mae and The Honorary Title

Hey there,

So I just got home from backpacking around Italia with my mom--my version of Spring Break. It was great! Very cold and a little rainy, but it was beautiful when we were in Siena, and that's all that matters.

I think I might go see mae and The Honorary Title at the TLA this Sunday. I've seen mae quite a few times before, and they finally played at Villanova last semester when they opened for Motion City Soundtrack. mae has popped up on other tours that I have been interested in because of opening bands and that's how I started to get into them.

Many people consider mae to be a Christian band like Anberlin, but I would just call it emo--ha! I have to warn you that they are severly emo and mushy, but it's not bad. Their keyboardist left approximately last summer, which is a tremendous loss in my opinion. I loved to watch it play--he was so intense. Watch this video at about 35 seconds in, he's the bald guy on the right...so into it! He always looks angry and sad and sweaty (this really doesn't do him justice, but let your imagination run wild). But he's great at what he does...



Anyway...I'm not going to try and make excuses for their music being so emo, but another fun fact: mae stands for multi-sensory aesthetic experience. I think that's badass.

Okay...no more for now... Next I will probably write about how I like The Honorary Title and they are just as emo as mae and sound like Dashboard, only post-puberty....get excited for that!

Abbey