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Why "the Fallout"?

In May of 2004, my personal site gained the name and domain thefallout.com.
I had been looking for a cool domain, but they all seemed to be used or someone was sitting on them. And then when I was looking on the inside of Switchfoot's "Learning to Breathe" album I read the following:
Welcome to the fallout: where truth and the shadows have become blurred. This is the incompletion... and we are holding our breath. But look! The winds of redemption have come to within the confines of our frozen fists. "Behold, I make all things new." And in the newness there is hope for the hopeless, where the eternal lines of the heavens collide with our own humanity. In the divine comedy where up is down and down is up we lose ourselves to find ourselves. Love is the movement. This is the revolution.
After reading "Welcome to the fallout", I thought that would be cool to have on the top of the website, and then thought thefallout would be a great domain. I assumed it was taken, but when I checked, the owner wasn't using it. I emailed her and asked if she'd be open to letting me buy it, and she said she wasn't using it any more and that I could just have it!
Not only did I then have a cool name, but the album had a color scheme that I'd been using variations of since the site began in 1999! So I redid the site with a theme much closer to the album, and the site had a name!

Albums

Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   The Legend of Chin
Label:   Re:Think / Sparrow
Released:   June 17th, 1997
Tracks:  
  1. "Bomb"2:46
  2. "Chem 6A"3:11
  3. "Underwater"3:46
  4. "Edge of My Seat"2:47
  5. "Home"4:03
  6. "Might Have Ben Hur"2:38
  7. "Concrete Girl"5:05
  8. "Life and Love and Why"2:52
  9. "You"4:13
  10. "Ode to Chin"2:15
  11. "Don't Be There"4:22
Legend of Chin Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   New Way to be Human
Label:   Re:Think / Sparrow
Released:   March 23rd, 1999
Tracks:  
  1. "New Way to Be Human"3:36
  2. "Incomplete"4:13
  3. "Sooner or Later (Soren's Song)"3:58
  4. "Company Car"3:13
  5. "Let That Be Enough"2:38
  6. "Something More (Augustine's Confession)"4:00
  7. "Only Hope"4:13
  8. "Amy's Song"4:30
  9. "I Turn Everything Over"3:21
  10. "Under the Floor"3:55
New Way to be Human Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Learning to Breathe
Label:   Re:Think / Sparrow
Released:   September 26th, 2000
Tracks:  
  1. "I Dare You to Move"4:07
  2. "Learning to Breathe"4:35
  3. "You Already Take Me There"2:42
  4. "Love Is the Movement"5:10
  5. "Poparazzi"3:20
  6. "Innocence Again"3:28
  7. "Playing for Keeps"3:44
  8. "The Loser"3:40
  9. "The Economy of Mercy"3:56
  10. "Erosion"3:22
  11. "Living Is Simple"5:17
Learning To Breathe Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Beautiful Letdown
Label:   Columbia / Sony
Released:   February 25th, 2003
Tracks:  
  1. "Meant to Live"3:20
  2. "This Is Your Life"4:18
  3. "More Than Fine"4:14
  4. "Ammunition"3:45
  5. "Dare You to Move"4:15
  6. "Redemption"3:06
  7. "The Beautiful Letdown"5:20
  8. "Gone"3:45
  9. "On Fire"4:39
  10. "Adding to the Noise"2:50
  11. "Twenty-Four"4:52
Beautiful Letdown Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Nothing is Sound
Label:   Columbia / Sony
Released:   September 13th, 2005
Tracks:  
  1. "Lonely Nation"3:44
  2. "Stars"4:20
  3. "Happy Is a Yuppie Word"4:49
  4. "The Shadow Proves the Sunshine"5:04
  5. "Easier Than Love"4:28
  6. "The Blues"5:15
  7. "The Setting Sun"4:24
  8. "Politicians"3:26
  9. "Golden"3:35
  10. "The Fatal Wound"2:44
  11. "We Are One Tonight"4:39
  12. "Daisy"4:20
Nothing is Sound Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Oh Gravity
Label:   Columbia / Sony
Released:   December 26th, 2006
Tracks:  
  1. "Oh! Gravity."2:30
  2. "American Dream"3:09
  3. "Dirty Second Hands"3:16
  4. "Awakening"4:08
  5. "Circles"4:06
  6. "Amateur Lovers"4:36
  7. "Faust, Midas, and Myself"3:51
  8. "Head Over Heels (In This Life)"3:41
  9. "Yesterdays"4:04
  10. "Burn Out Bright"3:24
  11. "4:12"4:12
  12. "Let Your Love Be Strong"3:47
Oh Gravity Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Hello Hurricane
Label:   lowercase people records
Released:   November 10th, 2009
Tracks:  
  1. "Needle and Haystack Life"3:49
  2. "Mess of Me"3:27
  3. "Your Love Is a Song"4:22
  4. "The Sound (John M. Perkins' Blues)"3:47
  5. "Enough to Let Me Go"3:52
  6. "Free"4:03
  7. "Hello Hurricane"4:04
  8. "Always"4:20
  9. "Bullet Soul"3:24
  10. "Yet"3:53
  11. "Sing It Out"5:17
  12. "Red Eyes"4:50
Hello Hurricane Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Vice Verses
Label:   lowercase people records
Released:   September 27th, 2011
Tracks:  
  1. "Afterlife"3:37
  2. "The Original"3:15
  3. "The War Inside"3:38
  4. "Restless"5:17
  5. "Blinding Light"4:16
  6. "Selling the News"3:34
  7. "Thrive"5:12
  8. "Dark Horses"3:59
  9. "Souvenirs"4:31
  10. "Rise Above It"3:33
  11. "Vice Verses"5:07
  12. "Where I Belong"6:52
Vice Verses Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Fading West
Label:   lowercase people records
Released:   January 14th, 2014
Tracks:  
  1. "Love Alone Is Worth the Fight"4:35
  2. "Who We Are"3:25
  3. "When We Come Alive"3:38
  4. "Say It Like You Mean It"3:53
  5. "The World You Want"4:18
  6. "Slipping Away"3:35
  7. "Ba55"4:45
  8. "Let It Out"3:17
  9. "All or Nothing at All"3:46
  10. "Saltwater Heart"4:04
  11. "Back to the Beginning Again"4:21
Fading West Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Where The Light Shines Through
Label:   Vanguard
Released:   July 8th, 2016
Tracks:  
  1. "Holy Water"3:47
  2. "Float"4:12
  3. "Where the Light Shines Through"4:24
  4. "I Won't Let You Go"4:47
  5. "If the House Burns Down Tonight"4:31
  6. "The Day That I Found God"4:18
  7. "Shake This Feeling"3:37
  8. "Bull in a China Shop"3:58
  9. "Live It Well"3:56
  10. "Looking for America"3:55
  11. "Healer of Souls"3:47
  12. "Hope Is the Anthem"4:21
Fading West Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Native Tongue
Label:   Fantasy
Released:   January 18th, 2019
Tracks:  
  1. "Let It Happen"4:41
  2. "Native Tongue"4:38
  3. "All I Need"3:08
  4. "Voices"2:58
  5. "Dig New Streams"3:45
  6. "Joy Invincible"3:42
  7. "Prodigal Soul"3:51
  8. "The Hardest Art"4:13
  9. "Wonderful Feeling"4:06
  10. "Take My Fire"3:45
  11. "The Strength to Let Go"4:18
  12. "Oxygen"4:14
  13. "We're Gonna Be Alright"2:55
  14. "You're the One I Want"2:05
Fading West Cover Art
Artist:   Switchfoot
Album:   Interrobang
Label:   Fantasy
Released:   August 20th, 2021
Tracks:  
  1. "Beloved"5:34
  2. "Lost 'Cause"3:44
  3. "Fluorescent"3:35
  4. "If I Were You"3:48
  5. "The Bones of Us"4:02
  6. "Splinter"3:47
  7. "I Need You (To Be Wrong)"3:33
  8. "The Hard Way"3:26
  9. "Wolves"3:10
  10. "Backwards in Time"4:13
  11. "Electricity"4:38
Interrobang Cover Art