"I was told..."

So as alluded to in Carly's post below, she got me a very special birthday gift: a red swingline stapler a la Milton from Office Space. Since she works for Fortune which owns Swingline, I'd been bothering her for a while to hook me up, and she came through..thanks Carl :). To learn more, check out the Virtual Stapler home page. God bless the internet.

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Snow Patrol's album is supposed to be pretty trite and derivative, but I can't help but like their new single "Run." It's typical brooding English rock band going overboard with string arrangements and power chords. Except their Irish. You can listen to it on their website.



Now I know why their new album is called The Decline of British Sea Power

So I saw British Sea Power tonight. I'd heard their live shows were pretty out there, but I didn't expect quite this much. To start, the lead singer was piss drunk when he came out...either that or he's just a crazy fuck. In any case, it was a very entertaining show, but at the same time the first show I've been at where I've been kind of fearful about getting hit by something thrown by one of the musicians (I did actually catch the lead singer's guitar at one point as it was tumbling off stage).

They came out wearing essentially elf costumes: each band member had these weird, wooly pants tucked into thick socks, accentuated by a childish little sweater. The keyboardist took it one step further, as he was basically wearing breeches, to complement the thick wool hat that kept falling over his eyes. I've also never seen a roadie on stage more than this one older guy who kept having to come out to fix the lead singer's guitar, fix various technical problems during the show, and during one part (pictured above), actually play guitar when the lead singer conked out during a song. Pretty funny shit. After the show everyone was cheering for the roadie because he had to do so much. And despite the consistent chaos on stage, the music sounded great. Good times.