Blue October is the worst band ever.

Blue October was on Conan last night.* I was flipping channels and didn't catch the part where Conan announces the group name, so at first I didn't know who it was. Also, I'd never heard the song or seen the band before. About 15 seconds in, I thought, "wow, this band is really awful." Then I realized the awfulness had a familiar quality to it. Lyrics that sound as if they'd been written by an emo 15-year-old who believes "nobody understands him" because he is "wise" and "poetic" and an "old soul"? A chorus that uses a progression of maybe three notes (repeat 4x)? Use of the harmonic fifth by the background vocalist? Whiny, nasal delivery by lead singer, complete with poseur-riffic head twitching (because he's feeling. the. MUSIC.)?

Sure enough, it was them. I don't know why I felt vindicated, but I did.

*I know I said in a previous post that I don't have time to watch Conan anymore, but impending failure and doom will make you do crazy things like watch TV when you ought to be studying instead.

ahhh...vacation.

Went to see SOUND Team last night. Excellent as always. I am anxiously awaiting the release of the full-length CD so I can listen to it over and over and over and over and over and over.... (I would've just said ad nauseam, but...I don't get tired of their music. As evidenced by the fact that I listened to the 4-song EP for two weeks straight in my car.)

Less excellent? Elefant, the band they opened for. I'd googled Elefant before the show and listened to some mp3s on their website, and from a casual listen I thought they'd be good. Granted, I was listening while laughing my head off at Letterman chomping on a stick of butter as Martha Stewart made a meat cake (yes, really), so perhaps my perception of Elefant's quality was skewed. Because they weren't so great. I am not so sure why, because the elements seemed to be there (except for some crappy lyrics, of which Lan has already spoken); most of the songs were melodic and catchy, which I generally love. The set just seemed flat, as if the band was bored--but I don't think they were. Anyway, I wanted to like them, but...eh. Maybe they're just not good live.

Unrelated: I want my own life-sized hamster cage.

you will buy this EP. because it's excellent.

SOUND team's EP, Work, is available in stores now.

One of the stores? Best Buy! I find that inexplicably cool.

bad metaphor, just for you

Chris Martin, on Radiohead: "We're like an eager dog just yapping around their heels, and they're trying to kick us away...It's like unrequited love. I'm in love with a lot of things. Some of those things love me back. And some of them don't—and one of them is Radiohead."*

Had our first IM soccer game tonight. We got lit up 6-1. Our illustrious captain--who was responsible for putting us in the A league in the first place--did not attend. And I think I re-injured my ankle. Still, I had fun. Even though I'm really not that good at soccer. Because soccer RULES! *grunt*

*http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8018845/site/newsweek (near the bottom. I'm not a huge Coldplay fan, but I think I love Chris Martin a little for that line.)