Speaking of band names, here’s some of the incredible names and logos of some Northern California “extreme metal” bands. Yes, all the ones in the top picture are words, too.
Speaking of band names, here’s some of the incredible names and logos of some Northern California “extreme metal” bands. Yes, all the ones in the top picture are words, too.
Here’s a fun story abouy how much it can cost to get the exact dot-com URL you’re looking for - plus it has the added spectacle of noted Libertarian and UN-Distruster Ron Paul enlisting the black helicopters of the UN’s international copyright tribunal to help him out!
Sure, it’s fun to discuss the origins and meanings of Band Names. Just look at Minus the Bear! But to get *really* meta, consider the names of some tribute bands. A tribute band is a group of musicians that decides to crack the nut of show business by giving a performance that is supposed to be a re-creation of another, more famous band. The idea is not to deceive, but rather, to re-create an experience for the biggest fans, who can never get enough. The circuit was pioneered by tributes to KISS, whose extreme visual stylings and full-face make-up (and easy-to-learn music!), combined with the most rabid fans on the planet, made them a natural for visual and sonic re-creation. I may do a whole post just about KISS tribute names, which are a genre unto themselves. In the non-KISS caregory, here’s some of my favorites:
Petty Theft - a tribute to - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Stung - a tribute to The Police and Sting
AC/Dshe - all-female tribute to AC/DC :
Dressed To Kill - a tribute to - KISS
Clone Temple Pilots - a tribute to - Stone Temple PIlots
Crush - a tribute to - Rush
Bjorn Again - a tribute to ABBA
Man in the Mirror - a tribute to - Michael Jackson
Duran - a tribute to - Duran Duran
Night Moves - a tribute to - Bob Seger
Nearvana - a trubute to - Nirvana
Stanley Dee - a tribute to - Steely Dan
Double VIsion - a tribute to - Foreigner
Cruella - an all-female tribute to - Motley Crue
Joy Revision - a tribute to - Joy Division
The Song Remains the Same - a tribute to - Led Zeppelin
TREZZ Hombres - a tribute to - ZZ Top
aRe wE theM - a tribute to - REM
The Nowhere Men - a tribute to - The Beatles
The Nguyens - a tribute to - The Smiths
Badness - a tribute to - Madness
AfterFAB - a tribute to - the Beatles SOLO works, 1970 on
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Let’s look at some names of our favorite vehicles from science fiction.
Of course, the first one many of us would think of would be one of several versions of the 19th-century-sounding Enterprise from the Star Trek universe.
The version pictured above is from the prequel series by that name with Scott Bakula - “Enterprise”.
Check out this great report on building a model of the Voyager, from the animated spin-off from the film “Fantastic Voyage”
http://polyvinylman.blogspot.com/2008/06/then-voyager.html
If you’d like to suggest one, please comment!
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The starlings have been gathering and doing their aerial art this week in the Alexander Valley where I live. I’m not sure where these were taken. It’s just about the most awesome thing I’ve seen in nature.
(Source: steroge)
Would you like to live in “The Stain”?
This apartment complex near Santa Rosa has always confused me a bit - la mancha, after all, is Spanish for “The Stain”. The developers probably meant to suggest the romance and continental feel of the vast plains of central Spain, as they might have dimly recalled from the film version of the musical “The Man of La Mancha”. An elevated plateau south of Madrid, La Mancha was chosen ironically by Cervantes. As my friend Rusty the Linguist pointed out, it’s kind of like “the boondocks, without cattle or moonshine”. Wikipedia notes, “Cervantes was making fun of the region, using a pun, a “mancha” is also a stain, as on one’s honor, and thus a hilariously inappropriate homeland for a dignified knight-errant. Translator John Ormsby believed that Cervantes chose it because it was/is the most ordinary, prosaic, anti-romantic, and therefore unlikely place from which a chivalrous, romantic hero could originate, making Quixote seem even more absurd.”
This would be like a developer naming his fancy-looking place “Penzance”, since there was an operetta called “The Pirates of Penzance”. But like Cervantes, Gilbert and Sullivan were making a joke, Penzance was a sleepy resort town, popular with tourists. Its title was the equivalent of The Pirates of the Catskills, or the Banditos of Branson.
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