gahhh tonight was SO disappointing. i do believe i have outgrown the UWC Rock Show. and it's only been a year since the last one. but, really, last year had Broadcast who are really good and HOT and non-NOISE. in fact it was in 2003, performed by Broadcast that i first heard "daytripper". weirdly enough. and the previous two years had TALENT and humour and one band with really funky costumes. 2004 actually was slightly disappointing compared to 2003 which was fantastic because there was the cute asian choirboy, there was broadcast, there was the sri lankan guitarist (isuru, i think that's how it's spelt) who is absolutely fantastic and did an amazing rendition of the sweet child o' mine riff. last year there was still broadcast and there was the funky costumed band and there was a female pair who were really nice and acoustic and had great voices.

tonight was pure, unadulterated NOISE. god. it was a... travesty of a rock concert. i guess i should've known, when the first band is called "sword bearing muscle kings of thunder, lightning and metal". i can handle talented rock noise, though i might not love it. i only went because of the promise of perhaps some entertaining acoustic stuff. but this year they didn't audition anyone and they didn't plan anything so it was one whole night of screaming and whanging guitars. only one truly gifted drummer, but the same band had a really bad vocalist so it ruined everything.

and the eye candy (or lack thereof). even more disappointing. it was a room full of hot girls and shitty guys. pathetic and depressing. ugh and i ran into this girl i've known since i was little, and she's turned into this really tall hot babe.

only good thing: sitting there, screaming into chit's ear and vice versa, mocking the whole set-up and making up wishes for where we could be instead, and dissing people left right and centre. good sadistic ear-destroying fun. atleast the ears have stopped ringing now. according to chit, the distortion was off or something therefore making the sound even worse than it already was.

until now i was wishing i oculd've gone on all three days of the show. now i'm glad i didn't buy a full pass. because it looks like 3 days of noise, and neither broadcast nor isuru's band is playing. the HotBoys from broadcast weren't even there tonight. maybe they decided that the show was going to suck as well. smart boys, those.

i will have to seriously consider if i will consider this tradition of going for the rockshow next year. it -will- be my last year here so maybe i will.

now for some sleep. (oh you know it was funny at one bit, because they do this thing with the lights where it's bright white and blinking really fast and they did it so often it made my eyes hurt so i shut them, and there i was with my eyes shut and the horrid noise all around me and it was truly the stuff of nightmares. i couldn't keep my eyes shut because it was too scary.)

i will go to sleep listening to something real nice and mellow. secret garden, perhaps. was listening on kelly's ipod during math lec and they're really really really good.

today's generally been a rather bad day.