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About Me

Not so much a band as one guy holding his dick, A Life Spent Waiting (formerly known as Destroy Something Beautiful) is the one-man home recording vanity project of Philip Whitehouse, Ultimate Metal contributor and top dataloader in the Walsall branch of electrical contracting company, Lee Beesley.After having spent six months or so as part of the woefully incompetent metal laughing stock that was Wolverhampton's Rose Petal Funeral , Phil escaped from the band's breakup, miraculously retaining some desire to be part of the music industry in some small way. So, armed with a Maverick X-1 electric guitar, a *cough* unofficial *cough* copy of Adobe Audition and some shareware drum sequencing software, he set about conjuring up riffs and learning about EQ theory and parametric equalisers and other such arcane mixing techniques to cobble together home demos.Intially intended to form the templates of songs to then shop around to potential bandmates, the riffs have since continued cascading out of the Whitehouse abode depending on how much time he has to spare. Each riff has a different feel, more than likely dependant on what album Phil listened to immediately before the riff's conception. With the artificial rhythm section now bolstered by the inclusion of a bass guitar (thanks to ex-girlfriend Jenni's Christmas generosity), A Life Spent Waiting continues it's jerky, stumbling path towards total word apathy.This isn't related to the music, but it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard: And here's a link to my friends in Murders In Memphis - I mix their shit up, yo:

My Interests

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Member Since: 5/7/2005
Band Website: alternativecommunity.cjb.net
Band Members: Philip Whitehouse - Rhythm guitar, lead guitar, bass guitar, drum programming, synths.
Influences: Hatebreed, Killswitch Engage, Trivium, Metallica, Slayer, Crowbar, Opeth, Pantera, and a shitload of other bands.
Sounds Like: An amalgamation of my favourite riffs by my favourite bands, filtered through a hamfisted attempt at writing something different and my own musical incompetence.
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Insomniac Doze

Nobody likes getting up for work in the morning. Whether you're roused from your slumber by a shrill, ear-piercing digital shriek, the more traditional ringing bells, or whatever tune happens to be b...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:00:00 PST

A Fun Day Out For All...

Once again, it's been a while since my last blog. And, as before, the reason is mainly that there hasn't been a sustained level of mishap-born hilarity in my life of late. Sure, the odd few incidents...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Tue, 12 Feb 2008 03:44:00 PST

Older, and maybe just a little wiser.

So, it's my birthday. I'm now 24 years old. Much love and thanks to those who have sent messages, texts, cards and especially to those who came to my little shindig at the house on Saturday - the cel...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Tue, 29 Jan 2008 02:53:00 PST

To an absent friend.

So, it's been a while since my last blog. That's mainly because, for the first three weeks or so of the year, nothing particularly amusing has happened to me. This blog is fuelled by the little misha...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:40:00 PST

Payday + Sales = w00t

Payday is always one of the happiest days of the month for me - the effect on my mood of seeing my bank account's coffers suddenly swelling is a particularly uplifting one. Of course, it's never long...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Tue, 15 Jan 2008 05:13:00 PST

Things Are Looking Up...

The closest thing I made to a New Year's resolution this year was the decision to make a concerted effort to take more advantage of opportunities that come my way, and to make strides towards creatin...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:59:00 PST

The Zero Tolerance Weight-Loss Method

I may have mentioned previously in this blog that my line managers is a little on the corpulent side. That is to say, she's a large lady. Well, the annoyingly loud co-worker I've also mentioned on th...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Wed, 09 Jan 2008 07:07:00 PST

Film 2008 With... Well, With Me.

I spent part of last night watching 'Hitman', the latest video-game-to-movie adaptation, and probably the best of the bunch so far. Admittedly, though, that's not really saying much. The qualificatio...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 03:29:00 PST

Same shit, different day.

So far, the day seems to be moving at a pace roughly equivalent to continental drift. I feel like I've been at work for days, despite that fact that as I write this, it's only a quarter to eleven in ...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Fri, 04 Jan 2008 03:04:00 PST

Gayest Blog Ever?

..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> I hate the cold. Always have done. Given a choice between trudging desolately over an Arctic tundra and slowly baking under th...
Posted by A Life Spent Waiting on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 03:03:00 PST