July 9th, 2004
I sent an email to my friend Ken outlining some suggestions for our band name. I separated the list into these categories:
- Names with a food motif
- Names with fictitious people
- Standard [Adjective].[Noun] or straight [Noun] names
- Names with intentionally mis-spelled words
- Other
I'll spare you the boring details of what the actual band names are, since there are a lot of them and my level of seriousness waxed and waned as I wrote out the list.
His response:
Brian, you are drinking too much coffee, aren't you? Are you back on the Jolt Cola? Too much time on your hands?
One brief answer to those band names: No ...
I've also said before though that David Wisdom says keep the names short. Beatles is good. Humperdillywart is too long. Anything with Bongos in it was early 80s (and look at the wretched leagacy those bands have left us with). Love Cheese is revolting, and I refuse to have my name attached to anything with the name Mamba Bananaman and the Wretched Fruitolas.
Sorry guy.
My reply to that:
I see.
Well, if shorter is better, then I propose: . That's right, with a name like . we would appear at the top of lists everywhere (punctuation sorts "above" the letter "a").
But ... yeah ... too much coffee, not enough work ...
PS: Are you sure you don't at least like Toe Pyjamas?
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Holy burning bagels!
Four people (it's a record) emailed me disagreeing with my macro-economic assessment of the American space program. And my friend Sean wasn't sure about it. Luckily, I'm Canadian, and don't need to worry too much about where the Yanks spend their tax dollars (unless it's for building a military assault across the World's Largest Unprotected Border. Then I might have something to worry about).