As promised, here are the personal thank you notes from the band in the ABL Deluxe Edition. For comparison sake, I followed each one by the version from ABL.

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Well, I finished another book. Mary Renault's "Fire From Heaven". Basically it's a fictional account of the life of Alexander the Great from age five till the death of his father, King Philip, when Alexander was nineteen ( Read more... )

Ok, this is excerpts from an email conversation with celeste_506. Meant to save this for myself months ago. It's the day I realized what "Savior" means to me. Stuff in purple was added as I type this in.

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Go here for post 1 of 2.Ok, time for the main event. Most of the equipment was on the stage for the whole show. As each band got off, equipment would disappear. They set-up and tore down drumsets for each of the opening acts. They all had the drumsets setup in front of an Aiden banner. Emanuel must not have one, or not have replaced it yet. Shannon ( Read more... )

Well, I went hog wild and took off Monday 03/20 to Wednesday 03/22. Monday was mostly to rest up and get some errands done. Besides, who likes to go to work for one day.

Drove to Philly Tuesday morning. Stayed in the same hotel my family stayed at for my cousin's wedding, so it was familiar. Not a bad drive. Much much better than the trip to the ( Read more... )

How do you know when you're addicted to LJ? When you write up virtual posts on paper when you're away from the computer. The following is my virtual post from early early Saturday morning. Keep in mind I was working on very little sleep so it's very stream of consciousness. I wrote it after listening to the IGN Podcast with Jared. One of the best ( Read more... )

Starting my second year with this concept. This is gonna be one of those "watch this space" entries. I'm gonna try to keep track of all my reads this year ( Read more... )

I would like to thank Mum, Paul Hughes, Anthony Kiedis, Gram Ruby, Larry Slezak, Bobby Carlton, Travis Andreas, Jay T, Brian Virtue, Peter Katsis, and my other two f****** bad ass bandmates Matt and Tomo. And to my bro Jared, without his vision, perseverance, dedication, and support none of this would have been remotely possible.
-- Shannon Leto
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