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You know you are a Switchfoot fan when...
501. Every time you hear the word gravity you say Oh!.
502. When you join the mailing list of EVERY Switchfoot site, so you don't
miss anything cool and new!
503. When #492 is so true for you!
504. The guy at a booth at the home school curriculum fair notices you hanging around a lot and unconsciously dancing to the NIS CD he's got playing
505. You stay on the tagboard for +10min not talking to someone else, but
rather taking turns writing the lyrics to a SF song
506. You find your mom making dinner in the kitchen listening to your New
Way To Be Human CD, which she stole from your CD Player. And she knows all the
words.
507. When after a switchfoot show you run onstage and grab Tim's water
bottle..thus causing you to get in trouble by Jeff (the guitar tech guy).
508. You actually know and sing along to all the extra 'whooas' and 'yeeas' that jon adds to the live versions of the songs at shows...
509. You've heard a Switchfoot song in concert before it was released to iTunes or a
CD.
510. Your favorite movie is Switchfootage (closely followed by Switchfootage 2)
511. You tell everyone your bday, and then tell them that it is the same as a member of Switchfoot's.
512. You know your church consists of SF fans when you play "On Fire" as a worship song!
513. You're 2 year old sister can almost lip-sync to 'Oh! Gravity.'
514. You zoom in on San Diego on Google maps just to look around.
515. When Tim shakes your hand and you call your mom saying you will never wash your hand again. You only give in to washing because she threatens to not let you back into the house.
516. You don't have to use the up or down arrow to spell "Switchfoot" on iTAP with your phone
517. Your entire family, all your friends, and everyone you've met knows that you love Switchfoot with a passion, and they think you've lost it because of it.
518. You can't bear to turn off your music when SF is playing. It would be an injustice.
519. When you watch the movie 'The Royal Tenenbaums' just to see which character the guys are dressed as!
520. When you know what the word 'DAS' means!
521. Your teacher says "head over heals in L.A" and you freak out.
522. When you can't find anything else you want to listen to in your CD case and you say "at least I still have Switchfoot"
523. You try to do ninja kicks like Tim... and hurt your thumb so bad that it still hurts after three weeks and have to go to the docter.
524. You've downloaded all the podcasts from North Coast Calvary Chapel (Mark Foreman pastor) and making your kids listen to the sermons in the car.
525. When you own enough Switchfoot pictures, posters, and article clippings to paper you bedroom
526. You make sure to get FIVE fish so you can name them after all of the guys. Sadly, Romey and Drew BOTH died the first day!
527. Every mix cd you burn is atleast 99.99% Switchfoot
528. You draw the guys on your chemistry notes when "entropy" comes up.
529. You read #526 and now you're mourning the loss of 90% of the band...
530. You're watching "War of the Worlds" and Tom Cruise shouts out, "Tim! Where are you Tim?!" ...and you laugh.
531. You hear "Bye Bye Bye" on the radio and instantly think of "The Cheat" and the Timmy Shimmy.
532. You just walk by a store called "Maurice's" in the mall and hear a bit of "Yesterdays" and it totally made your day.
533. When for the life of you can't understand why this list is called "You Know You're a Switchfoot FaN When" instead of "You Know You're a Switchfoot FaM When"
534. When you start drinking Arby's jamocha shakes because Jon does.
535. When someone says "oh!" to remember somthing and you start singing Oh! Gravity and interrupt them and can't stop singing.
536. You want whoever wrote #529 to know that they must now mourn all 100% of the band: all of the fishies have died :( You want them to also know that what they wrote was hilarious :)
537. When you see a TV special on the Simpsons' movie and can't stop giggling when they mention the Kwik-E-Mart
538. You drive around the block again when you get to your vacation destination just to finish the Switchfoot CD.
539. You've got food poisoning and are puking your guts out and start listening to Switchfoot and you start to feel a lot better. (true story I had been puking for 30 minutes!)
540. At your first ever switchfoot concert, you see Jon out in the aisle about 100 feet away from where your seat is and you clear that 100 feet in 3 seconds!
541. You used Oh! Gravity as background music for the presentation of your project on Isaac Newton.
542. Your friend sings "The Sound In My Mouth" everytime you say something you shouldn't say just a little bit too loud.
543. When you're at a camp/retreat with your church and the guitarist for the band starts banging the symbol during one of the songs and you look at your best friend and go "He HAS to be a Switchfoot fan! Jon does that during Dirty Second Hands!"...and it ends up that the guys favorite band is Switchfoot.
544. When you flaunt the fact that your name is "Jon."
545. You're in history class and you and three of your friends simoultaneously start singing when the teacher mentions politicians.
546. The only Cd's you own are all Switchfoot.
547. When a friend of yours dislikes Switchfoot, and you chase her around with your guitar, playing "Dirty Second Hands."
548. You read 536 and nearly cried, before you remembered that it was fish who you had no personal realationship with who had died, not the actual band...yet you're still sad.
549. When you are at church camp and your counselor/friend comes to find you and drags you to the cafeteria so you can dance with him because they are playing Meant to Live!
550. You catch yourself skipping through Relient K's 'Deathbed' to Jon's part over, and over, and over, and over, and over...
551. Your mom sees you on youtube, automatically assumes you're watching Switchfoot videos (and most of the time you actually are), and says "STOP BEING SO OBSESSED WITH SWITCHFOOT!"
552. You read Blue Like Jazz because Jon said that he likes it and end up loving the book for it's awesomeness and see why Jon likes it. (So true I read it in two days.)
553. Your cell phone's background is Jon and your phone greets you with "Go Jon 1234!"
554. You spent 3 days drawing a picture of the guys with Crayola markers and then put yourselves in the picture.
555. You name animals you find after the guys in the band because you love them so much!!
556. When reading the bible, you notice verses that are similar to lines that have been used by Switchfoot in their songs, and underline them.
557. When your older sister comes home from spending the night at her friends house and attending a Nickle Creek concert, the first question out of your mouth was if Sean mentioned Jon and if he played some of the Real SeanJon stuff.
558. You're at church haning out in the jr. high kids room, and your friend (having run all over the place looking for you) runs in to tell you they're playing Switchfoot on the music loop that plays in the bathrooms.
559. Your mom says, "What christian band would you like to see in concert?...besides Switchfoot"
560. Your friends assume you were happy Jon's sweat dripped on your face (ew EW!)
561. You can barely listen to Relient K's Deathbed because you can't get over Jon on a Relient K album (he's not supposed to be there!)
562. When you flip in the absolute best way possible when you realize that your 17th birthday falls on a Switchfoot Friday! (And it's all you can do to keep from squealing audibly...)
563. You MUST wear a Switchfoot shirt to take your school yearbook picture.
564. You've played and listened to 'Dare You to Move' so many times, you start to think it sounds different.
565. You see that Jon rarely starts his sentances on myspace with capital letters, and you mimic this.
566. Your family starts disliking Switchfoot, simply because you talk about them so much
567. You and your friends wear pigtails (even if you know you look awful in them) on the Switchfoot guy's birthdays because it's a "special occasion."
568. When your sister, who came out of the driveway a little fast, says "Slow down" and you continue singing "please slow down, down, down, the stars are coming out!"
569. You refer to LOBH as the happiest place on earth :D
570. Your biggest dilemma is which switchfoot cd to listen to when listening to a switchfoot cd and a song ends, you immediately start to play the next song in your head before it even starts
571. You sing happy birthday to your switchfoot poster on each of the guys' birthdays
572. You get angry when people don't capitalize the 'S' in 'Switchfoot.'
573. The only reason you know why 'TROGDOR!' is funny is because of Tim on podcast 17.
574. It takes you 10 minutes to realize a mustache isn't called a 'mouth brow' and a further ten minutes to remember what that word is.
575. You bake a cake cause it's tim's birthday and you had to do something special...even if no one else in your family realizes that's why you did it.
576. You sadly agree with #566
577. Your parents are sick and tired of you talking about Jon, and all you can say is "sorry he's AWESOME!"
578. You make mii's of all the guys in the band in your wii!
579. Your mother tells you "When I ask you, 'what band is this?' I am really asking, "Is this Switchfoot?".
580. Your dog barks every time you play "More Than Fine". (True story)
581. You start to realize how frequently the word "Gone" is used in conversation, and you can't help but start singing every single time.
582. Your friend was wearing an "I <3 SF" t-shirt and it took you far too long (after you got excited) to realize it stood for San Francisco. Your other friend also thought the same thing because you talk about SF that much (she isn't ven a fan).
583. When your mother mistakes every CD that you walk into the house with to be a new Switchfoot album. If only.....
584. When your brother points to a bag of "Tom's Potato Chips" and you just about have a hissy fit because it's not Tim's.
585. You turn your dad into a self-professed Switchfoot fan and you both rock out all the time in the car. (I'm working on my mom. She calls them whiney!)
586. You cry because you've never met them and get mad at the people that you see in pictures who have met them and get nostalgic when you hear their songs and remember all those events when you could have met them. (I'm a living example)
587. You're looking on eBay for Switchfoot, and you look at every single poster they have, even if it's expensive.
588. When you memorize every single podcast, and when another comes along, you watch it over and over until you can quote from it, too.
589. When you are guilty of number 570
590. When you try to remind yourself to copy and paste this list
591. When you go crazy when a song of theirs comes on the radio
592. When you get your mom into them when she was all indifferent about them (true story)
593. You got a switchfoot sticker 2 years ago and you haven't used it yet because it looks so pretty and you don't want to stick it somewhere and then later on wish that it was somewhere else
594. You cry and cry because you couldn't get Tim's bass guitar pick to make a necklace or because you couldn't go to their concert
595. After a concert, your mom and you start to have a girl chat about how cute Tim is, even though your mom had never listened or seen Switchfoot before said show.
596. Your vocabulary has greatly increased because of them
597. You manage to find countless Switchfoot references in books, no matter what book you are reading
598. You are shocked when your own mom doesn't know the significance of San Diego
599. Because you agree with #175 100%
600. You go ballistic when their songs come on the radio (example: *I turn on the radio, awakening's on*: WHOOOOOOOO!!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!!!! I WAS HOPING IT WOULD BE ON THE RADIO WHEN I TURNED IT ON and... HERE IT IS!!! YAAAYY!! I LOVE SWITCHFOOT!!!)
601. You think that whoever wrote #589 shouldn't be guilty.
602. You start screaming when you see Andy Barron to the far part of the stage, because you know your favorite San Diegans will be onstage soon (and you're surprised that you actually recognized Andy).
603. You are apalled that Laura Bush would cancel a trip to Australia when Switchfoot is on their tour there.
604. You freak out because gone is on the radio right before you go to church
605. When you envy who ever wrote number #496
606. All your thoughts lead to switchfoot eventually... example: I have a sewage system down the street from me and on a hot night it... smells. and I smell that stuff and i think of the creation festival (which switchfoot (and relient k) go to) and i think that's gross, reminds me of the toilets at creation, those smelled gross. then i think but it was totally worth it for all the great bands, and then i think none of the bands were even half as good as switchfoot (or relient k)!
607. You know you're a hardcore fan but the right questions aren't on the quiz to give you that rank :)
608. You wait 15 minutes watching the clock so you can consciously know when it's 4:12, and when 4:12 rolls around, you go crazy for one minute.
609. You bookmark the picture of drew holding the "thanks, your information has been submitted" because you think it's hilarious
610. You're sad because you can't be a volunteering foot soldier for 2 years yet :(
611. You just copied and pasted the whole list to your friend
612. You like the switchfoot podcasts better than any movie you've ever seen
613. You laugh at #530 and you've never seen "war of the worlds"
614. When me, a girl, has people ask what my name is, I say "jon foreman" (or other switchfoot member name)and then start cracking up when people look at you funny
615. You do the same thing as whoever wrote #571 does, and when you read #571 you start cracking up because of the likeness among us
616. 574 applies to you, and you get confused when people don't know what you're talking about, and baffled that once you explain and they still don't get it
617. When your guy friend writes "SWITCHFOOT IS AWESOME! what do you have to say on the subject?" and you write a whole paragraph.
618. You take the time to write out the switchfoot lyrics on whiteboards so people write them and convert their music tastes to switchfoot.
619. You were getting ready to write something serious on here but you stop because awakening just came on your ipod and you need to take a few minutes to listen to it.
620. Because they can throw candy into Drew's mouth without any of the 5 of them minding. (p.s. you can throw candy into my mouth any day of the year!)
621. You know that there's more than one song that has "gravity" mentioned in it
622. When you force your grandpa to listen to Switchfoot clips on iTunes and then are elated when he decides to buy the String Quartet Tribute to Switchfoot!
623. You listen to a song called "Something Beautiful" and upon hearing the lyric "it's the child on her wedding day, it's the daddy that gives her away" you imagine Drew 20 years down the road when his daughter gets married.
624. When your brother is starting to love Switchfoot as much as you and is even learnig the lyrics to their songs!
625. You're in the store and your mom gets some cereal off the top shelf and all these other boxes come falling to the ground and you crack up and go "oh! gravity!"
626. You're going through the grocery store laughing to the point of tears because you keep thinking about how at the beginning of podcast 5 the dude goes and now, a journey into sound and then everybody's like DOO-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo... and then the screen goes black and jon goes "okay let's just do it normal." and then he comes out and he's wearing a bandanna and sunglasses and he goes "hey brother welcome to podcast number 5, right here right now!"
627. You buy vitamin water just because you saw it in the fridge in podcast number one. Then when you do get it, it becomes your by far favorite drink. and when you pull it off the shelf, you mom looks at you and says "why'd you get yellow?"
628. When you always celebrate Switchfoot Friday on a Friday and a Monday because you know you will reach more people that way.
629. You see that LOBH compiled a list of bands that Switchfoot likes and you start listening to them all. (thank you! teehee. :D)
630. When on a recient over night to your Grandma's house. The sweet old woman decides that she too is a Switchfoot fan after she learned the meaning of "that really weird band name"
631. You quote switchfoot even if the line doesn't pertain to the conversation
632. You can't pick just one favorite switchfoot song and people who ask you "what's your favorite switchfoot song" don't get why you can't pick just one get confused.
633. You realize that you've learned more "vocabulary words" from reading SF interviews then you have from your school books.
634. You see people post things like "I completely agree with #572" and you've read these so many times you know exactly what #572 is.
635. You make a birthday card for your stepdad that has Switchfoot pics in it.
636. Your family starts creating Switchfoot puns whenever you're around.
637. You and your friend wrote Switchfoot on band-aids and stuck them to
638. Your face for the whole school day just so people would ask about switchfoot and you would have an excuse to talk about them and convert others :P
639. You start referring to Starbucks as Forebucks. And giggle inside when all of your friends think that's a brilliant name!
610. You wrote 21 of these in one sitting. :)
611. You make Switchfoot analogies- Mecca is to Muslims as San Diego is to Switchfoot fans!
612. You HATE it when people think Only Hope is originally done by Mandy Moore
613. When your watching the Life of Ryan Sheckler show and when you hear that Oh! Gravity is the theme song you flip out and start dancing and watch it like 5 times over again in true amazement
614. Whenever you mention any sort of concert you want to go to your parents say "switchfoot..huh?"
615. You memorize their Australian tour dates =|
616. When you're sitting in the dentist chair almost completely out with a sedative and you're mother takes advantage of the moment and tells you that she is worried that you are falling in love with Jon Foreman.
617. Instead of typing the number four you type Fore.
618. When you saw a show about the worlds deadliest animals and when it talked about the box jellyfish in Australia's oceans, you remember that Switchfoot is touring there and will most likely go surfing in the water and you start to panic and worry that they might get stung.
619. Your family starts to say that Switchfoot should be paying you a commission.
620. You have had several dreams about them. In on you met them (and Andy!) and then were very sad when you woke up and realized that I was only a dream (but during your dream, you did think "hey! I thought they were supposed to be in Australia right now!"). In another, you and your friends were playing board games with them...needless to say it rocked, even if it was only a dream
621. It throws you off when they guys are in different places in music videos then the way they usually are on stage.
622. Whenever you start to talk around your family they ask you where Switchfoot's gonna be and how much it's gonna cost them (and most of the time, that was exactly what you were about to talk about)
623. You see a car with a California licence plate and you scream, "DO YOU KNOW SWITCHFOOT!!!!"
624. You TOTALLY freak out when you see the commercial for Ben Stiller's new movie when he says "it's like a switchfoot!"(actual surfing term, not the band) when describing his wife/marriage and you check every channel to watch it
again.
625. You write "rad" instead of "red"
626. Your 5-year-old brother comes to you and asks you to play "Dare You To Move" for him. (True. It's sooo cute. Training a child the way he should go...)
627. When you get to do a biography of Switchfoot in school.
628. You buy the "i am lowercase people shirt" ..and when you wear it you feel "romey-fied"
629. You go to a restaurant after your guitar recital, where you played Stars as your song, and then you ask the waitress for mountain dRew. She replies with a, "I'm sorry, what did you say?" and you laugh and ask for a coke instead. (heh. happened to me! ...twice.)
630. You replaced all the songs on your dads ipod with Switchfoot songs
631. Jerome shows up in your dreams and throws sushi at you.
632. You recorded Tim saying "I feel like it's piercing my soul" from podcast #18 and saved it as your ringtone, causing all those surrounding you to jump when it goes off and wrestle the phone out of your hand to change the ringtone, then tell you are crazy.
633. Your entire family knows the lyrics to just about every Switchfoot song and love them almost as much as you do.
634. You see your brothers bed sheets in the wash and think, "hey, that looks like the shirt Jon wears when he talks to Drew about Vanilla Ice in podcast 22!"
635. When your listening to the radio and Something Beautiful comes on, and ypu think, "Now why couldn't they play Switchfoot as much as they play Newsboys?"
636. You like a radio station better than the one that comes in better simply because they play Switchfoot songs more often.
637. When you bake a cake with Switchfoots' band members names in candies on the cake.
638. Your brother hates Switchfoot simply because you like them and your sister is sick of them.
639. You go around saying "Sorry I'm awesome" and "totally radzilla!" or "stay classy!!!"
640. Going to the Switchfoot concert is the best day of your life.
641. You check the Switchfoot and Relient K websites constantly to see if they are coming to your town...3 months in advance. Then you convince your brothers to help you obtain permission to go to the concert by playing nothing but Switchfoot and Relient K when you are around your mom and when people ask how you are, you reply "more than fine," and throw other Switchfooty phrases into everyday conversation to brainwash your mom so that when you ask to go, she says "Yeah -- when is it?" (it worked!)
642. You see "Chadwick" (as a scientist who theorized what the atom looked like) and you immediately write "Butler" next to it.
643. You incorporate Switchfoot into any project you make for school.
644. When talking about astronomy in science, every time the word "stars" comes up (which is often) you start humming the song, causing weird looks to be thrown at you.
645. When your cry when your about to meet them, or shake their hand!
646. All your friends know that when you don't talk is because you're thinking about Switchfoot, or you're gonna say something about them!
647. While learning about Buddaism in your art class find you mind thinking. Why would I want to achieve nirvanna? Why would anyone want to be like the band nirvanna? If anything, if I were buddist, I would be trying to achieve Switchfoot. Of course your professor, and buddist buddies may not approve!
648. You find yourself listening only to Tim's bass part during Oh! Gravity
649. When your dad picks you up from school he already has a swichfoot cd in because he knew that would be the first thing you did when you got in the car
650. You accidently type "www.switchfoot.com", even though you were meaning to type a website that was completley different.
651. You can say Switchfoot in 2 languages
652. When you can no longer write Jon with an 'h' ... even though your father's and grandfather's names and older brother's middle name are all spelt John.
653. You take an entire summer day to sit at your computer and watch every podcast starting at #1 in order, and screech at all those who dare to move...and interrupt your viewing pleasure. And even though you've seen them all so many times before, you still laugh loudly at each one.
654. You see "Piercing the Sky" on the Hubble Space Telescope website in science, and you nudge your friend and mutter, "It should be piercing my SOUL!" and she just rolls her eyes because she's been forced to sit through all the podcasts in numerical order multiple times.
655. You find random notepads or notebooks and open them up at a random spot and write SWITCHFOOT AND RELIENT K ROCK!!!!! and maybe a few song lyrics. :)
656. You follow all of the "Things Not to do at a Switchfoot Concert" so you won't be condemned by other SF fams or embarrassed in front of SF.
657. You can predict what any of them are gonna say in an interview because you have heard interviews with Switchfoot so many times.
658. You wear Switchfoot clothing on picture day at school.
659. When you're you're thinking about switchfoot and then when you talk to your friends on MSN accidently type Switchfoot instead of the correct word.
660. When the first thing your friend tells you when you get to church is that your youth pastor played 4:12 and you missed it, and you were kind of mad (true for me)
661. When the volleyball game score is 4 to 12 and you secretly start giggling and dancing..
662. You're showing the LOBH site to your grandad :D
663. When you're listening to "without love" from the hairspray sountrack, and when they say, "without love, life is like rock'n'roll without a drummer ," you say to yourself, "nooo we need you chad!"
664. When you have a tennis game against "orange glen" and thier hats have the initials "OG" and you automatically think Oh! Gravity
665. When the celebrity news comes on about Paris Hilton being spotted at In-N-Out Burger and you automatically think of Jon.
666. Every Switchfoot Friday, reguardless of the time of day, when you open your mouth, everyone around you groans, knowing that whatever you say will relate to Switchfoot.
667. When you refer to your organic chemistry class as o chem, then you realize you should really be saying oh! chem.
668. You are taking a test and making fun of it and your mom says, "Well your test would say something about Switchfoot! It would say 'If there's a guy named Jon, and a guy named Jim...'" then you interupt her and say "TIM!!!! HIS NAME IS TIM!!!!"
669. You stay up really late looking at everything Switchfoot, and your eyes get all red.
670. Everything can be related back to Switchfoot.
671. You stare at the title of the short story you have to read for English, "The Moustache" for about 5 minutes trying to figure out what it means, until your friend leans over and whispers "It means mouthbrow." Then you realize the author is deprived and has never heard of Switchfoot.
672. You check, month by month for nearly 8 years, to see whether your 22nd birthday falls on a Thursday... And get so very excited to find that April 30, 2015 is, in fact, a Thursday!
673. You freak out every day at school because at the end of announcements, they always say "Stay classy!"
674. Hidden clues tell you that your parents are getting you a cell phone for your birthday and you' try to drop hints that you'd rather have tickets to a Switchfoot concert, even if it is a month after your birthday when you get it.
675. When your parents have to do a mortgage on the house just to buy that one ticket!
676. Your myspace theme is Switchfooty!
677. When you sing a SF song as a lullaby to get your little sister to sleep... and she actually falls asleep! (True story!)
678. When you're having a bad day and your friend tells you to put a Switchfoot CD in.
679. You make your friends watch swithfootage 2 and they think you're a stalker when you recite many, many facts about Switchfoot
680. You go out to eat with your parents, but half the time you're talking to your mom (who also loves Switchfoot) about the band and the upcoming concert.
681. You feel an immense pang of guilt that lasts throughout the day when you realize that you forgot to wear your Switchfoot shirt on Switchfoot Friday.
682. You are really excited because switchfoot friday is also the day you go to quizzing competitions so you can always wish everyone a happy switchfoot friday.
683. As soon as your friends hear you mention the word switchfoot, they instantly ignore you, and start talking about something else
684. You name your specimens in biology class after the guys!
685. You wear a surfing suit
686. You freak out during science because when the teacher is explaining force she actually mentions "to move" and "gravity" in the same sentence...then you start going on about Switchfoot
687. You meet them (and relient k) in your head and you make them do all sorts of overboard nice stuff that they'd probably never do in real life. (example: let's cancel today's show and just hang out all day!)
688. When you meet Switchfoot, you're planning on asking them why they haven't made any christmas music yet, but you're mentally debating which one question/witty statement should be mentioned/is the most important out of the 60 million things you've said to them in mental conversations you've held.
689. You have dreams about them
690. You often spend long car rides coming up with submissions for You Know Your a Switchfoot Fan When and then get frustrated when you forget them by the time you get home
691. You see a friend wearing an In-N-Out burger shirt, and you freak out and stare.
692. You've trained your dad to say "that's piercing my soul!!!"
693. You sing Oh! Gravity on a roller coaster
694. You get so excited anticipating Switchfoot Friday that you actually forget that it's also on our birthday.
695. You pick up a pen off the and giggle as you read "San Diego Marriott."
696. You grab your friend's arm when you see a magazine with Switchfoot on the cover in the gym locker room and begin asking EVERYONE around who it belongs to.
697. You told your fellow switchfoot-obssesed-friend that there were 24 days until the concert you are both going to, and she sings twenty-four for the rest of the day
698. They inspired you to play the guitar
699. You take more pride in your church because some of the sf guys go there. Yes it's true and you guys are probably all jealous. :)
700. You get really excited when you find out The Legend of Chin came out on your 6th birthday and then tell everyone about it.
701. Whenever your science teacher mentions entropy you get either Living Is Simple, Stars, or Politicians stuck in your head.
702. You can tell when each video interview with them took place just by the length of their hair.
703. Every picture you find of them, you save it to your computer.
704. You've actually spent time reading all of these
705. You colour-coordinate your outfit to match one of their CDs (e.g. red + black + white = Oh! Gravity.)
706. On the morning before your finals you make it a point to listen to 4:12 or Gone to feel better and motivate yourself. (true story)
707. You ask your sister what she's doing and she says, "oh, I was staring off into Chad, I mean space!"
708. Your cell rings and your ringtone is a Switchfoot song and you sing along with it instead of answering your cell.
709. You argue with your parents over who's buying the Holiday package for who (your parents for you or you and your brother to share) and by the end of the conversation you aren't sure your parents understand the imporance of the situation. (lol. True story)
710. You named your pencil Jerome
711. When creating a math game, you're sure to include a clock that reads 4:12.
712. Whenever your dad sees you on the computer, he says "stop obsessing!" since he knows you're on either switchfoot.com or LOBH
713. You walk through the halls of Harvard College looking at all the Chemistry rooms and try to find Chem6A!!
714. You get frustrated when the next song on the radio isn't Switchfoot.
715. When you want to bake them a cake.
716. When your friend ask you to play a song on the piano and you say "sure!" and then they run to get the piano bench and you say "that's okay, I'll just play Fontamillas stlye!"
717. When you play heart shape box (podcast 19) on guitar hero and fail, then you feel as if you have just made a really deep connection with Jon and Tim.
718. Every time you hear "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine" you think of South Africa, even though you've never been there.
719. Your little brothers can recite random and obscure Switchfoot facts and do so throughout the day.
720. Your entire family and your friends and your FAMILY'S friends can sing along to Switchfoot songs simply because you have overexposed everyone within a 20 mile radius to Switchfoot and their music.
721. You've seen the guys wearing clothes like 'jedidiah','macbeth'or 'atticus' and go and buy the EXACT same thing, and then you see them wear it and your like "I have that!!!"
723. You and your switchfoot obsessed brother run around the house screaming your heads off every time you're both awake and it's 4:12 (very true)
724. You've downloaded more live Switchfoot songs and bootlegs onto your computer than all of the songs from your Switchfoot CDs.
725. When you think of Jon and laugh every time you have to use the undo button
726. While painting and decorating your room, you make sure that everything will match the Switchfoot poster on your wall.
727. You get a word from "Switchfoot" as a typo... Switchfoto, which is a picture of Switchfoot.
728. You make up the term "Famgirl" which is similar to a Fangirl, but less obsessed with the guy's good looks... you still appreciate them but you're not obsessed... you also respect that they're married and get into the tunes and learn random facts. :)
729. You are one of the few people in the crowd who know the live intro of Meant to Live at a concert.
730. Because you feel proud Jerome is your kababayan (fellow countryman).
731. You think that LOBH is cooler than switchfoot.com
732. You made extra sure you were wearing a Switchfoot Tshirt and listening to Switchfoot on your iPod during the transition from 2007 to 2008.
733. The first song you listen to for the new years is a sf song. This year it was The Blues!
734. Whenever you're trying to say something really deep you say "I don't know" alot, kind of like how Jon does when he's talking about really deep stuff in interviews.
735. Your new roomate (whom you've had for two weeks) asks you to make them a mix cd and knows to automatically put a limit on the Switchfoot songs...
736. You DESPISE it when people go to concerts and have no idea who any of the guys even are! [Why do they bother going?!]
737. If someone blasphemes Switchfoot in your presence, you yell and lecture them about it for hours.
738. Every day in biology can be related to a Switchfoot song.
739. You've already decided your favorite part of heaven is going to be being able to talk with Switchfoot!
740. You scribble Switchfoot lyrics all over your binders to the point where your friends stop asking "who's that by?" and just know it's Switchfoot.
741. You see a Sunny D commercial where they claim to be on a beach in San Diego, so of course you are searching the ocean in the background looking for any familiar looking surfers (wink wink)
742. You see a pinstripe fedora (for girls) at Rue 21 and buy it just so you can have one like Jon. And actually wear it.
743. Every time "Faust, Midas, and Myself" comes on your iPod, you start shaking around an invisible tambourine and an invisible maraca like how Chad does when he plays concerts, and you do a little dance thing like how Chad does in the "drum shopping with Chad" part in the one podcast.
744. You can think of more than 20 signs of obsession that AREN'T on this list!
745. Your friends start becoming Switchfoot fanatics because of YOUR obsession. (True enough...my friend has never forgiven me for changing her life!)
746. You get obsessed with ninjas
747. When being forced to play settlers of the catan (google it if yo don't know what it is), you get bored really fast and you start collecting just sheep and trading for just sheep and you start naming them after Switchfoot people. (okay, this is Jon, this is Tim, this is Chad, this is Drew, this is Jerome, and this is Andy Barron, and this is the guitar tech, and this is the lighting guy...)
748. You can pick out plaid things in any situation and someone has told you that they can see you driving a plaid car.
749. You have your NIS CD on rather loud and your mom asks "What's that nice sound?" and knows as soon as she hears it it's Switchfoot. She smiles and proceeds to linger in your room. (Yes, my mom loves SF, too!)
750. Your ears are ringing and you have Southbound Train stuck in your head.
751. When your baby sister buys you a fedora for christmas and calls it a "jon-hat".
752. You see a pinstripe fedora (for guys) at PacSun and buy it- even though you're a girl- just so you can have one like Jon. And you actually wear it.
753. When a girl from school whom you don't even know walks up to you and gives you a magazine with a long article of switchfoot.
754. You get very excited when the answer to your chemistry problem is 4.12 AND you were listening to 4:12 when you got that answer
755. When prepairing for a guest hosting spot on your friends radio show, you're trying to find a way around the "you're not allowed to play Switchfoot" rule. Wondering which would be better to play, the real seanjon, ETC., or some Solo Stuff from Jon!!
756. You ask youself what one of the members would do in your situation.
757. People that say "Switchfoot's break away from Sony was just a failed attempt at mainstream" face your eternal wrath.
758. You have more pix of the guys than you have of yourself and your family put together.
759. You became obsessed with plaid when you found out the guys like it. :)
760. You own a pinstripe hat cause of Jon.
761. You have millions of things you could put on here, & you don't even know where to begin.
762. You wish that you could be meeting them, to be with them, to enjoy their company and to pray with them... you find yourself wishing that you could just sit down and really get to know them well and be their friends, not because they're famous or goodlooking, but because they're great people, great Christians.
763. When your dad takes you to the SF concert on the Appetite for Construction tour and on the way home tells you he liked Relient k better, you try to get out of the car on the freeway, to which he yells at you and denies he ever said it. (true story)
764. When you are at a dance and the song Umbrella comes on and you start laughing hysterically because you are thinking of Drew.
765. Every time you hear 4:12 you do the 4:12 clap, even if it's playing on your ipod and nobody else can hear it.
766. You nearly pee yourself when "On fire plays in the movie "The Ultimate Gift" (true story)
767. Your body wakes you up at 4:12 because you've listened to the song so many times. (I did that 3 times!!!)
768. You put names of band members on school/home work or tests. (As in Chad Butler. Hey, that's me!!!)
769. Touch the wheel of their tour bus & brake the frame off. (That's my bro for ya)
770. You have this feeling that the next song on the radio will be Meant to Live....and it is!(true story!)
771. Whenever you go to type the word 'switch' on the computer, you accidentally type 'switchfoot' because you have typed switchfoot so many times on the computer.
772. When you're friend talks about how her friend woke up one morning to find 412 pink flamingos in her yard and you freak out over the number 412.
773. You try to convince your family to name the new fish Jon, Tim, Chad, Drew or Jerome. (Unfortunately, they went with Piere. what the heck!)
774. Your little brother, who you've taught about Switchfoot, has the incredible ability to hum a montage of Switchfoot songs all at once, splicing them together at random. for example: once I heard him shifting from OH! Gravity to Meant to Live to... the pink panther theme song... lol.
775. Occasionally you'll see pictures of the guys and be able to link articles of clothing to other places you've seen them at. (Jon wore that shirt at Creation!! that was when I wasn't a switchfoot fan, and that was when I became a switchfoot fan, and I remember him soundchecking and everyone watching and him making all these hilarious little remarks. and talking to people. and playing "polititions" for us.)
776. You're at your cousin's house and he has a million of those glow in the dark stars and when he turns of the light you have to play Stars (on you're iPod) like twenty times. This really happened.
777. When you only think in Switchfoot quotes the whole day.
778. Your mom thinks the guy your gonna marry has to look like one of the Switchfoot guys
779. Your friends and teachers and minister know what the subject for your subject is before you get assigned it! (true story!)
780. You hear their songs on the radio after a bad day and the only thought that now occurs to you is "Switchfoot's on, nothing's bad."
781. When you're three year old brother recites the guys' names and sings along to the songs, and your mom still wouldn't recognize Jon even if he walked into your house.
782. You freak out when you have 412 emails
783. You freak out because Tim's Birthday is the same day as yours!
784. You are listening to a bootleg of 4:12 and wishing really bad that you were at a Switchfoot concert so you could meet the guys, and you casually glance at the time and it's 1:24. and you flip. out.
785. You are listening to love addict (by family force 5) on your iPod when it's on shuffle, and you are all like, it would be funny if the next song would be Easier than Love.and then it is!and then you realize that those 2 songs were played in that order in shuffle last night.
786. You buy more than three of each and every CD Switchfoot has because u cant stand to have a scratch on one
787. Once, when you were done doing something Switchfooty, your little brother comes up to you and goes "you have that Switchfoot look in your eye again"
788. When you get a bad hair cut thats really short, your dad says, "hey your hair is the same length as jon foreman's!" (TRUE STORY)
789. You are reading a book, and the 2 main characters are talking about how famous people are stuck up and make you feel like losers. and you are all like "Jon/the rest of Switchfoot doesn't do that.... they make you feel awesome!!" and you get ticked at the author because of how Switchfoot deprived she must be.
790. You walk into your dog's groomers and Dare You To Move is playing and you start playing air guitar.(true)
791. You watch the American Idol auditions just to see if someone will sing a Switchfoot song..and if they would mess the words up you would be disgusted.
792. You spend hours writing a song and constantly consult Jon Foreman's songwriting tips to improve your song. (True story!)
793. You make Easter eggs with each guy's name on them, and one with the switchfoot logo, and one for Andy
794. You wait in line for 5 hours before a Switchfoot concert!! And team up with a group of crazy switchfoot fams, and start singing SF tunes (to warm up).
795. You sart using the word "Amigos" alot! because Jon and the gang uses it a lot too.
796. Your Blog title is after one of their song titles! *mine is*
797. You and your friend wear the "I heart SF" together out on purpose! and when people ask what SF stands for, we give them a stunned looked and say, "You don't know?!" It's SWITCHFOOT!
798. You have "Jon playing his guitar Live" picture that you took standing 4 feet away from him during a recent Switchfoot concert has your wallpaper in your handphone!
799. You are smiling widely when you hear the intro for Oh! Gravity. Because you remember the guys singing/screaming "lalala La" in the studio into the mic!
800. You fall in love woth Radiohead because Jon was so hyped about their new album a few months back.
801. You find time to type in this section and add some switchfoot fan knowledge.
802. You can recognize all of the guys' tees and search high and low to find them for yourself. Or find something similar to it.
803. Whenever you hear a SF song that's been used in a podcast or either of the switchfootage DVDs, you picture those part of the video in your head
804. You want to take up SURFING!! just to follow the guys and see why it is so great.
805. You talk to your autographed Switchfoot poster as though Jon and the guys can hear you!! (not in a creepy manner) Just chatting.
806. You want to be able to spend a whole month with the guys touring (anywhere)! just to see and experience their dorkiness and have great laughs! priceless.
807. You try doing the Rebuild "dance" done by Tim and Romey (podcast) whenever the song is played!
808. You know their favourite foods and fast food restaurants! like in-n-out burger for Tim. white rabbit sweets for Jon. :)
809. You say "Radzilla" or "Stay Classy!" when talking to your mates! and you remember the guys.
810. You analyze the lyrics of each and every SF song! then use it as your own personal guide to LIFE.
811. You write comments constantly on the podcasts! You find yourself laughing after watching the guys be "wacky" as always, and thus making your day!
812. You refresh this section just to see if your note is already put up!
813. Switchfoot has plain changed your life!
814. You skip school because it's switchfoot Friday and you believe it should be a real holiday
815. You realize there's a font called "Califorian" and that instantly becomes your favorite font.
816. You have trouble putting a coat on over a SF t-shirt, even if you're freezing cold.
817. When you hear a Switchfoot song on the radio while your listening to Switchfoot on your ipod, you pause your ipod and listen to the one on the radio to appreciate the fact that the station plays Switchfoot
818. You check the calendar to see if your 22nd birthday falls on a Thursday :D (and mine does!)
819. You get every single switchfoot podcast at once because you only found them over the summer and can't believe what you were missing
820. You went at 11am [alone because no one else you knew was crazy enough] to start waiting in line for Switchfoot's concert even though the doors aren't slated to open till 6pm.
821. You remember the quotes said by almost every SF member! (at least the funny and memorable ones) and later tell em to your friends!
822. You wake up early in the morning to catch the Switchfoot special, and remind your other SF fams that the guys will be on TV! (just watched the 8tv, Malaysian special) skipped lunch for it.
823. You change your font on AIM to red and white and call it your Switchfont
824. Whenever you say "Politicians" you say it with a long "o" sound, like in Pole
825. You dont mind Jon's hair being so long and shaggy because #1 it up sets fangirls, and #2 who cares? It doesnt change his voice does it?
826. You tell the world their new album is coming out, even if it's a year away.
827. You take incredible care of your feet/foot!
828. When you start talking about the local music scene from places you've never been.
829. When you have a grudge against Mandy Moore, because she stole *cough* covered Only Hope, and people think that she wrote it.. sorry but Mandy Moore is no Jon Foreman! When you repeat this to your mother she tells you to get a life.
830. The FIRST thing you ask someone is "do you like Switchfoot?" (true!)
831. When you get in line at 9:30 am even though the doors don't open until 6:30 pm. and so you spend your day sitting on the sidewalk playing random games with fellow fams and warming you hands by the heating vent of the opening bands tour bus.
832. You own every cd that they made including Jon Foreman's EPs
833. You have very serious plans to scream out "SWITCHFOOT PLAYS THIS SONG!" when This Is Home plays at the theaters when watching Narnia.
834. For mothers day, you mom is taking you to a Switchfoot concert. (TRUE!)
835. You INSIST to your mother in the car that Stars is a "loud song" and MUST be turned up as loud as possible. Even if ear surgery is needed afterwards.
836. When your mom clearly states that she "doesnt like the drums in Awakening" you just keep putting it on as many of the car CDs you can.
837. You suddenley love cheese, and when your mom asks why, you just give a Chad giggle and say "oh I was just eatin some cheese."
838. You run to your family members and start freaking out that a Switchfoot song played on the radio.
839. You enter weekley radio station surveys and go through 25 long questions just to rate one Switchfoot song the HIGHEST you can rate. (true!)
840. You understand why there are so many things on this list that have to do with moms.
841. You STRONGLY believe that the main reason David Cook got into the final round is because he sang Dare You To Move.
842. Your friends, family members, and acquaintances tell you if they are awake at 4:12 in the morning.
843. You go to see Prince Caspian, and you convinced your friends (who swear they dont even like Switchfoot) to be not leave the theater until they hear "This Is Home".
844. For you its "hahhy" not "happy".
845. You have a grudge against Disney now because they played This Is Home very LAST on the credits of Prince Caspian. Don't get me wrong, I'm still SO hahhy they play a song on that movie... but... really!!
846. Ever since you saw the handwritten lyrics for Jon's EPs, you have been desprately trying to get your handwriting to MATCH Jon's. (true true!!)
847. You ramble off a podcast quote and your mom doesnt understand, so she turns and gives you an outer space look and just says "ohh, Switchfooottt podcast, I get it now".
848. You KNOW for a FACT that Jon is the smartest person on the Earth right now. You believe he is an amazing philosopher.
849. You honestly dont understand how people could NOT like Switchfoot. They must not be thinking people.
850. You are destined to find a ring like Jon's secret weapon.
851. You freaked out when (while the tech guys were setting up) you see Drew go by the door he and the guys are going to come out of to start the show. I mean you REALLY freak out. Not in a fangirly manner, just a "oh my gosh, the best guitar/opera singer ever is acually ON THAT VERY STAGE" sort of way.
852. You cry during "On Fire" because that was the song Jon sang when you were 2 feet away from him, and you remember, and you suddenly come down with PCD (Post concert Depression) and remember that wonderful moment.
853. You were 3 feet away from Jon at a concert, and you tell everyone, and you dont care of you sound fangirly while saying it. Hey, it aint braggin if you done it!
854. Your first Switchfoot concert was dubbed the best day of your 14 years living.
855. Your biggest irritance is that on a trip for a Switchfoot concert, you spent three days with an aunt who thought your favorite band was "Splitfoot". She never got the fact its "Switchfoot".
856. You explain facts about Switchfoot when your mom asks even simply "whats this song called again?" you rattle off about where it was recorded, who made that noise in the background, what show they first played it at, how long Jon's hair was at the time, the album its on, the year it was released.
857. You realize why your mom doesnt ask "whats this song called?" anymore.
858. You have eight Switchfoot posters, and that's not enough.
859. Your making your friend work for money to buy a FOTF membership so she can meet the guys with you at the Music Builds Tour.
860. Your phone is set to remind you EVERY month that it is Switchfoot Friday. Not that you would forget, but never be to sure. It is a national holiday.
861. Your PCD (Post Concert Depression) was so bad you wore your Switchfoot tee for a week straight after the concert (put it right on even after showers) then when you HAD to wash it your mom said, "good! finally your taking that off" and you walk in the room with different Switchfoot tee on. Your mom figured this would happen and just shakes head.
862. You blocked the door way for getting out of the theater when Prince Caspian was over, and told everyone "YOU MUST WAIT UNTIL 'THIS IS HOME' HAS PLAYED".
863. You know what Drew is REALLY saying perfectly fine in podcast 29 when he supposbley says "I couldnt hear a new clear gong icky pen off".
864. You say "luck" as "lu-ckk" like in Amatuer Lovers.
865. You are over at a buddies house, and you are taking turns trying to "jump like a foreman" on the trampoline.
866. You get insanely mad when people are talking/moving during the american dream freeze.
867. Your phone alarm wakes you at 4:12 for Switchfoot Friday.
868. You can somehow trace EVERY little thing back to Switchfoot.
869. You listen to them EVERY night to get to sleep.
870. You think of ET differently now, because you remember the switchfeed post where Jon is pointing like ET.
871. When you see someone with yellow vitamin water, you think "ohh he MUST love switchfoot."
872. You hear about a tornado in Riverside and IMMIDIATLEY think 'is Drew okay, is Drew okay?!". He is, and you could throw a dance party of reliefment.
873. At youth group, you ALWAYS hope thaat when playing Scatagories, the dice wll land on an 'S' so you can have a chance to write "Switchfoot" in one of the colums.
874. Not a day goes by you dont think about the guys. "What they must be doing RIGHT now? or "I wonder what Jon is thinking this very moment".
875. You KNOW Drew could have won Canadian Idol. Deff.
876. You envy those whom the guys even know their names.
877. You are planning on sending a letter to the president asking if Switchfoot Friday can be named a national holiday.
878. You literally FELL TO THE GROUND and had to grab your bench when Jon screamed into his guitar during "This Is Your Life" because you were in such 'awe'. You came close to passing out!
879. All your friend sitting next to you at the concert could do was shake her head and giggle about how well you know EVERY song.
880. You found LOBH! Hey, you have to type in 'switchfoot fansite' on Google to find this. That means you took time out of your day to think "I should type in switchfoot fansite on google".
881. You spend your afternoons memorizing the podcasts.
882. You submit at least one of these a day.
883. You find the countdown clocks to be quite....hypnotizing.
884. You really do stay up until 3:00 in the moring looking for Switchfoot pictures.
885. When you voted 12 million times for David Cook after he sang DYTM, even though you were always an Archuleta fan...
886. Your college tour guide calls it The Beautiful Setup. And everyone in your tour corrects her because you've gotten to them all already.
887. every time someone says oh, you say or think "oh gravity"
888. you kinda sorta freak out any time it's 1:12, 2:12, 3:12, 5:12, 6:12, 7:12, 8:12, 9:12, 10:12, 11:12, or 12:12... because you know that somewhere out there in the vast expanses of the world it is 4:12 for someone. :)
889. when you react to "switchfoot' the same as your own name
890. when you write SF song lyrics in your siblings room because yours is already filled with the same thing
891. when you can quote ALL the podcasts
892. when you randomly sing SF songs without knowing it
893. When more than half of your bookmarks are Switchfoot related
894. You visit LOBH every day
895. You practice singing into your keyboard during TIYL like it's a guitair.
896. You are sending yourself an email with mapquest directions and you make the subject be "what direction?"
897. Every time you are at an intersection while in the car,you have to scream out "LIFE BEGINS AT THE INTERSECTION!".
898. You meet someone who's name is: Jon Furman and you hate them for teasing you about it. Until you find out that person went to highschool with Jon, so you figure he's the closest you'll get to Jon Foreman. [true story]
899. You get mad, when you finally go to the movies to see chronicles of narnia, waitin to the end to listen to switchfoot, and realize that they took off the song in your country!! (here in Brazil)
900. When your FOTF autographed bootleg comes, you carefully examine it for any of the guys' fingerprints before YOU
touch it.
901. Drew missed signing your FOTF autographed bootleg, and you are in complete misery.
902. Your moms name is Shirley Drew
903. You sneak onstage after church to sing "The Shadow Proves The Sunshine" into the grand piano, the way Jon does on the NIS dualdisc.
904. You simply can't get them off your mind. EVER.
905. You go to Wal Mart JUST to move the Switchfoot records to the front of all the sections, and you cant find not ONE single CD by them...so you complain to the cashier and ask her if theres a way to complain to Wal Mart about the whole ordeal. (so true for me!)
906. You're listening to the studio recordings of songs and you get confused when you don't hear cymbal bashing or a mix with another song like in the live recordings.
907. You're walking though the Home Decor department of Wal-Mart and absent-mindedly say "This is Home." Then crack up laughing.
908. You memorize all the little lyrical errors that Jon makes in live songs and sing them during the regular versions.
909. Your friends and family members alert you of 4:12 things. (Sarah! I was playing volleyball and the score was 4:12)
910. You are listening to Switchfoot and you have to leave the room for 5 seconds and you pause the CD so you don't miss ANYTHING!!!
911. You train your sister to fall asleep when you snap your fingers.
912. You try to strangle your youth group leader when she hears On Fire, makes a face and says that she thought it was a girl who originally sang it!!!
913. You go to youth group wearing new clothes and your friends roll their eyes and yell "TIM!!!".
914. You wake up at 5am (singapore time) on a holiday to try to catch the guys on the webcam.
915. You wake up your brothers so you can use their computer to see the new podcast
916. because jon will talk to fans in spanish (true story!)
917. because jon will talk to you at 1:00 AM
918. you wish the webcam was on more
919. you think the webcam is the coolest thing since sliced bread
920. you FREAK OUT when jon is on the webcam, even though you can't hear what he's doing
921. when you go to fabric stores and find plaid fabric and start wondering if it's the style of plaid that tim would wear
922. you are jealous of the person who got reason number 412 on this list
923. you catch yourself singing Switchfoot songs, and honestly can't remember that you started
singing them
924. Your friend is reading the Switchfoot fun facts list you printed out and she asks "who's
shad?" and you scream " He's CHAD! He's called CHAD!!!"
925. You try to talk to your flight attendant about switchfoot instead of giving her your trash.
if you accidently "next" a sf song on your ipod, you have to go back and listen to it. HAVE
TO.
926. your boyfriend tells you that you talk about the band and the music too much. [is that even
possible??]
927. you realize that someone down your road has their street address "7412" posted on their
fence and you just HAVE to run up to it and put your hand over the 7. it made me smile :)
928. you hear "let that be enough" on the disney movie "model behavior" and you have to text
your boyfriend and tell him that is made your day, even though he claims to hate switchfoot.
[i think he likes them, at least a little!]
929. you get totally excited when you realize this list is about 85 submissions from breaking
1000. WE CAN DO IT!!!!
930. When you start abreviating things with your friend. Like WTF = What The Fontamillas! Or when
931. you repeat over and over again lines from Switchfoot.
932. You feel sad when singing (or screaming) into your pickps just doesn't work with your
electric.
933. You feel absurdly hahhy when you hear people trying to do covers of Switchfoot songs and
failing miserably, cause Switchfoot is still the best and no one can measure up to them
934. You get extremely mad when you're talking to your friends about Switchfoot and one of them
says that the jonas brothers love Switchfoot and start talking about how awesome the jonas
brothers are. Grrrrrrrrrrrr...
935. You record Drew saying "Sorry I'm awesome" and use it as your ringtone, reguardless of the
weird looks people give you.
936. You listen to Switchfoot so much that when you used Meant to Live as your alarm signal, you
were late for school cause you slept right through it.
937. You use the word rosen in your essay and don't understand for the longest time why your
teacher circled it.
938. Jon played the organ at your college prior to the show, and you think "Wow!"
939. You marvel at the coolness of Jon's eyes, and then remember that he's the coolest guy ever
and go "Duh!"
940. You hit pause when you have to leave the room for 5 seconds while listening to SF, just so
you don't miss ANYTHING!
941. Your mom says: "We listen to Switchfoot a lot" and you say "Yeah, so.....what's your point?"
942. When Jon played the organ before a show at your college! OMG!
943. You started reading "The Message" because Jon's reading it.
944. Jon quoted a poem during the intro to "Beautiful Letdown." The next day your Lit. prof
mentioned the poet and you know who it is!
945. When you make your friend wait with you till the end of the chronicles of narnia just ot hear switchfoot's song
946. The majority of the time you spend on the internet is looking up info on Tim/the band or looking for as many pictures of them you can find
947. You can watch the podcasts over and over again and never get sick of them.
948. When you have a whole box of things dedicated to switchfoot. (i.e. every concert stub, autograph, and even the packages you got the FOTF stuff in)
949. When you are checking the website so much that it's always saved on your computer.
950. When you turn your 3 cousins into Switchfoot fans and make them watch all the podcasts and listen to every song
951. You are absolutely determined to get a tshirt that states, "SORRY IM AWESOME!"
952. Your friend is eating a foot shaped chocolate bread and she names it the switchfoot.
953. For a long time after the Spring EP was released you expected Jon to sing (and consequently sang yourself) "wandering around this messed up town" instead of "driving" every time because you'd listened to that one prior recording so much.
954. When you pause american dream on your ipod where the american dream freeze is supposed to be
955. You laugh every time you see the mouthbrow shaving in podcast 15
956. The guys actually are on a name basis with you and when you see jon for the third time in one day he goes, "Hey, I know you!"
957. You see Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspin twice.
958. You make your dad watch podcast #15 before shaving 21 years worth of mouthbrow.
959. You’re listening to your iPod and then start laughing in complete silence because of something Tim said.
960. You watch the webcam, hoping for it to turn on, even though they are in a different country. (Hoping they will stream live)
961. You spend most of your time on the computer looking for Switchfoot things (pictures,merch,etc).
962. When you’re talking about slipknot and you accidently say Switchknot.
963. You read this list and aren't sure which ones you submitted...or did someone else submit #902 and I'm just not the only one who's done that?
964. You start wearing plaid just because Tim does.
965. Your mom starts liking Switchfoot just because you do.
966. You just start smiling at their pictures for no reason.
967. You start having dreams about them.
968. You start obsessing that your birthday is the same as Tim Foreman.
969. You start writing blogs about them on your Xanga.
970. You spend hours in front of the Switchfoot Webcam.
971. You start relating everything you do to Switchfoot.
972. You cry because your sister chipped the Dual Disc for NIS case.
973. When anything you do in your life starts to look like the podcasts.
974. You read this list for inspiration as to prove your Switchfoot fam - ness.
975. You agree with the infinite amount of reasons of how you know you're a Switchfoot fan.
976. You start comparing Jon's photos with Tim's.
977. Every time anything falls from your desk or table in school, you say “Oh Gravity!” Then people will look at you as if you were a totally weird person.
978. You call your friend Drew even if all of his other friends call him Drew Zyvan.
979. You want to be in a giant inflatable ball.
980. You say "I just woke up so I can't even think straight"
981. You screw yourself because you did not go to their concert.
982. Every time your friend sees a music video of Switchfoot you tell them that Jerome is a Filipino.
983. You ask yourself "Will Jon ever eat balut again?" or maybe volunteering yourself to teach tim how to eat one!!(delicious..)
984. You named your friend john as jon in your phonebook.
985. You asked your dad if he already ate in in n out burgers when he went to US..(we're from the philippines) =)
986. You start loving the names david, mark, matthew, and philip.
987. You want to learn how to surf even if you still don't know how to swim.
988. Even if it is hot here outside you still say "the wind is piercing my soul"
989. You named your dog Timmy.
990. You'll travel from Milwaukee to St. Paul (6 hours) to see them in concert.
991. If you're eating and listening to Switchfoot at the same time, you find yourself chewing to the beat.
992. You must give them the props for inspiring yourself to live the way they live.
993. You walk into anchor blue and are getting ready to leave, but a Switchfoot song comes on so you pretend to be interested in a shirt for 3 minutes.
994. You see a commercial about switching insurance and in your mind add the word foot when switch pops up on your TV.
995. When you absolutely will not play "Trogdor" on Guitar Hero 2 without your red guitar and black headband.
996. When you were reading 608, looked at the clock (just in case), saw that it read 4:12, and flipped out.
997. When you can quote every word to the podcasts.
998. You swear Tim looked at you at the last concert because you kept singing Gone when they paused (and got all the lyrics right!
999. You respect the Jonas Brothers because their favorite band is Switchfoot.
1000. Your mom will sit in the car with you listening to This is Home on the radio because you don't have it on your ipod yet.
We received so many entries in our 'You Know You're A Switchfoot Fan When' list, that we had to create three pages to hold them all! Click here to see the other entries! Page 1 | Page 3
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