• 6Sep 07

  WAILT - Butterfly Assassins

  

  Butterfly Assassins

  Combining up-tempo guitar riffs with c lassical piano and violin,this Chicago 4-piece are by far the best new band I've heard in months.I stumbled across them completely at random at FreeIndie.com,where the description,"If Mozart were into emo music,he would have been a fan of Butterfly Assassins" caught my eye..."If it's good enough for Mozart,it's good enough for me!",I saids,and boy was I right.Sounding exactly like Muse would if they and Arcade Fire were melded together in some bizarre accident,they write little 4-and-a-half minute concertos that sound so operatic and polished you feel they would be better off writing real real c lassical music,albeit with the standard depressing emo lyrics.

  "Prelude No 1 In D Minor" and "Little Violin" have gotten almost exclusive play on my Creative Zen for the last 2 weeks,and if it wasn't for the fact that I am completely broke I would have bought their EP(self-titled and self-released),forced all my friends to listen to it and made them buy it too by now.

  I expect nothing but massive things from this group,and am anxiously waiting for them to grow big enough to tour internationally and arrive in a unsuspecting venue near me.Seriously,I actually drool at the thought of it!

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  • Posted Sep 6, 2007 5:32 am GMT
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• 5Sep 07

  Collective IQ of OT < 70

  Seriously.Any attempt to make an interesting topic(i.e. one that doesn't involve religious intolerance,political bashing or "Wut iz youar shoo-size?") is completely ignored,or,worse,dragged back down to the same level as everything else.Alright,I always knew OT was a cesspool of mindless drivel,but it was never THIS bad.Don't know why I bother...guess I'm masochistic deep down.Maybe I'll try and find some intelligent discussion in System Wars...
  • Posted Sep 5, 2007 3:44 am GMT
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• 3Sep 07

  Wow,can't believe it's September again...

  Alright,I know I've said it several times before,but I'm back.Hopefully this time I might be around for more than a few weeks before disappearing again,although it has to be said I don't think my latest 6 month absense has been my fault.The last 6 months have seen an unfortunate,albeit unavoidable sequence of events;

  1.The house I was living in got broken into while everyone was away one weekend.Amongst other things,my PC,stereo,DS and MP3 player were taken.Yeah,it's the suck.I'm pretty calm about it now,but at the time you couldn't speak to me for about 3 weeks I was so enraged.Every one of my sentences for about a month contained an expletive.I was very,verry upset,is my point.Did the police recover ANY of our stuff?Did they f***.

  2.Due to financial difficulties,the landlord was forced to sell the house and all 7 of us,including his son,were forced to move out.Now,on top of the burglary,I was pretty damned depressed at this point,as would be expected.I loved that house;wireless internet,2 microvaves,dishwasher,washing machine,2 Sky+ boxes...that was incredible for a student house..but hey,maybe I'd find something like that elsewhere,eh?

  3.Not bloody likely.Due to the influx of immigrants Ireland has experienced in the last few years,housing near my college is now extremely scarce.So much so that I could not find a single room available anywhere ner the college.Not one.Seeing as there was no way I could afford to live closer to the city,I had to move back in at home,and commute to college every morning.Which meant being up at 7 to catch a bus,and not home til 8PM most mights,exhausted usually.They have to be some of the most depressing days of my life.Contact with my friends was cut to almost nothing,due to all our busy timetables.And the fact the broadband connection at home was acting up meant I was reduced to dial-up.VERY SLOW dial-up.It took 2 minutes to open Google,never mind anything else.It took a good hour to access e-mail,forget about anything else.

  4.After a horrible semester,I decided to spend my summer in New York.Queens,to be exact.Best summer of my life,which I felt fate owed me after crapping all over me for so long.I'm pretty sure I can't talk about most of what I did here on GS without risking banage,so I'll leave it to your imaginations.Oh,and the nearest internet cafe was 17 blocks away.And I don't miss the net THAT much.

  So here,at long last,I am.Now what the hell have I missed?What words am I no longer allowed to say,and who that I know has been banned?Info please,people,it's been so long I think I've forgotten how teh internest work!

  • Posted Sep 3, 2007 1:32 am GMT
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