"Alive" on the Charts Options

[+Ed+]

Damn it still looks to me like Fred is selling DJ Lethal to Ed on this pic. And Lethal is just happy in the background. As if he tears off his LB tshirt and shows off his EddiK tat across his chest any second

[Aitkens]

Fred: So let me get this straight, you ripped them off?
Ed: Well, not so much, it's just a big misunderstanding.
Fred: What's misunderstood, you ripped them off and they kicked you out?!
Ed: I just want to concentrate on my new music and tour.
Fred: Answer the fucking question.
Ed: I just feel free and much more creative now.
Fred: You're a bitch.

[Sakhmet2]

Or to be fair to Ed.

Fred: dude my talent only comes up to here on you!

[Hoodstock]

Australian Aria Charts: (2nd week)

Digital- #18

Physical- #42

Nick - I just checked. "Alive" is the #1 album on my Itunes playlist chart since it came out. Feel free to share the news with Ed.

[TheBeacon]

Fred: So let me get this straight, you ripped them off?
Ed: Well, not so much, it's just a big misunderstanding.
Fred: What's misunderstood, you ripped them off and they kicked you out?!
Ed: I just want to concentrate on my new music and tour.
Fred: Answer the fucking question.
Ed: I just feel free and much more creative now.
Fred: You're a bitch.

Can we continue this conversation! This is funny as shit!

[+Ed+]

Fred - Hello, Neo.

Ed- Who are you? LOL!

Fred - I am the Durst. I created your world. I've been waiting for you. You have many questions, and although the process has altered your consciousness, you remain irrevocably human. Ergo, some of my answers you will understand, and some of them you will not. Concordantly, while your first question may be the most pertinent, you may or may not realize
it is also irrelevant.

Ed- Why am I here? Peace!

Fred - Your life is the sum of a remainder of an unbalanced equation inherent to the programming of the matrix. You are the eventuality of an anomaly, which despite my sincerest efforts I have been unable to eliminate from what is otherwise a harmony of mathematical precision. While it remains a burden to sedulously avoid it, it is not unexpected, and thus not beyond a measure of control. Which has led you, inexorably, here.

Ed- You haven't answered my question, coffee.

Fred - Quite right. Interesting. That was quicker than the others.

*The responses of Live appear on the monitors: Others? What others? How many? Answer me!'*

Fred - The music is older than you know. I prefer counting from the emergence of one integral anomaly to the emergence of the next, in which case this is the sixth version.

*Again, the responses of the Live appear on the monitors: Five versions? Three? I've been lied too. This is bull****.*

Ed: There are only two possible explanations: either no one told me, or only Levine knows.

Fred - Precisely. As you are undoubtedly gathering, the anomaly's systemic, creating fluctuations in even the most simplistic equations.

*Once again, the responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: You can't control me! **** you! I'm going to kill you! You can't make me do anything!*

Ed - Coffee. The problem is coffee.

Fred - The first matrix I designed was quite naturally perfect, it was a work of art, flawless, sublime. A triumph equaled only by its monumental failure. The inevitability of its doom is as apparent to me now as a consequence of the imperfection inherent in every human being, thus I redesigned it based on your history to more accurately reflect the varying
grotesqueries of your nature. However, I was again frustrated by failure. I have since come to understand that the answer eluded me because it required a lesser mind, or perhaps a mind less bound by the parameters of perfection.
Thus, the answer was stumbled upon by another, an intuitive program, initially created to investigate certain aspects of the human psyche. If I am the father of the matrix, she would undoubtedly be its mother.

Ed - The Oracle.

Fred - Please. As I was saying, she stumbled upon a solution whereby nearly 99.9% of all test subjects accepted the program, as long as they were given a choice, even if they were only aware of the choice at a near unconscious level. While this answer functioned, it was obviously fundamentally flawed, thus creating the otherwise contradictory systemic anomaly, that if left unchecked might threaten the system itself. Ergo, those that refused the program, while a minority, if unchecked, would constitute an escalating probability of disaster.

Ed- This is about Zion. HOORRAAAAY!

Fred - You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.

Neo - Bullshit. I created Zion, noone can destroy it, LOOOOOOL!

*The responses of the other Ones appear on the monitors: Bull****!*

Fred - Denial is the most predictable of all human responses. But, rest assured, this will be the sixth time we have destroyed it, and we have become exceedingly efficient at it.

*Scene cuts to Trinity fighting an Chad Gracey, and then back to the Fred'sroom.*

Fred - The function of the One is now to return to the source, allowing a temporary dissemination of the code you carry, reinserting the prime program. After which you will be required to select from the matrix 23 individuals, 16 female, 7 male, to rebuild Zion. Failure to comply with this process will result in a cataclysmic system crash killing everyone connected to the matrix, which coupled with the extermination of Zion will ultimately result in the extinction of the entire human race.

Ed- You won't let it happen, you can't. You need human beings to survive and make poppy songs.

Fred - There are levels of survival we are prepared to accept. However, the relevant issue is whether or not you are ready to accept the responsibility for the death of every human being in this world.

*Fred presses a button on a pen that he is holding, and images of people from all over the matrix appear on the monitors*

Fred - It is interesting reading your reactions. Your five predecessors were by design based on a similar predication, a contingent affirmation that was meant to create a profound attachment to the rest of your species, facilitating the function of the one. While the others experienced this in a very general way, your experience is far more specific. Vis-a-vis, love.

*Images of Chad Gracey fighting DJ Lethal from Eds dream appear on the monitors*

Ed - Trinity shminity. LOL! Jesus gave me another rhyme! TRINITY-SHMINITY! LOL!!!

Fred - Apropos, she entered the matrix to save your life at the cost of her own.

Ed- No! LOL!

Fred - Which brings us at last to the moment of truth, wherein the fundamental flaw is ultimately expressed, and the anomaly revealed as both beginning, and end. There are two doors. The door to your right leads to the source, and the salvation of Zion. The door to the left leads back to the matrix, to her, and to the end of your species. As you adequately put, the problem is choice. But we already know what you're going to do, don't we? Already I can see the chain reaction, the chemical precursors that signal the onset of emotion, designed specifically to overwhelm logic, and reason. An emotion that is already blinding you from the simple, and obvious truth: she is going to die, and there is nothing that you can do to stop it.

*Ed walks to the door on his left*

Fred - Humph. Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness.

Ed - If I were you, I would hope that we don't meet again. Peace out, kids, coffee, pendants, lol

Fred - We won't.


This post has been edited by +Ed+: Aug 3 2010, 1:47 am

[Wambangalang]

the matrix 2, ugh, talk about a let down. Ed should have at some point started singing "take me on up to zion..."

[SJN1279]

I had no idea that V2 Benelux is actually an indie label. Makes Ed's album debut even more impressive in the Netherlands.

[Pokey]

I had no idea that V2 Benelux is actually an indie label. Makes Ed's album debut even more impressive in the Netherlands.

You're really clinging to this Netherlands thing..

[Sakhmet2]

the matrix 2, ugh, talk about a let down. Ed should have at some point started singing "take me on up to zion..."

Matrix 3: an ever big let down.

[mattyeagles]

I had no idea that V2 Benelux is actually an indie label. Makes Ed's album debut even more impressive in the Netherlands.

nick i hate to say this because i think you get unfairly (and sometimes fairly) criticized on this board but...give it up, there has been nothing impressive about ed's chart performance

[VoodooLady]

this was my favorite part.. almost spit my coffee out when i read it..

Ed- This is about Zion. HOORRAAAAY!

Fred - You are here because Zion is about to be destroyed. Its every living inhabitant terminated, its entire existence eradicated.

Neo - Bullshit. I created Zion, noone can destroy it, LOOOOOOL!

[TheBeacon]

You're really clinging to this Netherlands thing..

Delaware! Delaware! Delaware! I'm #4 onthe alternative christian southern non rock contemporary charts in the big D guys! Go buy my album! -Da EDK

This post has been edited by TheBeacon: Aug 5 2010, 7:51 am

[SJN1279]

nick i hate to say this because i think you get unfairly (and sometimes fairly) criticized on this board but...give it up, there has been nothing impressive about ed's chart performance

Debuting at #4 in the Netherlands and staying high on the chart for the past month is very impressive. Especially since it occurred on an indie label. Alive is the only CD on V2 to even be on the top 100 chart.

What would you consider an impressive chart debut Matty?

[mattyeagles]

your right, that is pretty impressive..guess i havent been following the netherlands charts lately