Cool Bands And The Men Who Are In Them

Well the holidays are just about over. New Years is this coming weekend and then we will all get a chance to start fresh once again. This past year has been quite the struggle for me. Relationships ending, relationships growing and lots and lots of stress. Hopefully 2007 will have better results. Let's all keep our fingers crossed.

My friend's dinner went off smoothly! Everyone who was invited showed up to celebrate the holidays and we had a great time. Unfortunately the digital camera situation hasn't changed as of yet so there are no pics to post. That's ok though. If you read my blog once in a while you pretty much know what my friends look like anyway.

Now let's talk about something else. I was trying to come up with an idea for a new feature for my blog. Something that can become a regular topic of interest. MY interest that is. I already have my regular rant in "Things That Piss Me Off" so I thought I'd go in a different direction.

Everyone who knows me knows I love music. I can't stand to be in a silent room or car for any length of time when there is so much great stuff out there to spoil your earholes with. Taking this love of music into consideration, I decided that I will make it my new regular topic.

Now I love music and I love men. This topic will more than likely become part of my obsession with cool bands and the men who are in them. Especially cute ones.

And here it goes - Today we have the Finnish band HIM.
I can't say I really know too much about this band but as I sat at work listening to my Yahoo Launchcast radio station, I
found myself getting sucked into a song that just wouldn't leave my head. It's called Wings of A Butterfly and though it's catchy enough, it's not really my flavor of music. I think that's what makes it special enough to post here. Usually I'm banging my head to something hard and angry so imagine my surprise when this song creeped up on me. I ended up buying the cd and though the rest of the music is rather slow, there are a few cool tracks that I find myself singing over and over in my head.

Now here we have Ville Valo, the frontman for HIM. I checked out their official website - http://www.heartagram.com/ and read a little bit about the band. He seems to be quite the chameleon. His look is constantly changing and I came across a few pics where he even looks like a transvestite but these ones I thought were worthy of posting. These ones are my flavor. I especially like the last pic where he looks like he's flipping us off because it gives it a little more edge since the music I have heard so far is pretty tame. However, I still found myself liking some of their songs which are catagorized as goth rock according to what I have read online. Not very headbanging in my opinion but certainly a refreshing alternative. So if you would like to check them out for yourself, click here Wings of a Butterfly to watch their new video. Ville is sporting a new short do in the vid that I don't really care for but other than that it's a nice song that I thought I'd share with those of you who have never heard their music before. Perhaps next week I will have a new obsession to blog about. In the meantime, enjoy the video and have a safe and Happy New Year!!