From: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org (fegmaniax-digest) To: fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Subject: fegmaniax-digest V8 #442 Reply-To: fegmaniax@smoe.org Sender: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-fegmaniax-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk fegmaniax-digest Friday, November 26 1999 Volume 08 : Number 442 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: A Rational Proposal [chrisg ] RE: A Rational Proposal [Bayard ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Bayard ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Bayard ] twat rock ["Anal Oil Leakage" ] bad word! bad! [Bayard ] Re: bad word! bad! [Aaron Mandel ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Eb ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! was the "Terry Marks Experience!" ["Chris!" ] everything but Robyn--BUY NOTHING DAY!!!! [DDerosa5@aol.com] by the wait... [DDerosa5@aol.com] here's that link [DDerosa5@aol.com] Re: bad word! bad! [Michael R Godwin ] Band names, bad names, banned names ["matt sewell" ] Re: everything but Robyn-films [Ethyl Ketone ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Glen Uber ] A Can of Bees, linear notes... [Briannupp@aol.com] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Eb ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Ross Overbury ] will the kindly UK feg who sent me the sept 21 Birmingham show please step forward? [Bayard ] Re: A Rational Proposal, more ba(n)d names: [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: A Rational Proposal, more ba(n)d names: [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Breasts [Mark_Gloster@3com.com] Re: Help! Throw me a name! [Joel Mullins ] Re: Help! Throw me a name! ["JH3" ] two horrendous band names all over the world [Jason Thornton ] Bye ["Ariel Green" ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:24:51 -0500 From: chrisg Subject: RE: A Rational Proposal >I haven't spoken up publicly yet concerning the barrage of breast-related >comments, but I really must beg everyone to talk about someone else's >chestal region for awhile. Is "chestal" a Woody Allen _hommage_? Or is it, contrary to my impression, a real word? Woody Allen seems to have come up a lot lately, but I think it was in my rare RL conversations rather than on this list. - --Chris, at Grandmom's house, but spending quality time with the Feg list r[recently]p: RH&E, Gotta Let This Hen Out ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:31:44 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: RE: A Rational Proposal > Is "chestal" a Woody Allen _hommage_? Or is it, contrary to my impression, a > real word? Woody Allen seems to have come up a lot lately, but I think it was > in my rare RL conversations rather than on this list. Webster's doesn't know it, but I did get 45 hits on "excite". ps. ghod, did i really post that? I thought I was less of an asshole than that. sorry, viv. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:36:14 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Matt Sewell wrote: > Kind Fegs, > > I have a problem. > Having been a solo, bedroom artist for so many years, happy to use my real > name when playing to my audience (ie. me), I now find myself with band... > Thing is, though we have music, instruments and all the other stuff > necessary, we don't have a name. Due to my lack of imagination etc, I > haven't been able to come up with one (save perhaps "Feckless", but how > out-of-date, GenX is that?). Pathetic, maybe. out-of-date, not at all! (but it is semi-taken.) Try this link: http://www.bandnames.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 22:44:12 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! Guess I should have looked more closely... the names at that site pretty much are all worse than both "limp buiscut" and "celine dione". There has got to be a place on the net for good band name ideas, though... =b np: man or astroman, _made from technitium_ (thanks michael k!) ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 19:50:45 PST From: "Anal Oil Leakage" Subject: twat rock wager? i think that natalie jane jacobs is going to say it on her radio show this very weekend. aren't you, natalie jane? ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:11:00 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: bad word! bad! i'll go out on a limb here and say that you are taking her too literally and what was meant was "it is illegal to", in place of "cannot". what are/were the "7 deadly words" you're not supposed to say? I think we talked about this before. IIRC the list contains both 'fuck' and 'motherfucker', which seems a bit redundant, why not just specify "'fuck' and derivative works thereof". ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:53:37 -0500 (EST) From: Aaron Mandel Subject: Re: bad word! bad! On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Bayard wrote: > what are/were the "7 deadly words" you're not supposed to say? I > think we talked about this before. IIRC the list contains both 'fuck' > and 'motherfucker', which seems a bit redundant, why not just specify > "'fuck' and derivative works thereof". here's the deal: one of the landmark indecency cases involves a George Carlin monologue. that monologue was found to be indecent but not obscene, and the supreme court asserted that right of the FCC to restrict (but not ban) indecent material. at the moment, indecent material cannot be played on the radio between 6am and 10pm. the part that gets people tangled is that the Carlin sketch was itself about the "words you can't say"; he wasn't talking about illegality, though, so much as words that had retained their power to shock. in any case, the fact that the monologue was found to be indecent obviously doesn't give Carlin's opinion the force of law. (even if it did, there are three more words he adds to the list at the end of the bit which for some reason have not joined the other seven in legend.) what's been established legally is that if you say all seven words over and over again in the particular pattern that Carlin did, THAT can't be played on the air in the middle of the day. the decision, along with a transcript of the sketch, are at: http://www.epic.org/free_speech/pacifica.html but if you don't want to read through it all, the words in question are "fuck", "shit", "cocksucker", "motherfucker", "cunt", "piss", "tits". no doubt there are plenty of radio stations that cite these words in their obscenity policies, but, well, they're confused. a ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:18:20 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! >Try this link: http://www.bandnames.com Silly list I made a month or so ago, pitted against a friend...my choices for the 10 worst band names among my discard CDs: 1. (Hed)Pe 2. Aviso'Hara 3. Tristan Psionic 4. Wuhling 5. Mr. Gloria's Head 6. Lee Harvey Oswald Band 7. Lizard Music 8. My Friend Steve 9. Atomic Bitchwax 10. Blue Flannel And...the friend's opinion on the same subject: 1. Jimmy Eat World 2. The Mommyheads 3. Jack Off Jill 4. Mr. Gloria's Head 5. Angry Salad 6. 764-HERO 7. Man or Astro-man? 8. When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water 9. The Skeletones 10. Toenut Heh. Of course, because we only surveyed my *discards*, Gorky's Zygotic Mynci wasn't eligible. ;) >Ditto. Please, let's get back to discussing Robyn. OK...does Robyn's girlfriend have nice breasts? Tangential: I'm liking the new Bryan Ferry disc (As Time Goes By) a lot more than I expected. It just may be my favorite of his post-Roxy solo albums. There's no good academic justification for this view -- it's just a really pleasurable disc to hear. To make an obvious comparison, I'm sure that David Bowie poured far more effort into *his* new album, but I easily like this disc better. I had a headache spell earlier tonight, and after a dose of Ibuprofen, a long shower and a hour or so flopped in bed with Mr. Ferry (um...I mean, his album), I feel a lot better. Today's "Wheel of Fortune" puzzle: P--pl- -n gl-ss h--s-s sh--ldn't w--r st--pl-ss d--ss-s. Happies, Eb PS Here are some more champion bad band names, which I plucked off some related website quite awhile ago: Anus The Menace, Birdshit and Bubblegum, Bladder Polyps, Blood Fart, The Brady Bunch Chainsaw Massacre, Buster Hymen and His Swingin' Organ, Caution: Cars May Stop At Any Time, Childbearing Hips, Chocolate Fetus, Chunderspew, Coathanger Death Yank, Concrete Clitoris, Conway Twitty Is Dead, Don't Worry - Bea Arthur, Driver Speaks No English, Elder Feces, Freebase Barbie, Fuzzy Triangle, The Phallic Cymbals, Scrotum Purge, Skeptic Tank, The Swollen Members, Tabasco Douche, The Whatever Four, Urge to Anthropomorphise, Vas Deferens. Yuck! ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:25:13 -0800 From: "Chris!" Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! was the "Terry Marks Experience!" Eb wrote: > > >Try this link: http://www.bandnames.com > Perhaps the most inspired of the found bands names was a Portland band in the early 90s that took its name after a truck repair shop. The owner was latino, but that did not matter much in the end. The name of the shop and band: Jesus Truck Repair. Of course, asking other for a band name means that the band in question has not drank, fought, and otherwise wasted their own time enough to think up a name they like. .chris ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Nov 1999 23:53:34 +0000 From: Eleanore Adams Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! Eb wrote: > >Try this link: http://www.bandnames.com > I just have to mention my short lived band and it's name - Fuckmuffin Gish and the Occult Teen Gathering. Where did this name originate, you might ask? Well, I am F.M. Gish, taken from not being able to answer a trivial pursuit question about old movies. The Occult Teen Gathering was what an old lady next door told the police was happening in a friend's garage when we played. She called my drumming "fireworks going off". Eleanore - -- "Baby Steps.....Baby Steps......Look I'm sailing!" - - Bill Murray, in What About Bob http://www.loomer.com/el ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 04:22:14 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: everything but Robyn--BUY NOTHING DAY!!!! so, I haven't posted in a while, thought I'd wait till the RH tour was over and move us into other subjects. Hah! I won't even touch the jazz thread beyond to say that I just got Art Blakey's Drum King album while in New Orleans, and it reminded me of how great the Jazz Messengers were. And Wes Montgomery! I got an album of him and his brothers playing together. but I don't have good adjectives for them... but speaking of jazz, live, the wacky band that opened for Olivia Tremor Control, Bablicon, was jazz of sorts, fusion weirdness with theremin and so on. I bought their CD, still haven't figured it out. OTC was great, and for whoever bet her, Gnat did kiss the gnome, and deserves a dollar. Scott was in fact quite cool, he and I talked for a while, and he tells me that NMH is already working on their next album, Mangum's demurrals notwithstanding. By the way, Gnat kissed a bunch of the other guys too, for whatever that's worth. Maybe that's why the Thoths got such close looks at the stage monitors. I wonder what Andy Partridge does with his.... What else? went and saw Dan Bern (oops, he's now Bernstein after a trip to the Lithuanian homeland) the other night, saw no feggy types beyond Vivien's friend Kevin, who told me other tales out of school about our Eddie. Who I had in my own house just two weeks ago. Fuck yeah. Dan is great and all of you who take eddie's word on other things should just enlist in the army. For those who know the twisted non-fruit, he played a new song (three days old) about breaking into Wrigley Field a few years back, running the bases, crashing into the ivy, etc. called "Tonight I got the Ballpark". very funny. Movies: I finally, after doing a ton of protest work last week (I got my picture on the CNN website, an action at Kelloggs HQon three wire services, and a protest mentioned in the NYT, WSJ, WPost, Financial Times, numerous Chill and Calif papers, and the CBS national evening news--anyone see me last Thursday the 18th? I was dressed up as a mad scientist with purple hair injecting a papier mache cow-on wheels with a giant syringe of Bovine Growth Homone, making its udder so big it dragged on the ground. FUN. I have some links if people wanna see.) Oh yeah movies, so I went to see a bunch of movies on one ticket, including Sleepy Hollow (y'all are right, as usual Burton falls apart)(by the way, if Viv needs us to talk about another woman's "chestal region", I would nominate Christina Ricci), Being John Malkovich (way fab), the new Bond film (Sophie Marceau is a great bad chickie, but the movie grinds to a halt everytime Denise Richards appears on screen--as a nuclear physicist talking apart Kazahkstani warheads in a tank top and hot pants), and most remarkable, the last (one can always wish) Schwartzenegger film, End of Days. I only saw the last half hour, but omigod, this is too awful to be believed, though I'm interested in Christians' responses to a movie where the devil crucified our buddy the Terminator, and ends (I swear at God!) with Ahnold praying for strength before impaling himself on an angel's sword. What a chortle--especially seeing Rod Steiger again.... what else, as if anyone has read this far....I still am trying to find even a cheap one way ticket to Seattle to come to the WTO, anyone got any hints? I was trying priceline and lowestfares.com, but didn't find anything that would get me there. As it is, I guess I'm spending the Buy Nothing-especially-not-Fur day Critical Mass here in Chill, where my bike will be towing a banner that says "Spend time with your loved ones, not money on them..." Yes buying online would count too. I'm worried I'll find the perfect westcoast airline ticket and have to break my fast.... speaking of which, how many other nominal fegvegs (as opposed to nominal fegs, who we won't dignify with a dismissal) caved and ate some turkey today? what can I say, the sweet potato wasn't enough, and the store was outtta Tofurkey(TM). But I did bake my own vegan carobswirl bread, unelss you're one of them vegans that won't use honey cuz it oppresses the bees. if nothing else is happening in my currently unemployed existence come the beginning of January, I may try to arrange a feg roadtrip to converge on Randi's haunted hospital/domicile. We'd stay out of her hair, of course, unless she had time. I don't know how to plan such a trip yet, but I'm throwing the idea out ahead of the holidays. Think of what a great David Lynch film it'd make--I could drive there on a motorized can opener.... well, it's late, and I still have some thieving to do from the construction site next door (so that I don't have to buy anything to make my banner.) Love to all, dave ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 04:30:05 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: by the wait... has anyone else onlist heard the CD Reich Remixed, out recently on Nonesuch? I just got a used copy, with classic drumming and marimba and phased piano peices remixed by the likes of Tranquillity Bass, Mantronik, Nobuzkau Takemura, and DJ SPooky. It helps that I've always liked Reich, and sure a few of the artists have nothing to add, but all in all this is one of my favorite new records in months. Wish I felt as positive about the money I wasted last week on The ABCs of Anarchism, by Negativland/Chumbawamba. Maybe Teletubbies, Chomsky, James Brown, Doris Lessing, Elvis Costello, M*A*S*H, and the World Wrestling Federation just don't gel as well as I thought they would. harrumph. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 04:40:14 EST From: DDerosa5@aol.com Subject: here's that link check it out: http://cnn.com/FOOD/news/9911/19/genetically.mod.food/ That is me in the purple wig--I've corrected my name, but it hasn't shown up on the site last I checked...so, for now, I'm Ian Unpronounceable... love, dave ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:55:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Michael R Godwin Subject: Re: bad word! bad! On Thu, 25 Nov 1999, Bayard wrote: > what are/were the "7 deadly words" you're not supposed to say? I think we > talked about this before. IIRC the list contains both 'fuck' and > 'motherfucker', which seems a bit redundant, why not just specify "'fuck' > and derivative works thereof". Yes, but think of the difficulties you would get into if there turned out to be a town called Sfuckthorpe ... - - MRG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:30:52 GMT From: "matt sewell" Subject: Band names, bad names, banned names Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on what to call me band...(or what not to call it, BTW, don't like Feckless, but Feckless beast is good - apologies to the beasties for any offence(promise to buy the EP - just give me the details)caused). Other ideas... Pope Sylvester and the Dark Ages The Measure Akhenaten Mrs Slocombe Hmmm... back to the drawing board I guess! Thanks again Matt ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 07:15:35 -0800 From: "Scott Hunter McCleary" Subject: Seven words for female genetalia you can't say on the radio May I suggest gyno-rock? Though I'm never sure if it's pronounced "gino" with a long i or "heeno" like the sandwich. ;-) __________ Sent from a WebBox - http://www.webbox.com FREE Web based Email, Files, Bookmarks, Calendar, People and More! ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:08:31 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! At 11:53 PM +0000 11/25/99, Eleanore Adams wrote: >I just have to mention my short lived band and it's name - Fuckmuffin Gish and >the Occult Teen Gathering. One of my friends and I have always wanted to have a band called "Yam Queen Mothers." Of course we also used the business name of Albanian Design Team for awhile as well. - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:34:08 -0500 From: Ethyl Ketone Subject: Re: everything but Robyn-films At 4:22 AM -0500 11/26/99, DDerosa5@aol.com wrote: Oh yeah movies, so I went to see a bunch of >movies on one ticket, including Sleepy Hollow (y'all are right, as usual >Burton falls apart) Yeah, saw this last night finally. Quite a dissapointment. I nearly fell asleep twice. The best parts were the close ups of the pouty Johnny Depp. At least I had something nice and distracting to look at... - - carrie "Questions are a burden for others. Answers are a prison for oneself." **************************************************************************** M.E.Ketone/C.Galbraith meketone@ix.netcom.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:53:20 -0800 (PST) From: Glen Uber Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! I guess it's time for me to chime in. Various band names I have used include: The Knobs -- this was a surrealist performance art band. We were trying to conjure the spirit of early Frank Zappa and the Fugs, but we fell short. We sucked pretty hard. The Dog Did It - this was a two-piece "electronica" band. Boy, what a bad idea! Malaprose - two-piece country/folk group. We played two gigs together. Will Scarlett - I don't want to talk about it. I made a lot of money, but I feel really dirty for having done it. Russell and the Love Okies (I later wrote a song with this title. Like to hear it? Here goes...) - A one-off with my brother on drums and my uncle and I sharing vocal, guitar and bass duties. Arguably the most fun I ever had playing a gig. Three of a Perfect Pair ('where'd he get *that* name?') - a prog rock trio: guitar, keyboards and drums. It was good while it lasted. Groovy Decay (How original, eh?) - Once we played a gig and our drummer couldn't show up. I had my brother fill in on drums and a friend of ours came along on guitar (which freed me up to play more keyboards). We called ourselves -- what else? -- "The Groovy Decoys". Babblefish - Hippie-rock band. We played lotsa Grateful Dead covers and other songs a la Dead. Played lotsa gigs but never made a lot of money. I quit because I got tired of playing 2 chords over and over for 15 minutes at a time. Dwindling Amphibians - A Babblefish spin-off with me and the guitarist and three other musicians. We were pretty good. Urban Renewal - a funk/soul band that never played a gig. I couldn't find any horn players. My intentions were pure. Band names I've wanted to use: Naked Coeds (I could play a gig with Free Beer and No Cover. Wouldn't that marquee kick ass?) Napoleon in Rags Chaos Opera Auto Pilot Asphyxiation Der Fuhrerbunker Ron Goldman's Impeccable Timing Sinatra's Pallbearers Hello Dali Deep In Cider The Glassy Knoll Prelude To Obscurity Kerouac's Liver Cheers! - -g- "When you encourage people to think freely, you are inciting a revolution." --Glen Uber +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ Glen Uber uberg@sonic.net http://www.sonic.net/~uberg ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:57:29 EST From: Briannupp@aol.com Subject: A Can of Bees, linear notes... Hey, whats up with the linear notes in the can of bees disc. Is Robyn just being silly, or did he really write "so you think your in love," and "lobster man" in the late seventies? I don't think I've heard any of the other songs mentioned, but I don't have it in front of me write now. Any insight on this one? By the way I just recently heard lobster man for the first time ( thanks Toby!) and I love it! The version I heard was a live acoustic version, is there a studio version available? Brian "I thinnnk the coast is clear" -Robyn Hitchcock ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 10:49:08 -0800 From: Eb Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! >Will Scarlett - I don't want to talk about it. I made a lot of money, but >I feel really dirty for having done it. Spill! Eb ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:45:57 -0600 (CST) From: Ross Overbury Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! Yeah, you set us up -- don't make us grovel, Glen. On Fri, 26 Nov 1999, Eb wrote: > >Will Scarlett - I don't want to talk about it. I made a lot of money, but > >I feel really dirty for having done it. > > Spill! > > Eb > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 14:58:08 -0500 (EST) From: Bayard Subject: will the kindly UK feg who sent me the sept 21 Birmingham show please step forward? and email me? i would like to thank you, and ask a question or two. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:08:28 -0800 From: "Russ Reynolds" Subject: Breasts >> I haven't spoken up publicly yet concerning the barrage of breast-related >> comments, but I really must beg everyone to talk about someone else's >> chestal region for awhile. I nominate Gloster. Man, what a rack he's got. - -rUss ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:09:00 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: A Rational Proposal, more ba(n)d names: >I haven't spoken up publicly yet concerning the barrage of breast-related >comments, but I really must beg everyone to talk about someone else's >chestal region for awhile. I nominate Mark Gloster as a likely candidtate. Viv. You seem to have thrown ice water all over this thread. Now my nipples are hard. I know, too much information. I have spent some of my precious intellectual resources (and can sadly never get them back) to bring you the following potential band names in no particular odor: Gloster's Chestal Region Jesus Colostomy Pizza The EbManiax Hairball Sandwich The Eddie Tews Groupie Project Grape Vines Think Alike The D Sharpes Duct Tape Lingerie Vivien's Various Non-Chestal Regions, But Only Those Mr. Buttcrack Repairman or Posterior Cleavage Robyn Hitchcock is great. Happies, - -Markg "Tell me how can I sing like a girl and not be objectified as if I was a girl." - -TMBG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:17:43 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: A Rational Proposal, more ba(n)d names: >I haven't spoken up publicly yet concerning the barrage of breast-related >comments, but I really must beg everyone to talk about someone else's >chestal region for awhile. I nominate Mark Gloster as a likely candidtate. Viv. You seem to have thrown ice water all over this thread. Now my nipples are hard. I know, too much information. I have spent some of my precious intellectual resources (and can sadly never get them back) to bring you the following potential band names in no particular odor: Gloster's Chestal Region Jesus Colostomy Pizza The EbManiax Hairball Sandwich The Eddie Tews Groupie Project Grape Vines Think Alike The D Sharpes Duct Tape Lingerie Vivien's Various Non-Chestal Regions, But Only Those Mr. Buttcrack Repairman or Posterior Cleavage Robyn Hitchcock is great. Happies, - -Markg "Tell me how can I sing like a girl and not be objectified as if I was a girl." - -TMBG ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 12:24:54 -0800 From: Mark_Gloster@3com.com Subject: Re: Breasts >>> I haven't spoken up publicly yet concerning the barrage of breast-related >>> comments, but I really must beg everyone to talk about someone else's >>> chestal region for awhile. >>>I nominate Gloster. >Man, what a rack he's got. Russ is probably the top breast expert I know. I feel simultaneously flattered and like a beer. I'm having trouble with the little tassles. Happies, - -Markg. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 17:30:18 -0800 From: Joel Mullins Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! Band names I've used: Three Words Long The Zen Lunatics The Southern Drinking Companions Texas Love Kit The Texas Dickheads names I want to use: The Academics Curly and the Vests VCR Karma Camaro Kenobi - --Joel ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:02:12 -0600 From: "JH3" Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! What kind of band is this that we're supposed to be naming? There's no more certain way to doom yourself from the start than by giving your band a name that makes people think you're something you're not. Well, that, and not having about $10,000 for self-promotion and legal fees. Back when I was in a band, we narrowed the name choices down to two, and "Billions and Billions of Carl Sagans" lost. Jeez, I might have been a big rawk star if only we'd picked that name... and if we hadn't sucked, of course. If you want to offend a few people, you could call yourselves "The Buggernauts," though that's probably taken already. Let's see, some other dumb names that have occurred to me over the years... "The Quiff Council," "Acres of Burning Wax," "The Amazing Pretzelmen," "When Shrimp Were Killed," "International Smash Brigade," "The Roaming Candles," "Kaftanland"... and so on. JH3 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 16:45:01 -0800 (PST) From: Jason Thornton Subject: two horrendous band names all over the world When I was in college, some friends of mine had a band that used to practice in my dorm room. Their bass player was my roommate, if you're wondering why they chose my place. Actually, one of their guitarists, a bloke from England named Richard who played a yellowish Telecaster, was the person that first introduced me to the music of Robyn Hitchcock. Anyhow, this band went by two different names, depending on which lead singer they were using... The first name, which they used when they had a female lead singer in the group, was That's What She Said. This was quite a popular phrase around the time when I was a freshman - it has the magickal power of making anything said before it sound like a sexual innuendo. The second, which they used when a man replaced the female lead singer, was Stone & Biscuit, which is just the most god-fucking-awful pun I've ever heard. - --Jason "I owe Natalie Jane Jacobs one dollar, and Scott Spillane just owes me one" Thornton "Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples." - Sherwood Anderson ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 20:22:58 -0500 (EST) From: Terrence M Marks Subject: Re: Help! Throw me a name! Let's see...I'm currently in The Modern Lizard Quartet and Sealion, so you can't use those. I spent a day trying to start a Grateful Dead cover band called Fancy Syrup, but I couldn't get anyone to go along. It's not that much of a loss, since I don't like the Grateful Dead and can't play any of their songs. Other band names I've generated (which you're welcome to) are: The Blue Muleskinners Broken Crows Kapten Kayvman Your Lousy Submarine Mt. St. Hung Shanky Sheck Mill Hiawatha The Gone I keep trying to get my friends' bands to change their names. (for example, The Pawn Rook Four. http://www.thepr4.com/) Terrence Marks Unlike Minerva (a comic strip) http://www.unlikeminerva.com normal@grove.ufl.edu ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 18:06:20 PST From: "Ariel Green" Subject: Bye Bye guys, It's been nice off and on. I'll probably be back to the list eventually, but for now I don't have time to go through messages about words you can't say in the media, the latest bad movie, or the next 47 things Eb doesn't like. (Sorry, Eb.) I know, there's only so much you can say about one artist (Namely Robyn, duh), but sheesh... Anyway, I'll be keeping my eyes on Bayard's excellent site, and if any of youse guys wishes to keep in touch, by all means do. I do love good company. If anyone has been offended by this message, I'm very sorry, and you can take it up with me personally if you wish. I certainly don't want to hurt feelings, or cut ties. I've just had enough for awhile. Take care of yourselves, and have blessed holidays and a worthwhile new year. See you later, maybe. Best wishes, Ariel ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Sacred cows make the best hamburgers. - Mark Twain http://lsdiamond.freeservers.com ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ End of fegmaniax-digest V8 #442 *******************************