0gZsUtA2NYma20Q_bzQh-bY3IqUS-9hMBXnwIRxQrYzIHL-V8TYTq3omYqbh7erEmhkFT5R7Ct9GjC1Ts/s400/4077649488_0b73192017.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 268px;" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0N7Ca9-Sp0y2mtEMSQry9x4nk0NF0NHClVUEA2I8IU8GaTuZPem828jsj4ZJkl2G-DDQjXhAQjJ2wMhX-zHePDeJsMPMDEHNJ6lK1qkflljTqIQjwyoiun2is5H7aSLTuROGVMDpo2Go/s1600-h/4191189314_dda70bdff7_b.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403037137185346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0N7Ca9-Sp0y2mtEMSQry9x4nk0NF0NHClVUEA2I8IU8GaTuZPem828jsj4ZJkl2G-DDQjXhAQjJ2wMhX-zHePDeJsMPMDEHNJ6lK1qkflljTqIQjwyoiun2is5H7aSLTuROGVMDpo2Go/s400/4191189314_dda70bdff7_b.jpg" style="display: block; height: 266px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7ALzxFPm0uYd78P-_YfbWV3UsVuomEXHGoBXkGp4AYB3mI3expUOek6gRLF7hjHx4Thw5u8-409d-UoHWAC847SAB3LITD35LD54MfWKx5dPqB3oJyzPdzalzDvb6DOk84aFjX687xM/s1600-h/4093204476_f23bf148fd_o.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5426403025846906066" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjF7ALzxFPm0uYd78P-_YfbWV3UsVuomEXHGoBXkGp4AYB3mI3expUOek6gRLF7hjHx4Thw5u8-409d-UoHWAC847SAB3LITD35LD54MfWKx5dPqB3oJyzPdzalzDvb6DOk84aFjX687xM/s400/4093204476_f23bf148fd_o.jpg" style="display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>So that brings us to the end. Why do I always feel exhausted when I finish one of these research-intensive posts? Damn. Well hopefully it helps are amuses or [infuriates a hipster] or teaches something new. Feel free to post other feather shoulder sightings. And remember, wear that shoulder plumage with pride.<br />
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What in damnation will Brandon Flowers wear when the next album comes out? Fuck all if I know. Goddamn, the guy is crazy, don't you get it by now? But I sure am excited to find out. It will be over a year until then, unfortunately. TK are taking a long break. Maybe I'll make more of these posts to pass that time. Stay tuned.<br />
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P.S. If you think I'm the only crazy bitch admiring Bflo's style, well you're wrong. Sort of. There are some more! <a href="http://www.spin.com/blog/killers-brandon-flowers-style-icon-or-just-insane">Spin</a> wrote a really nice blog on this urgently important issue. <a href="http://www.thefashionspot.com/news-and-trends/news/21459-brandon-flowers-killer-style">The Fashion Spot</a> also has something up. It basically a replica of <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/03/brandon-flowers-runway-looks-dior-homme.html">my own blog post</a> a while ago (someone hasnt learned about plagiarism!), I mean down to the minute details, no credits... but I'm letting it roll off my shoulders (FEATHERS) because it's not like I never copy here and there, or don't give credit. Plus any advancement of Brandon's style in the public is good enough for me. But B*tch, couldn't at least have given a link? Oh okay, fine fine. Anyway it doesn't come aaanywhere near the <a href="http://laladeedada.blogspot.com/2009/08/recent-discovery.html">diabolical copycatness of this girl's post</a>... which is exactly the same as a <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/08/brandon-flowers-and-case-of-purple.html">post I wrote before</a> (about Brandon's ubiquitous purple tiger hoodie), just with different words. Wow. Sorry, had to vent a bit. Doesn't bother me too much though. Imitation is flattery...?<br />
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Love you guys. If you have any requests for a post like this, feel free to leave it in the comments.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-37769454965537879532009-12-23T19:25:00.000-08:002009-12-24T12:05:03.645-08:00Mad Men's Real-Life ClonesWell, this is interesting. While doing research through the <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life">Google LIFE archives</a> for my last post, I came across some crazy Mad Men similarities.<br /><br />Don Draper, et tu?<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilu3b5os2ogAGzVb4MvGJbT_8tVTFexssDnRn-KDh7tcv6Erqhd0A4NCnpG1RhtIWyV7Baprb8pbyiLM0XBXF1uX0RSRsGqpSTD6Ti_3xT9STbPA4TmDp8KhuIfQlzkwGPnJU1_yixVr4/s1600-h/c04fed4b5fd60b45_landing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilu3b5os2ogAGzVb4MvGJbT_8tVTFexssDnRn-KDh7tcv6Erqhd0A4NCnpG1RhtIWyV7Baprb8pbyiLM0XBXF1uX0RSRsGqpSTD6Ti_3xT9STbPA4TmDp8KhuIfQlzkwGPnJU1_yixVr4/s400/c04fed4b5fd60b45_landing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418643463374256290" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1UIAZtfY1uH9l-q3bQ-HPQwCy6bntxd2dQmwMq5ekAPLOkwmH5NARAtqCXg96FI791tEPiwfG7buU_XIMKCEtXrMFiifVkXJrr-xLne2zCSmJ0dcBouqnqVlIjQOAovIwasfLimRIco/s1600-h/145f5ca4302026c6_landing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 265px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjP1UIAZtfY1uH9l-q3bQ-HPQwCy6bntxd2dQmwMq5ekAPLOkwmH5NARAtqCXg96FI791tEPiwfG7buU_XIMKCEtXrMFiifVkXJrr-xLne2zCSmJ0dcBouqnqVlIjQOAovIwasfLimRIco/s400/145f5ca4302026c6_landing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418646112055280018" border="0" /></a><br />Well, no. According to LIFE archives it's the <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=145f5ca4302026c6&q=madison%20ave%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmadison%2Bave%2Bsource:life%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D72">"Madison Ave Look."</a> I don't even know if this guy is legit or a model showing the fashion, but I have a feeling it's the latter. Especially considering <a href="http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&q=the+madison+ave+look+source:life&sa=N&start=126&ndsp=18">how many damn pictures</a> there are. But even then, Madison Ave. is where the ad agencies in NYC were and the reason these guys were called Mad Men in the first place.<br /><br />See the resemblance for yourself:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdDzyGP-5KrUb9lwzZRNC_kkzLWIYhkXrU_dQB9SdPn4m6EQLLA56HU-q97UgYS16ZkvCVYOMygV367BS5AQX5OqoCFMQfHGMbr9rOKIwh60-ssaviS5Rfd3aqKVcrjxd5jjWwEvzmyw/s1600-h/Don-Draper.gif"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 236px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcdDzyGP-5KrUb9lwzZRNC_kkzLWIYhkXrU_dQB9SdPn4m6EQLLA56HU-q97UgYS16ZkvCVYOMygV367BS5AQX5OqoCFMQfHGMbr9rOKIwh60-ssaviS5Rfd3aqKVcrjxd5jjWwEvzmyw/s400/Don-Draper.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418647649894053634" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2atMT9mHQtW2VnFar9xYqoHsMF7Zrf6WsEfKT6wJhV9HLK6sKzfeyLp5cn8oGMjW4Ye8kGFQ04TPDvoxSzYjTIqlUuJrLk89FIxeOI7gLMEB2iRsC0W2J8w69FAyCp0QbPk6VjU5xMGY/s1600-h/mad-men-jon-hamm1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2atMT9mHQtW2VnFar9xYqoHsMF7Zrf6WsEfKT6wJhV9HLK6sKzfeyLp5cn8oGMjW4Ye8kGFQ04TPDvoxSzYjTIqlUuJrLk89FIxeOI7gLMEB2iRsC0W2J8w69FAyCp0QbPk6VjU5xMGY/s400/mad-men-jon-hamm1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418643476054197618" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75s6CC4VtTwyMV0FE4p35NRlY5SXdIkrS6ZzRYfaEe6oLR1KnH1yd1Neu8I4gohzpKRz2e8KLQp7-WJMvQl1jUv2lJ1BzK50gplXSpjkSdhg8Vm-eTKRxATo2NrrVYQ40sfUsrm7yWFE/s1600-h/mad-men-hat-0209-lg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 355px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh75s6CC4VtTwyMV0FE4p35NRlY5SXdIkrS6ZzRYfaEe6oLR1KnH1yd1Neu8I4gohzpKRz2e8KLQp7-WJMvQl1jUv2lJ1BzK50gplXSpjkSdhg8Vm-eTKRxATo2NrrVYQ40sfUsrm7yWFE/s400/mad-men-hat-0209-lg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418643468433147986" border="0" /></a>Then, even more creepy- Sally's teacher, Miss Farrell.<br /><br />Remember she wore a Bowdoin College shirt in one episode while running, when Don picked her up? Well these girls are at a dance <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=3ae0e1889fb4e57e&q=bowdoin%20queen%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbowdoin%2Bqueen%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den">at Bowdoin in 1939</a>. I know in Mad Men it's 1963 but let's just ignore that...<br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzqC7xI20y2gBGC6OF56BKbomakXygGYHFA6GF27fPcySUvxM3Rs-GTxWI4wKhpDniNQfynRugt8K-7ogEWHquiQQlqs9mGhk4z0VFbhnAV8CaBWzddgihQ0LBboteNthQIT6GRdncdU/s1600-h/3ae0e1889fb4e57e_landing.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 317px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbzqC7xI20y2gBGC6OF56BKbomakXygGYHFA6GF27fPcySUvxM3Rs-GTxWI4wKhpDniNQfynRugt8K-7ogEWHquiQQlqs9mGhk4z0VFbhnAV8CaBWzddgihQ0LBboteNthQIT6GRdncdU/s400/3ae0e1889fb4e57e_landing.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418643460591893618" border="0" /></a>The one all the way on the right immediately caught my eye. The similarity is uncanny. The nose, jawline, chin, mouth, even eyebrows and hair:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbrhyNw8VD0n5aDcjAEQx9t5VI5e8Di3-zGSm_b8MFI82XvdO0G2UZ9hLuGtAtHp4VX2EHH6sX8oc5_GQ2Vu_Gs0csgykM81wos9XI0fPzITCuZmizNkR7vy82cRVG5iGb5cuJfOdr-hU/s1600-h/Mad-Men-Teacher-1.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbrhyNw8VD0n5aDcjAEQx9t5VI5e8Di3-zGSm_b8MFI82XvdO0G2UZ9hLuGtAtHp4VX2EHH6sX8oc5_GQ2Vu_Gs0csgykM81wos9XI0fPzITCuZmizNkR7vy82cRVG5iGb5cuJfOdr-hU/s400/Mad-Men-Teacher-1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418643641737734642" border="0" /></a><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0_GeAl5M7xOmyJckqGojwiVHCVK0yhT6pNsPQ0Eg4lGLHheDQ3qOyJxa3epKA6daGjhutRwcmnwDxqVY7XaNr7M19wNSbsg5l3ugdNDtwGd4txX_FzC7COCxt-FLhMKj6h38sWuzWng/s1600-h/madmen50928_jez.flv.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw0_GeAl5M7xOmyJckqGojwiVHCVK0yhT6pNsPQ0Eg4lGLHheDQ3qOyJxa3epKA6daGjhutRwcmnwDxqVY7XaNr7M19wNSbsg5l3ugdNDtwGd4txX_FzC7COCxt-FLhMKj6h38sWuzWng/s400/madmen50928_jez.flv.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418645503978059474" border="0" /></a><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMA9RC20ianAN7Ojb3O4GwMhE4JKctdy4xAOcXWfPZIK0nM2YpXYu2Sn4MMpQ1jpsftvTuVy1yiA9CtwwqgLTmpvQE4qVOsPc68N1GbbZ60KgGpOtxV4JvEZUyJdcuLlO8n33lM2nJiis/s1600-h/MM021026_jez.flv.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 299px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMA9RC20ianAN7Ojb3O4GwMhE4JKctdy4xAOcXWfPZIK0nM2YpXYu2Sn4MMpQ1jpsftvTuVy1yiA9CtwwqgLTmpvQE4qVOsPc68N1GbbZ60KgGpOtxV4JvEZUyJdcuLlO8n33lM2nJiis/s400/MM021026_jez.flv.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418651136681818130" border="0" /></a>Mad Men is so historically accurate, it actually replicates history.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-9795311690219545472009-12-23T11:59:00.000-08:002010-06-08T19:11:51.290-07:00Saddle Shoes: I WANT THEM NOWSaddle shoes, oxfords, brogues- whatever you want to call them. I want 'em.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKPYJ1up-JmdsNr4QVx9yIb6o2oH0Vd_ag3LclxXBzMCUoei_e0aTsuzbBSp4b_I7fgphCuPzx3nd1OVwTNYOWu9xEMQOaf1pnEK3qOYypt0aS-zPWBMOanA522kWSa9j6X3wE2o6MFI/s1600-h/1c8ebdc9d632774e_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418533540292141986" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpKPYJ1up-JmdsNr4QVx9yIb6o2oH0Vd_ag3LclxXBzMCUoei_e0aTsuzbBSp4b_I7fgphCuPzx3nd1OVwTNYOWu9xEMQOaf1pnEK3qOYypt0aS-zPWBMOanA522kWSa9j6X3wE2o6MFI/s400/1c8ebdc9d632774e_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 371px;" /></a>I wrote a final research paper titled <span style="font-style: italic;">"A Woman's Place is in the Home? The College Takes on Marriage"</span> for my U.S. History course this semester. The topic, which I chose on a fluke (except it had to be related to my college's history) turned out to be more amazing than I could've ever imagined. I enjoyed doing the research so much that it helped me decide to become a history major.<br />
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But anyway, while researching I looked through yearbooks and LIFE magazine issues around the time I was focusing on (late 1930's, early 1940's) and the pictures showed girls who seriously wore only saddle shoes. I thought my college was trendy now, but turns out it has nothing on those days. Apparently the style spanned something like 20 years among college girls and teenagers.<br />
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Here are some pictures from Google's amazing <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life">LIFE archives</a> (notice the pictures are strangely voyeuristic and creepy at times... that was how LIFE magazine was, judging by the ones I read through. It was like the mostly male readers wanted to observe how these college girls lived. Very strange, but I'll leave that for another post). Click the pictures to see slightly bigger or go to the sources I sprinkled around to see much bigger versions of the pictures. So without further ado, some old timey college girls in their saddle shoes:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cqg46r0mReX6zSw1u87fBTMOLn_J5QS0R5MyfHEESbT5RULG5kGNBvDsTDkNMCG2awx_SrartoxjQMB6YP8zMrfialeJbVqNtnX5nCUkjaYy6Zw0g6OuimfgR0YwYhW_2aN-aA18_fQ/s1600-h/f794177d044ab233_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547443246095922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cqg46r0mReX6zSw1u87fBTMOLn_J5QS0R5MyfHEESbT5RULG5kGNBvDsTDkNMCG2awx_SrartoxjQMB6YP8zMrfialeJbVqNtnX5nCUkjaYy6Zw0g6OuimfgR0YwYhW_2aN-aA18_fQ/s400/f794177d044ab233_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 311px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">This was in one of the issues I read. I remember it said she was reading a letter from home and it made sure to mention that girls had to wear slippers during study hours to avoid making noise. </span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=f794177d044ab233&q=1930s%20fashions%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1930s%2Bfashions%2Bsource:life%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D180">1936</a>.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5O9TtW2ZmANux96LD2YQShwdjNxR8eoqriHpv4CA63YZwU4plQBNTQGnyFocaFcli52HWveKkCKyDSo7fYj8KCpFnx1wxJ6UfRMNE8BIEMJZFvHtmAk-No9HXFlx8TT-zVjjl-N-yxdY/s1600-h/c-13.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418545475738291634" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5O9TtW2ZmANux96LD2YQShwdjNxR8eoqriHpv4CA63YZwU4plQBNTQGnyFocaFcli52HWveKkCKyDSo7fYj8KCpFnx1wxJ6UfRMNE8BIEMJZFvHtmAk-No9HXFlx8TT-zVjjl-N-yxdY/s400/c-13.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 327px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">This one included a caption </span><span style="font-size: 100%;">that said something like "rainy day style" lol. It also mentioned that umbrellas were taboo. oic. 1937.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSrG9jlT0YQNYo4qzi0B8yg29cgjyaCgUCv9s4xjCJ9yoodZ_y5qk8dNLlu4z3X3neH212cAcz6xr6vyS0GsBa-n-u43oMGuiPHxN6tB2__clSt-sxDxTEaHYeLncDT_uzYC5e2W6a8s/s1600-h/c-11.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418545471198295778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVSrG9jlT0YQNYo4qzi0B8yg29cgjyaCgUCv9s4xjCJ9yoodZ_y5qk8dNLlu4z3X3neH212cAcz6xr6vyS0GsBa-n-u43oMGuiPHxN6tB2__clSt-sxDxTEaHYeLncDT_uzYC5e2W6a8s/s400/c-11.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 318px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?q=vassar+source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dvassar%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den&imgurl=4aa0193979ff8df0#">"Vassar student walking across campus in saddle shoes and flowing raincoat."</a></span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0dk-tFSU88qPDog2-mv3UxgxJfz-rx-fBQAG9zvzs0owf0fntBFEMJiHJJ5NDvy9TOag0uMC4kcLjixXekh00ZUJQK1MmWziHsTKGMAfswUPtEcrlY14wdafsMPnx-If0WiHPOTdcYM/s1600-h/bf16792527467cc5_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418545465311606034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-0dk-tFSU88qPDog2-mv3UxgxJfz-rx-fBQAG9zvzs0owf0fntBFEMJiHJJ5NDvy9TOag0uMC4kcLjixXekh00ZUJQK1MmWziHsTKGMAfswUPtEcrlY14wdafsMPnx-If0WiHPOTdcYM/s400/bf16792527467cc5_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 307px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">The caption online for this 1938 says: "College Fall Fashion: Brooks-type sweater and cardigan worn outside skirt, saddle oxfords, socks, pearls."</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceoyT6hb12H2S3QS8q_U_7LyZZPtoFZinE9WJT4yRsdTruGwhbTW4yr15DDRPazJ8DjV4IwqZoObv0xNJWgRuTR3EK8cDS3bp37b2SpwrxNttkLrjZuyNorVr546vMhUIG-J74DnedJs/s1600-h/0b2aaf89590eb4fe_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418545460992522466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhceoyT6hb12H2S3QS8q_U_7LyZZPtoFZinE9WJT4yRsdTruGwhbTW4yr15DDRPazJ8DjV4IwqZoObv0xNJWgRuTR3EK8cDS3bp37b2SpwrxNttkLrjZuyNorVr546vMhUIG-J74DnedJs/s400/0b2aaf89590eb4fe_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 311px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 78%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 78%;"> <span style="font-size: 100%;">1936 @ Vassar</span></span><span style="font-size: 78%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 78%;"> </span><span style="font-size: 78%;"> </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMxYh8dr7dSu2oEbJE1Ezr4U9CCnXB-fLebUe4GCYctkvzyTqmR53kTqk4oqF7ZSruKG3bghIK5mMv_em49qNX9X0F-N6AIBtLzxLM74srg1tOSHREeg2hKVmG4bg4N1MOCeRmUimcz0/s1600-h/cf9accf6b9e5831a_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547195623028594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtMxYh8dr7dSu2oEbJE1Ezr4U9CCnXB-fLebUe4GCYctkvzyTqmR53kTqk4oqF7ZSruKG3bghIK5mMv_em49qNX9X0F-N6AIBtLzxLM74srg1tOSHREeg2hKVmG4bg4N1MOCeRmUimcz0/s400/cf9accf6b9e5831a_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 338px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">Now Wellesley girls. <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=cf9accf6b9e5831a&q=1940s%20college%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1940s%2Bcollege%2Bsource:life%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D126">From 1949</a> so you see the style lasted a while.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMGFGqiPzo2W3-cNGvka9fPZIRZ1bflbXMAPtHqgdU7pMEXuPFoVwj_5RLMsCZDVtk8tJdPpikWjW14jSp0PYV3Rg3zgONaYVIPUAq5O_NsYq-WUvUsy8FixDHsNaE2xpXfuarwD8a1sU/s1600-h/c7aaf09730c5f529_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547031772691842" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMGFGqiPzo2W3-cNGvka9fPZIRZ1bflbXMAPtHqgdU7pMEXuPFoVwj_5RLMsCZDVtk8tJdPpikWjW14jSp0PYV3Rg3zgONaYVIPUAq5O_NsYq-WUvUsy8FixDHsNaE2xpXfuarwD8a1sU/s400/c7aaf09730c5f529_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 382px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">More Wellesley, doing research and stuff. Remember the creepy voyeuristic thing I was talking about? Yeah. </span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAS5vF3dl74S1924KLAg8gY642DTy_ww8ExA4-QYT8pBwt-puCtsEOXY4DzLbRU7z4AUfT45uXLPnWEPJFCfIFImOQ7qcnGVLVSkUrUYQkBFR4Ewu0yYSyG997BNKPUukVBIMiP1X6SQM/s1600-h/4d20e2b35c69f4e3_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547015795965890" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAS5vF3dl74S1924KLAg8gY642DTy_ww8ExA4-QYT8pBwt-puCtsEOXY4DzLbRU7z4AUfT45uXLPnWEPJFCfIFImOQ7qcnGVLVSkUrUYQkBFR4Ewu0yYSyG997BNKPUukVBIMiP1X6SQM/s400/4d20e2b35c69f4e3_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 382px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">Wellesley students and their matching outfits, complete with ubiquitous saddle shoes. <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=4d20e2b35c69f4e3&q=1940s%20college%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1940s%2Bcollege%2Bsource:life%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D90">Again 1949.</a></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXvRwoovRvL2AR4rbIBSlPNO9DK8DQtcW-2aVboUpplIXSdnsHiWsztbkya6Z_4ZfAwfU4YvCSapvBzU3VcrpvPZrpjUXSP0EGnKCIduoj5EyMFm6Bwnlcbc1-1QNCcrFZwKAWSr_kkw/s1600-h/fc1871de99c99c96_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547590109512034" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDXvRwoovRvL2AR4rbIBSlPNO9DK8DQtcW-2aVboUpplIXSdnsHiWsztbkya6Z_4ZfAwfU4YvCSapvBzU3VcrpvPZrpjUXSP0EGnKCIduoj5EyMFm6Bwnlcbc1-1QNCcrFZwKAWSr_kkw/s400/fc1871de99c99c96_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 281px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">I don't know wtf is going on here (well doesn't he look snazzy) but <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=fc1871de99c99c96&q=1940s%20fashions%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1940s%2Bfashions%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den">it says</a>: "American teenagers in Heidelberg, Germany on cover of `Life' magazine dated 07-21-1947."</span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4xp0lUGMJE0cksBZCKPCHiWAmt9CJunIgOR8zXyEW5QV2PeNhHRNzprQl2plhKeJvcQam9_hL5gb_GqnKCFNSjEWa3YmjV43_4v4fqAy4Zl3e5szeKC59i6fbuw_HBRNpFg_Vs6ohdA/s1600-h/b3aa23455c27094c_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547029718567122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4xp0lUGMJE0cksBZCKPCHiWAmt9CJunIgOR8zXyEW5QV2PeNhHRNzprQl2plhKeJvcQam9_hL5gb_GqnKCFNSjEWa3YmjV43_4v4fqAy4Zl3e5szeKC59i6fbuw_HBRNpFg_Vs6ohdA/s400/b3aa23455c27094c_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 313px;" /></a>"Teenaged girl June Runyon's legs and feet, wearing saddle shoes & bobby sox with a comb slipped in one of the cuffs." Naughty naughty. <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=b3aa23455c27094c&q=saddle%20shoes%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dsaddle%2Bshoes%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den">From Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1947.</a><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3QLci9wbFmQ68YGRKeoQwgJS78IVlxD4SN-la0Jtk_GuzAaV3BV_R9hh7Rl3UKDk6NkfIuC1bCxAJBRM1nAlZr3a5qssKRQFRiQHt3CEMqxQUhoKHvJ2Gq7a2RR3T3I6Z0_sDLqXJ_Cw/s1600-h/423914bcd13c2eee_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547024256914338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3QLci9wbFmQ68YGRKeoQwgJS78IVlxD4SN-la0Jtk_GuzAaV3BV_R9hh7Rl3UKDk6NkfIuC1bCxAJBRM1nAlZr3a5qssKRQFRiQHt3CEMqxQUhoKHvJ2Gq7a2RR3T3I6Z0_sDLqXJ_Cw/s400/423914bcd13c2eee_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 325px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">"Four members of the Gamma Phi Beta sorority wearing white sweatshirt cardigans, this year's fashion fad among fellow sisters on the campus at the Univ. of Kansas." LOL. Whenever you're sick of trends, just look at this picture. At least it's not this bad. <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=423914bcd13c2eee&q=1930s%20college%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3D1930s%2Bcollege%2Bsource:life%26ndsp%3D18%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN%26start%3D108">1939</a>. </span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFn4m-r39o8SB1I5rEyAWb00mrs2XMNiRk3Iw8SlL3L5GQZyj86QngpXsWaORihbGjocoUNmH8F3XKidqevQyauH4bxdLqM_nnaCOhJhNVvPdDxjkYMQzZyGZgM46v4ecvYutiCKWdJWk/s1600-h/shoes+Sears+saddle.gif" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418558928857463794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFn4m-r39o8SB1I5rEyAWb00mrs2XMNiRk3Iw8SlL3L5GQZyj86QngpXsWaORihbGjocoUNmH8F3XKidqevQyauH4bxdLqM_nnaCOhJhNVvPdDxjkYMQzZyGZgM46v4ecvYutiCKWdJWk/s400/shoes+Sears+saddle.gif" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 282px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">Sears catalogue advertisement. The <a href="http://www.askandyaboutclothes.com/Golf/Golf%20shoe%20style%20and%20history%20and%20shine.htm">website</a> I got this from says: <span style="font-family: times new roman;">"1938, the jitterbug dance required flat shoes for women. The saddle shoe became equally popular</span></span><span style="font-size: 100%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;"> among co-eds and the first unisex fashion was born."</span></span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZqSI0qWwZb7JPy9BEa96svJJoU66lYRLwoETxtkYHtfHUZ4_t3ErQ5EsTR27nbX3j5Fe8sDILsa7Psxcz-kRjB09ksCAqPOHbl09FkfHv7mLN4EWKqv_QlbAgKh0GoZ-9ruQ1s1qAQc/s1600-h/jitterbug.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418558924444562402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUZqSI0qWwZb7JPy9BEa96svJJoU66lYRLwoETxtkYHtfHUZ4_t3ErQ5EsTR27nbX3j5Fe8sDILsa7Psxcz-kRjB09ksCAqPOHbl09FkfHv7mLN4EWKqv_QlbAgKh0GoZ-9ruQ1s1qAQc/s400/jitterbug.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 257px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">Happy jitterbuggers</span>.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij56WlXYvyJeDEjgl7IsRJe7PhwHIcRDWZLmkaDmZQkCASmW2movyeyo96ayARt0wy8heU8S_L6Ql5JJ58RKNkd7ZPcbE8kI2rfqpI34UMUnZcl5mEeJVbcyX07HcK9t3uT7zLKMiO-pU/s1600-h/Bobby+Socks.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418558917986696706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEij56WlXYvyJeDEjgl7IsRJe7PhwHIcRDWZLmkaDmZQkCASmW2movyeyo96ayARt0wy8heU8S_L6Ql5JJ58RKNkd7ZPcbE8kI2rfqpI34UMUnZcl5mEeJVbcyX07HcK9t3uT7zLKMiO-pU/s400/Bobby+Socks.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 356px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 308px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collier%27s_Weekly">Collier's</a> magazine cover. I can't read the year. Ooh, red saddles.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3lIQSoNWwAt2qFUGopoEyCO25h7fIyw4dBlqAbRGrv-e3Ps3UmauUfpz0zJBHPtzCCqiJ7l-g41xzdi34M1mu7jw_5hq3jE1GcCHqWiwu_3B9fq5QK7nb1DgtbyR3fkriz6q5cL3baMM/s1600-h/4d972e3dfc313e72_landing.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418547019651829538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3lIQSoNWwAt2qFUGopoEyCO25h7fIyw4dBlqAbRGrv-e3Ps3UmauUfpz0zJBHPtzCCqiJ7l-g41xzdi34M1mu7jw_5hq3jE1GcCHqWiwu_3B9fq5QK7nb1DgtbyR3fkriz6q5cL3baMM/s400/4d972e3dfc313e72_landing.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 259px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><span style="font-size: 100%;">There are no saddle shoes in <a href="http://images.google.com/hosted/life/l?imgurl=4d972e3dfc313e72&q=Vassar%20College%20source:life&prev=/images%3Fq%3DVassar%2BCollege%2Bsource:life%26hl%3Den">this one from 1950</a> (check out the keds though) but how cool were these Vassar students. Damn... they even had sweaters that buttoned up in the back...</span> and a hipster reindeer sweater 60 years ahead of its time. Do we think she was wearing it ironically? Hm.<br />
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Anyway, not only was I brainwashed by all of those old pictures while researching, but I also spent all of last summer obsessively watching Gilmore Girls' first three seasons. I totally missed that boat- back in middle school I couldn't understand what they were saying because they talked too fast, but now I realized the show is adorable as fuck and anyone who hasn't watched it is missing out big time. Watch up to a bit before Jess leaves (aka when the show turned shitteous as hale) and thank me later.<br />
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I also spent that time fawning over Rory Gilmore's aka Alexis Bledel's amazing school uniform. I don't know why I loved it so much, but the preppy tops, plaid skirt, sheer navy/black tights (very important that they were sheer, for some reason- it just looked cooler), and saddle shoes of course were a perfect combination. I can't find screen caps that do it justice but these will have to do. Unfortunately they're all with stupid Dean:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4XeOMCGS_zazyHWqOEFkhV5RCytrjlZmmZoLkY1kLlld8yEuEkKn-VkIMwTh8pelT_jlw4fm2wt45Dr7lw3TaeF6LKz2j8dNUVobpOUCoTrO8DAI8J2RG1jnlNo9aaLR0qkNiiPO1gvk/s1600-h/16.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418536172530955298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4XeOMCGS_zazyHWqOEFkhV5RCytrjlZmmZoLkY1kLlld8yEuEkKn-VkIMwTh8pelT_jlw4fm2wt45Dr7lw3TaeF6LKz2j8dNUVobpOUCoTrO8DAI8J2RG1jnlNo9aaLR0qkNiiPO1gvk/s400/16.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 240px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 320px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR84PC8QZ2arlY91nEtP2ZImkMORf4G9eKuEnyO6bWn3YjB470_T0kh0OnJgPDGCTp8rBSpPLhQSOdS_wLDUXSmXmP9qz_WLE58nUYLODiJ8m9fMtiZPgY2XhXMpv1W3qNRXunx38KHos/s1600-h/gilmore-girls-richard-stars-01.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418536176169183810" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR84PC8QZ2arlY91nEtP2ZImkMORf4G9eKuEnyO6bWn3YjB470_T0kh0OnJgPDGCTp8rBSpPLhQSOdS_wLDUXSmXmP9qz_WLE58nUYLODiJ8m9fMtiZPgY2XhXMpv1W3qNRXunx38KHos/s400/gilmore-girls-richard-stars-01.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 267px;" /></a>To make up for including Dean I'll post the loveliness of Jess and Rory:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVlca8zrgWtOQXG-3etiapHFWh7HR6E1tx7bUMwirEJAaxJLJB9buH-5VdDNqVG8IJDiTXj-Frlv-SPK-ZoX_7XCEFSbE9kNOahadVhB1m_SxRmGKbDNC-we9fdDVNXKHfMCsJajNGkE/s1600-h/gilmore-girls-lorelais-graduation.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418537257531215570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieVlca8zrgWtOQXG-3etiapHFWh7HR6E1tx7bUMwirEJAaxJLJB9buH-5VdDNqVG8IJDiTXj-Frlv-SPK-ZoX_7XCEFSbE9kNOahadVhB1m_SxRmGKbDNC-we9fdDVNXKHfMCsJajNGkE/s400/gilmore-girls-lorelais-graduation.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Look how cute this show is! From one of my favorite episodes:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizl6_CnsLVvXN_wzdqRWsKZxqBKCjmq4WA6DfRH0d8pKkqFclAj9xaqVH9OlODx_Biugtg5KTHEXXyiINrgCf7TWnDA86jyiItWFGgg54sIXZ5jYL-T7DDfOM8XcDiTS69uDLHpI64D5g/s1600-h/gilmore-girls-season-3-shoot-gilmores.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418537262297046706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizl6_CnsLVvXN_wzdqRWsKZxqBKCjmq4WA6DfRH0d8pKkqFclAj9xaqVH9OlODx_Biugtg5KTHEXXyiINrgCf7TWnDA86jyiItWFGgg54sIXZ5jYL-T7DDfOM8XcDiTS69uDLHpI64D5g/s400/gilmore-girls-season-3-shoot-gilmores.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 267px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Okay okay I'm done. Just promise me you'll <a href="http://www.tvduck.com/Gilmore-Girls.html">watch</a> the show and I'll move on.<br />
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Anyway, all of this together has really made me crave for some good ol' saddle shoes. They don't only go with poodle skirts for Halloween, I think I've proven that y'all.<br />
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The final cherry on top was when Alexa Chung <a href="http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/08/11/what-did-alexa-chung-wear-today-tuesday-august-11/">wore them</a> on one of her It's On with Alexa Chung episodes (R.I.P :'( )<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfSjnqF7zPHRSDWwY3QIWHdJcrI-yfo90am5bd-OTHauewKeW6moIeQ2hFZhLSPzmgoYpFTZknpUlooTnT7H5N2HNRdoAGecLwTVDKIiiE8IE4R8h3hLn6ILIub67lAozo7gVgwSnOnCw/s1600-h/Picture+4.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418581160808189410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfSjnqF7zPHRSDWwY3QIWHdJcrI-yfo90am5bd-OTHauewKeW6moIeQ2hFZhLSPzmgoYpFTZknpUlooTnT7H5N2HNRdoAGecLwTVDKIiiE8IE4R8h3hLn6ILIub67lAozo7gVgwSnOnCw/s400/Picture+4.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 242px;" /></a>And finally that with all of the Mad Men I've been watching (AMAZING, if you're not watching... seriously, what are you doing not watching? What? <a href="http://www.tvduck.com/mad-men.html">Watch it now</a> bitches)... which has made me fall in love with that 40's, 50's style...<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1EAVS2s8_Y3APs5LGPUK76e3la_TJTuSKCCiXLuc3Acj0cCvW82GGZkRf-nsPgo6GzEK_Dsf4plagu67yugVgRsEPlxA6bgZPgAvpx90co1cjMKBsJ4NFixVI0Fe7PLsGpjg8tA6B1ro/s1600-h/mad-men-girls.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418572430736164450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1EAVS2s8_Y3APs5LGPUK76e3la_TJTuSKCCiXLuc3Acj0cCvW82GGZkRf-nsPgo6GzEK_Dsf4plagu67yugVgRsEPlxA6bgZPgAvpx90co1cjMKBsJ4NFixVI0Fe7PLsGpjg8tA6B1ro/s400/mad-men-girls.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 260px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>It's all sealed the deal. I need saddle shoes.<br />
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I've been telling my friends this for months now- all I could find online were shitty saddle shoes for poodle skirt costumes or old people saddle shoes with gross kitschy designs on them. But it looks like the ever-trusty trend mongers at Urban Outfitters have finally caught on. Look what I saw when I browsed their website two days ago:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHdpKOcEpOIb_U6FYvuhcsIotngR3TXmQPjrqzFrpggXYqSQRxDWdrI8jB_xTKkuOA6B1pBdSDXuiNEBDSC8I_zKu9dXXoy5Crz0pK5SedgFaOb_fm4fik8UbWGlwqODyoyN-ylK2EivU/s1600-h/Picture+2.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5418545484087514050" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHdpKOcEpOIb_U6FYvuhcsIotngR3TXmQPjrqzFrpggXYqSQRxDWdrI8jB_xTKkuOA6B1pBdSDXuiNEBDSC8I_zKu9dXXoy5Crz0pK5SedgFaOb_fm4fik8UbWGlwqODyoyN-ylK2EivU/s400/Picture+2.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 268px;" /></a><a href="http://www.urbanoutfitters.com/urban/catalog/productdetail.jsp?id=16212060&navAction=jump&isProduct=true&parentid=MORE%20IDEAS&isProduct=true&cross-sell=true&guide-bn=true">(UO)</a><br />
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Helll yeahhh. Modernized and all. That's what I call a jackpot. A rip-off at $48 but what can you do. It will be my belated Hanukkah gift or something. All i know is I NEED them. NOW.<br />
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I've lost like half of my respect for them right now.<br /><br />Sad day. And I have to write a research paper. UGH. This makes me feel like I have abnormal taste when so many people hated her and I fucking looooved the show. WTF is wrong with me, then? Everyone sucks.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-82994269805530169202009-08-19T22:57:00.000-07:002011-07-31T10:26:05.657-07:00Brandon Flowers and the Case of the Purple Hoodie ObsessionSince half of my blog hits come from <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/03/brandon-flowers-runway-looks-dior-homme.html">Brandon Flowers fashion researchers</a> anyway, I might as well help feed the curiosity further...<br />
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Also, I tried searching BFlow's now-infamous purple tiger zip-up hoodie on Google and the results were insufficient at best. People out there aren't obsessive like I am and they have no easy way to acquire all the useless BFlow-related knowledge I already have stored in my mind. So I'm here to help.<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgln1k0MMobsj87pVs9lk6EEpzWvghfT0cVRV6Y-cUAMCeNo2Kqk0x3IqfR4OeYhbuqcuEm6nlfsML39KHxwg4CO0rYR59kzX3A54-Qv9ThpxcAgt8M-5PXejXaYEEl8VHip6rlcEqYYKM/s1600-h/2zid06p.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371932970352621298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgln1k0MMobsj87pVs9lk6EEpzWvghfT0cVRV6Y-cUAMCeNo2Kqk0x3IqfR4OeYhbuqcuEm6nlfsML39KHxwg4CO0rYR59kzX3A54-Qv9ThpxcAgt8M-5PXejXaYEEl8VHip6rlcEqYYKM/s400/2zid06p.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 314px;" /></a>Mr. Flowers first stepped out wearing the purple tiger / zebra print hoodie sometime early 2009... I think. Something like that. It caused a huge frenzy among fans. "What IS this new piece of clothing that is NOT the pheasant <a href="http://blog.shopfarinellis.com/uploaded_images/Killers-Feather-Jacket-779963.jpg">feather jacket atrocity</a> (okay it's not that bad, but it's been worn enough times, ok) that he wears constantly? he is actually wearing something new? the shock of it!"<br />
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Little did we all know, Brandon would wear the damn hoodie EVERY SINGLE TIME he doesn't wear <a href="http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/6700000/brandon-flowers-brandon-flowers-6790934-610-416.jpg">some</a> <a href="http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00722/RSNF30BIZAA_280_722358a.jpg">variation</a> of the feathery blazer.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7evKUZVcyb8jDa3Sztj8bRtzjUHjwCIPkZBBjXlucDE48qp5-F3NRjXuxFcMgV31EbnfaS22ggLbix-pXDrkaLIxnRRGwUK5qPG-z03Stf5HSdFf-QZBqJfiPDwgBSbLaorE6gSBN2cY/s1600-h/n3330831_42062780_5328921.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372226242738677506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7evKUZVcyb8jDa3Sztj8bRtzjUHjwCIPkZBBjXlucDE48qp5-F3NRjXuxFcMgV31EbnfaS22ggLbix-pXDrkaLIxnRRGwUK5qPG-z03Stf5HSdFf-QZBqJfiPDwgBSbLaorE6gSBN2cY/s400/n3330831_42062780_5328921.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>He wears it almost every time he gets out and meets fans after, before, and between concerts (that's not me scribbled out, I don't know who/why that is. I just found it through my BFF Google):<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggN419QYf_FeMVgphDql7PxGj66R0blTRb3XKpfgxgzQ3cIZi5iIvJ6Wdgo4qsURUPkEJTVAfNrFx6wJY4CX_ybSHcWKeX0lXvYV9EgvxXU1gvTg2LThdt7EFfq8IhHJY4cK4cCMCuzHY/s1600-h/ab88993ccdf4405d85d20c669cdf3314.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933277199767442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggN419QYf_FeMVgphDql7PxGj66R0blTRb3XKpfgxgzQ3cIZi5iIvJ6Wdgo4qsURUPkEJTVAfNrFx6wJY4CX_ybSHcWKeX0lXvYV9EgvxXU1gvTg2LThdt7EFfq8IhHJY4cK4cCMCuzHY/s400/ab88993ccdf4405d85d20c669cdf3314.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>He wears it to schmancy celeb events. Where he meets bitchasscuntwhorefaces that need to GTFO NOW. LIKE RIGHT FUCKING NOW. STEP AWAY FROM THAT BEAUTIFUL MAN NOW PLEASE AND THANK YOU. Homewrecking bitch. Brandon, watch your back, Sienna Miller has the bloodthirsty look in her eyes and she'll rip apart your perfect little family the first chance she gets. Uhum. Where was I. JK, anyway Brandon would never cheat and be with that... thing. Moving on before I convulse at the thought.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskkmBLfJfIuhWeUIauLDVg44J5AXfq25a8MoCyDW5Mao5pfMF2atHKj-nLntjwi_yXynHOljPChq0LbtaMjJ38b8_jADpO6S6KJvQEmT0AJjxXt_u4_FIxL-IsQLC-Awr8nX-FEIqcsQ/s1600-h/thekillers--large-msg-123669199785.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933299059738706" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiskkmBLfJfIuhWeUIauLDVg44J5AXfq25a8MoCyDW5Mao5pfMF2atHKj-nLntjwi_yXynHOljPChq0LbtaMjJ38b8_jADpO6S6KJvQEmT0AJjxXt_u4_FIxL-IsQLC-Awr8nX-FEIqcsQ/s400/thekillers--large-msg-123669199785.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 257px;" /></a>He even wears it during once-in-a-lifetime performances with Coldplay and Bono (at the Royal Bush Hall, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UypiKjFkC_U&feature=related">War Child benefit gig</a>):<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj87K0cGk96lx5SISyJF7AS-Ki0gvbnXNJo_o36ej_svedV1cdWnZHCi-zt8SQhC6nAhwS6xt2BPpPFgzlpDRdtbH0FtIjMfwR_TTSonN34upajhqkU-W1gqxXswg4nbdVckhdxy0qg9wM/s1600-h/Warchild_736739a.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933306296065378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj87K0cGk96lx5SISyJF7AS-Ki0gvbnXNJo_o36ej_svedV1cdWnZHCi-zt8SQhC6nAhwS6xt2BPpPFgzlpDRdtbH0FtIjMfwR_TTSonN34upajhqkU-W1gqxXswg4nbdVckhdxy0qg9wM/s400/Warchild_736739a.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 270px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>And while leaving BBC 1 studios in London with Ronnie, being photographed by them pesky paps:<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrR7ZPii0gxjpbzM517wnSFneoF1_Ow-8IIbgkaOwNhqTn2nsCOBlEaJ2I43cYHo9cOWrLVV0xt6WydLHR9YiFUCeR7kryuuHhjuf7guDZVMJbGSUy0Y7KhuMf3Y1iIzrZmJweybuAjxU/s1600-h/brandon_flowers_2305914.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933282212390834" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrR7ZPii0gxjpbzM517wnSFneoF1_Ow-8IIbgkaOwNhqTn2nsCOBlEaJ2I43cYHo9cOWrLVV0xt6WydLHR9YiFUCeR7kryuuHhjuf7guDZVMJbGSUy0Y7KhuMf3Y1iIzrZmJweybuAjxU/s400/brandon_flowers_2305914.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 223px;" /></a>Aaaand while being followed by the damn paparazzi. Poor baby, look how nervous he is with the clenched fists. You can see those evil monsters' reflections in the windows.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4bAh9SPQp1JbuBYAEphx2gQZ5Ql8rfavLmgERIWnu3go12ID-veftkB4AIBHYHlQWTRfujNpWCz304vEep1p-e3jI-JNukwdFXK0RIMRRWV_W5_PyMGZwy6G38WUepMInoFDtiBMcjMI/s1600-h/550w_brandon_flowers_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371932978735889346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4bAh9SPQp1JbuBYAEphx2gQZ5Ql8rfavLmgERIWnu3go12ID-veftkB4AIBHYHlQWTRfujNpWCz304vEep1p-e3jI-JNukwdFXK0RIMRRWV_W5_PyMGZwy6G38WUepMInoFDtiBMcjMI/s400/550w_brandon_flowers_1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 285px;" /></a>I'm sure he thinks he's being all clever wearing this because of the song on Day & Age, <span style="font-style: italic;">Neon Tiger</span>. Get it?? Heh heh heh.... yeah okay Brandon, sit down.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_V9m29b4cpTElcm66qr4eo9o6RHTjZMX7NmIGSrgLqlaPI_wWLLwR2rG5br_WiZN-H_lNqdG6vyDpWrkHqMTA4S_kVA44VinEMtHAKcM3GAxnH-hHH7HiqEZNumuBoa4YFf2_w3oKioQ/s1600-h/Purple_Tiger__by_stacynina.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372259184140690850" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_V9m29b4cpTElcm66qr4eo9o6RHTjZMX7NmIGSrgLqlaPI_wWLLwR2rG5br_WiZN-H_lNqdG6vyDpWrkHqMTA4S_kVA44VinEMtHAKcM3GAxnH-hHH7HiqEZNumuBoa4YFf2_w3oKioQ/s400/Purple_Tiger__by_stacynina.png" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 289px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 379px;" /></a>That's one pretty neon tiger, innit? That's what I got by searching purple tiger on Google. Did I mention Google is my BFF?<br />
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Do you sense a *theme*? You don't? Well let me hammer it in your head further along with Brandon. He fucking <a href="http://onemoreoption.files.wordpress.com/2007/08/1-the-killers.jpg">LOVES</a> <a href="http://userserve-ak.last.fm/serve/_/250099/The+Killers.jpg">THEMES</a> you see. So maybe that explains <a href="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3606/3740653600_71cf6c902a.jpg">this floor</a> in concerts. And.... <a href="http://www.rupaul.com/news/BRANDON_FLOWERS.jpg">this</a>. Oh yeah and <a href="http://blogs.lasvegascitylife.com/wp-content/media/2009/01/fear-the-killers-8.jpg">this</a>. Got it now? Thought so.<br />
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So back to neon-purple-tiger-zip-up-hoodies. Brandon always wears it the same way- under the equally-tired denim jacket of mysterious brand (<i>edit:</i> it's an <a href="http://www.gq.com/style/wear-it-now/201010/best-jean-jackets-denim#slide=1">Alexander McQueen</a> from Selfridges- where B also got his pink Dior Homme/Hedi Slimane <a href="http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y166/_killmenow2/NewPinkBlazerpicture.jpg">blazer</a> -according to GQ), with a T-shirt under it all and tight black pants or jeans, with boots. It's the Official Brandon Flowers Casual Look, '09. Here I created a very scientific analysis of the outfit, click to enlarge and experience full effect (recommended):<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7VOmhQObgwX3aywQsm-T2HcqXgDjcAicKFlk-iOuLCrFy-_uS0cVInd_lMkRzmoeFQrbXykPG9OzMzoEzO5HGI4PAFL32-QtcaUm19N6eJKgZDvOSceTHtW2H2nnA8TEXra7vaVDQAg/s1600-h/2009+Brit+Awards+War+Child+O2+After+Party+mkyPFpop71fl.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371932984190905218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj7VOmhQObgwX3aywQsm-T2HcqXgDjcAicKFlk-iOuLCrFy-_uS0cVInd_lMkRzmoeFQrbXykPG9OzMzoEzO5HGI4PAFL32-QtcaUm19N6eJKgZDvOSceTHtW2H2nnA8TEXra7vaVDQAg/s400/2009+Brit+Awards+War+Child+O2+After+Party+mkyPFpop71fl.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 244px;" /></a>Now for the head-scratchy part. Killers fans were all a-fuss over this sweater. Where is it from? Where can I buy it? It looks so very... familiar... OMFG, DUH. They sell some version of it in every single mall store in the <span style="font-style: italic;">entire world</span>.<br />
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This is from Wet Seal:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpykdrKEwhAtq_TaaW2WBg3eVZoTJ5RjUmiDwNouuDbTo3YSEAYIkuwQmcZG_LKU3u-EVb8aijD03rwL_790kMNsEJu74fSc3XQeZzYSCYU7bM3WZxdYmi9eP7SXsaZ6vjg4AfQgxaRlg/s1600-h/40803425400_lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933003777010098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpykdrKEwhAtq_TaaW2WBg3eVZoTJ5RjUmiDwNouuDbTo3YSEAYIkuwQmcZG_LKU3u-EVb8aijD03rwL_790kMNsEJu74fSc3XQeZzYSCYU7bM3WZxdYmi9eP7SXsaZ6vjg4AfQgxaRlg/s400/40803425400_lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 345px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 280px;" /></a>Now H&M also has one. But similar is not the SAME, is it?<br />
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Nope. Well worry not, here is the original 100% authentic Brandon Flowers Tiger Hoodie:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7KSOJAUFTVApSk5YhaLlG_tk4EU6vxcrTQ59LqMTscps_g1IL5D-ypeBkEWiO6YaBio16D3FuuwI-m0J445KsaT-56KIjSBgXifQFsCY_GBSeCmB_hgoprhBGwejBvdqsfSMD9DsdMk/s1600-h/sdpb92.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371933289921510722" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG7KSOJAUFTVApSk5YhaLlG_tk4EU6vxcrTQ59LqMTscps_g1IL5D-ypeBkEWiO6YaBio16D3FuuwI-m0J445KsaT-56KIjSBgXifQFsCY_GBSeCmB_hgoprhBGwejBvdqsfSMD9DsdMk/s400/sdpb92.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 400px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 328px;" /></a><br />
It has been meticulously proven by obsessive fans to be the real deal. The strings are just right, the color gets gradually darker as it gets lower in the hoodie. All there. Now where is this exclusive rockstar piece of history from?<br />
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Forever 21.<br />
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FOREVER FUCKING 21.<br />
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Brandon, if you're really trying to fight off the gay rumors, this isn't a good place to start (JK JK I know he's not really gay you crazies, I just like to kid about that silly dandy).<br />
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And no, Forever 21 didn't create a replica to sell to die-hards. First of all Brandon isn't famous enough for that, and secondly fans found it only days after Brandon first wore the thing. And it was on a special sale online for something like $25, no less. I will say, though, that purple tiger hoodies popped up aaall over the place a while after he wore it. I'm just saying ok.<br />
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But seriously, what is Brandon doing shopping there? Was he with his wife? Did she buy it for him? I'm just... I don't understand. And it makes me appreciate him more because he's just insane, man. I love insane people.<br />
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So on any normal day, if I ever saw this piece in the mall, I would be like "blah whatever" and move on. But now it was worn by my #1 Favorite Famous Person in the World, and it was no longer just an average colored animal print hoodie. Oh no. It was suddenly the most beautiful thing in the world and I HAD TO HAVE IT. So have it I did. I promptly ordered it and here it is:<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69ogZTqi00WkXJFEU8Axti3IEuhkvfjwtuAsJHfKF2HU19tLf4H40GAWZlk-IlfZ02PfX5LQpd3q93x-z-gV1IItUVfuFoZFG6MfJE952AnfKLJSahcC1nj9giHSWp9Y-IaiAm_ZyHas/s1600-h/Photo+63.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371945818731948386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi69ogZTqi00WkXJFEU8Axti3IEuhkvfjwtuAsJHfKF2HU19tLf4H40GAWZlk-IlfZ02PfX5LQpd3q93x-z-gV1IItUVfuFoZFG6MfJE952AnfKLJSahcC1nj9giHSWp9Y-IaiAm_ZyHas/s400/Photo+63.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>No I am not ashamed. Okay maybe I am a little. Okay a lot. I can't even explain, I just wanted it, alright? And I'm not the only one, about a bazillion Killers fans bought it too. Not that that makes it any less pathetic. Forever 21 HQ must have had a great deal of bewilderment over the sudden spike in sales of this particular hoodie.<br />
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All I can say is Brandon brain-washed me and I bought the damn thing like some Killers zombie. Here I am wearing it a la Bflow with a jean jacket. I swear i didn't buy THAT because of him- i got it as a gift from my mom's friend a few weeks ago. yes I admit I freaked out a little (a lot) now that I had the "set." But it fits horribly so no cigar. You can't really tell in the picture though.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4B0NbvZOIyMZki2wTUPDjYcqGgkMTaOj7QQCV9CKS00h54BW7xly9jAAW5pkWerK4o1PoaOj-HZghGJ_hWeJ7SR8j4igJf8ver0Aa4v7XhGTv0JmMyVxh7helHT9pTv3_HJUkgJhT-xc/s1600-h/Photo+64.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5371945827135265090" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4B0NbvZOIyMZki2wTUPDjYcqGgkMTaOj7QQCV9CKS00h54BW7xly9jAAW5pkWerK4o1PoaOj-HZghGJ_hWeJ7SR8j4igJf8ver0Aa4v7XhGTv0JmMyVxh7helHT9pTv3_HJUkgJhT-xc/s400/Photo+64.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 300px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a>Unfortunately the legendary hoodie is not selling online anymore. Sorry guys. Blame Forever 21, and blame me for not writing this earlier, as in half a year earlier, because I was too lazy. I guess you can go badger a Killers fan and try to buy it off of them (good luck with that) or some unassuming average teenager obsessed with colored animal prints. <i>EDIT: </i><a href="http://www.kaboodle.com/reviews/tops-7936?refItemId=AAAABJOm72UAAAAAARsDxA&fromStoreDomain=forever21.com"><i>This</i></a><i> site has the original F21 description. So apparently it was $27.80).</i><br />
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SO that's all with the epic story of the purple hoodie. Here, a gift for lasting this long in my rambling post- a photo of Brandon as a wee 80's child. No comment necessary:<br />
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<i>Edit: </i>Here are some detail shots of the same type of Alexander McQueen jean jacket Brandon wears, if that's what you're here for:<br />
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And I thought, "she's not all that bad." So I felt for the girl.<br /><br />So shoot me!<br /><br />I'm not saying I would want to be her best friend, but I understand her and get that she is a human now. Which is good. It probably helped that I have warmed up to her now that she has lost a lot of attention (fickle audience and all), and she was really funny and sweet this one random time I was watching Life on the D-List with Kathy Griffin and she guested. Plus I used to love The Simple Life when it first started. And I've always respected her a bit more for not getting a boob or nose job, as a fellow weird-nosed tiny-boobed female. <span style="font-style: italic;">Finally</span>, I've been watching lots of band documentaries for no particular reason as of late (Radiohead's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQkycJ5HdHQ&feature=channel_page">Meeting People Is Easy</a>, Metallica's <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txZKPuFZkpc&feature=channel_page">Some Kind of Monster</a>...) so watching this continued the trend of seeing the not-so-great side of success and fame.<br /><br />Weirdest part was probably seeing how she changes her voice from "public" cutesy coo to "real" deep man-voice. WTF girl.<br /><br />I'm not even going to try to explain myself further because there is no way to justify this apparent lack of good judgment on my part. Plus, I can't remember more specific reasons for appreciating the documentary and her in it, even though I just finished watching it a few hours ago. I have Alzheimer's.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicoGa6C_Piud2FJmVHItLRQXMF4S-gc9Q-opascycftOipCKkZTWVgwF38sLJuZcperFUdjnlwymdSnNTCrTxPgHWQytD7gDWNhEPoah6tXts8Qr1POMj9o3T12SV45AECJ85MqKuyQS0/s1600-h/untitled.0.0.0x0.560x300.jpeg.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 214px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicoGa6C_Piud2FJmVHItLRQXMF4S-gc9Q-opascycftOipCKkZTWVgwF38sLJuZcperFUdjnlwymdSnNTCrTxPgHWQytD7gDWNhEPoah6tXts8Qr1POMj9o3T12SV45AECJ85MqKuyQS0/s400/untitled.0.0.0x0.560x300.jpeg.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364844117434823970" border="0" /></a><br />I excitedly went on my computer after to finally read what <a href="http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2009/07/paris-not-brilliance.html">Rich from fourfour wrote about it</a>, because I was sure he would have a similar opinion to mine (why do I only enjoy opinions that are he same as mine? Eesh). But to my chagrin, his review was waaay negative and harsh. He just sounds ultra bitter and 'tis quite unbecoming of that lovely man.<br /><br />Some of the things that <a href="http://fourfour.typepad.com/fourfour/2009/07/paris-not-brilliance.html">bothered him</a> (these are direct quotes):<br /><br /><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">1.</span> She complains about the press running her through the mud, but admits that she's addicted to reading it.</blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-weight: bold;">2.</span> She talks about the importance of being humble, but then refers to a gaggle of squealing Japanese admirers as "worshiping" her.</blockquote><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">1.</span> Yeah, because that's real life, Rich. I also complain that eating junk food makes me gain weight but damn if I don't enjoy the hell out of it while I'm eating. Life is full of contradictions. Especially when you're a celebrity "living the dream" yet having to deal with some overwhelming and not-so-great side-effects.<br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">2.</span> The thing about Japanese admirers "worshiping" her- I did notice when she said it, but it didn't annoy me because she said it so matter-of-factly. She wasn't saying it in a cocky above-everyone way, she said it more like she felt detached. It's like when my friend from Beverly Hills gave me a tour of her house but seriously acted like the whole place was blah- no affectation, it just really meant nothing to her. It was kind of like that when Paris said it.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0JEfGuOZBp-rddOuIIujg7fMitTJnSedtma1GCUmFPi4CL_LBeh2bLiXebxmHrN7CRk1UPEsGsNBxj1uw9xa-MTMmtzPS3rj7pL7OaZfeljz4deSZYWoj9zOkzKbluhNHQ4kthp8k2g/s1600-h/paris-hilton-001.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 273px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii0JEfGuOZBp-rddOuIIujg7fMitTJnSedtma1GCUmFPi4CL_LBeh2bLiXebxmHrN7CRk1UPEsGsNBxj1uw9xa-MTMmtzPS3rj7pL7OaZfeljz4deSZYWoj9zOkzKbluhNHQ4kthp8k2g/s400/paris-hilton-001.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364854170734328754" border="0" /></a><br />And, I mean, damn, those Japanese fans <span style="font-style: italic;">were</span> worshiping her! They were fucking crying and screaming and looking at her as if she was the second coming of Jesus. So, yeah, she wasn't exaggerating. It's not cool of Rich to put that down because those words look much worse in type than in video, and he should know better than to take things out of their context like that.<br /><br />But, oh well. Haters gonna hate. And I'm a big hater too so I shouldn't be talking. I think my thing is that I go *against the grain* because I'm a *rebel* like that, so I hate on people that the masses like too much without good reason and I (like on?) people that the masses hate too much without good reason. I'm just trying to balance the world out, yo! Oooookay I'm pathetic I'll go sit down now.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-11054116585049218552009-07-29T22:52:00.000-07:002009-07-30T00:29:03.589-07:00ONTD, I Love You, But You're Bringing Me DownYes lovely people of <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/">Oh No They Didn't</a>, you're bringing me down so much that you've dragged me out of my blogging dry spell.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwG_tu106unOI-Qe_FBt4FPCuJFKl8V_JdFVysJHdddAu3viJp4aoi_W4A5w8W902bakg1DehrYwk0aC0GzMWygFiXtqJNVjM4OhnH7IHCF46k6krzk81kE52atjv9xE06qEBcSgRebI/s1600-h/522px-ONTD_logo.svg.png"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 192px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnwG_tu106unOI-Qe_FBt4FPCuJFKl8V_JdFVysJHdddAu3viJp4aoi_W4A5w8W902bakg1DehrYwk0aC0GzMWygFiXtqJNVjM4OhnH7IHCF46k6krzk81kE52atjv9xE06qEBcSgRebI/s400/522px-ONTD_logo.svg.png" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364143798765756178" border="0" /></a>I usually consider everyone on <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/">ONTD</a> absolutely comic-/social-/intellectual-/insane-ly genius. But today I am disturbed because the masses at ONTD have overwhelmingly gone against my personal opinion and common sense not once but THREE TIMES. This is a travesty. Usually they at least have two-sided intense and hilarious arguments, but now it's just a million clones saying wrong, stupid stuff. Because it disagrees with me, the all-knowing one. I will not have any of this.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">1.</span> <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37712673.html?">Rachelle Lefevre replaced by Bryce Dallas Howard in third Twilight film</a>. Summit Entertainment claimed "scheduling conflict", but it turns out she was shocked to be replaced.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpMfzwwyJ73QXUEM0EFvXmHz8w0LQo1nlimjZlSsho_gjYBoaH5quhDv3dhSGVpFO0hsV1UC6agSMRECYGIX_69Nf2chMQwhlb7fF8Mb57zEoK9jrV5D9nrSEznjgZymQ38vNYEVhEqo/s1600-h/Rachelle_Lefevre(2).jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 375px; height: 375px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcpMfzwwyJ73QXUEM0EFvXmHz8w0LQo1nlimjZlSsho_gjYBoaH5quhDv3dhSGVpFO0hsV1UC6agSMRECYGIX_69Nf2chMQwhlb7fF8Mb57zEoK9jrV5D9nrSEznjgZymQ38vNYEVhEqo/s400/Rachelle_Lefevre(2).jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364143810867858866" border="0" /></a>ONTD: They're all like "OH EM GEE I can't believe Summit (the production co. or something) did this they are such heartless assholes!! She was PERFECT and was, like, the only one that physically fit the role! And she cared about her role! HAbakBDKLFFND!!!!!"<br /><br />ME: WTF ONTD, hasn't it been a million years since you were so passionate about <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2008/03/vampire-moviez.html">Twilight</a>? Like, ever since it got really annoying and we found out the film was shitty as all hell? So where is all this uproar coming from, I thought you were all indifferent. Unless you're all shams. Also, no, Rachelle was NOT that good. I'm actually very glad she was replaced and Bryce will be great in her place (as great as the shitty script allows). Rachelle just took the role too damn seriously and it pissed me off. Tell me this quote from her after the replacement news doesn't just grind on you:<blockquote><br />This is a story, a theatrical journey and a character that I truly love and about which I am very passionate.</blockquote><br />Uh, Victoria is like the most annoying and useless thing in this series. Why the fuck are you passionate about her. Maybe you should question your judgment. And ONTD is all "she was the only one that loved the movies and took them seriously!111" And that is a good thing <span style="font-style: italic;">how</span>? Anyone who takes it seriously, especially at her age, is kooks. ONTD, you disappoint me.<br /><br />P.S. My bias against Rachelle MIGHT be mostly the film stylists' fault. She was dressed as if she was on crack and wandered off from a film about Woodstock festival, not to mention her roots were very prominently showing. Vampires' roots don't fucking show, my grandma's dog knows that. I'm talking to you too, "blonde" "prettiest vampire ever" girl in the film. Forgot her name, she plays Rosalie. OK I looked it up- Nikki Reed. That shit ain't right. She dressed horribly too. Whoever styled this movie should be shot, is alls I'm saying.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5K4r905sBjV746w9ccmJ5lKr-AVJ6k0W0rzT1lNhbxMCrfvy8jC9o8Yk9nnyI5mJoxff2DaU6pI3OLEnj7L6rDn4p2s1J9nRQ83cGcoK80t-_wxh5X8rITioDPZ0Vu1HGjnr2hGNU2A/s1600-h/twilightpubf.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk5K4r905sBjV746w9ccmJ5lKr-AVJ6k0W0rzT1lNhbxMCrfvy8jC9o8Yk9nnyI5mJoxff2DaU6pI3OLEnj7L6rDn4p2s1J9nRQ83cGcoK80t-_wxh5X8rITioDPZ0Vu1HGjnr2hGNU2A/s400/twilightpubf.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364143817303112002" border="0" /></a>-------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">2.</span> <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37708713.html?">Seth Rogen VS. Entourage</a>. They're having a petty feud and you can click the link because it's too dumb to recount here.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy91Qye0MgaBZG9uw3zCSrhorR-h7T8Ig1aXeyPaIRWbo2n_ZMrAj6efpPQ0EbgzAJjz7w6ZGKaGDvKf1CcNov8KG7MpCMkfNyJXM4wr8AmuHhdoFlwHvux1Rs5Ttq-WkmHP6S4-Q952E/s1600-h/6a00d83451600969e201156f5e0af7970b-800wi.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 243px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy91Qye0MgaBZG9uw3zCSrhorR-h7T8Ig1aXeyPaIRWbo2n_ZMrAj6efpPQ0EbgzAJjz7w6ZGKaGDvKf1CcNov8KG7MpCMkfNyJXM4wr8AmuHhdoFlwHvux1Rs5Ttq-WkmHP6S4-Q952E/s400/6a00d83451600969e201156f5e0af7970b-800wi.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364143426434560306" border="0" /></a>Keep in mind- I'm biased because I have some, er, familial ties to the latter. But STILL, no one is calling out Seth for being the one who actually initiated the feud and made a big deal out of it. The right thing to do would be to wave the mention off and be the bigger man. But he had to bitch about it on E! Top Ten (seriously?). Basically he sounds like a crybaby and should shut up. But most of ONTD is siding up with him. Disappointing. I like him too, but he should just accept jokes about him the way he jokes about others. The jokes weren't even that offensive. And they give him and Knocked Up some attention again. Even Judd Apatow <a href="http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118006637.html?categoryId=13&cs=1">got it</a>.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXNtU5KFk8Fxv3aIjr5CaWadQf8gXLP-Ta1zuwrZTPSQNBEuLeMTuOwVzCwPE9TVDskIbV63YnbZWYgpmibruUka2SFzguOp8Z1ABCE_L23nMEgzdJQgvsKGCrlWlVhV-Z1ceiaOrTAAU/s1600-h/the-entourage-walking.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 296px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXNtU5KFk8Fxv3aIjr5CaWadQf8gXLP-Ta1zuwrZTPSQNBEuLeMTuOwVzCwPE9TVDskIbV63YnbZWYgpmibruUka2SFzguOp8Z1ABCE_L23nMEgzdJQgvsKGCrlWlVhV-Z1ceiaOrTAAU/s400/the-entourage-walking.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364143820506961490" border="0" /></a>--------------------------<br /><br /><span style="font-size:180%;">3. </span><a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/37681668.html?">It's On With Alexa Chung</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CQXdN4ADOEWmy7oqig1WjHN-yq0JgH0V6Z54kiuRVYxPA_ItZQqSj7mQKE6yTxKZ21zexCC35u1elgXjZg4s-3a1NnSPp321m5EVs50FDzTbpi6NAZxqj8Ms7QatGSwV9Dckvmy-Jd8/s1600-h/alexa_chung_3.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 231px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9CQXdN4ADOEWmy7oqig1WjHN-yq0JgH0V6Z54kiuRVYxPA_ItZQqSj7mQKE6yTxKZ21zexCC35u1elgXjZg4s-3a1NnSPp321m5EVs50FDzTbpi6NAZxqj8Ms7QatGSwV9Dckvmy-Jd8/s400/alexa_chung_3.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5364143808968262786" border="0" /></a><br />This is a very sore point because they have constantly been bashing the girl, and she doesn't deserve it. They constantly say that her show is horrible and awkward and boring and blahblahblah whenever she comes up. You know what, ONTD, when it comes to this you are all jealous bitches so STFUD yourselves please. Eesh. <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/06/its-on-with-alexa-chung-its-on-mtv-and.html">She is brills on the show</a>. Finally MTV does something <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2009/06/alexa-chung-update.html">right</a> and you overwhelmingly deride it? Not cool. At all. And she is still doing a greeeat motherfucking job. More about that later.<br /><br />So step it up, ONTD. Your opinions are falling to the lame as shits side. Don't do this to me!! You're supposed to be the One True Voice.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-42900155062975420832009-06-24T18:35:00.000-07:002009-06-24T19:06:38.249-07:00Alexa Chung UpdateI've recorded and watched every "It's On with Alexa Chung" episode so far. It's good, okay!<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHtY2aaSQbaJ2DDO749aMo984c9wfmwKUbNi3m6zLk2Y4lEbZOKhOYcxdgj_4rxHX2ANmSQHluLrLwSkVU40mW_s5IBNOCbZ5QJhTN136jXFTEedqoYxpzENyHh0me2pHkIm0Lb9jtpQ/s1600-h/alexa_3.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 252px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhHtY2aaSQbaJ2DDO749aMo984c9wfmwKUbNi3m6zLk2Y4lEbZOKhOYcxdgj_4rxHX2ANmSQHluLrLwSkVU40mW_s5IBNOCbZ5QJhTN136jXFTEedqoYxpzENyHh0me2pHkIm0Lb9jtpQ/s400/alexa_3.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5351080544031405394" /></a><br /><br />I just wanted to send props to the talented cutie ptutie Conor Knighton of Infomania, who I already gushed about here <a href="http://thesponge-dani.blogspot.com/2008/06/i-love-you-infomania.html">5 million years ago</a>. MTV, do you know how impressed I was with you after I got over the shock of seeing him on the show? Good job! You deserve a pat on he back for that decision.<br /><br />He was great, especially for his first time. And you could tell Alexa liked him because she gave him a high-five in the end. Hey, MTV, keep your good streak going and bring him on the show again. I would also be pretty awesome if you brought Sarah Haskins, also of Infomania and Current TV fame, who does the revered <a href="http://current.com/target-women/">"Target Women"</a> clips. <br /><br />Hmm other suggestions for future celeb-gossip-guests (I love how they keep rotating):<br /><br />-Perez Hilton. That would be hilarious. Seriously, get on that.<br />-Trent of <a href="http://www.pinkisthenewblog.com/">Pink is the New Blog</a><br />-Michael K of the hilariously snarky blog <a href="http://www.dlisted.com/">Dlisted</a> <br />-Kathy Griffin. yeahhh girl.<br />-Rosie O'Donnell. HA. <br />-Tom Green. OMG can you imagine.<br />-Rich from the <a href="http://fourfour.typepad.com/">fourfour</a> blog. Please! Also his famous cat Winston would get major bonus points.<br />-Tracie, the girl that does the <a href="http://jezebel.com/tag/pot-psychology/">"Pot Psychology"</a> videos with Rich on Jezebel<br />-the ~famous mods over at <a href="http://community.livejournal.com/ohnotheydidnt/">ONTD</a> - <a href="http://mattchew03.livejournal.com/profile">mattchew03</a>, <a href="http://ecctv.livejournal.com/profile">ecctv</a>, and <a href="http://brenden.livejournal.com/profile">brenden</a><br />-Martha Stewart. or Ina Garten! omg how great would that be if it was both of them.<br />-John Mayer. He's funny, mmkay.<br />-Joel McHale of The Soup!<br />-some of those people from the now cancelled Best Week Ever THE SHOW. Not the blog and that horrible BWE blog woman (ok gosh she's not horrible I know I know BUT SHE IS) Michelle something or other. Not her. I'm talking that guy that was always high... people like that. BTW Michelle or whatever was a mega bitch the second time she was on "It's On." WTF girl, chill and go away.<br />-Adam Lambert. Yeaaahh.<br />-Simon Amstell or Alex Zane! bring some British imports por favor. <br />-Kanye West! Hhahaha.<br />-Lady Gaga. yes please. <br /><br />Ok that's enough. MTV show poducers pay attention, I have provided you with solid gold right there.<br /><br />Also, the more the merrier on the same show. Today three members of some sketch comedy group talked with Alexa about the gossips and it was a lot funner with less awkward silences than usual.<br /><br />And Alexa, you are marvelous darling. The girl is a natural. Keep doing your thang.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-30441884732692117582009-06-15T16:38:00.000-07:002009-06-16T06:56:00.622-07:00"It's On" with Alexa Chung: an Overly Thorough Review of the Premiere<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-ctrNlhJOKMKSXmpp4oBM44RA4LKPnAhNsoB8FPQl1x7HL4uewT6VePGQqBMNpuJqHt5ocYmIUOiiI_hhvBtXqEKkfztTuG_yS_tObDHphUZ5kknxrN_AFAPvVhnGbG34CQ1CnDkQJs/s1600-h/sg7_2988.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 276px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjU-ctrNlhJOKMKSXmpp4oBM44RA4LKPnAhNsoB8FPQl1x7HL4uewT6VePGQqBMNpuJqHt5ocYmIUOiiI_hhvBtXqEKkfztTuG_yS_tObDHphUZ5kknxrN_AFAPvVhnGbG34CQ1CnDkQJs/s400/sg7_2988.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347703820832266770" /></a><br /><br />I tuned into the very first episode of "It's on" with Alexa Chung on MTV today- all proper timing and everything. I don't really know why. Possibly because I have known about this girl for a while now (you're so damn slow USA!)- even before she started dating Alex Turner from Arctic Monkeys (lucky girl). I knew about her from a discontinued music interview show in the UK called Popworld, which she hosted with equally awesome Alex Zane. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzaJoIUV57E">Here is a sample interview</a> that proves she's got it going on- she asks Panic at the Disco questions and they act like idiots. So she treats them like an evil bitch, obv, and I love her for it. <br /><br />It's funny- I know I would hate this girl in person, but on TV she's just very entertaining and doesn't take shit from anybody. Breath of fresh air for MTV- if they don't beat it out of her, that is. I'm not going to hold my breath.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xy3CMCzBdUt5g9hpDGiEoz_qnkgwhM8TffhZadnwBR542wNLC1rgzUMPT5rPUvFjRTFXDLhs_iKOhWH9SZ5AhDz4Ck3WKQ_UEY4oWkpGzr-8ecHOvugIjR9qnwinyyjvPCUewSJusoc/s1600-h/00028fc6.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 266px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6xy3CMCzBdUt5g9hpDGiEoz_qnkgwhM8TffhZadnwBR542wNLC1rgzUMPT5rPUvFjRTFXDLhs_iKOhWH9SZ5AhDz4Ck3WKQ_UEY4oWkpGzr-8ecHOvugIjR9qnwinyyjvPCUewSJusoc/s400/00028fc6.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347769487175910226" /></a>............Michael Cera gave Alexa a <span style="font-weight:bold;">snuggie</span> as a gift teehee............<br /><br />The show itself was mixed. It's the first episode, so I can't judge too harshly, but most of the downers were MTV's fault and the high points were Alexa's.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OA4dOdeYQjGns-t4QZB6PL952ByD0JGh06o9RSW5uobsuSo6g3t5_avZSil1rTM0uxgOkTkSfb06gkCMy-GzGu_7ZA3BSpfbJ88lL4BAqJMv-xmEg-4C9GW4YjqRAEULG4oWHvCbAVU/s1600-h/sg7_2941.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 258px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-OA4dOdeYQjGns-t4QZB6PL952ByD0JGh06o9RSW5uobsuSo6g3t5_avZSil1rTM0uxgOkTkSfb06gkCMy-GzGu_7ZA3BSpfbJ88lL4BAqJMv-xmEg-4C9GW4YjqRAEULG4oWHvCbAVU/s400/sg7_2941.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347750104504090722" /></a><br /><br />Lame:<br /><br />- <a href="http://pics.livejournal.com/viverex/pic/0002bp37">That woman wearing the horrendous striped top</a>, talking about celebrity gossip with Alexa at the beginning of the show. I couldn't catch her name and I haven't found it anywhere, not even on the official website for the show. [EDIT: I found her! <a href="http://www.google.com/search?q=%22michelle+collins%22&sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS285IL287">Michelle Collins</a>]. Maybe the producers are trying to hide her as a quick fix? 'Twould be nice, because she was TERRIBLE. Okay, okay- not <span style="font-style:italic;">that</span> bad, but she just didn't fit with Alexa at all. She did this cheesy commentary that would go fine with Entertainment Tonight but looks like crap in contrast with Alexa's straightforward, no-BS snarkiness. And you could tell Alexa wasn't having any of it either- she kept looking disgusted after each awkward comment she peeped out. See what I'm saying- Alexa can be mean in a way that is very satisfying- especially in this case- on TV, but would be a huge turn off in person. Think Blair Waldorf. Anyway, this idiot of a woman- oh, fine, she seemed sweet, whatever- but she's <span style="font-style:italic;">so</span> wrong for the show. She brought everything down. This calls for a catty gay guy or something to take that dullard's place and match Alexa's wit. MTV producers- I know you're surfing blogs for reactions right now, so listen to me- FIRE THAT WOMAN and hire someone better. You can switch her to host some crap reality show, whatever. Just take her out.<br /><br />-the Internet pimping. Goodness gracious, MTV. I swear sometimes I think these old exec dudes are like "if we mention twitter the kids will cream themselves!!" No they fucking won't idiots, it doesn't work that way. You don't just integrate a bunch of useless mentions of Facebook statuses and feature illiterate tweens twittering and call it a show. Granted, the "internet integration" wasn't as bad as I expected after initially reading the press about the show. But it was still bad. We're watching TV for a reason, MTV. So no more twitter commentary (don't you want people to post the interviews online and have them 'go viral'? You don't want that ugly rectangle covering half the screen). <br /><br />-Too fast-paced, too much crap going on. Actually at first with the celeb gossip part, it was really slow because that other woman was talking nonsense and it looked like Alexa was utterly bored by her. But then the show went into overdrive and it jumped from pictures of cats on heads to relationship advice to beat-boxing, and surprises left and right. Too much. <br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69pSY0ucuxQ_tk0BPYg9FyfHIwRfaoIh0KaUGgfw76ouoqnqbRSP1OKPqsm-J8Ux7aMmkV8t0AZZVmaBMNAretptO-2cBCKfhCLGAL-xvtzPWPgF92YVYCE0HpY75gYGtA7F_TW2roc4/s1600-h/Alex-and-Alexa-alexa-chung-2704519-500-417.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 334px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69pSY0ucuxQ_tk0BPYg9FyfHIwRfaoIh0KaUGgfw76ouoqnqbRSP1OKPqsm-J8Ux7aMmkV8t0AZZVmaBMNAretptO-2cBCKfhCLGAL-xvtzPWPgF92YVYCE0HpY75gYGtA7F_TW2roc4/s400/Alex-and-Alexa-alexa-chung-2704519-500-417.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347756026013210930" /></a><br /><br />Good:<br /><br />-The set was nice. It reminded me of Good Morning America or the View or something, but in a good way. I'm just glad it's nothing like TRL. It's new for MTV. Fresh. <br /><br />-Alexa. I'm impressed with MTV for hiring her. First Russell Brand, now her- not bad. Now they just need to bring Alex Zane and Simon Amstell over- maybe even Zane Lowe, and Jonathan Ross- and I'll be happy. Anyway, back to Alexa- I can't wrap my head around HOW she is so confident and seemed completely unfazed about hosting this show in the US for the first time. Yes she has done this in the UK for 3 years, but it seems like since this is her first US and MTV show, she should be stuttering and blushing and instead she was owning it as if she has been in that same studio for five years already. <br /><br />-She is not going to be MTV's puppet. She knows what she wants the show to be and she will not be afraid to wrangle it out of her guests if she has to. I just hope, again, that MTV won't crack down on her too much (they inevitably will to some degree. Bastards).<br /><br />-that idea to have Jack Black and Michael Cera narrate over the trailer was <span style="font-style:italic;">hilarious</span> , but it didn't really work out because the stupid fucking producers decided to show them staring at the screen and talking instead of making the video full-screen and letting the viewers enjoy the narration! Otherwise what is the point? That part pissed me off. It was such a good idea, too, and I feel like now the producers or whoever will probably think it failed and throw it out. Tragic. Oh and Jack Black was right, they should have the actors narrate over a scene instead of a trailer, which is too fast-paced. Michael Cera was hilarious in this part by the way hahahah. He just kept saying "heey" and finally he admitted "I'm bad at this." I love Michael Cera.<br /><br />Here are exclusive videos that will probably be taken down, The first is of Alexa interviewing lovely ol' Souljah Boy. You can witness the annoying twitter updates here too. Distracting!<br /><a href="http://www.rapradar.com/focus/soulja-boy-tell-em-checks-in-with-qits-onq.html"><br />http://www.rapradar.com/focus/soulja-boy-tell-em-checks-in-with-qits-onq.html </a><br /><br />And go to this link to see a video of a young female beat-boxing champion (Julia Dales) being surprised by one of her heroes, Rahzel:<br /><br /><a href="http://nahright.com/news/2009/06/15/video-rahzel-vs-julia-dales/">http://nahright.com/news/2009/06/15/video-rahzel-vs-julia-dales/</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWVNQH7FvuVQDTYRzslHgdXLpEXBwlajDc8A99fyD4QMInv9quSd1VZlvV4a3BcsqjqLle0mkEmiOL8GtRc7ecolfqQzDytGo6L9Pa_UMIydfEBTb_HpRqwQbF9iqCWpDkojpVgdA02E/s1600-h/3620173408_04ef96aecc_o.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 277px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpWVNQH7FvuVQDTYRzslHgdXLpEXBwlajDc8A99fyD4QMInv9quSd1VZlvV4a3BcsqjqLle0mkEmiOL8GtRc7ecolfqQzDytGo6L9Pa_UMIydfEBTb_HpRqwQbF9iqCWpDkojpVgdA02E/s400/3620173408_04ef96aecc_o.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347756150306768210" /></a><br /><br />And an official MTV video, of Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt making a surprise visit:<br /><br /><embed src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:401313" width="512" height="319" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" flashVars="configParams=type%3Dnetwork%26id%3D1614005%26vid%3D401313%26uri%3Dmgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A401313%26startUri=mgid%3Auma%3Avideo%3Amtv.com%3A401313" allowFullScreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" base="."></embed><div style="margin:0;text-align:center;width:500px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/dyn/alexa_chung/series.jhtml" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">It's On with Alexa Chung</a> - <a href="http://www.mtv.com/ontv/" style="color:#439CD8;" target="_blank">MTV Shows</a></div><br /><br />By the way, not that anyone cares but this IS my blog after all muaha- I'm not that into Alexa's style. It's okay but it's not worthy of all the 'fashion icon!!111!" praise it gets. She wears nice things, but for some reason it doesn't seem natural. Almost as if she doesn't choose the clothes herself, although I know she probably does. I think what it is is that nothing she wears is very original. Also her current hair is a cop out of this era MIA, just sayin':<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd8opZTExAo83klB3UqwzQVhQcKyol8teDvmgu53zzS8WmSqdFqADpYCohchbqxGzy_k-9jPoVM27GbRnf6Zu1_GY145lRTjixTXZKQ46hxWn-6DuEVxLoDcn_-dN7wiE3xPxQFK4ZiQ/s1600-h/mia-04-big.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 311px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUd8opZTExAo83klB3UqwzQVhQcKyol8teDvmgu53zzS8WmSqdFqADpYCohchbqxGzy_k-9jPoVM27GbRnf6Zu1_GY145lRTjixTXZKQ46hxWn-6DuEVxLoDcn_-dN7wiE3xPxQFK4ZiQ/s400/mia-04-big.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5347758320436259634" /></a><br /><br />If you do want to know what label and brand and blah blah Alexa's clothes are, MTV's <a href="http://buzzworthy.mtv.com/2009/06/15/what-did-alexa-chung-wear-today-monday-june-15/">Buzzworthy Blog</a> will be updating readers on what Alexa is wearing daily, so keep your eye on that.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-59933451474466093992009-06-09T08:24:00.001-07:002009-06-09T08:28:03.173-07:00New Epic Video from the KillersA Dustland Fairytale. Gorgeous beautiful gorgeous beautiful gorgeous beautiful. Enjoy (before it gets taken down):<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/dWyoCHypDak&hl=en&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/dWyoCHypDak&hl=en&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />The director is Anthony Mandler, who also did the When You Were Young video. I salute you sir.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-46700901808510797662009-05-25T21:01:00.000-07:002009-05-25T21:27:48.812-07:00Childhood is "In," Didn't You Know?I was looking through the Cobrasnake Coachella 2009 <a href="http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/pearljam/index.html">pictures</a>, because I still do check that site out sometimes, plus I wanted to see some <a href="http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos/pearljam/IMG_9172.html">sweet Bflow goodness</a>... and I stumbled across this:<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsBPaxD1AruGQ9DxQgYcGimOMoUUFMvsz1QBY2WQCn0FBQNCVcNeqbbwO7ZA158df_ZWu2IqusiYSQNvTr4q4ohC7k0iipN3Ar4Hk7KtS1mtpXybN2CyT8cZDafSgYwmlZNwEmJDWgkU/s1600-h/IMG_9021.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 267px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWsBPaxD1AruGQ9DxQgYcGimOMoUUFMvsz1QBY2WQCn0FBQNCVcNeqbbwO7ZA158df_ZWu2IqusiYSQNvTr4q4ohC7k0iipN3Ar4Hk7KtS1mtpXybN2CyT8cZDafSgYwmlZNwEmJDWgkU/s400/IMG_9021.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5339980636395201650" /></a><br /><br />No this is not just random photo of young aspiring hipsters. The girl on the left is <span style="font-style:italic;">wearing my childhood sheets</span>. It bugged me out for a second to see someone wearing my beloved Minnie Mouse bedsheets, until I realized oh durr <span style="font-style:italic;">she cut them up and sewed them into a dress</span>. Now I know I usually like to poke fun at or, rather, bash endlessly (possibly jealously?) everything that has to do with hipsters, but even I have to admit that I was impressed by this creativity. So all I have to say is, you go girl. That is fucking awesome right there. And where can I get a sewing machine and lessons to make me an exact carbon copy of that dress? Fuck originality, I want that fucking dress and I still have the sheets stowed away in the back of some closet at home. <br /><br />Speaking of <a href="http://www.thecobrasnake.com/partyphotos.html">the Cobrasnake</a>, He posted this music video he filmed on his website:<br /><br /><object width="560" height="340"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/lAzojbN9_yk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/lAzojbN9_yk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="560" height="340"></embed></object><br /><br />Again, I know I'm being too easy on the guy (is my college turning me into a hipster enabler?? oh shiiiit. Too many hipsters, too little resolve). Nah, but I really thought it was sweet. I know there must be some kind of illegal activity going on with a 25-or-whatever-the-fuck-Mark-Hunter's-age-is-year-old-dude (with a creepo mustache no less) filming a scantily clad, seemingly under age "nymphet" (ew I feel creepy and Humbert Humbert-y using that word. i hope I don't get hits from child molesters now. But then again a hit is a hit and I'm in dire need for more traffic ever since I've abandoned my poor blog.... kidding! I will not stoop that low, promiseeee. uhum). that was a long parenthetical aside. Where was I. Oh yes, well the video is actually nice with the beach and the sun. Maybe if it wasn't so damn creepy, it would be even better. But honestly I've never hated Mark Hunter as much as others seem to, so I tend to keep my mind open when it comes to him. The trendy techno-y song is not so bad either. Apparently it's called "I'll get You" Classixx feat. Jeppe/ Kitsuné. <br /><br />This is what it says by the video:<br /><br /><blockquote>Exclusive video directed by Mark "The Cobrasnake" Hunter<br />When the most famous photoblog in the world meets the nicest music label on Earth, you get a wonderful association presenting the finest of the new American scene.<br /><br />Please, welcome Kitsuné x The Cobrasnake !<br /><br />Out on digital Worldwide 06-01-2009! </blockquote><br /><br />Aah it feels good to be back and blogging. I'll try to keep up now that summer has begun. I'm in NYC for the next to weeks (be jellis, it's ok) so I should have some things to report back on. Laters.Danihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01549686928330856425noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7025886253588432311.post-76939194936619767452009-05-12T20:24:00.000-07:002009-05-23T09:22:35.463-07:00What's in Your Closet?I wrote an article for my college's fashion magazine, <a href="http://contrastvassar.blogspot.com/">Contrast</a>, called "What's in Your Closet?" However I could only publish five questions from each interview and one picture from each, so I decided to post the rest on the Contrast blog. 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