It's a very, very mad world.

I'm foregoing studying. I quit!.......until morning. I know--I have no backbone. Let's face it, kids, I talk a big game, but the only thing I follow through with is school, bills (most of the time), and listening to music. If I tell you I will check out *insert band or artist here* then I will listen to them. That's all I can guarantee.

I'm listening/semi-watching the Dresden Dolls most recent DVD, Live at the Roundhouse. It has a duet between them and the lead singer of The Red Paintings, Trash McSweeney. Both are revolutionary. I could go on for many days and pages about my love and devotion to the Dresden Dolls and Amanda fucking Palmer (solo), but tonight, I mean to write about the epic-ness of The Red Paintings.

The Red Paintings are a band out of Brisbane, Oz, and will make you laugh, cry and want to touch yourself. Or not really....not the last one, but it sounded good, right? Besides, they might cause that reaction. I don't know about your personal life, loves. Anyway, they successfully mix art, theatrics, costumes and music to create one big amalgam of mind-blowing sensations.

I recommend the Walls EP and Destroy the Robots EP. If you come to fancy those, then dish out the moolah for the LP. All their tracks are for individual sale on their website, which can be found here.

And since I can't keep it in anymore, go listen to "Delilah" by Dresden Dolls. It's amazing-well thought out, well-written, beautiful and simple.

If you're feeling really froggy, then go watch the eight-part video series by Amanda Palmer, lead singer and pianist for the Dresden Dolls. Just follow from this first part on to the second and third and so on.

I'm on a dramatic kick lately, so the next band I choose to blog about will probably be one that wears outrageous costumes and sings about boats and pirates. (I already know who I'm writing about, so I know for a fact that they sing about boats and pirates.) Kudos and a mix cd to anyone that can guess who it is....two words....initials are AP. And, no. It's not Amanda Palmer, who I will from now on abbreviate with AFP.

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