In addition to blinding fluorescents, soul-penetrating close-ups and death-defying stage acrobatics, "You Waste Time Like a Grandfather Clock" -- the latest vid off The Myriad's third album, With Arrows, With Poise -- also features one of the best title-similes we've ever seen (though honorable mentions go out to The Scorpions for "Rock You Like A Hurricane," plus Duran Duran for "Hungry Like a Wolf" and Nelly Furtado for "I'm Like a Bird"). Their style, still best defined as "atmospheric rock," famously draws on the creative energies of all five band members, and we've gotta say: we still like the way these guys think.

+ For more on the multi-talented Seattle fivesome, check out this exclusive Buzzworthy sit-down with the band and see how they rocked their way to Artist of the Week status.

Duders, the men of the Myriad don't actually live in the basement of a circa-1840s church in New York. (We were disappointed too when we found that out.) The current MTV Artist of the Week is actually from Seattle, which, to them, sometimes feels less like Nirvana-land and more like Narnia and inspires the band's soundscape, or, what bassist John Roger Schofield refers to as the sound of "10,000 times 10,000 ships on the sea with their sails."

See what else you didn't know about the indie rock band and their cinematic sound in a brand-new "Discover & Download" interview. But be careful -- you could end up with a speeding ticket. Or a baby. Consider yourself warned.

(All photos: credit, Cody Smyth)

It'd be easy to say that just because Seattle band the Myriad is this week's Artist of the Week simply because they won the MTV2 2007 Dew Circuit Breakout competition. It'd be easy, but it'd also be wrong. Their talent, which they've been honing as a band since 2002, is what edged out 4,000 hopefuls and earned them the #1 spot in the contest, which searches to find the best breakout bands and acts, like DCB alum Taking Back Sunday, Yellowcard and Hawthorne Heights. That talent, plus their ability to attract and connect with fans via their moody, effortlessly melodic, atmospheric rock is also what nabbed them a spot as MTV's Artist of the Week.

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Lest you think all we style fiends like to do all day is look at pretty pictures, today's Product of the Day is an actual BOOK. With papers and words in it. Okay, so it's got a bunch of pictures too, but hear us out.

The book's called "Everybody Hurts: An Essential Guide to Emo Culture," and we cannot even tell you how hard we nearly R(OTF)'ed as we LOL'ed throughout the whole thing.

Authors Trevor Kelley and Leslie Simon, seen here, obviously not smiling:

...take you on a guided tour of emo and all of its iterations, permutations, questionable hairstyles and hyper-specific fashion choices, hilariously outing Panic! At the Disco for dressing like Shakespeare (the o.g. bard of emo!) and nailing "that guy" for being un-emo enough to play sports. And if you are that guy or girl, don't worry. There's help to be had.

To the uninitiated, emo's hair-splitting dos and don'ts may seem superfluous or even random. But Kelley and Simon break down both the art and the science behind the emo lifestyle (because emo's SO much more than just music -- there are even emo foods, with an entire chapter devoted just to the emo lifestyle's cuisine) and school your ass in the myriad hairstyles, shoes, TV shows, even solid-colored Tee-shirts that are all either definitely or most certainly NOT emo.

A few examples:

Totally Emo: Crying, Livejournal, guy-liner, Clandestine Industries, the movie "Donnie Darko"
Nevers: Wearing anything Tommy Hilfiger ever, carpenter pants, sports, smiling, sunshine

Here's a visual example:

These shoes are emo:

($34, by Punkrose @ pinupgirlclothing.com -- itself a very emo name!)

These shoes are not emo:

($119.95 by Timberland @ Shoebuy.com)

Anyway, if you are emo, this book is 256 life-affirming pages of just how perfectly emo you are. And if you're not, well then you've got your work cut out for you. And you should start with this how-to manual, which is in stores now.