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Too obvious but quite catchy: STRONG OPINIONS?
Many of VN's titles would work well as-are: PALE FIRE for a New-Ageish Folk
combo?
PS: I invented an Irish Heavy-Metal Group called TITANIUM!
My son's Group: MIND THE GAP (familiar warning to London Tube travellers)
Private Eye suggestions: The TURDS; The RUNNING SORES.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
On 16/06/2008 20:02, "MICHAEL GLYNN" <michael.glynn@BTINTERNET.COM> wrote:
> Band Sinister - a death-metal combo of course
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> Michael Glynn
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> Jay Livingston <livingstonj@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU> wrote:
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>>> It was a kind of dark humor that was typical of the upcoming writers like
>>> Kurt Vonnegut and Bruce Jay Friedman and, on a more sophisticated level,
>>> Vladimir Nabokov, who was a big influence.
>> I assume everyone here knows that Fagen and Becker took the name not from any
>> of these authors but from Burroughs. And Veruca Salt took theirs from Roald
>> Dahl. But if you did want to use a VN allusion, what name would you give
>> your rock group?
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Many of VN's titles would work well as-are: PALE FIRE for a New-Ageish Folk
combo?
PS: I invented an Irish Heavy-Metal Group called TITANIUM!
My son's Group: MIND THE GAP (familiar warning to London Tube travellers)
Private Eye suggestions: The TURDS; The RUNNING SORES.
Stan Kelly-Bootle
On 16/06/2008 20:02, "MICHAEL GLYNN" <michael.glynn@BTINTERNET.COM> wrote:
> Band Sinister - a death-metal combo of course
>
>
>
> Michael Glynn
>
> Jay Livingston <livingstonj@MAIL.MONTCLAIR.EDU> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>> It was a kind of dark humor that was typical of the upcoming writers like
>>> Kurt Vonnegut and Bruce Jay Friedman and, on a more sophisticated level,
>>> Vladimir Nabokov, who was a big influence.
>> I assume everyone here knows that Fagen and Becker took the name not from any
>> of these authors but from Burroughs. And Veruca Salt took theirs from Roald
>> Dahl. But if you did want to use a VN allusion, what name would you give
>> your rock group?
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