December rehearsals and a few pics...

Oh, well, the December rehearsals went by without much ado... Except that one of the guirarists had been injured and couldn't play. Wear "personal protective equipment" at work next time! Fortunately, it was nothing serious. And he could join us for an incredibly serious and professional photo shoot, which was actually our sound engineer and knob abuser taking a couple of photos with his phone.

Of course we look like morons, but at least we have a couple of photos with all of the morons on them... Except for the sound engineer, of course... :/

Jeeeez... How is such a stupid-looking bunch o' wankers supposed to get anywhere... :D (female member excluded)

FINISHED TRACKS > Whence She Came

And now for something completely different - without further ado, the final mastered track, No. 12 of 12, for the upcoming album Tit:

Whence She Came (Cynicism Management)


WHENCE SHE CAME

From whence she came?
It was easy to detect
Wisping pungent air, traces trailing
From whence she came?
Whiffs of heavily lagging scent
Remnants slowly fading
Like a bitch in heat
All made up flawless painted glossed
Lined groomed tanned and flossed
They always knew
From whence she came

From whence she came?
She'd be nice for some action
Short of mental interaction
From whence she came?
She would serve for some blowin'
'Cause a mouthful is a mouth shut
Like a bitch in heat
All made up flawless painted glossed
Lined groomed tanned and flossed
They always knew
From whence she came

From whence she came?
From whence she came?
When they came when they came
When they came when they came
When they came
They came

Like a bitch in heat
All made up flawless painted glossed
Lined groomed tanned and flossed
They always knew
From whence she came
When they came
I heard a scream through the ceiling
And I nursed a gnawing feeling
That by the time her skin got peeled away
What was left of her was bloody insane

FINISHED TRACKS > Tit

Here goes the mastered title track from our upcoming album "Tit" and the superbly poetic lyrics to sing... eerrm... growl along:

Tit by Cynicism Management


TIT

Tit tit tit tit

There's a tit every morning
Stalking my TV
And the girl who does the weather
Wears tits for all to see
Then some bitch pretends to sing
In a see through gown
While I fight back stomach acid
Trying to keep it down

(CH:)
But holy crap I've got to see
There's a tit on my TV
I must see
I can't see
All the crap tit sells to me

Tit tit tit tit

Then I go and grab a beer
Promoted by a tit
I've heard beer's good for mother's milk
So I think, well, that's it
Of course the john's adorned with tits
To get me in the mood
If only they were flesh and blood
I'd grab them if I could

(CH:)

Tit tit tit tit
Tit

When they're done with selling
Shit by means of tit
They unveil a juicy butt
I like it, I admit

Tit tit tit tit
Tit

FINISHED TRACKS > TV Turns On You

Here goes another mastered track, No. 11 of 12:

TV Turns On You by Cynicism Management


TV TURNS ON YOU

I can't wait to flush my face
In flickers of the human race
All of this I may despise
But it sustains my dreary life
Need some genuine heartfelt screams
To liven up my stillborn dreams
I need some blood I need some pain
I need to think that I'm still sane

I'm so bored, I want more
Need some gore, need some gore
I'm so bored, I want more
Need some gore, need some gore

TV turned on me
I can almost see now
TV turned on me
I almost see now

I turn it on
'cause it turns me off
As I cease to be
it turns on me

Madness greed blood screeching tearing
Never subside no retreat no
Shelter inside all because of
Hatred fear wrath I've seen all the
Liars tell lies sold out assholes
Anger bursts out misdirected
Preachers spread blight murder all the
Sense that we might have left out there

I'm so bored, I want more
Need some gore, need some gore

TV turned on me
I can almost see now

I turn it on
'Cause it turns me off
As I cease to be
It turns on me

Madness greed blood screeching tearing
Never subside no retreat no
Shelter inside all because of
Hatred fear wrath I've seen all the
Liars tell lies sold out assholes
Anger bursts out misdirected
Preachers spread blight murder all the
Sense that we might have left out there

Omens portend we are failing
Massacred and entrails trailing
Final dead end we are nearing
Pestilence dread disappearing
Poisoned this place killed bystanders
Utter disgrace parasitic
Malice! We waste good intentions
Straying so far from redemption
Doomed

Anger bursts out misdirected
Preachers spread blight unsuspected
Omens portend we are failing
Utter disgrace parasitic
Liars tell lies sold out assholes
Sense that we might have things left there
Malice! We waste good intentions
Straying so far from redemption
What a relief this can't happen
Ever to me, I just watch some
TV

FINISHED TRACKS > Touring My Backyard

Here goes mastered track 10 of 12 - a spectacular homage to undying achievements in the field of rock 'n' roll:

Touring My Backyard by Cynicism Management

 TOURING MY BACKYARD

When I was just a boy I yearned to rock n' roll
But I didn't realize I was living in a hole
Then I grew a tiny bit, my vision kind of cleared
I popped a beer, caressed my cage and never really feared

Now I'm the coolest guy around, the only god with such a sound
I sell my twopence sermons every day
My nails are black my eyes are lined my pants are tight oh I'm so fine
I gloat in dismal dismay and decay

I rented the only touring bus in this god forsaken place
And published in every goddamn paper I was touring my own space

(CH:)
Oh wow yippee my gosh and gee
I'm tourin' my backyard
Rolling over my own mower
Bellyfolds o' lard
Mounted mirrors on the walls
My backyard's looking big
I'm bouncing reeling falling over
My excessive concert rig

In the mornings my head hurts, my double visions spin
But I know well that I'm the One so I embrace my sins
My proud dadland needs me to flash her stardom smiles
Distract the nation with pretence, wallow in shit piles

I rented the only touring bus in this god forsaken place
And published in every goddamn paper I was touring my own space

(CH:)

From the mountains to the sea
I sing my three-chord symphony
Nameless crowds beneath my feet
Look up at this astounding deed
My hair receding down my spine
But I still make these corpses mine
Dancing deaf to shit I spout
I dread what I have figured out

(CH:)

FINISHED TRACKS > The End Of The Vilewood Road

Mastered track 8 of 12:

The End Of The Vilewood Road by Cynicism Management


THE END OF THE VILEWOOD ROAD

Go to the end of the Vilewood road
Where kids end up as food for foxes
Right to the end of the Vilewood road
Where garbage dreams of metal boxes

Come to the end of the Vilewood road
Let old knotted pines lure you astray
Here at the end of the Vilewood road
You'll peacefully blow your mind away

Away

Go to the end of the Vilewood road
Where kids end up as food for foxes
Right to the end of the Vilewood road
Where garbage dreams of metal boxes

Cobwebs peeling your eyes out
As you miss a roundabout
Murders crimes and tyres cut
Titties of your test drive slut

All along those Vilewood lies
Whispered by the cat's corpse eyes
Titties of your test drive slut
Complement her naked butt

Come to the end of the Vilewood road
Let old knotted pines lure you astray
Here at the end of the Vilewood road
You'll peacefully blow your mind away

Away away

FINISHED TRACKS > Right Humpster

Mastered track 7 of 12:

Right Humpster by Cynicism Management


RIGHT HUMPSTER

(CH:)
Right, Humpster!
Do your nasty thing!
Be what you are!
Let the frolicking begin!
Right, Humpster!
Do your nasty thing!
Be what you are!
Let the frolicking begin!

Her bulging eyes at three a.m.
I really wish I'd give a damn
My eyelids kiss
My upper lip
Indeed this is a vile routine

(CH:) 2x

She's watery eyed like frogs in heat
Ignoring me, my every plead
When bonecrumbed dump
Spills everywhere
Repugnant, yes! But it's the end

(CH:)

Right, right, right
Right
Right, Humpster
Right
Right, Humpster
Right, right, right, Humpster

(CH:)

FINISHED TRACKS > Life Malignant

Here goes No. 6 of 12, an exceedingly sunny and optimistic track, simply radiating the so-called "positive energy":

Life Malignant by Cynicism Management

 LIFE MALIGNANT

Every day and every weeknight
I get more cancerous
Each endeavour every stage fright
Gets me cancerous

Every weeknight
Every stage fright

Every time I close my eyes
I get more cancerous
Sometimes I get caught by surprise
And get more cancerous

Every weeknight
Is the same plight

(CH:) 2x
Sleeping pills say let go
But reason murmurs don't know
It's out there stalking me
And it wants me cancerous

I'm complaining whining pining
Pondering this curse
But I go on, although declining
Shitting long-shat turds

Every weeknight
Everyday plight

(CH:) 2x

FINISHED TRACKS > Iniquity

Iniquity, the fifth mastered track for the upcoming album:

Iniquity by Cynicism Management


INIQUITY

Put me up and put me down
Mercy fuck me then turn around
Ready-made as I serve any whim
Then I'm disassembled
Limb from limb

(CH:)
Sometimes when I snap
I turn on you
You cross the line
I cross it too
I feel disdain
You feel the pain
Again

I've been had you took the piss
But made me feel I have been amiss
I'll just leave you to bleed to death
And you'll thank me as you
Gasp for breath

(CH:)

You are lying
So I keep prying
I swear
I will hunt you down
Won't make a sound

Abruptly I can see this might be iniquity
Abruptly I can see this might be iniquity

(CH:)

You are lying
So I keep prying
I swear
I will hunt you down
Won't make a sound

Maybe we could all agree that this might truly be iniquity
Maybe we could all agree that this might truly be iniquity

This might be iniquity
This might be iniquity

FINISHED TRACKS > Herbal Haze

Here goes the master of Herbal Haze, the fourth track from the upcoming album Tit:

Herbal Haze by Cynicism Management


HERBAL HAZE

Welcome dear tainted dawn
Are you to stay here long?
I plan to stay away
From your big brother day

Hello my trusted friend
Ready to make amends?
I'm yearning for your touch
Why cope with drudgery much?

(CH:)
And while I listen to them breathing
I want to see them fast receding
Longing for its touch
I know I don't want too much

Lead the day
And get sick get sick of it
Speed the day
There's much so much of it
Free the day
Roll it up and shrug it off
Heed your way
Feel it calling

(CH:)

Herbal haze became my face
Herbal haze became my face

FINISHED TRACKS > Four-Circle Penile Substitute

Here is the master of the third track from the upcoming album Tit by Cynicism Management:

Four-Circle Penile Substitute by Cynicism Management


FOUR-CIRCLE PENILE SUBSTITUTE

Such display of sound and vision
I've got what it takes
No indecision
I don't make mistakes
I own highways roads and side streets
Alleys know my name
With utter precision
I'm driving them insane

I'm the smartest smoothest best
Way above you and all the rest
I stop for no one
I am like the wind possessed
Every day I rub and polish
That which makes me me
All I can wish for
And everyone can see

(CH:)
All my life I wanted these four circles
Greeting me each day, greeting me each day
All my life I wanted these four circles
Taking me away, taking me away

Then one day some stupid cunt
Dares to make me swerve
I stop for no one
Damn she's got some nerve
Then the circles of my life
Get stamped into my head
Now I'm the greatest
Even though I'm dead

(CH:)

FINISHED TRACKS > Bad Bad Boy

OK... A month after we thought the album was about to be finished - to the day - it is now IN FACT done. Mastered. Complete. Over and done with. Yippee! In the previous FINISHED TRACKS post you can hear the updated track Another Place Another Time, which has been tweaked a bit during this time.

Starting today I'll publish a track a day, in the alphabetical order as we still haven't decided on the order of the tracks yet, until all 12 fabulous compositions, part of the the upcoming album with a monumentally poetic title "Tit", are here. So here goes the second one...

Bad Bad Boy by Cynicism Management


BAD BAD BOY

I've been a bad bad boy I've been a bad bad boy
I've been a bad bad boy I've been a bad bad boy

All the wants that I may have
Tremble at my mother's stare
I implore her to desist
This thing she does

I've been watching her grow old
Never penetrated, cold
I have never even grasped
The sin

I've been a bad bad boy
Got little hamster legs in my secret drawer
Therefore I hide till I can hide no more
I've been a bad bad boy
I have her visit my mind
Make her my own whore
Therefore I loathe
Till I can loathe no more

I've been a bad bad boy I've been a bad bad boy
I've been a bad bad boy I've been a bad bad boy

I grow older she grows old
I've been hiding things untold
It's been years and I am
Unrepentant

But she steals the cellar key
I make her stay eternally
Now I love her quietly
She's watching

I've been a bad bad boy
My little hamster legs I carry in my pockets
I no longer run 'cause I can run no more
I've been a bad bad boy
Those children's shoes
In my cellar locker
They're all just for you
So you can love me too

Bad bad boy

FINISHED TRACKS > Another Place Another Time

The first finished track from the upcoming album Tit has just arrived from mastering:

Another Place Another Time by Cynicism Management


ANOTHER PLACE ANOTHER TIME

Incomplete
A fading vision
I still roam this darkened city
Altered and disguised
Stranger streets
With every season
As I sit there unperceived
And ponder our demise

Turned the tides
And wasted many months of
Slipping grips on what we thought
That some day might become
Something has gone
And hastened by while I
Returned time after time
To glimpse the things undone

(CH:)
Another place another time
Oh we used to be whole
Another place another time
Oh we used to be whole

All those long lost
Trains of thought end up
Derailed as I blend finally
With shadows you can't see
There I remain
A distant grain of memory
An epitaph a footnote
Signed yours respectfully

(CH 2x:)

Yay, mixing done!

The day is finally here: mixing is done, jeez, what a pain in the behind it was... Maybe the next album should be less maximalist, less baroque, not so excessively intricate... Yeah, sure.

Anyway, today the tracks are heading into mastering, which will be taken care of by our pals at 808 Mastering! 

Yippee... ...now maybe I can finally work on something else for a change :D

Yay, vocals finally done!

YAY, finally done cleaning up, tweaking and polishing the final vocal takes for the upcoming Cynicism Management album. The final pre-master mixes are to be finished in a couple of weeks.

August band practice

Managed to organise a two-day band practice session despite the heat and August attitude. Tracks No. 9 and 10 done, two to go and we'll be able to play everything on the upcoming first album, which is around 80 minutes of suspicious tunes. A lot more work is to be done on the backing vocals and the second guitar, though.

New demo

New demo now on SoundCloud:

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.
For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

This is the last, twelfth demo. Now the final vocals, recorded last month, have to be tweaked and polished, all demo vocals replaced, and the final pre-master mixes should be ready until September.

Zee first gig!

OK. We have now officially survived our first live appearance. I (the drummer) didn't fuck up anything, miraculously, but I was quite unstable during the second track, because the sound guy blasted me with bass (the player of which relies on my poor judgement, to boot, so the bass player AND I got monumentally confused, feeding each other back into a case of "what? should I be quicker? should I be slower?" conundrum during the time we didn't hear any metronome). So we're not receiving any bonuses nor any fees for our immortal performance. Neither is our singress, because she screwed up a single line. Neither is the guitarist, who screwed up a single entry. Neither is our keyboard player, for his MacBook, in spite of all its apples, fucked up and decided to skip about one third of a second, stupid machine that it is. Our Mala the Rock 'n' Roll Bitch got laid, even caressed, thereafter (we sincerely hope) by Attila the  Doggie,  and her otherwise wheaten hair became green (?) for some reason (we suspect it was the moss below the benches, but, hey, let's let mysteries be mysteries). But, all in all, we're good. Here are some photos:

SETLIST: Barakafest 5 (26 June 2010)

Here is a setlist of the tracks we'll try to play without injuring ourselves too badly in the process at the Barakafest 5 gig on 26 June 2010:

1. Four-Circle Penile Substitute

2. Bad Bad Boy

3. Touring My Backyard

4. TV Turns On You

5. Whence She Came

6. Another Place Another Time

7. Life Malignant

---------------------------------

8. Iniquity

To hear the tracks head on to SoundCloud:

or use the player above.

Lyrics can be found on the LYRICS page.

New guitarist!

Well, I'll be damned, we miraculously managed to find a new guitarist willing to play some power chords in very unusual time signatures! His name is Enej Demirović and he'll take the place of Jan Urbanc, our previous heavy metal guitarist who got a bit too lucky with his wife and got pregnant (OK, OK, in reality it was a meticulously planned affair, but he was quite... erm, prolific... and managed to accomplish the goal in the first try, it seems).

Currently it is not yet known whether Enej will simply kamikaze onto the stage on 26 June after just one (1!) practice session with the whole band and join us for the first live gig, the Barakafest 5... Or if we'll opt for a somewhat less suicidal way out and, just this once, give the job to the keyboardist's MacBook instead?

Recording done

Wrapped up the recording of the final vocals, so all the tracks are done. Now for more band practice, then possibly the Barakafest 5 gig (if it doesn't rain, I suppose)... July is vacation time, yippee! Then the final mixing starts in August, and mastering, hopefully, in September.

New demo

New demo now on SoundCloud:

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.

For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

The first gig confirmed

The first live appearance by Cynicism Management has been confirmed. We'll try not to fuck up too badly on 26 June 2010 at the BARAKAFEST 5 festival, taking place near Zalog on 25 and 26 June. Our drummer is already bitching because he will be unable to play his own rather elaborate drumset, which might result in certain unusual improvisations that the other members of the band hope not to be too confused by. We may also be forced to appear without our heavy metal guitarist, as he is pregnant and due to give birth around that time :) His replacement is already studying the tracks, but it remains to be seen whether he manages to figure it all out on such a short notice.

Recording final vocals

Currently we're recording the final versions of the vocals for the upcoming album. Hopefully this'll be done in about two weeks, for it's quite a pain in the posterior... :)

New demo

New demo now on SoundCloud:

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.

For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

Pretty intense four-day rehearsals part II, or the uncalled-for follow-up

Here they are, many days after the actual rehearsals, some more photos of... Well... The rehearsals... OK. Fine. Admittedly nothing much has happened and we're just rehearsing and it's all pretty boring, relatively speaking, but at least we're trying. And we're just posting this in order to boost our blog visibility, or something, or other, or another.

Pretty intense four-day rehearsals

We've decided to organise pretty intense four-day rehearsals during the holidays. Aljaž, a.k.a. Bogomyr Yadvig, brought a Bear in Underwear with him. Why? We do not know. A couple of photos:

New demo

New demo now on SoundCloud:

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.

For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

New demo

New demo on SoundCloud:

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.

For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

New demo

New demo on SoundCloud:

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.

For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

The paving of Vilewood Road, part II

Here's a little video... errm... Let me rephrase that. Here's a totally unnecessary video of our guitarist recording the kazoo for the track The End of the Vilewood Road, which will presumably be the final monumental work on our upcoming album. We are only posting it here because somebody told us that people usually passionately prefer little videos to walls of endless text. How that is possible - should it be true at all - we will never know.

So, without further ado, here's Aljaž and his slightly out-of-tune kazoo:

Without the context of what Aljaž is supposedly hearing through those earphones he's wearing it is probably hard to imagine what the hell this annoying little kazoo tune is all about, anyway. Therefore we're also posting an instrumental demo of the track (vocals have yet to be recorded). Mind you, this is a work-in-progress unfinished version of the song with certain parts still missing (like vocals, for example), so things are probably still a bit off and askew for now. But you'll get the idea.

DEMO TRACK REMOVED.

For tracks currently on SoundCloud head to

The paving of Vilewood Road

On 30 March some absolutely fascinating additional audio contributions were recorded at the Juice Plant Studio in Maribor for the track The End of the Vilewood Road by Cynicism Management... While these ingenious ideas by our intrepid guitarist are still in production and thus cannot be heard yet for the time being, here are some photos:

Drum & bass rehearsals

On Wednesday and Thursday we organised special rehearsals just for drums, bass and vocals in order to "glue" the rhythm section together properly without being deafened by brutal guitars of our barbaric guitarists and window-rattling synths of our indomitable keyboard player. This time the bass player only bled from his ears due to the sonic terrorism of the drummer, while the drummer complained that the bass was too boomy. The rhythm section can now play 3 tracks reasonably well, 2 compositions semi-decently and 3 tunes pretty poorly. Here's a couple of monumental photos:

 

  

Rehearsals 1 & 2

The January and February rehearsals went quite well. We can now play the first six tracks (those included in the demonology 2010 album of demos) pretty poorly. Some extraordinarily exciting and wonderful photos:

 

 

  

 

demonology 2010 released

We have just released demonology 2010, a collection of six demos, intended as the first step towards global domination through blatant abuse of the Internets, of course :)

The tracks included in this demo release are by no means the final versions of tracks that are to appear on the upcoming full-length debut album. They are, well, "DEMOS" - work-in-progress versions intended as a preview of what we are trying to do. We decided to release them in order to possibly stir up some interest in this project and gather some feedback while we work on completing the final versions and release the full album, hopefully later this year.

Consequently these tracks are not meant to be downloaded at this time.

The following Cynicism Management pages are now also up and running on the following sites:

BandCamp

Last.fm

MySpace

Uvumi

Facebook

demonology 2010 coming soon

Currently we're finalising the DEMO versions of six tracks soon to be published as a collection of demos entitled "demonology 2010".

The collection will include the following tracks:

1) TV Turns On You

2) Touring My Backyard

3) Another Place Another Time

4) Life Malignant

5) Iniquity

6) Four-Circle Penile Substitute

These will by no means be the final versions of tracks that are to appear on the  upcoming full-length album. We will simply publish the "work-in-progress" demos temporarily as a preview of what we're trying to do, in order to possibly stir up some interest in this project before we start looking for a way of getting the final album published, hopefully later this year.

Notes

Notes

12 February 2011

This blog used to contain a "work-in-progress" fiction novel entitled Epic Tales of Cynicism Management. The text is currently being revised and finalised, so due to practical reasons I've decided NOT to publish any more of it here, and all the old draft chapters have been removed. The "online" blog version of the novel has been discontinued. Anyone who'd like to read the complete draft of the novel when it's finished (probably in a couple of months) and possibly comment on it, please drop a comment here or e-mail me at cynmanagement[at]gmail.com. Any input will be very much appreciated and taken into account at the finalisation stage.

The blog has been redesigned and will, until further notice, only contain posts relevant to Cynicism Managemen (the band). To listen to their enchanting tunes use the music player above.


18 February 2010

The OOC section will serve as a label for "out-of-character" remarks, status reports and various notes on the progress of the whole project, including posts about the "real" Cynicism Management band. I don't expect this section to be fantastically entertaining, but it might be interesting for us to have at our disposal sometime in the future, just to see what we've been up to :)

18 February 2010
A heap of layout & design changes, of course...


17 February 2010

I "double posted" the introductory text to this cunning project... As a regular entry entitled "pre-prologue" and as the "INTRO AND CLARIFICATION" page - simply because I think it's somewhat useful to know what this blog is about (to anyone who happens to read it, at least:))

17 February 2010

Blog created.

The first chapter of Epic Tales of Cynicism Management - the wannabe "novel" - will be published tomorrow.

Introduction and clarification

12 February 2011

This blog used to contain a "work-in-progress" fiction novel entitled Epic Tales of Cynicism Management. The text is currently being revised and finalised, so due to practical reasons I've decided NOT to publish any more of it here, and all the old draft chapters have been removed. The "online" blog version of the novel has been discontinued. Anyone who'd like to read the complete draft of the novel when it's finished (probably in a couple of months) and possibly comment on it, please drop a comment here or e-mail me at cynmanagement[at]gmail.com. Any input will be very much appreciated and taken into account at the finalisation stage.

The blog has been redesigned and will, until further notice, only contain posts relevant to Cynicism Managemen (the band). To listen to their enchanting tunes use the music player above.

On "Cynicism Management" -
the Actual (Real) Band 

Cynicism Management is a brainchild of seasoned musicians who keep getting even more seasoned with every passing year, but who have, to date, nevertheless failed to write any worldwide hit singles. Hence their latest endeavour: Cynicism Management, the newest attempt at global domination.

The initial scheme started out in late 2008 as an experiment – the whole affair was to be an "ongoing online literary musical". At its core, the idea was quite simple: to gradually write a fictional "blog" that would, hopefully, eventually develop into a kind of a novel. As the novel was to focus on the epic tales of a band called Cynicism Management, the blog would also contain original tracks written and recorded by this fictional band. Should the idea gain more momentum, any additional materials produced in the context of this project would be included in the "blog / novel", ideally resulting in a comprehensive work of, perhaps, interesting dimensions and format.

However, as this cunning plan was undertaken by people who are musicians to their very core, it is perhaps not surprising that the music soon became their primary concern. Thus a live lineup of the band had been established before the "novel" ever saw the light of day, and is already starting to perform live, which was actually not a part of the original "strategy". Naturally, at this point it would be completely idiotic if the real band insisted it was in fact some other, "fictional" band.

The real, tangible Cynicism Management band consists of the following troops: 

Monika Fritz - vocals
Aljaž Tulimirović - guitar
Enej Demirović - guitar
Samo Pečar - bass
Borut Praper - drums
Aljoša Mislej - sound engineer, laptop & knobs

Initially the literary experiment lagged behind the music somewhat - at the start of this blog (17 February 2010) all of the music for the first album had already been written. At this point (12 February 2011) the album had already been mastered, but has yet to be released, while the novel is just about to be finished.

As the novel is currently nearing completion, the "online" literary experiment has been discontinued until further notice due to a large number of revisions and changes bound to take place in the next few months.

On "Cynicism Management" -

the Fictional Band /
Plot Outline of

"Epic Tales of Cynicism Management" -
the "Novel"

Towards the end of 2008 Finnegan Frotz, an anonymous and extraordinarily pale black artist/musician and compulsive cynic of German-Scottish origin (don’t even ask), moves from Kirkwall, Orkney Islands, to a god-forsaken backwater of a little country in the northeast of Italy in order to join his occasional fling and co-artist, singer and would-be expert in English literature, Amalia Winegirl, as well as her half-brother Randy Jiggler, the self-proclaimed bringer of the English spoken word unto the unsuspecting aboriginal population and a reasonably lazy bass player who’d prefer to live in the Netherlands. Despite a firm belief in meeting the natives and forming a resounding Eastern European band of Western origin, Finnegan only manages to meet an unusual crowd of peculiar foreign individuals, including Bogomyr Yadvig, an exotic dancer and guitar player from Ukraine and part-time depressed vampire with suicidal tendencies and an inclination towards compulsive cynicism and melancholic lyrics (much like Finnegan himself, and that inclination results in many fascinatingly depressing dialogues between them); Kip Ducker, a balding metalhead from Alice Springs, Australia, the second guitar player; and Largo “Fidel” Cabaleri, a drummer and sofa revolutionary hailing from Trieste, Italy.

 
Apart from this colourful crowd, Finnegan also comes across an untold number of sexy people and stumbles upon heaps of quite unbelievable events (in the eye of sober individuals), while he and his associates join forces with the local sound engineer, producer and beer aficionado Boris Birman and pump all their efforts into creating what can only be described as a “worldwide smash hit single, smashing by means of uncanny, eerie and enchanting melodies, slightly eccentric odd time meters as well as delightfully intriguing, though a bit morbid, lyrics”. They do so despite having to cope with their inherent hopeless cynicism, sarcasm and downright bitterness, but at least they can name their self-help group Cynicism Management.

 
Compulsive cynicism and the resulting cynicism management self-help group may not necessarily be a pretty sight; but it’s fun, at any rate. At least for its members, of course.

[NOTE: THE "ONLINE" VERSION OF THE NOVEL HAS BEEN DISCONTINUED.]