Hardcore Fan Test

Find out how devoted of a fan you truly are!

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  You own a Switchfoot CD

            You own between two and four Switchfoot CD’s

            You own all of the Switchfoot CD’s.

  You own all of Jon’s EPs

            You own several copies of Jon’s Eps, digital and physical

  You’ve listened to your CD’s more then once

            More then 5 times

            More then 10 times

            More then 20 times

            More then +50 times

  You know all the lyrics to all their songs

  You quote lyrics throughout your day

  You own all the DVD’s (even the Dual Disc of NIS & Beautiful Letdown)

            You’ve seen them more then once

            More then 5 times

           You can quote parts of the DVD’s

  You saw the Happy Is A Yuppie Word video before it came out

  You know what Etc. is

            You’ve heard a song from Etc.

            You’ve heard the whole album

            You own the whole album

  You know what Switchfoot Friday is

            You celebrate it

            You consider it a National Holiday

  You know who Willis Chin is

  You know what “The Cheat” is

  You know which Switchfoot album Jon and Tim’s mom sang on

  You know what KIND of guitar is on the cover of a Beautiful Letdown

  You know who designed the Nothing Is Sound cover

            You know who designed the Oh! Gravity cover

  You knew that Chad Butler’s Dad was in a band

            You know the name of the band

  You know which Switchfoot album has 2 different covers

  You know what CDs Tim designed

  You’ve heard the rare songs like Monday Comes Around and Old Borego

            You’ve heard the rare RARE songs like Wide As A Grave and The Story of a Man Named Pride

  You know the original lyrics to the chorus of Lonely Nation

             You knew that there were different lyrics to the chorus

  You know what lowercase people is

            You own the only lowercase people magazine that was actually a magazine

            You know Switchfoot song includes the lyrics ‘lowercase people’

  You know the guys’ first, last and middle names

  You know their nicknames

  You know their birthdays

  You know who can jump over a car

  You know what “Switchfoot” means

            You are shocked when some one DOESN’T know what Switchfoot means

  You know the titles of the other songs they were considering for Nothing Is Sound and Oh! Gravity that never made it to the album

  You know what the Tim Kwan Do bass defense program is

  You know what is so funny about grilled cheese sandwiches
  You know why Canadian Idol is so funny

  You know the which members of Switchfoot have produced CD’s for other artists

  You know what ‘Socratic Dialog’ is

  You know how many show’s Switchfoot did before they got signed

  You know lots of random facts about Switchfoot songs (like where Jon was when he wrote Fatal Wound and on what song they tried the jazz pre-chorus)

  You write reviews of Switchfoot CD’s (giving 5 stars of course)

  You can do the Timmy Shimmy

  You sing Switchfoot songs in the shower

  You draw the Switchfoot sign on notebooks, bags, journals, scrap paper, etc…

  You can’t watch ‘Game Plan Fontamillas’ on the Nothing Is Sound Dual Disc without laughing… even though you’ve seen it 10 times

  You tried running down a bowling lane and knocking over the pins like Tim

  You’ve tried the ‘Jon Wash’

  You want to take up surfing

  You routinely say “Sorry I’m awesome!”

  You read the ‘Thank You’s', credits, and legal stuff in the CD lyrics

  You’ve practiced jumping like Tim

  You can stagger around just like Jon does

  Whenever you listen to American Dream you pause it and do the American Dream freeze

  You practice your climbing skills

  You have at least one Switchfoot poster

  You own Switchfoot merchandise other then a poster (shirt, hoodie, stickers etc)

  You blurt out podcast quotes at random moments.

  You catch your family (who aren’t even Switchfoot fans) singing Switchfoot songs because they’ve heard you listen to them so much

  If you are playing a game like Catch Phrase or Taboo you relate everything to Switchfoot (“Okay on Switchfootage 2 Jon says Jerome and Tim sound like a…” “Boys choir!”)

  You encourage all your guy friends to dress like Switchfoot

  You want to go to the Switchfoot Ultimate Frisbee Academy

  You wish Jerome was your life coach

  You signed up for the cowbell contest

            More then once

            More then 10 times

            You signed up for it so many times the guys know your name

  Your Christmas Wish List is always filled with Switchfoot items

  You’re in the We Are One Tonight Fan Video or one of the Podcasts

  You’ve gone to Switchfoot’s Annual Bro-Am surf contest

            You’ve gone twice

            You’ve gone three times

            You’ve gone to all four Bro-Am’s

  You watched the webcam

            In 2006 and in 2008

            You watch the cam every day

  You have over a 100 screen caps from the webcam saved on your computer or photobucket

            Over 1000

  You know who Ghostie, Plaid Guy, Frobie and Cap’n Gary are. You also know who Smurfy, Gandalf and Mac Lad are.

            You helped come up with their nicknames

  You stayed up till the early hours of the morning watching the webcam

            After you finally went to bed the first thing you did in the morning was to turn on the webcam

  You know the significance of field trips

  You know the Gone webcam song

            You helped write the Gone webcam song

  Your dream vacation would be a Switchfoot concert in San Diego

  You have a harmonica

  You read celebrity magazines just because there might be something about Switchfoot in one of them

  You take up the guitar, keyboards, bass or drums

  You compare every band you hear to Switchfoot

  You write on your hand

  You’ve named one of your pets after one of the Switchfoot guys (“Come here Tim! Good puppy!”)

  Your screen name has something to do with Switchfoot

  You have a Switchfoot wallpaper or picture on your desktop

  You have a Switchfoot screensaver

  You’ve written Switchfoot

  Whenever you are driving and listening to Switchfoot you turn them up REALLY loud because someone might hear and become a Switchfoot fan

  You find yourself saying ‘das’ a lot

  You’ve started to use Switchfoot lingo like “rad” “jumpoff” “big cool” and “stay classy”

  You’ve had dreams about Switchfoot

  Your calendar is marked with Switchfoot related dates (Tour dates, Bro-Am, talk show appearences etc.)

  You see words like “human” or “butter” and automatically think “New Way to Be Human” and “Butler”

  You see a word like “for arm” and think ‘If I added an e and replaced the r with a n, I’d have Foreman!’

  You have the strange ability to bring every single conversation back to Switchfoot (“The weather is nice in Texas you say? Hmm…I remember when Switchfoot was there and it was really cold! They had to play an outdoor show and they were all wearing coats and hobo gloves!”)

  You can play Switchfoot songs on a musical instrument

  You scream ‘SWITCHFOOT’ whenever a Switchfoot song comes on the radio or you see their music videos on TV

  You think that the name “Jon” becoming more popular must be directly tied to Jon Foreman

  You’ve added all the Switchfoot names (example: Switchfoot, Fontamillas) to Microsoft Word’s dictionary so it won’t tell you you’ve misspelled them

  ”Switchfoot” is an everyday word for you

  You use abbreviations like SF, NIS, and O!G in everyday conversation and are surprised when people don’t know what they stand for

  You go nuts if anyone confuses Tim with Jon

  You sometimes glance at pictures in magazines/newspapers and have to do a double-take because you thought you saw a Switchfoot picture

  You watch Walk to Remember just because Switchfoot has some songs on there

            You watched the Walk To Remember Audio Commentary just in case anyone mentioned Switchfoot

  You know the title of the first movie Switchfoot was ever on (You know it WASN’T A Walk to Remember)

            You’ve seen the first movie Switchfoot was ever on/in

  Whenever you see a Switchfoot poster you spend a long time looking at it

  You’ve spent hours admiring all the Switchfoot merchandise at the Switchfoot online store

  You get really excited whenever they put out new merchandise

  You own the photobook or the poster book

  You look for Switchfoot CD’s in bookstores and are insulted when they don’t have it, even though you weren’t planning on buying it

  You’ve gone into stores and moved Switchfoot CD’s to the Best Sellers section

  You’ve looked through the lyrics to your Switchfoot CD’s so many times they are falling apart

  When Switchfoot announced they had recorded four albums instead of one, you felt a joy akin to Christmas, finding money, getting a great grade etc.

  Before their new CD’s come out you make a countdown chart and paste in on your myspace, facebook, blog etc.

  You buy Switchfoot CD’s the day they came out

             You preorder them

  You spend a long time mentally refuting critics’ complaints about Switchfoot (“Jon can’t hold a tune to save his life? HOW DARE THEY!”)

            You spend an even longer time mentally refuting critics’ complaints about Switchfoot songs (Someone said Oh! Gravity was cheesey?!? ARE THEY INSANE? They CLEARLY missed the deep questioning of the song!)

  You write reviewers who give their CD’s a bad review a comment defending Switchfoot

  You take lines from the CDs/DVD’s and twist them to suit your own purposes (like saying to the kids you are babysitting “I dare you to move… upstairs and go to bed” or “Oh! gravity I dropped my plate!”).

  You’ve asked someone if they like Switchfoot before you’ve asked their name

  You make friends more easily with Switchfoot fans

  Your friends and family members are sick of your bugging them to listen to Switchfoot

  People who diss Switchfoot in your presence should run for their lives

  Whenever someone starts talking about Switchfoot, you immediately mentally rattle off about twenty facts about them

        You rattle off the facts out loud

  You have seen Switchfoot in concert

            More then once

            You’ve been to so many shows the guys know your name

            You’ve waited in line 3+ hours so you could have good seats

            You’ve waited in line 6+ hours so you could have good seats

            You’ve brought homemade posters to the concert with you (Do “We Are One!” “Switchfoot Rocks My Socks!” or “Play Chem6a!” sound familiar to anyone?)

  You started to check ticket sellers months before a concert so you can make sure to get tickets before they sell out

  You keep all your ticket stubs from Switchfoot concerts

  You checked ‘The Daily Foot’ everyday for updates

            You are devastated when the tours end because that meant no more “Daily Foot”

            But you still check it because they MIGHT update even though they aren’t on tour

  You check everyday for a new podcast

  Whenever a podcast comes out you find yourself in a really good mood for the whole day

  You make your family/friends watch the podcasts

  You start to get irratable if they haven’t put out a podcast in a long time.

  You know who Andy Barron is

  You’ve been a SF fan since the BEFORE “The Legend Of Chin”

  You’ve made a Switchfoot wallpaper or banner

  You’ve made a Switchfoot website

  You’ve made a Switchfoot Myspace or Xanga layout

  Almost all your bookmarked sites are Switchfoot related

            You check them all almost daily

            Switchfoot sites are the first things you check when you get online

  You use your image software to paste yourself into a Switchfoot setting (“Yes, that’s me surfing with Switchfoot”)

  You save any article about Switchfoot you can find

  You have a scrapbook of Switchfoot clippings

  You have Switchfoot’s autographs

  You have one or more of the Switchfoot Christmas Packages

  You enjoy swamping any online poll that includes Switchfoot-related choices

  Switchfoot songs have been played more times than any other songs on your playlist

  Your top 25 songs on your iPod are mostly Switchfoot songs

            Your top 25 songs on your ipod are ALL Switchfoot songs

  You listen to songs you would never otherwise listen to just because the bands toured with Switchfoot

  You call in to radio stations and request Switchfoot songs

            You’ve done it so often the DJ’s recognize your voice

  You scoff at how easy “How Much Do You Know About Switchfoot” quizzes are

  Bands who come ahead of Switchfoot on countdown charts have your eternal scorn

  You want to play a Switchfoot song at your wedding

  Most of the people on your friends list have Switchfoot-related screen names.

  You use examples from Switchfoot songs to justify your political views

  You’re annoyed when people with opposing political views use examples from Switchfoot to justify their opinions

  You feel superior to all those lowly fans who really don’t know half as much about Switchfoot as you do

  You are a Foot Solider

  You are horrified if someone doesn’t know who Drew is and subject them to a 10 minute lecture on his awesomeness

  You are a member of several Switchfoot boards

  Your myspace is completely ‘Switchfootified’ with pictures, layouts, songs and videos

  You spend a long time on google searching for Switchfoot pictures

  You have 100+ Switchfoot photos on your hard drive

            You have 200+ Switchfoot photos

            300+

            500+

            1000+

  You were on the official boards when they were brown

  You spend a lot of time on the Switchfoot message boards.

  Most of your online friends are Switchfoot fans

  You own a Switchfoot Bootleg

  You’ve been a fan for more than a year

  You know why “hair” is a bad word

  You knew songs like “Hello Hurricane,” “Yet,” and “Vice Verses” before they’ve even been released

  You know who The Real SeanJon/Fiction Family are

  You download Switchfoot ring-tones for your cell phone

  You spend a long time on YouTube watching Switchfoot videos

  If someone gets a Switchfoot lyric wrong, you HAVE to correct them

            Not only do you correct them, you quote the whole next verse

  You’ve screen-capped your favorite scenes from the Switchfoot DVD’s & Podcasts

  You’re suspicious of any band who has a song with the same title as a Switchfoot song

  You know the story of the Christmas cards

  You know what song Switchfoot was thinking about releasing for a single after the Oh! Gravity single

            You know it wasn’t Awakening

  You were thrilled when the Awakening video reached over two million hits on YouTube

  You suddenly developed a keen interest in chick-fil-a freshly brewed ice tea

  You check out all the bands that Switchfoot likes

  You try to indoctrinate your younger siblings with Switchfoot

  You know why words like mit and werd are special

            You’ve spent time figuring out words like the ones above

  You know what Switchfoot guy you’re most like from all the quizzes you’ve taken

  You’ve made a Switchfoot personality quiz yourself

  You’ve made a Switchfoot knowledge quiz

  Whenever you see someone wearing a Switchfoot t-shirt you run over to them and tell them you love their shirt

  You get mad when someone writes John Foreman instead of Jon Foreman

  You’ve made a Switchfoot t-shirt

            You’ve made Switchfoot jewlery

  Your acquaintances think you’re weird because you like Switchfoot so much

            Your friends think you’re weird because you like Switchfoot so much

            Your family thinks you’re very weird indeed for liking them so much

  You’re amazed that anyone might think you can listen to Switchfoot too much

  You want to score well on this test

  You’re sure you’ll score well on this test

  You’ve exaggerated on some questions so you’ll get a better score

  You’ve thought of a dozen or so more items that should be added to this test

Use the codes below to post your results onto your site. Just be sure to replace [YOUR HARDCORE PERCENT GOES HERE] with your hardcore percentage.

If you’re 0-5%…

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If you’re 5-15%…

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If you’re 15-30%…

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If you’re 30-55%…

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If you’re 55-75%…

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If you’re 75-98%…

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If you’re 98-100%…

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