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    1. Michael Aranda

      I'm currently living in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. However, within the next couple weeks, I'll be moving (again) to the western United States. Where exactly is still a secret. ;)

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      If you, personally, think it's good, then you shouldn't worry about other people rejecting it.

      Whenever you put anything out in the world for others to critique, some people are going to like it, and some are not. Sometimes you end up with more polarized opinions, and sometimes you end up with a large majority of one opinion, but you will always have at least a small number of people who hate what you do. It's just how it works. If you want to be successful as an artist, you have to accept this and make the art more for yourself than for your critics.

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      Before 2010, he didn't live with Alex, so that means Charlie has lived with Alex for roughly 5% of his life. Hardly always.

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      The one I use most consistently is called "Lose It". It helps you track your calorie intake, daily exercise, and weight. During mid 2009, I weighed 190 pounds, and had become unhappy with how I looked and felt. I'm currently down to about 165 pounds, and I credit that mostly to my religious use of that iPhone app.

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      I'm sure it did. It wasn't anything deliberate, but it would be impossible to prevent music I enjoy from influencing the music I write. While we were writing Still Got Legs, I was listening to Linkin Park's "A Thousand Suns", Hybrid's "I Choose Noise", Venetian Snares's "Rossz csillag alatt született", and Nickel Creek's "Why Should This Fire Die?". I'm sure all of those things impacted the sound of Still Got Legs.

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      The problem that I've run into recently is that during the Chameleon Circuit recording process, I didn't have time to finish any of my own projects, so I kept writing ideas down on a make-this-video list. Now I've got so many things I want to be working on at once that they're all coming along rather slowly. That said, I'm pretty close to finishing one video in particular, and lemme tell you: it is really. Damn. Cool.

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      Your logic has given us two scenarios:

      1) Charlie isn't a virgin
      2) Charlie is a virgin, but is very uncomfortable with me saying on the Internet: "Don't ask me if Charlie is a virgin".

      What you haven't done is explained why these are the only two possible scenarios that exist, or why one would be more true than the other.

      Most importantly, though: Charlie's personal life isn't really any of your business.

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      I just haven't had time to sit down and put thought into some of the more substantial questions I get. I figured that, in the meantime, answers to stupid questions are better than no answers at all, but APPARENTLY NOT. RAWR ANGER RAWR.

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      Who is "she"? I know you're not talking about my girlfriend, because neither of us have really even left this house in the last few weeks. This wouldn't just be wishful thinking on your part, would it?

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