I spent the last two nights working on my sculpture project until 4 in the morning. I’ll get some photos and put them up on here sometime. Let me tell you, procrastination does not make one feel good. Especially one who lives on a gramp0meter. Let me describe to you what the grampometer is. It is when your body shuts down around 11:00pm, or in the first 15 minutes of a movie, regardless of your intent. Needless to say I used some tactics like loud dance music and coffee (something I have been drinking a lot here at Pockleton) to get through the long nights. Overall, I think it was a great success.

Anyway, I just wanted to write about this band called Hellogoodbye. I know what you’re thinking, it’s pop-punk with keyboards and it is awful. Well, that is what I thought it was when I first heard them. Now if you know me or know me well enough to get to talking to me about pop-punk music you know that it stands for everything that I hate. The thing is, I heard them while I was getting a ride to Wal-Mart the other day and I heard a song with vocoded vocals and dance beats and I asked who I was riding with what it was. They said it was Hellogoodbye. I said “No way, when did they get good?” It turns out that they disguise that generic pop punk voice with a vocoder, sing about love, and bust out the dance beats; they are Daft Punk for the emo kids.

Granted not all of their songs are like that, and some really grate on me, but man I was so surprised when they had one or two good songs.

Here (In Your Arms) – Hellogoodbye (Youtube)