November 2008 Archives
I am so annoyed. The band that optimized my love of music during college completely and utterly sucked.
A few months ago when I found out that the Sisters were playing in Seattle I was incredibly excited. I blogged about it. My boss even decided to come along with me on my recommendation.
However, upon arriving at the venue this evening, El Corazon, I realized that the band had obviously come down a few rungs - it’s one of the smallest venue I’ve been to, probably with a ~300 capacity.
Anyhow, I was still upbeat.
At around 9pm they came on stage.
I say “around”, because I have really no idea. We were in the bar and was expecting some sort of thunderous noise when they came on.
We went into the venue proper, and it was packed with ~300 expectant fans.
All I could see was dry ice. And two silhouettes. I could vaguely make out one guy pretending to play guitar and one guy pretending to be Andrew Eldritch.
Seriously.
They were lip syncing. Just playing the CD and pretending to play along. Eldritch wasn’t even competent at lip syncing. It was so obvious.
It was pitiful.
And on top of that, it wasn’t even loud. I was having conversations with those around me about how much it sucked and how the band of our youth had just sucked $35 from each of us.
And how they, or rather Eldrich, had just lost us all as fans.
Most people just headed back to the bar where the bartender was on the phone to her boss explaining that they shouldn’t pay the band as you’d have a better experience just listening to the CD in your car.
What a way to burn out as a band - sucking your fan base dry and subtracting 300 people from it one gig at a time.
Last night I received the update to the Xbox Dashboard - the eagerly awaited New Xbox Experience.
For those of you that have been living in a cave, along with the update comes the ability to watch Netflix Watch Instantly content - it’s streamed directly to the Xbox.
To say I’ve been looking forward to this would be an understatement! The amount of content available is astounding, and the best bit is that it doesn’t cost me a single extra penny as I’m already a subscriber to Xbox Live and Netflix.
Anyhow, last night I couldn’t get it activated due to some (widely reported) problem, but it worked flawlessly this evening. The first move we watched?
