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Today’s Graffiti

by $8 blue check mistermix|  November 16, 20139:49 am| 58 Comments

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This would be a great name for a post-punk proto hipster band, don’t you think?

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  1. 1.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 9:52 am

    It’s certainly better than our latest local trying-too-hard art “gallery,” whose owner thought it would be edgy to name it “Ennui.” I’m not sure said owner actually knows what the word means.

  2. 2.

    RSA

    November 16, 2013 at 9:54 am

    I notice that it’s also a mediocre ocher.

  3. 3.

    Amir Khalid

    November 16, 2013 at 10:03 am

    @Aji:
    Maybe the owner does know, and is just telling it like it is …

  4. 4.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 10:08 am

    @Amir Khalid: If it’s actually truth in advertising, why bother hanging out a shingle in the first place? Unless it’s really all performance art, and s/he’s planning to film the customers being bored to death?

  5. 5.

    EconWatcher

    November 16, 2013 at 10:09 am

    I’ve decided that our best chance to get of our current political rut from the ACA troubles is for the House to begin impeachment proceedings based on Obama’s “lie” about keeping your coverage (which, to be clear, I think was a really stupid thing for him to say, and I’m really disappointed that he and his advisors did not game out how that could come back to haunt them).

    But nothing could help right now as much as a good foaming, raging, redfaced, screeching, table-pounding impeachment campaign led by lowest hanging knuckle-draggers in the tea party caucus.

    Come on, guys. I know you have it in you. Do us proud.

  6. 6.

    NotMax

    November 16, 2013 at 10:09 am

    This one time, at post-punk proto hipster band camp….

  7. 7.

    BGinCHI

    November 16, 2013 at 10:12 am

    This would be a good thread for everyone to give the name of their band if they ever actually formed one.

    Mine (registered at Bandcamp.com, btw):

    Grassy Knoll Cowards

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    November 16, 2013 at 10:13 am

    @Aji:
    I think you’re starting to get it …

  9. 9.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 10:15 am

    @Amir Khalid: Yeah, I know I’m a little slow on these things. Especially with only one cup of coffee in me so far . . . .

  10. 10.

    nastybrutishntall

    November 16, 2013 at 10:21 am

    math rock jam band

  11. 11.

    Felonius Monk

    November 16, 2013 at 10:22 am

    @RSA:

    I notice that it’s also a mediocre ocher.

    So then it’s an ocher ogre that is two ways mediocre.

  12. 12.

    handsmile

    November 16, 2013 at 10:30 am

    @BGinCHI:

    Red Shift.

    Politics, physics, and fashion.
    (I came into consciousness in a liberal arts environment in the late ’70s, after all.)

    (I was pleased to discover that this blog featured a “Redshift” among its esteemed commentariat.)

  13. 13.

    WereBear

    November 16, 2013 at 10:31 am

    I’ve yet to form a band, but I’ve always leaned towards:

    Prototype

  14. 14.

    MattF

    November 16, 2013 at 10:34 am

    I forget their name, but there was a local punk band here in the DC metro area that claimed they “put the ‘duh’ in Bethesda.”

  15. 15.

    Tom levenson

    November 16, 2013 at 10:34 am

    My long beloved hypothetical band name: Mighty Chondria and the Organelles

  16. 16.

    MattF

    November 16, 2013 at 10:35 am

    Also, if your thing is fish-based Christmas carols, there’s ‘Little Tuna Bethlehem.’

  17. 17.

    gogol's wife

    November 16, 2013 at 10:36 am

    @Tom levenson:

    I can just picture the Organelles in tight sequined dresses, their hair all glossy and lips bright red.

  18. 18.

    Higgs Boson's Mate (Crystal Set)

    November 16, 2013 at 10:38 am

    The Deltronics

  19. 19.

    MomSense

    November 16, 2013 at 10:47 am

    Remember what fun it was to have all the news agencies have to print/say pu$$y riot? In honor of that genius, a band named after George Carlin’s The Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television would be fantastic especially if you engaged in activities sure to put you in the news.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    November 16, 2013 at 10:47 am

    @BGinCHI

    Too many to list here, so just a trio.

    The Amoeboids

    The Hy Leo Verated Band

    Last Exit

  21. 21.

    Linda Featheringill

    November 16, 2013 at 10:49 am

    @Tom levenson:

    LOL! That is cute!

  22. 22.

    Dolly Llama

    November 16, 2013 at 10:55 am

    @BGinCHI: Every time I see The Grassy Knoll referenced, I think back to my former life as a small-town newspaperman. We briefly had a (militia-related) competitor start up called The Truth newspaper. One of the few ads I ever saw in it — and I know it was a spoof/fiction, but it’s still one of the awesomest things ever — was for “The Lone Yardman.” His slogan: “Let me mow your grassy knoll.” I swear to God I’d have called and used the service just to meet who was behind the ad, but unfortunately it contained no phone number or any other means by which to contact him.

  23. 23.

    Dolly Llama

    November 16, 2013 at 10:56 am

    I always thought The Other Day would be a good band name. I’ve thought of others over the years. They’ll come to me.

  24. 24.

    El Cid

    November 16, 2013 at 10:58 am

    Mediogre?

  25. 25.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 10:59 am

    @El Cid: Wins Teh Internets for today.

  26. 26.

    El Cid

    November 16, 2013 at 11:01 am

    @Aji: Thanks, but I feel like it was low hanging fruit.

  27. 27.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 11:03 am

    @El Cid: Maybe so, but apparently nobody else put it together. Besides, I’m always impressed with someone who can be clever this early; I’m nowhere near caffeinated enough to qualify as, say, “coherent.”

  28. 28.

    Baud

    November 16, 2013 at 11:03 am

    @El Cid:

    low hanging fruit.

    Another good band name.

  29. 29.

    handsmile

    November 16, 2013 at 11:07 am

    @MomSense:

    Rather tangential, but your comment prompted a question that I’d expect some people around here would know the answer to.

    Earlier this week, I saw a new episode of “South Park” for the first time in a long time (a brewing battle betweens XBox and PS4 clans inspired by “Game of Thrones” – the typical Parker/Stone genius). The words “Asshole”, “Shit” were uttered frequently by the South Park cherubs and there was much discussion of GoT’s “gay wieners.”

    Yet immediately following that show, Jon Stewart’s exclamations of “Shit” and “Pussy” on TDS were bleeped out as usual.

    So, do the same language restrictions on television not apply to animated programs/characters? Has that long been the case?

    — middle-aged, often out-of-touch guy

  30. 30.

    Amir Khalid

    November 16, 2013 at 11:11 am

    Band names? Hmm …

    Band Name Goes Here. (This would be great on a T-shirt.)

  31. 31.

    handsmile

    November 16, 2013 at 11:15 am

    Having just been placed in “awaiting moderation” purgatory, where can I find a listing for the Words You Can Never Write on Balloon Juice? Thanks.

  32. 32.

    Roger Moore

    November 16, 2013 at 11:15 am

    But why would I want to name my band “Shrek”?

  33. 33.

    WereBear

    November 16, 2013 at 11:18 am

    I’ve also always liked:

    Joyful Noise

    but I bet a Christian band already took it.

  34. 34.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 16, 2013 at 11:18 am

    Mediocre Media Ogres (front man: Mark Halperin)

  35. 35.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 11:22 am

    @Villago Delenda Est: Nah. “Ogre” implies some life, at least, and possibly some fierceness, too – neither of which is remotely in evidence. Halperin would be the front man for something like the Dead-Eyed Zombie Villagers or the Stepford Stenographers.

  36. 36.

    handsmile

    November 16, 2013 at 11:23 am

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    I believe that is what’s known as a Big Band.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 16, 2013 at 11:25 am

    @handsmile:

    Saying “FYWP” in full will do it, I’m sure.

    On the other hand, FYWP sometimes does it for no reason at all, just to annoy people and maintain its rep.

  38. 38.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 16, 2013 at 11:26 am

    How about “The Villager Idiots”?

    No, too derivative.

    I do like the “Stepford Stenographers” though.

  39. 39.

    gbear

    November 16, 2013 at 11:33 am

    @MattF: My favorite unusable band name is Baby Cheeses. Sounds like a double bill would make for a great holiday casserole.

    The most ‘famous’ band that I’ve played in was called Fine Art. My two favorite names of unfamous bar band I played in were Twiggs and Snapps (although Twiggs could have justifyably been labelled ‘notorious’. We were palying New York Dolls covers in ’73).

  40. 40.

    Dupe70

    November 16, 2013 at 11:33 am

    @RSA: Dangit. You beat me to it. I prefer Ochre over Ogre in this instance. But if you still want the old school D&D vibe you could be Mediocre Ochre Jelly.

    Dupe

  41. 41.

    Dead Ernest

    November 16, 2013 at 11:41 am

    From a list of exotic band names read long, long ago, this one has always tickled me;

    JFKFC

  42. 42.

    Death Panel Truck

    November 16, 2013 at 11:58 am

    @WereBear: There is a French indie band called Prototypes. “Je Ne Te Connais Pas” (“I do not know you”) was used in a Mitsubishi Outlander commercial five years or so ago.

  43. 43.

    ranchandsyrup

    November 16, 2013 at 12:01 pm

    @BGinCHI: hedonistic calculus

  44. 44.

    Roger Moore

    November 16, 2013 at 12:02 pm

    @handsmile:

    where can I find a listing for the Words You Can Never Write on Balloon Juice?

    We could give you the complete list, but then we’d be put in moderation purgatory, also, too. It could also be the “no more than three links” thing.

  45. 45.

    handsmile

    November 16, 2013 at 12:26 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    At least I’d have some company. (and it’s now been more than one hour since my terribly important comment was first banished thereto)

    I do know about the “three links thing”; it’s word traps I keep stumbling into. In this case, I suspect it is the word related to Rob Ford’s choice of home cookin’.

  46. 46.

    Roger Moore

    November 16, 2013 at 12:28 pm

    @handsmile:
    Yes, you are not allowed to repeat Mayor Ford’s word choice.

  47. 47.

    The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik

    November 16, 2013 at 12:35 pm

    Lectern at Albuquerque

  48. 48.

    Origuy

    November 16, 2013 at 1:40 pm

    There’s a French hip-hop group called NTM, which is short for Nique Ta Mère. Which means what you think it means, if you know that Mère is French for mother.

    Not a band, but there used to be a process server company in San Jose called The Attilla the Hun School of Charm. It’s out of business now, so the name is available for your death metal band.

  49. 49.

    BGinCHI

    November 16, 2013 at 2:05 pm

    @Dead Ernest: Similar to Dale Earnhart Jr. Jr.

    My other favorite real band name is: Dogs Die in Hot Cars

  50. 50.

    JCJ

    November 16, 2013 at 2:51 pm

    @Tom levenson:

    Since there is an actual band named “The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus” I would propose the opening band for your group be named “The Golgi Apparatus.”

  51. 51.

    wasabi gasp

    November 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm

    Atom Rhumba

    They’re an Italian rock band.

  52. 52.

    joel hanes

    November 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm

    @Aji:

    Mark Halperin and the Kneepads

  53. 53.

    Donut

    November 16, 2013 at 3:22 pm

    The top two real, totally tasteless, yet awesome, band names:

    John Cougar Concentration Camp

    Jack Kevorkian and the Suicide Machines
    (Later shortened to just ‘the Suicide Machines’)

    One of my other favorites: Mephiskapheles
    (Very awesome ska-influenced band from NYC)

  54. 54.

    Aji

    November 16, 2013 at 3:29 pm

    @joel hanes: [Snort] so accurate it’s scary. And vomit-inducing.

  55. 55.

    Dolly Llama

    November 16, 2013 at 3:33 pm

    There was Gaye Bikers On Acid, and then Lesbian Dopeheads on Mopeds back in the 80s, I believe.

  56. 56.

    wasabi gasp

    November 16, 2013 at 3:50 pm

    @wasabi gasp: Correction: they’re from Spain.

  57. 57.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    November 16, 2013 at 4:09 pm

    So I have been sleeping under a rock – new job, and dealing with that. Now I hear Obamacare is about to fail because the website is buggy, people with fake health insurance will be forced to get real insurance policies and not enough people have signed up on something that you can’t get until January? Honestly WTF? I don’t have health insurance and I don’t see any point in even looking at what I can get until December. The website is buggy, and,,..do the rest of you all not understand what engineers get paid for?

  58. 58.

    MomSense

    November 16, 2013 at 5:06 pm

    @handsmile:

    I was going to say that they don’t bleep the swears on Netflix but you said that it was a new episode. Huh, I don’t know. I’ll have to ask tech support (teenager!).

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