Pulling Teeth
Hey All,
I'm having trouble writing the review of the band that I saw on Thursday night. I'm already a day later than I meant to be with this, but I'm having trouble finding the right words to write.
The problem is this: as I'm discovering, the band are great on disc, on video and especially on Paper. But they are shit live. So fucking dull you want to stab your eyes with forks. Hey, maybe I've just been permanently damaged by having a chance to see bands live SixFtHick, Dillinger Escape Plan, Bleeding Through, Shihad etc. Bands that actually have presence and make an effort. Fine Neurosis don't do a hell-of-a-lot on stage, but the music they make and the way they make it creates their own intensity.
But no. This band just stand there and deliver their off-key renditions of their Emperor's New Clothes songs, which when stripped of all the Studio Trickery, sound really fucking weak.
Furthermore, this whole New Rave subculture they started (as a joke, no less, but that doesn't make it right) is so far removed from the spirit of actual Raving that I can't come up with a suitable simile. Raving, at its best, is ecstatic and transcendental, this is smug and tedious.
However, because of the position I am in I would burn too many bridges if I were to write what I actually thought of the show, so I am going to damn them with faint praise instead.
In other news: Some time a week and a half ago Microsoft Word stopped working on my laptop. Which is annoying. Fortunately I managed to find an open-source freeware word processor called Abiword which I am using to write my pieces until a more permanent solution is found. As it is, right now it seems to be working okay for me.
Microsoft Word comes bundled with Microsoft Office, which cost £200, money which I would much rather spend elsewhere. As it is, the only reason I can't just use the Text Edit window in Freehand (which I did, for a really long time) is because it doesn't have a word counter. Which fortunately Abiword does.
Anyways, I've got to get back to making a boring band sound good. I keep reminding myself that I won't always be pawning my integrity like this, and that most of the time I do actually get to write about bands that I actually do like.
Over and out.
-J
I'm having trouble writing the review of the band that I saw on Thursday night. I'm already a day later than I meant to be with this, but I'm having trouble finding the right words to write.
The problem is this: as I'm discovering, the band are great on disc, on video and especially on Paper. But they are shit live. So fucking dull you want to stab your eyes with forks. Hey, maybe I've just been permanently damaged by having a chance to see bands live SixFtHick, Dillinger Escape Plan, Bleeding Through, Shihad etc. Bands that actually have presence and make an effort. Fine Neurosis don't do a hell-of-a-lot on stage, but the music they make and the way they make it creates their own intensity.
But no. This band just stand there and deliver their off-key renditions of their Emperor's New Clothes songs, which when stripped of all the Studio Trickery, sound really fucking weak.
Furthermore, this whole New Rave subculture they started (as a joke, no less, but that doesn't make it right) is so far removed from the spirit of actual Raving that I can't come up with a suitable simile. Raving, at its best, is ecstatic and transcendental, this is smug and tedious.
However, because of the position I am in I would burn too many bridges if I were to write what I actually thought of the show, so I am going to damn them with faint praise instead.
In other news: Some time a week and a half ago Microsoft Word stopped working on my laptop. Which is annoying. Fortunately I managed to find an open-source freeware word processor called Abiword which I am using to write my pieces until a more permanent solution is found. As it is, right now it seems to be working okay for me.
Microsoft Word comes bundled with Microsoft Office, which cost £200, money which I would much rather spend elsewhere. As it is, the only reason I can't just use the Text Edit window in Freehand (which I did, for a really long time) is because it doesn't have a word counter. Which fortunately Abiword does.
Anyways, I've got to get back to making a boring band sound good. I keep reminding myself that I won't always be pawning my integrity like this, and that most of the time I do actually get to write about bands that I actually do like.
Over and out.
-J
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