On Saturday night i am going, with a very good friend, to see the band Mars Volta in concert. and I'm scared.
Partly because to me Mars Volta's music sounds like I'm being chased through a musical instruments store by a bunch of angry, stoned mexicans, who are themselves being chased by a herd of stoned, angry elephants with trumpets surgically attached to their trunks but the elephants are always sucking helium so every note they blow is in falsetto which shatters all the windows in the musical instruments store which is actually located inside a small schizophrenic hamster's head.
Just look at Syd Barrett of the progiest of prog rock bands: Pink Flloyd. Thats right he's dead. Dead from too much prog rockin'. Sure the doctors might tell you it was "pancreatic cancer", but what would they know? They may also tell you he died 38 years after he left Pink floyd, but thats the thing, once you got the prog rock you've got it for ever. You end up sitting in the corner of a room counting your fruit loops as you eat them in bizarre time signatures.
So i'm looking forward to the concert, for the chance that it just may change me for ever, as only prog rock can. I like fruit loops.
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This entry feels like something I wrote. Only I didn't, and this is monumentally terrifying.
The problem is, that basically I don't quite agree with you. O, sure, I crunch things in time to songs very often, and Dream Theatre is particularly fun for that kind of thing, but... well, take Dream Theatre for example. Their stuff is pretty mad, some of the most advanced music I've ever heard. If anyone is prog then they are. But they're not dead. They were never alive. They are agents of the Metal, placed upon this Earth to make loads of unconventional and generally loud noises. They are actually a bunch of classically trained geeks who dropped out of university. So even before they started proging they already were weird and strange. They were always destined to serve the Metal, no matter how hard they fought against it. If you are overtaken by the progy power on Saturday night, then it will come clear to all that you are but another angel sent to Earth to make weird things happen in the age of prog HipHop! Nothing else you do will ever mean anything! Mwwwwhahahahahahahahaha!
I'll stop now.
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