Monday, June 12, 2006

Of cheese, fires & Satan, Or: One of those eternal dilemmas - what do I call my band?

I should not be writing here, but instead writing fiction. The whole reason I became a lowly cheese-seller was so that I could be a-writing the fiction inbetween all the cheese. I did in fact finish a story last week, which made me happy for a good day and a half. But now all I can think of is English Applewood, Swedish Ambrosia, Boursin, Caprakaas, Strzelecki and Seal Bay triple cream. The contents of the cheese compartment in my fridge. Plus jimjams quince paste. And my aunty's quince brick. The Seal Bay won't see out the day.

My room is finally at a livable temperature. Damn delightful old-fashioned timber houses and their inability to hold warmth in winter or to stay cool in summer. Though my housemate's solution last summer, when the house was too hot to be in, was to take the TV out onto the balcony and watch films there at night. That I am looking forward to. But these days it is a matter of navigating the eddies of cold air as you move from one heat source to another. Toby agrees that the open fires in the evenings are lovely. I’ve started calling the fire Calcifer - after the fire demon in 'Howl's Moving Castle', which I just finished reading - which explains its sometimes moodiness and reluctance to catch. Though, of course, the real Calcifer does not go out, but instead feeds himself with logs and keeps the moving castle moving. If we were a moving castle, we could move away from the hockey field when the hockey players are getting too rowdy. We could move up the hill closer to the tram stop when I’m running late for work. We could move into a warmer part of the world while the rest of ascot vale freezes. We need to get us one of thems fire demons.

Kate’s band is looking for a new name. They are currently called 'Left of Crazy’, not 'Left of Catzy' as I just mistyped. They are a melancholy rock band comprising of a redheaded bassist and lead-singer, a longhaired Sri Lankan rockponce lead guitarist, a gay farm-boy drummer and a real cute vampire rhythm guitarist and backing vocalist (also, incidentally, a Doctor Who fan). The names they have so far rejected include:
Little Cat Z (‘too funk’)
Bruise Wheel, and/or Bruise Wheel of Death (‘too metal’)
Smit, Snot and Shpadoinkle (‘we're not like your band [read: we're a *serious* band]’ - bah!)
Sire Whipped (‘no one's no one's sire and none of us are sire whipped')
They are too picky, I say. But please, any suggestions you have, throw them my way and I’ll voice them to the manager. I’ll also add the 'of death' or 'of doom' on the end of them to make them that bit more classy.
Unfortunately for them, the most awesomist, best band name ever, Satan's Bunnies, has been taken. We bunnies of beelzebub should have done something to celebrate on June 6th = 6/06/06 = 666 = our dark lord (voldy)'s day! Do you have to like, rehearse and stuff to still be considered a band?

13 Comments:

At June 12, 2006 3:52 pm, Blogger nixwilliams said...

1. rehearsals are for ponces. voldy rocks!!!!!!%E$^%^*&@$%^$%@#!

2. cheese is a kind of meat (good for vegetarians if they don't look at the rennet component). EEEAAAAT IT!

3. band names off the top of my head (i'm so good at them these days):

* whippet brigade (of doom)
* the sausage ladies (of death)
* pull the cord (of doom)
* won't take no for an answer (of death)

4. cold. yes. yuck.

 
At June 12, 2006 3:56 pm, Blogger thebooklender said...

Band names of death:

tom and the hanks of greasy haired doom;

shoppers must be killed;

I'm At Work So I Shouldn't Be Writing This (of doom)

 
At June 13, 2006 3:35 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Kate has also rejected these GEMS:

Rock Poncery (already taken, as you know, nix, fellow rock ponce-band mate, heh heh heh)

Toby's Last Great Umlaut (could mean anything)

Nerds of Death (not very subtle)

and...

Shadowfax and the Courtiers of Death (good for LOTR geeks and metal nerds too)

At this rate they don't deserve to have a cool band name.

 
At June 14, 2006 2:31 am, Anonymous Anonymous said...

How bout the 'titty twister's'?

Solely because i just saw a surf/snow/skater shop in olomouc with that EXACT title and i just needed to share it with SOMEONE.

 
At June 15, 2006 2:06 pm, Blogger nixwilliams said...

o.m...g... titty twisters?

 
At June 16, 2006 5:05 pm, Blogger nixwilliams said...

http://www.tentative.net/sascha/fanfic.htm
is this who i think it is? o.O

 
At June 18, 2006 1:59 pm, Anonymous Anonymous said...

who do you think it is? i don't know. but *someone* should write something howl and rock ponces (vince, sirius, anyone really...) any takers?

 
At June 19, 2006 9:18 am, Blogger nixwilliams said...

errrr... looks like our friend silas chaucer (the pic, not the fic)...

wasn't vince and the mystery person enough for you?!?!?

 
At June 21, 2006 6:57 am, Blogger Travel Pixie said...

Good on you for actually writing something, Esther (I'm referring here to your short story and not the potential band names, although they're great too - really!).

I love Calcifer! After watching the film (I haven't read the book) I wanted to name my dog/son/parrot/TV/etc. (none of which I have) 'Calcifer'!

I saw the Louvre today. And the pyramid outside the Louvre. It reminded me of the Da Vinci Code. Damn it.

 
At June 26, 2006 10:53 am, Blogger nixwilliams said...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FOR THE WEEKEND

 
At June 28, 2006 3:58 pm, Blogger nixwilliams said...

*hyperventilating*

LOOK at the baby otter!!!

OMFG!!!!!

 
At June 28, 2006 9:25 pm, Blogger Travel Pixie said...

Yeah, happy b'day bandita!

 
At June 29, 2006 1:26 pm, Blogger Esther said...

Eep! That baby otter is cuter than Toby!! i want, i want!

 

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