You should join this band! (best band ad ever!)

We hold real finances

!

Before the Interweb you could only make this big a dick of yourself in front of a dozen people, tops.

One of many reasons I am glad for technology.

may we go forward.

Yep. The Epsilon Rising have obviously aborbed Debussy's finer works.

You misspelled 'aborted.'

No thanks guys, donate it the REVOLUTION!

Someone I forwarded it to pointed out how charming it is that they talk about *girlfreinds* who get in the way, making it obvious that female musicians are out of the question. I've contemplated it being a joke, but it's an awfully elaborate one if it is. And oddly coherent in a puff-of-green-smoke sort of way.

I just noticed that they've changed a paragraph from the version I read- here's the raleigh version:

"I will mention that this is not a "straight-edge band" nor "pro drug" band. We do weed smoke weed"

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/muc/139470722.html

It's the WAAAAVES....it's the WAAAAVES....it's the WAAAAVES

i haven't lived till i heard Highwater.

Imagine, nay create, a band so pompostulously ridiculous that the over-the-topness attracts it's own ironically 'adoring' audience. It's like 'Our Best Gig Ever' but with the script flipped.

awesome - i'm digging Epsilon Rising. i'm there. trust.

http://archive.wfmu.org:5555/archive/BL/BL_sharpling_and_wurster.mp3

1. Feels grandiose and self-important (e.g., exaggerates accomplishments, talents, skills, contacts, and personality traits to the point of lying, demands to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements);

2. Is obsessed with fantasies of unlimited success, fame, fearsome power or omnipotence, unequaled brilliance (the cerebral narcissist), bodily beauty or sexual performance (the somatic narcissist), or ideal, everlasting, all-conquering love or passion;

3. Firmly convinced that they are unique and, being special, can only be understood by, should only be treated by, or associate with, other special or unique, or high-status people (or institutions);

4. Requires excessive admiration, adulation, attention and affirmation — or, failing that, wishes to be feared and to be notorious (narcissistic supply);

5. Feels entitled. Demands automatic and full compliance with their unreasonable expectations for special and favorable priority treatment.

6. Is "interpersonally exploitative", i.e., uses others to achieve their own ends.

(Wikipedia)

Indeed, I'm ludwig_van.

(this is only funny if the author of the email has a Village People mustache)

http://minneapolis.craigslist.org/muc/146256431.html

Gotta admire his aversion to manual labor:

http://raleigh.craigslist.org/muc/389012256.html

I would totally do it if I weren't 6'4"

ha, if that guy's band actually gets famous that craigslist ad is going to come back to haunt them

I listened to 5 seconds of "Gimmie Some Love". It sounded like someone trying to stuff funk-soaked pineapples up G. Love's ass.

No thank you.

I'd lug all that dude's equipment if his rich parents were actually going to finance paying me a reasonable amount per gig.

The sound I'm going for is like a death cab/panic at the disco THE WORST HORSESHIT ANYONE HAS EVER HEARD kind of thing.

http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/wrg/504718270.html

anyone here interested in 'peak oil issues'?

if your creative output is restricted to just a few words, maybe this is a better challenge to undertake:

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/wrg/481511392.html

A Funk/R&B/Reggae Band specialising in well crafted songs is inviting submissions of clever names for the band that will sell records.

Waterfalls of Pussy

they've apparently updated their music a tad

http://www.myspace.com/theepsilonrising

that Forward Faster song gets sorta crazy later on

Looks like they found a drummer.

OH MY GOD "THE WAVES"

http://www.theepsilonrising.com/music/The%20Epsilon%20Rising%20-%20Waves.mp3

THIS IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST FUCKING SONG I HAVE EVER HEARD