Member Since: 9/4/2005
Band Website: yesboyicecream.com
Band Members: An ever-shifting smorgasmobord of self-designated beautiful people and bitter, disgruntled social outcasts (these not being mutually exclusive)
Influences: YOUR CHILDREN, mostly in a bad way.Or, more effusively; vaguely pretentious but also designed to awaken some sense of the named in the reader...and alphabetised for neatness & obscurity (this is but a fluid and merely representative list; one aspires, zenlike, to the condition of a sponge):action [ak-shuhn] v 1. to achieve (stated) goal, to get (usually specified) ball over the line, to avoid kicking to touch. Usage note: one need never bother learning verbs again, as they can all be elegantly replaced with an "action" + noun combination e.g. action the eating of dinner, action the waking from sleep, etc.
Allianz Direct for employing obviously psychopathic individuals as advertising frontpeople
Bach for being so magisterial and combining such technical mastery with such endlessly life-affirming music
Bacharach for introducing such wonderfully inventive chord and time changes to popular music, cloaked in the guise of reliable suaveness
Beatles for the synergy (as evinced by the subsequent solo careers) but mostly for trying anything...oh and the tunes too I suppose
Beckett for demonstrating the importance of focussing on the fundamentals of one's "vision" and dispensing with everything else
Beethoven for finding so many completely unrelated ways in which to be a genius, for the mindbendingly complete reinvention that was his late period, for the monstrous and bizarre Missa Solemnis and utterly mindboggling Op.111, but most of all for his personality...strong, intelligent, warm, joyous, sad, sometimes nasty, but always strong
Don Conroy ...explanation unnecessary
Fair City for showing how nonsense can truly lead to the greatest joy
Gaudà for (although I can't claim to know anything about architecture) the breathtaking marriage of crystalline purity to such gnarled wildness
Hitchcock for (although not being my favourite director, in fact I don't think I have one) making deliberate technical innovations always serve the overall point of the movie
Mahler for the intellect and the sentimentality and the horror and the irony
Mussorgsky for showing that ugly can be beautiful...it helps to remember this when facing the mirror first thing in the morning
Nabokov for the delivery of black humour with such devastatingly eloquent style
Puccini for making one's heart swell (if a little guiltily) with the tunes
Wilson for (in his couple of anni mirabiles, at least) such relentlessly original chord changes and tunes that skipped and shimmied unpredictably around said changes
Sounds Like: , film, 2 words
Record Label: yesboyicecream records
Type of Label: Indie