Pile Of Kittens To Play Trash Bar In Brooklyn

My band, which I’m the drummer for, will be playing for the FIRST time at Trash Bar in Brooklyn, NY on Sunday June 28th at 9 PM. Come on down for some innovative punk/hardcore music and open bar from 8-9 PM. What more could you ask for? Be sure to come up and say hi if you’d like. We’re always up for giving out autographs and taking fan pics.

For more information, check out Trash Bar’s official site at www.thetrashbar.com.

Pile Of Kittens playing the Grind My Gears show at the Pyramid Club.

‘Sprint’ On Outta Here

Sprint PCS/Nextel has announced that it will be canceling subscriptions of customers (even LONGTIME customers) who have called customer service too much. I kid you not, they are sending out notices, giving subscribers a July 30th deadline. But as a consolation, they’re waiving the 150 dollar termination fee that would have been required had the customers backed out of a contract WILLINGLY. Oh, how nice of them. This whole fiasco is due to the cost of customer service, because each time someone calls, Sprint gets charged. And due to the fact that higher ups in the company feel that complaints towards the service, as well as people constantly calling in, were an indication that something wasn’t right. They feel that if they’re not satisfying customers, that they should just plain and simply go elsewhere for service. This is a move that will potentially hurt a company who is hurting for business. Sprint has changed they’re slogan more than Liz Taylor has changed husbands. The new slogan is : ‘Sprint…Power Up.’ This is an attempt to draw in a younger, more diverse crowd, who are internet saavy and who would want to subscribe to a company that’s becoming more web based in their phones and marketing ploys. One way they’re doing it, is to offer phones that have MP3 capabilities, as well as full web browsing (which is offered in the Mogul and Q, for instance). The UpStage music phone, by Samsung, is a step in the right direction. The phone is nearly as thin as a stick of gum, and has 2 sides. One is to play MP3s and music on, the other side is a keypad that’s used to dial out. Nice concept, and very appealing. But if Sprint wants to survive, they need to come out with better phones, and more of a variety. I happend to stop into a random store in New York not too long ago, and was dissapointed to see that they only had 8 phones along the wall being showcased. I didn’t have much to choose from, and indeed, I walked out unsatisfied. It seems they offer no incentives or great deals and discounts to existing customers. It seems that once they reel you in with the initial cheap phone, they’ve got you.  And you also have to resign with them for a 2 year contract in order to get the rebate on a new phone. Yes, I feel the love, um, I mean hate. Almost feels like knowingly walking into a bad marriage. Wait, is that wrong of me? OK, didn’t think so.

I ‘UpStage’ all the other phones.

 

We don’t like you either.

To My Faithful Readers

My appologies for not blogging as frequently as I’d like to. I have been working three nights in a row, and I blog whenever I can during my free time (which hasn’t been a lot lately). I have also been getting ready to go away for five days, and I still need to finish packing (eeeeeek!). Other than that, things are good. I’ll be going away with my girlfriend, so I’m looking very forward to spending time away with her in Maine. I’ll be blogging later on tonight hopefully (when I get a chance), and tomorrow afternoon at some point.

Keep on reading,                            

butifuldsastr

That’s all (FOR NOW) folks!

Hello world!

There is much to say about the life of a ‘butifuldsastr.’ I find the name to be appropriate for myself, due to the inner turmoil I sometimes face in my life. Like the rest of the human population, I have fears, anxieties, faults, and doubts. I sometimes feel trapped in my own skin. But the bottom line is, we each in our own right possess a beauty that is all our own. Embrace it.