What's in a Name? Part 2

As a spiritual follow up to my last band name post(I know it was only 45 minutes ago, so what?), here’s a small list of stupid/meaningless band names I’ve assembled (with formatting!):

• Arcade Fire - "Ready...Insert Coin...FIRE!"
• Better than Ezra - Yeah, fuck you, Ezra.
• The Decemberists - “Let’s not stop at naming the band after a group of Russian officers who tried unsuccessfully to overthrow Tsar Nicholas I of Russia in December 1825; let’s add an ’E’ so that it doesn’t make any sense!” The whole band promptly giggled in delight and began acting like librarians again.
• Deep Purple - Oh yeah…heavy.
• Grateful Dead - “Oh, thanks, really, the grave is lovely, thanks again…”
• Great Big Sea - They briefly toyed with “Little Tiny Puddle” before deciding on this vastly superior moniker.
• Iggy Pop - I don’t know what it is, but it sounds disgusting.
• Led Zeppelin - Okay, I’m sure everyone knows what this means except for me, but since I still don’t, what the hell? Are they leading a massive flying ship? Or did they forget the ‘A’ in one of the dumbest ideas in aviation?
• Less Than Jake - I’m sick of these “name” bands. At least Better than Ezra was bragging, these guys are actually humbling themselves. “Oh man, too bad we can’t be as cool as Jake..” “Yeah, but what should we call the band?” I would understand ‘Less than Gandhi,’ or ’Less than Roosevelt,’ maybe even ’Less than Hulk Hogan.’ But Jake? Who the hell is Jake?
• Megadeth - Godfathers of the “forget a letter” movement. They almost went with BIGSTRONGDETHKIL!
• Monster Magnet - This would be awesome, if such a device existed. It doesn’t.
• Mötley Crüe - With the umlauts, this is actually pronounced “Mootley Kruh.” Which doesn’t mean anything. At all.
• MuDvAyNe - Jesus Christ. Name makes no sense, and the band still decided to capitalize the fuck out of it. Sidenote: The capitals spell out “mDan.” Coincidence? I hope so, ‘cause capitalizing your crappy nu-metal band to spell some dude’s normal name that has been all Web 2.0’d is amazingly un-metal.
• Pig Destroyer - Maybe it refers to fascists, but…“Oink” BOOM!! “Squeal!”
• Snoop Doggy Dogg - Yes, he may be plain ol’ Snoop Dogg now, but in the rappers younger years he had one of the most irritatingly babyish handles ever.
• Strike Anywhere - “There! Now there! Now there!”

What's in a Name?

I have a question. What’s with Celtic punk and names that imply random acts of violence against one-name individuals? Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys…it’s a disturbing trend. And what if these people exist? Some dude from Boston named Murphy is living in a state of constant fear because at any second he could be dropkicked by a bunch of angry Irish jackasses.
On a similar note, how about Alice in Chains? What the hell? “Ha! Just try and get up now, Alice!”

Something's Wrong.

Something strange has happened to my Firefox...I right clicked on a misspelling of 'refrigerator' and corrected it. Now, wherever I right click it says 'refrigerator'. What the hell?

What?

Someone just sent this to my gmail account. What the hell does it mean!? I tried to drop into a trance state and use my Assyrian lineage to decrypt it, but alas, I failed.

Wonder how many votes this lost her.

This is stirring, love-filled tribute to a strong wom--Oh, wait, I didn't mean to type any of that. This sounds like pure evil being force fed to a care bear. This is a plight to her campaign, how is this supposed to help!? Thank god the subtitles were there, I was afraid I was going to miss a line.

Lunar Eclipse

Did anyone see the total lunar eclipse last night? If not, just trust me when I say that it was beautiful. The best part was that as the sky got darker and darker you could see more and more stars, getting closer to the moon as the night when on.
I took some shaky, artsy photos which you can see on my deviantART page and my Picasa.
I went to NASA's site, and they say that this is the last total lunar eclipse until December 21st, 2010. The Pagans must be psyched on that one.
The next total solar eclipse (much more awesome, in my opinion) is scheduled for Aug 1st, 2008.

UPDATE: You can find a slideshow of the eclipse as it happened here.

Another Bad Idea

Here's another bad idea that I'm tired enough to think is good.
What if, instead of eliminating Corporate America, we changed the corporations to democratic microcosms? Each corporation would be a democratic organization that had an equal share in the government.
I can't expand upon this right now, too lazy.

DeviantART

In my quest to sign up for every art-sharing network in the history of the world, I bring you...my DeviantART account!
Peace.

Those Japanese are hardcore

Courtesy of Engrish

Fidel Castro Announces Retirement

Wow...this is huge.

(I blogged this from Digg, I assume you have to click "read more" to, well, read more.)
read more | digg story

War! What is it Good For? Probably Something.

Okay, I'm going to take a break from my hippie ideals to drop this on y'all.
What if we totally eliminated the way that war is carried out know, and replaced it with 15 century Viking ideals? I mean taking away the guns and giving the soldiers swords and axes, replacing the sniper rifles with bows, restoring pride in the ability to fight, and making war a spiritual journey of sorts (my hippie side is back).
I believe that war is natural, but I think that using guns and bombs and shit is a form of cheating. You don't need talent to shoot someone,but you need it to fight the other person while carrying a heavy shield and sword.
I'm not advocating a return to the Crusades, but I am advocating a re-examination of what war is, if we need, and when we need it.

Also, Vikings are fucking cool.

Picasa

I just realized that the photos I upload to my blog take away from my Picasa space, so I've just linked to one of my Picasa albums over there -->
It's only one album, but you should be able to find your way around from there.

EDIT: You can just go to http://picasaweb.google.com/d.bahoosh. Sorry, I was being an idiot.

Blue Hill Boat House

Forget Monkey Tea...

I seem to have discovered the most awesome thing about Amsterdam (and this was hard, there's a lot of awesome shit over there): The Homonument. It is exactly what it sounds like--a monument to all homosexuals who died in WWII. This is amazing! Talk about the pinnacle of tolerance! Now we need a:

• Catholnoment (I think would be a monument to Catholics, but it could be a monument against them)
• Bestiamoment (Hmm...sounds like a moment of bestiality, I really just mean a tribute to animals)
• Stoneronument (Heyy...!)
• Hookeronument (while we're talking about Amsterdam)
• Presidentument (Monument to presidents!)
• Deathonument (In the past known as a "guillotine," or later, "gallows")
• Lifeonument (Like a giant sperm or something)
• Peaceonument
  
• and finally, a Pantsonument (I've inserted a picture of this fine tribute to the garment)

So, fellow statue lovers, join me in my quest to politically-correctize the world, by making a monument to every possible thing!

Immortalized in stone,
[insert signature here]

Hallucinate!!!

Have you ever though to yourself "I wish there were a way to look at computers, and then look at something else, so that the something else would look like it was pulsating evilly at me."
No you have not.
Even so, check out this awesome animation that does exactly that. WARNING: The music is irritating.