XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory

About Me

Dictionary.com Word of the Day Archive
Wednesday July 16, 2003
Pyrrhic victory ..PIR-ik.., noun: A victory achieved at great or excessive cost; a ruinous victory.
A Pyrrhic victory is so called after the Greek king Pyrrhus, who, after suffering heavy losses in defeating the Romans in 279 B.C., said to those sent to congratulate him, "Another such victory over the Romans and we are undone."
Born on Valentine's Day of this year, Annabel Lee Fray... the power animal name of this band, that is not a band; We are a Song Belt that extends from Head to Toe... XL Troubadors of Phyrhicc Victory are cylinders enclosed within one cylinder... They are invisible, not because They can't be seen (one may peer either above or below the master belt/cylinder)... but because no one exists who is either above or below the belt...

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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/14/2007
Band Members:

we are whoever was and ever'll be my: friend; lover; acquaintance; enemy; hater; stranger.

also, as of yet, by name...
we are:

Michelle (super hero 1)...Caleb (super hero 2)...Mary (dirty undies afficionado/ flash band designer)...Jed (a real GIJOE)...Josey (the magic).... and Stepho (our professional fan and occasional sound fx)

Influences:

Andy Kaufman's. Daniel Johnston's. Don van Vliet's. Edward Lear's. Erich Fromm's. Franz Kafka's. Friedrich Nietzche's. Jan Swankmajer's. Jean Paul Sartre's. John Cage's. Lao Zi's. Werner Herzog's.

the irrevocable phenomenon of urban depersonalization. joy, despair and all other seemingly antithetical polarities of existence.

Sounds Like:

a racket. frothing milk. brilliance in the guise of stupidity. the hair clippings of a wolf.

an aural urinal of joy. gift-horse of inanity. coffee stains on the outside of the cup. too much exiguousness. torn paper on the inside of God's brain. wastebaskets stacked ten high. a suitcase full of outer space. unintelligible genius. a self-annihilating prophecy. potato chips translated. water transmuted. green multiplied by 6, divided by plastic kittens, added to sad funnel acridness, mixed with 5 independent concepts. essence of Bob. a light bulb filled with concrete.
Record Label: Gormenschwelt Records
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

crinkled ceramic baskets

Friends in whiter space... plastic...perspiration makes me stick to my shirt.yesterday, the kittens from Transylvania. fragment... lambent... no panacea.around... beyond.... below.... unde...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:00:00 PST

an essay refracted.

Frank Norris' Mcteague illustrates Gilded Age America as a restless and somewhat lawless time; greed being the motivating force in the novel. Although San Francisco of this era is a place of op...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:47:00 PST

molten & miniature.

embonpoint ..ahn-bohn-PWAN..h. i. j. &nbs p; &n...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Mon, 24 Sep 2007 04:02:00 PST

american neologism in hot-cereal-form

solid and stolid.....forn wresh telton shoont.porridge o' blue... moosht yelty doip rawn.the foreign wretched tell-tale short tale.... we don't wishtahear... nor wishta'b'here.musical yells he don't p...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 09:49:00 PST

plastic dessert in the desert

these snakeheads, sheepskins, and mirages are more than u think u can take.though our rend'rings fail to excite, their essences prove to delight us.ummm, hmmm, ummm jhoom.dumb, hymn, dumb jump.the sax...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Sat, 22 Sep 2007 09:13:00 PST

cut up laughing socks and glued on long stockings. b/c.

scissors of water.scissors of fire.cover the lungs.seize the power.(Dutch):schaar van water. schaar van brand. behandel de longen. grijp de macht.(French):ciseaux de l'eau. ciseaux du feu. couvre...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:34:00 PST

Today, collages and turn of the century literature busy me. ..whilst my spice tea steeps...

congealed wisp-think is this: thought that flies out of ones' head like kung-fu movie blood sprayto become in the cold air as a cloud that situates itself solid as a toupee of suitable armor upon...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Sun, 02 Sep 2007 08:16:00 PST

pink bycycle hoRn

KEY(F Mjor)cruised to class... out of my pocket flew my syllabus... don't catch the bus. ride a bike.... indeed easy streets... beware of the rust...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Mon, 27 Aug 2007 01:51:00 PST

fuschia horses in the clouds.

lISTENING TO THE cLEAR sPOT aLBUM bZ..y cAPTAIN bEEFHEART.the sounds of showering.... a usual grayness of the early august afternoon...about to hike to the shopping complex... will arm myself with pen...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:28:00 PST

anothern. cistern of thought.

crook in the backwaters of reality. solid wasteful talkings most of this cyber-world is.in order to prevent my reproduction thereof... i reduce myself to nonsense.is not it just that? if n...
Posted by XL Troubadours of Pyrrhic Victory on Sat, 25 Aug 2007 12:31:00 PST