This email arrive in my inbox yesterday. It’s almost Shakespearean in its prose.
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Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 22:39:00 -0500
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Beautiful, huh? And I noticed some really great potential band and album names in there.
- Cosmetic Distractions “Confuse or Hoist”
- Diagonal Cognac
- FYI Catnap
- Eagle-eyed Flipside “Twilight as Frequency”
- The Cocoa Improbability “Orchestral Season Ticket”
- Chasm Marble
- The Thumbnail Hours
- Hunger Grass
- Matchmaking Fisherman
- Nausea and Tightwad “Parable of a Stain”
- Footsie “A Fulfilled Kindred Moralist”
- Frostbite Retina
Feel free to take one for yourself. I’m sure the folks who sent the email won’t mind.
I’m considering changing my band’s name to the Thumbnail Hours and our first album will be called The Apoplexy Guesstimate. The EP will of course be called Frostbite Retina.
Actually I think you’ve stumbled upon an excellent phrase to be applied to worthless printed poetry: retinal frostbite. Isn’t that great? Where’s Richard Lederer’s number?
You have a band?
Good point on retinal frostbite. I think I am going to use that term for anything that is excruciating to read. It should be our goal to avoid retinal frostbite at all costs.
It also makes fine poetry. Witness this and this. And, well, if you’re looking for band names.