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I am rather skeptical when it comes to those supercardioid microphones... especially with Lana's voice. The effect isn't that prominent on this particular recording, but I think many tracks on Paradise have this rather sharp quality to their vocal tracks. I can't say which microphone they used, but it certainly was supercardioid+, one which leaves a lot of vocal sounds unrecorded. Maybe that's just my personal feeling, but I think her voice is lacking dynamics on Paradise. So, in my opinion she should stay away from supercardioid microphones. It doesn't do her voice any favors.

Sorry, but that made me laugh.

The beginning of the video slightly irritated me at first. I didn't really recognize the microphone as such and thought she would be taking a sip from her beer.

Good question, I don't even know... I'm not at home right now. It's The Complete Kafka Diaries, Disturbing the Piece by Richard Yates, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, an E. E. Cummings anthology, Anger by Salman Rushdie, The Blue Fox by Sjón, Andorra by Max Frisch, Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin and If This Is a Man by Primo Levi.

Last time I counted it was nine books.

I am so excited for the show...

Thanks, C.

I just saw you changed the thread title... I didn't intend to make this about me. But thanks everybody....

What a wonderful cover version. Be right back screaming in the cellar.

Thanks, Cleo. Will you and Caesar come over to party later?

Thanks, guys...

I don't think that anyone on here would really like to wish him a happy birthday after the nasty things he said about Lana. But hey, at least we share the same day as our birthdate.

Admittedly, I haven't heard a song by them, but I am not really excited to see them as Lana's opening act. I generally don't like opening acts... I go to a concert to see the artist and being front row and looking directly into the opening act's eyes while being totally annoyed is rather awkward.

I absolutely love her! Although her album mainly consists of covers, she did a wonderful job rearranging the songs... and she's only 16! I am thrilled to see what she's going to do in the future.

What about making a forum trip to the new server location? Perfect place for a meet up.

That's something I forgot to mention in my first post in here: the reason why I donated some money to this forum is because I really believe in it. LanaBoards is such a wonderful forum and I got to know so many wonderful people. By now, the forum experience has less to do with Lana herself, but much more with all the people around here.

I have been on many forums throughout the years, and there was one in particular which had gotten so ugly that I couldn't but leave it. I think I know the differences between music forums, but I hadn't seen something like LanaBoards before. In fact, I was so happy and overwhelmed with it all that I created this thread shortly after I joined. I have to admit, though, that in the beginning I was pretty intimidated by the prominent posters, especially in tinychat (still blushing), because they seemed so awesome and larger-than-life great if that makes sense. They are, but after spending more time on here I think that applies to everybody else, too. LanaBoards is a wonderful mixture of people and thoughts, and this is one out of two forums in which I have observed such a strong sense of community. That doesn't mean that there are posts that I don't agree with, but no matter how heated up those discussions have gotten sometimes, and how much I disagreed, I think those conversations were still performed on a level of respect and mutual acceptation. As for the thread's actual question: LanaBoards has been down maybe once or twice for me. I think sometimes the site froze while I was writing an extremely long post (I had a slight aneurism when that occured) but other than that the site loads pretty fast. I don't know where the difference is between fast and very fast, but I think it's just fast. ( )

When I saw the thread title couple of days ago, I thought this thread would be about an actual problem somebody had...

The very last picture...

Why is everybody making fun of Emili Sandé? I'm not a fan of hers, but find it pretty mean how she's made fun of, though.

She looks so pretty! Congrats to her, she really deserved winning the categories she was nominated in.

I see, you know that game so much better than I do.

No, Vertigo Berlin is owned by Universal Music. So are Interscope and Polydor. Vertigo Berlin, just like Interscope and Polydor, are affiliated companies for local distribution of the music in various territories. All decisions are made by Universal Music nevertheless.

Actually, I don't think I got any further than creating families and building houses. For me it was always the following: buy the smallest property available, motherload, here. we. go. I might have played with one or two families once in a while, but I always ended up killing them. You know, the classic: put them in the pool, take the ladder away, ignore the warning and let them die... Sometimes my families got killed by accident when the kitchen caught fire or something.