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My post from a couple days ago seemed to get a lot of traffic out there on the web.  It seemed that pushing a tentative date back further (tentatively) got the LP fanbase all riled up.  But the 200+ comments and peripheral noise got me thinking: what does it all mean?  I decided to figure it out.  The most obvious way to create logic out of it?  Algebra has always seemed very logical to me…

A lot of you seemed to want us to take our time in the studio, stressing that quality (Q) is more important than release date (D).  Others disagreed, arguing that releasing sooner (D)  should be put above the other (Q).  Next, some argued that Linkin Park quality is multiplied by time (so time is “T”).  Others argued time doesn’t affect the quality (no “T”).  I guessed that the soonest this year we could get an album out would be March(3).  The latest this year would be December(12)…So I believe that makes the equation:

Q(T)/D(12) = D(3)/Q

On the left, quantity and time over the latest possible 2010 release (12th month); on the right the soonest possible release (3, meaning March) over quantity times the LP quality”X” factor.  What I really wanted to know was how much time you wanted us to take (T)

Balancing this equation out (and crossing the reoccurring variables)…you get T/12=3.  That means T=36.

So it looks like you guys figured it out for us.  What you’re telling us is that you want a new album out in December 2012.  That gives us a ton of time.  Thanks for the help, guys.

Man, can I just say that SCOOP DEVILLE of Get Busy Committee is on fire right now?  Check out his new track with Fat Joe and Young Jeezy.  The track is ridiculous.

Here’s a little playlist of Scoop tracks.  And if you haven’t gotten that GBC record yet, your life is incomplete.

Comment by Matthew (w/ many similar comments) – “theres a news article in mtv saying you guys pushed the release date back to the end of the year! i dont expect an album release for early 2011.. thats another four years. Thats a real bummer because you guys said you would try to release albums more faster”
Dear Matthew and others,
I appreciate your concern. I have two comments, to help give you some insight into our process. First, we don’t know when the album is coming out; we are recording constantly and doing everything we can to make a great record (ready for release in 2010). We have some new, special ideas for this release, and those ideas have delayed it slightly–but not into 2011.

Secondly, I said we’d “release music more often,” not “albums”…between the DBS record, “New Divide,” “Not Alone,” the tracks I’ve done with other artists (Metric, Lupe, Kenna, Cypress Hill, Apathy, etc.), the iPhone game and song, and any other unforeseen things that might happen before the album release, I think we’ve proven that statement to be very true.

If you’re ever in Little Tokyo, LA, please go to this restaurant and see if their claim is true.  I was not able to eat there, because it was closed…but I need to know if their chicken truly taste like Lexus.

I went onstage with The Roots last night at about 2:30am. Here’s the clip.

Image Courtesy of Rolling Stone

The Roots annual jam session at the Key Club in Los Angeles tonight.  Who’s going? http://www.rootsjamsession.com/

I started using iGoogle a few months ago, and I think it’s great.  It’s a customizable home page, where you can just get the updates you want to get when you open your computer, like CNN top news, Facebook, Twitter, or Youtube top videos.  You also customize the “look” of your page.  They’ve got Michael Kors, Radiohead, Paul Frank, Dave Matthews Band, Shepard Fairey, and many others…well, iGoogle has a new theme available that I thought some of you might like to use…the MIKE SHINODA GLORIOUS EXCESS theme.  Go here to see or use it:

http://www.google.com/ig/directory?type=themes&url=igoog.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/xml/artist_mshinoda.xml

Enjoy.

let’s see if technology is my friend tonight. I’m posting this from my phone…

-m

A quick “8 BIT REBELLION” update.  Our new game, available for the iPhone and iPod touch, will be out soon.  We’ve pushed the release back a few weeks because we’re testing the game.  In fact, I’m playing the game right now, making sure everything looks good.  So far, there are still some minor changes to make…and I’m taking notes.  We don’t want to release it until all we’ve addressed as many issues as we can!

Also, many of you have asked about the game being available for other platforms, since you don’t all have iPods (although Steve Jobs is hoping you will reconsider, ha).  We’re hoping to get it out for other mobile platforms after it debuts with Apple.  No word on that yet; it may take a while.  For now, it will only be available on iPod and iPod touch.

Lastly, let there be no confusion: the song we released for DOWNLOAD TO DONATE is not the same song as the one on the game.  The song on the game is ANOTHER brand new Linkin Park song.

For more info on 8 BIT REBELLION, go here:

http://linkinpark.com/profile/LinkinPark8BitRebellion

Thanks,