aims of APFUTD: to spread the joy of Placebo to all in a fun and personable way; i strive to have unique content and to remain user-friendly and unpretentious.
older site updates:
(newest updates are on the main page)
12/21/06: i added more to other discography and the encylopedia; spruced up a few other pages; added a couple more articles & reviews
12/20/06: added more pix to the encyclo; updated Trash Palace; and more
12/19/06: added & updated entries in the encyclopedia; updated the world map of where Placebo's toured; other stuff too
12/18/06: updated the encyclopedia (including even more pics); added to Placebo's Velvet Goldmine scenes, and to Robert's bio; messed with the formatting on several pages including bios; added a new DIY project and four new press articles; and more
12/14/06: added more pics to the encyclopedia; added an interview w/ Stef to the hotel persona page; modified other pages
12/13/06: updated the encyclopedia with more pictures of entries; added one new song intro; reformatted the colors & layouts of Bowie, the band's name, madlibs, the fortune teller thing; and more;
12/12/06: added a review of Carbon Kid to the Bri & Alpinestars page; updated the printable version of the encyclopedia; minor updates to a few other pages
12/11/06: lots more updates on the encyclopedia; updates to support; sent out the mailing list; added more articles and reviews; and did other stuff
12/07/06: posted an interview w/ Stefan and a review; linked many more pictures to the encyclopedia; changed formatting on a few more pages
12/06/06: added three new drinks; linked yet more pictures of people to the encyclopedia
12/05/06: linked more pictures of people to the encyclopedia & otherwise updated it; added a few pictures to a few fan fics; other minor tweaks
12/04/06: added several new reviews & two new articles; added several new drinks; formatted a few other pages; updated the encyclopedia (a lot), collaboration discography, and support; linked a bunch of encyclopedia entries to pictures (more will be added soon); and more
11/30/06: reformatted a few more pages; added a new rare promo thing and new merch link; typed & posted two recent reviews; and did a few other doo-daddies
11/29/06: posted the lyrics to the I Do demo; added stuff & formatted on the friends & foes page; changed up the DJ Stef & DJ Bri page; did a bit more on guitars (cuz i'm reading a book about electric guitars); added to misheard lyrics; and more
11/28/06: updated guitars a bit, friends, albums, encyclopedia; added two 2006 reviews (the third i'd already posted, oops!); the quiz is up & working, tetrablox is up but not working quite so well; and more
11/27/06: made a brand-spankin'-new quiz (which will hopefully work better once i FIX it); updated encyclopedia, quotes about other bands, chart positions, Placebo's friends, press quotes, Hotel Persona, other discography, albums, lyrics, alphabetical lyrics list, more quotes said by the band, frequently asked questions, and sitemap; changed formatting on numerous other pages; made a new game which will be added to the list tomorrow, added 6 more pictures of Placebo's friends; typed up 3 reviews which i'll post soon; among other various updates & tweaks
11/22/06: added site search & tell-a-friend thingies to this main page, added several pages & rescanned several more to make the site search give more relevant results, reformatted a bit elsewhere, and more. i'll likely be offline until monday, but expect lots of updates then.
11/21/06: added A LOT more links, removed a few crappy old pages that i never really cared about enough to do anything with, fixed up some pages, updated the encyclopedia yet again, added one more quote about other bands, started making a new quiz because the other was fucked, and more.
11/20/06: posted a new DIY project, old poll results; updated encyclopedia, guitars, compilation discography, merch, the band's quotes about other bands, tour dates; removed bad links; changed bits on numerous other pages too
11/17/06: made 2 new tagboards and several new polls (3 on this page and 2 on more placebo polls page). added to support, covers, encyclopedia, and more, wrote a rant, reformatted a couple other pages, tweaked a bit on this index page, plus i did other more boring site stuff
11/16/06: updated encyclopedia, people to know, support bands, remixes, song intros, books, and tweaked several more pages
11/15/06: added tour dates, updated singles, encyclopedia, books, dvds, timo maas, videos, chronology, my Placebo collection, and tweaks to FAQs, coming soon, past tours, and so much more!
11/14/06: i started my site-update kick with updates to albums, news, encyclopedia, history, Placebo used in TV & commercials, tour dates (lots more will be posted within the next few days), shirts, and more
06/08/06: updated encyclopedia, hotel persona, other lyrics, demo lyrics, and the lyrics list page
06/07/06: made a page for quotes said by Placebo about other bands, updated Placebo's friends w/ five more pix, other discography, causes, encyclopedia, Hotel Persona, and more
06/04/06: made a myspace page for this site (add dreamplacebo to your friends list, pretty please!)
06/02/06: added info to commercials/TV shows, encyclopedia, added Helena Berg to the bios of other people to know page, posted some new updated Placebo questions, add a new poll on the other polls page, posted a link to my myspace page (click my name on the index page), and various other things around the site
05/31/06: added new song explainations for some of Meds, updated the encyclopedia a bit, added some more chart info, added a pic of Xav & a little current info about Robert, posted the lyrics to Pink Water & Requiem for A Jerk, one new FAQ & one new link, & more
05/30/06: updated the encyclopedia (btw, i recently started designating new & updated entries), my collection (now w/ more pics!), FAQs, pics of my cat (as if anyone cares, lol), revamped & added to the page of band quotes, revamped the links page, finally made a page of Placebo WAVs, and did more stuff too.
05/26/06: posted a new diy project, new song explainations, misheard lyrics, and soundtracks, and did more other stuff.
05/24/06: added to encyclopedia, some of the galleries, and Placebo friends, posted some new links to audio & visual downloads, started a page for weird promo stuff, messed about on some other pages too.
05/23/06: added to band bios, imports & rarities, hotel persona, encyclopedia, site map, & put some pics on the Placebo friends page.
05/22/06: this weekend i updated the news, encyclopedia, chrono, history, support, other discography, FAQs, tour dates, commercials, lyric quotes, and a few more pages, added info about DJ Stef to DJ Bri's page, fixed some typos on various pages, added some new pix to the galleries, made a page for hotel persona.
05/18/06: i updated News, tour dates, videos, singles, lyrics, the index, added a new poll yesterday, and more.
03/03/06: added to FAQs, the encyclopedia, and to Placebo songs used in commercials & tv shows. posted a few new links on the Timo Maas page. updated the Placebo in the charts page quite a bit.
03/01/06: added some new screencaps, updated encyclopedia, new pictures of the band and of Bri, tweaked several other pages too.
02/28/06: more FAQs, another new fan fic by lipstick_traces, typed a review of Carbon Kid for the Alpinestars page, added a bit to cover songs, commercials (which is now commercials & tv shows), friend quotes, added another song intro, updated my thanks page, started putting inspirational images on some of the fan fics.
02/27/06: added a fan fic written by guest writer lipstick_traces, updated not Placebo & encyclopedia & FAQs, added more random Placebo facts, a new rant & more song intros & fun pics, reformatted the lyric & fanfic lists a bit, and more.
02/24/06: updated current tour dates, collaborations, encyclopedia, lyrics, bios, and more
02/23/06: put a new poll on this page, updated faqs, i tried do more but got too sleepy.
02/22/06: updated band news, added a few song intros & song explanatins, posted the final results of a shitload of polls i'd been hoarding.
02/21/06: i've been a busy little dee! this past weekend i made pages for Placebo rumors, Placebo Dreams, FAQs, and Live 8 then those pages got eaten by my floppy disc so i hissed and spat and hit but then i sucked it up and did them again. in addition i updated pages for extracurricular projects, Trash Palace, sitemap, encyclopedia, press quotes, and several other pages too. i made some new postcards & backgrounds. i moved some pages about on the menu thingy above & on the other Placebo stuff page. on the Meds lyrics page i added the lyrics of the 2 new singles. i added a few pics of items in my collection. for more fun i typed up and posted a review of OMWF.
02/16/06: changed the format of the index page to accomodate a bit of band news; do you like it this new way? added a few new links on the Placebo merch page, changed the format on the Timo Maas page, started a page for commercials that used Placebo songs, did bits & bobbles to several other pages that i can't be arsed to list.
02/15/06: combined fun file pages with fun links page. added to the other discography page, worked on the people to know page, updated the printable encyclopedia page *phew!*, added a pic to the Placebo w/ other people page & a screen cap of the First Day video to the Timo Maas page.
02/14/06: removed a lot of dead links & a few new ones, added three pix of Alex Lee, started revamping people to know (including adding pics) but it's not done yet, worked on the site map, edited the encyclopedia a bit more, played some of my games & realized the wordsearch solution was difficult to understand so i fixed that up.
02/13/06: added more pix, made a page about Alex the new guy, modified Xav's page, posted new Placebo drink recipes, and minor changes that i'm sure no one else will notice to various pages.
02/10/06: tweaked some nipples... er, i mean pages. added & fixed more pics in the galleries. updated my CD lists. added some hit counters for my own information.
02/09/06: fixed up a few pages, made a new poll for the other polls page, added to Bri's cute shirts list. i began to add new pics & move some of the other ones to save bandwidth & site space, so please bear with me as i work out the bugs & email me if you find a problem.
02/06/06: new fun Placebo DIY project
02/03/06: updated remixes, site map, fan fics *note the new rating system*, alphabetical lyrics, and some other pages. plus updated the world map of places the band toured and added a few new wallpapers
02/02/06: tweaked a bit on this page, updated chronology, added Meds to albums & added the 'jump to/back to top' option, NEW PICS! in the galleries, & other stuff. added Meds to the lyrics page but haven't posted the lyrics as of yet.
02/01/06: updates to Placebo news, singles, encyclopedia, history, & more
09/22/05: added to lyrics, encyclopedia, causes, timo maas, and more.
09/19/05: updates to history, books, DIY, encyclopedia, dvds, my collection, remixes, among others. made a new poll. fixed some broken pictures. created pages for Placebo's work with Timo Maas and causes/charities that Placebo is involved in.
09/14/05: updated news, encyclopedia, discography, chronology, and more.
04/08/05: added some new links, news, fan art, support band links, 1 new poll and 1 new poll of the other polls page, and other stuff.
04/01/05: made a new chat room, fixed & added a few details, updated my collection, made two new polls, emailed back some site visitors, and more. i tried to fix Drunken Quote Fun and messed it up more so now it's REALLY BROKEN!
03/17/05: updated news & tour dates
02/11/05: added more new pictures & a new fun link, edited Bri's guitar page and did some other stuff
01/21/05: added a few new pics & a video still of Twenty Years, fixed a few things, answered emails
01/13/05: added several new links, added a song intro, replied to emails from visitors of the site, and more
11/15/04: in the past several days i've done major updates all around, including the pages for band news, tour dates, videography, chronology, singles, albums, other discography, side projects, diy projects, history, games, encyclopedia, rants & raves, velvet goldmine, atlas, remixes, lyrics, search, alpinestars, and more. created pages for placebo dvds, books, and imports/promos/rarities disco
11/4/04: added to chronology, news, and encyclopedia
9/24/04: UPDATES!!! i added to news, encyclopedia, removed some bad links and added some good ones, answered some emails and other important stuff that i've been neglecting
4/23/04: oooh, i'm such an ass! i finally updated news, links, discography, and some other stuff
1/06/04: finished the 'heroes' fic, and did other little things
12/31/03: added more pics to the bri & band galleries, changed a bit on index page (did you notice?), made a new tagboard for chatting, fixed a couple things thanks to info ppl notified me about
12/30/03: loaded pictures to yahoo to replace the lost galleries, removed dead links and added new ones, 4 new polls (2 on the index page and 2 on the polls page), and more
12/26/03: updates to interview quotes and loads of other pages
12/24/03: updated news, DIY, encyclopedia, links, covers, and tour dates. added to history, added some pics of bri's guitars, started pages for bri's shirts, placebian mysteries, remixes of their songs, where to buy placebo stuff, and quotes about placebo from their friends, among other things
12/18/03: updated band news, videography, history, lyrics, my collection, covers, links, and friends among others. began work on a page for brian's guitars
12/16/03: updated the encyclopedia, news, singles, chronology, support, tour dates and more
9/28/03: new USA dates
9/08/03: updated album disco, other disco, covers, news, links, xavior, encyclopedia, chronology, made a new forum, added a new mag cover, and other stuff
8/25/03: added a bunch of new live pix (thanks to all those who donated!), updated band news, tour dates, and singles, fixed some things, other stuff i forget
8/11/03: added info about the kerrang 2002 awards, added new single & video info, new fan fic
7/21/03: moved Brian pictures to another host to help eliminate bandwidth problems, updated chonology, encyclopedia, tour dates, covers, wallpapers, trash palace, added new reviews and articles, made a page for DJ brian, uploaded my philadelphia pix and memorabilia, and more.
7/13/03: updated videos, encyclopedia, thanks, collection, tour dates, rants, lyrics to jackie, lyrics to maggie's farm by bob dylan, site map, support, covers and more. created a new MSN group for a better forum and chat.
6/04/03: added several new interviews, articles & reviews, added to the atlas, added a translation of the french bit of bruise pristine, added a funny picture, updated 2003 tour dates, made a page for my cat leeloo, and general maintenance.
5/28/03: re-formated and added some past tour dates, made a printable version of the encyclopedia, added to support & covers pages, added a new live 2001 review, began embryonic stages of a Placebo atlas, made a page for San Remo and pictures, changed the main page a bit, removed old links and added new ones, a new rant, among other things
5/20/03: latest news, several new articles & interviews, more song explainations and abbreviations, new pages for cover songs and bands Placebo supported for/bands Placebo were supported by, new drunken fun thingy, three new Placebo polls, a few new pics, fixed up lyrics, added a translation of Mars Landing Party, and more
5/13/03: new fortune teller, new concentration and tic tac toe games
5/12/03: more tweaking and editing, posted a few new fan fics
5/06/03: been tweaking a lot to clean pages up, new madlib, new USA tour dates, and more
4/30/03: new single news, tweaked many pages, new pages for alternate live lyrics and look-a-likes
4/28/03: new layout on index page; 2 new CD reviews; updated site map, encyclopedia, rants, random facts, intro, interview quotes, tour dates, xavior and thanks; new contest; new pages for trash palace, alpinestars, pictures of xavior, and bri's explanations of lyrics; lots of new stills, pictures, and comp stuff; and more
4/14/03: updated history, added 2 new reviews of SWG, a bio for xavior (the new guy) and more
4/11/03: finally got around to updating! updated chronology, news, tour dates, added a new chat trans from 2003, new lyric quotes, and more...
3/31/03: added new drinks, fixed some stuff up
3/20/03: b-side lyrics for TBE, images of all 3 TBE covers, fixed up some links, and more
2/24/03: more lyrics to demos & cover songs, more pictures
2/19/03: updated tour dates, 3 new placebo polls, new wallpaper by Tomas, mailing list, and other
2/11/03: new pictures, album & single artwork, 2 old BMM reviews i've been meaning to put up, SWG lyrics, and more
2/5/03: NEW euro tour dates are up in the tour section
1/31/03: new pic on main page
1/30/03: new placebo crossword puzzle & word search on the games page
1/27/03: updated the encyclopedia, singles, albums, videography and other pages
1/24/03: NEW UK TOUR DATES!
1/23/03: updated discography, news, and tour dates
1/07/03: ALBUM NEWS!
1/06/03: more pictures
12/20/02: been real busy w/ other stuff, so only minor changes all around the site
12/09/02: updated my mpg list, added a fan fic, added happy b-day brian wishes
11/30/02: created the chronology page, added new news, changed minor things in several places, added wallpapers, avatars, and icons.
11/26/02: updated links, worked on re-adding the pix
11/18/02: more news, fixed & removed some external links, added to NOT placebo, fixed some errors i came across, and for some god-foresaken reason all the computer stuff & most of the pic galleries fucked off to god knows where, so i started to re-do them but it'll take a while, i need reload all the pics and remake all the other stuff. fuck. sorry for the inconvenience.
11/05/02: new tagboard, new press article, list of placebo's friends, and more
11/04/02: pics of singles & albums placebo members have played on, added a pic of steve w/ the boo radleys, new news, added more to the encyclopedia, other stuff
10/28/02: new placebo game, worked on the encyclopedia a lot
10/24/02: made a placebo drinks page, started a placebo encyclopedia, added a new article
10/21/02: made a placebo slot machine for the games page, celebrated our 1 year birthday by getting toasted and obsessing
10/11/02: added a new madlib, added a new article, some press quotes, and other stuff
10/10/02: posted placebo & bowie's chat transcript, added more song intros, adoptions, directions on how to make your own placebo lippy, and did other stuff
10/07/02: updated mp3 list, moved & updated about me, made some more postcards, added lyrics to je t'aime moi non plus, fixed up some stuff
10/01/02: added placebos to adopt, new poll on main page, rated fan fics
9/30/02: new pics of brian, lots of them
9/26/02: made lists of my placebo mp3s and mpgs, moved several files to make more space & use less bandwidth
9/12/02: alot of new brian & band pictures
9/11/02: made a new madlib, added a new interview, and the ever popular minor details
9/10/02: made a little scroll box for updates, added more some to about me, made all song lyrics jump from the lyric page to the song when the title is clicked, fixed some stuff
9/09/02: added more links, more quotes, made a page for pictures of placebo w/ other people, added more group pictures and lots of stuff i forget.
8/22/02: added cast and some links to velvet goldmine and placebo's scenes from VG, finished posting all the lyrics and made a page for the lyrics of other songs brian sings, added the tagboard to main page and other less important stuff.
8/20/02: updated band news, updated a few other pages
8/19/02: added a new poll, more lyrics, updated the site map, made new banners to match the new colors.
8/13/02: changed colors on other pages, updated collection, and added a few new links
8/12/02: created a new layout for the main page
7/12/02: posted some new pictures of bill, made thumbnails for the velvet goldmine pics page and several pages of the gallery for faster loading, removed a few links, added a message forum and a guest map. due to decreased webspace, i sadly had to remove a few things from the audio media page.
7/08/02: made pages for make your own cebo stuff, song intros, and misheard lyrics and put them all on the other placebo stuff page, added links to videos on the visuals page, added more to friend or foe and put up lots of new video stills.
7/02/02: added a few other avatars, posted a new interview, posted a little bit more on each biography page, added lyrics for all albums, joined a new webring.
6/18/02: completely fomatted all past tour dates, created pages & index buttons for: fan stuff, lyrics, other placebo stuff, other placebo related people to know, added little collage things to: videography, discography, press, added 3 pictures to the band history page, put a picture on the games page, split the multimedia page into videos and audio, posted one new funny placebo picture, made a mouse over for the main page, split up the screencap pages, added alot to other discography, and added some more press quotes.
6/11/02: created icons, added a picture & scan of a press article, made a calender for the band news page, added a bit to the band bios, formatted a bit on many pages.
6/10/02: more pics in several galleries, messed w/ the intro page format, joined a new webring, updated the thanks page, made new buttons for the table on the main page, updated the site map.
6/03/02: i added info and a still about each video on the videography page, added demos to discography, posted several more links (especially 'other language fansites'), made 3 new polls and posted the results of the past 3 polls.
5/19/02: i've updated the site several times, i've just not updated this page. i made video stills of an interview from launch.com, posted a pic, added some more links and a place to add your own link, added a few more songs to multimedia, updated my placebo collection and made a picture memory game for the games page.
4/3/02: interlaced a few images, put links to videos on multimedia, made new cards for the match game, made some new banners & buttons, made an adoptions page & linked it w/ the fun stuff page, added new pictures to the pages for bowie & placebo, steve, and velvet goldmine.
4/1/02: made lots of video stills, made several more avatars, organized the links, made a contest.
3/23/02: reduced images and put parameters on the intro & index pages so they'll load faster, created a trivia game for the games page, made 3 new polls, and made a page for older poll results.
3/19/02: added alot of new pix to several galleries, made a few new avatars, and fixed the postcards
3/12/02: linked all pages back to the main page, added a chat room, separated the computer stuff from the fun stuff, made a few banners to use for linking to me, made some post cards, added several new links, started the huge task of adding past tour dates and other stuff.
2/25/02: added little pix to the singles, albums, and gallery pages. finished the site map, messed w/ the image on the main page, and finally picked a name for the site.
2/14/02: added some live pix from Cate.
1/22/02: made a page for robert, added pics to the bios, worked on the site map, added lots more audio media and more.
1/15/02: started a site map, added some new audio media, fixed up the wallpapers and more.
1/14/02: added some pics to the other pics gallery, added 5 new press articles, several more press quotes and 1 press review. Added some more audio multimedia, put up a bit more about Bill, added to and revamped the lyric quotes page, and put my email addy on several pages.
1/11/02: added lots of new pics and a new collection to the gallery, made new pages for singles and albums and added pics of the albums. put several more avatars up, and messed around w/ font styles and colors all over the site.
1/09/02: recently added new avatars, updated the band news, loaded 3 new songs to multimedia, added a Placebo jokes, removed buttons on the main page, changed colors and more.
i'm 100% sure there were several updates between these 2 dates, but i just don't know where they went. i must've accidentally deleted the record of them.
10/31/01: uploaded a few new fics, wallpapers, fixed buttons on the main page.
10/21/01: loaded lots of new wallpapers & avatars but haven't put them up yet, news buttons on the main page, little things elsewhere.
10/20/01: wrote & loaded a new fan fic, added 3 wallpapers, and made some games.
10/18/01: put up several fan fics. added links to all pages on main page. put up some quotes. created thanks, other discography, david bowie, disclaimer, webrings, polls, song interpretations and tours pages. added pictures to most galleries. added 'back' links for easier navigation. added a bit to each member's bio. put up some avatars on the avatar page. added to the velvet goldmine page including a few pics.
10/17/01: created site. set up skeletons of index page and pages for galleries, band news, history, discography, videography, quotes, fun stuff, press, fan fics, velvet goldmine, about me, links and media. organized site, searched for links, pics and other stuff. got a guestbook.
