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Banquo

music fills my empty bones sometimes it seems its the only place I have left to go

About Me

WANT TO ADD ME? Send me a message. I'm NOT interested in you if you are pimping bullshit music, or if you are pimping "help with Myspace", or if you are some p0rn st4r touting your frankly unfeasible, over-pneumatic tits around for trade. I am NOT interested. Got it?
Unless I already know you, or of you. In which case, add away. If it's music, then it's got to be organic, free-range music, created by actual real people.
I play guitars. I own cats. (steady at the back, there...) I work with computers (for a given value of $work, obviously). Sometimes. I'm considerably less interesting than you think. (And considerably less interesting than I think that you think I am...er).
Actually...since noone believes a word anyone writes on here: I'm a 7ft martian telekinetic who thinks in machine code, is the world's most interesting unknown guitarist and who's shockingly charismatic... It's the truth I tell you...Oh, OK, so maybe the bit about the Martian is a lie...
Jeez... Actually, like anyone on MySpace I'm a monstrous egomaniac with insecurities in direct proportion to that; I need the applause! Let me bask in the warmth of your Myspace affections. (Isn't it cold in here?).
So I'm the guitar player for Age of Reason . (Ladies, calm yourselves)... Big deal.
I've been in lots of bands, none of whom anyone's heard of. Possibly.
ONE GREAT SUMMER- Amplifier
Drained again by you and the summer I'm shadows of monsters
I'm showrooms of glittering glass With amphetemine comedowns
I'm spinning and turning, alone on St Valentine's
But I think that I hear celestial angels
They ricochet - sounds of moments of glory that passed
Now my pipe dreams are calling
They sing to me sweetly of soul and sincerity
Let's reset our instrument dials
Cause somewhere the moment will come
When we crash through the heart of the sun
Cause we are unstoppable now
Somewhere the night will explode
On the back of this wave that we rode
Because we are unbreakable now
Just how well do you know me?
I'm countless calamities
A malleable creature that speaks with a laudanum tongue
And i promise you deeply
The righteous will triumph over all adversity
Sometimes the melodies come
Leaving trails like stars as they fall
Sometimes I have to hold on
Because I'm overwhelmed by this all
So reset your instrument dials
Because somewhere our spirits will soar
As the audience started to roar
We are unswayable now
We'll feel the air under our wings
As the audience started to sing
We are unbeatable now
Well my head is a box
Whose secrets are open
We're candyfloss children
Who live in a city of clouds
With the ghosts of dead robots
Where fiction and fantasy
Roll like a cannonball
So won't you reset your instrument dials
On moments when planets collide
Emerald city doors swing open wide
Cause we are unstoppable now
Hold your breath and the music will play
And we'll puff and just blow them away
Cause we are unbreakable now
Somewhere the moment will finally land
As I pick the crowd up in my hand
To hear their roar echo away
We'll hear the roar echo away Hats off to Sel Balamir...
There might be a few subtle elements of irony or possibly even some sarcasm on this profile. I'll let you figure it out...
Note for religious nutjobs:
"Go. Away."

My Interests

Cats. Music. Guitars. Books. Coffee.

I'm not joking about the coffee...

I work with a large black and silver cat. Until very recently I also worked with an uber-cute little leopard cat, until some cretins decided to run her over. (Note to cat-murdering cretins: I hope you die in a freak gardening accident. Even though by killing a cat cooler than Antarctica you've set your karma back about two millenia...)

Everyone should use chorus, phase and flange in their lives- mine comes courtesy of Messrs Ross, Boss and those fine gentlemen at Electro-Harmonix. If you don't know what I'm talking about- well, there you are.

I wouldn't worry your pretty little head about it, if I were you.

Oh, and slide guitar with lashings of reverb & compression...

Supposedly I'm an "expert" in Russian & Soviet history; but I've forgotten most of it, except some true heroes (Peter the Great, and Mr Lermontov & Mr Pushkin- gentlemen, but for several hundred years I'd want to shake you by the hand). Now go and read "A Hero of Our Time" by Lermontov, my darlings...true, Russian sadness...

I'd like to meet:

Anyone who's real. Such "heroes" that I have met have mostly turned out to have clay feet. (Those who haven't rock all the more for being real).

Hawt chyx (isn't this what every male is supposed to put on here? Although quite how this is supposed to make anyone more attractive is beyond me- surely drooling in public is unattractive enough without telling everyone on Myspace. So in fact I am lying- I neither need, nor want, to meet "hawt chyx". Clear? Good. Normal people interested in conversation, well, now, that's different.... Entirely.) I'm glad we cleared that little bijou issue-ette up; clear the air. Mm.

Music:

Anything that's played by human beings. Guitars, analog synths and proper drumming is usually involved.

On permanent rotation:-
Smashing Pumpkins
A Perfect Circle
Sisters of Mercy
Rush
Japan
Pearl Jam
Tool
Pretty much anything with Robert Fripp playing on it...
Auf der Maur
Led Zep
Fields of the Nephilim
Type O Negative
King Crimson
King's X
Camper Van Beethoven
All About Eve
Steve Durand
Soundgarden
The Church
Muse
ZZ Top

Plus about a thousand other bands on occasional rotation.

Movies:

Right now I can't think of a pointlessly obscure list of left-field French art-house films that'll make me look cool. Although I do have a sneaking admiration for the post fin-de-siecle angst portrayed in the current series of Dora the Explorer. It's an interesting commentary on the pan-cultural ubiquity of the human experience.

No, really.

Television:

Television. A finer tool for sucking your brains out through your eyeballs has yet to be invented. I'll pass, thanks...

My Blog

The greatest song of all time...

With the sugar sickness You spy the kidnap kid Who kids you to oblivion It's the perfect hassle For the perfumed kiss He makes you miss him ...
Posted by Banquo on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:05:00 PST

hmmm.

I wonder how many *more* times this song is going to reflect itself into my reality...Alice pressed against the wall, so she can see the doorIn case the laughing strangers go and crush the petals on t...
Posted by Banquo on Wed, 14 Feb 2007 07:18:00 PST

Myspace band I actually like...

Check out the Rib Eye Brothers.Shades of all sorts of shit wrapped in 60's console grease.I'm going to see them live in the Carly tonight (although what the fuck they're doing there is anyone's guess-...
Posted by Banquo on Sat, 12 Aug 2006 01:11:00 PST