Following Eric and Beth, I couldn’t resist this one.
Here are the steps:
- Visit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random - The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
- Visit http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 - The last four words of the last quote on the page is the title of your album.
- Visit http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/ - The third picture on the page is your album cover. (I used http://www.flickr.com/creativecommons/by-2.0/ instead to be sure to get photos the photographer was OK with sharing. So sue me. Or don’t, actually…)
I give you, “Do it for me” by Hierocles of Alexandria:
A fine inspiration for a band name. According to Wikipedia, “He seems to have been banished from Alexandria and to have taken up his abode in Constantinople* where he gave such offence by his religious opinions that he was thrown into prison and cruelly flogged.”
Photo credit: Ryan Dickey
(I’ll say that if you wanted album art, you could do much worse than what meesterdickey has in his photostream.)
*not Istanbul.
I guess it says a lot about the state of modern music (or consumer expectations) when almost every one of these randomly-assembled packages looks like it really could be a commercially released album!
Comment by Eric — January 9, 2008 @ 10:10 pm
I love the juxtaposition of the ancient Greeks with the modern source of all information…it looks like more than fingers have done the walking all over this particular model though. ;-)
Comment by gwynne — January 9, 2008 @ 11:12 pm
I think you’re right, Eric. Anything can be a band name these days. There’s a game on the local alt-rock station where the DJ gives three “band names” and people call in to guess which one he made up and which are real. It always takes a long time. It’s all to the good, I say.
Gwynne - I liked the discarded phone book and the “do it for me” quote. Like someone couldn’t be bothered to even supply a decent phone book when demanding assistance. (In direct contradiction of the intent of the quote, “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”)
This is poetry.
Comment by Brian — January 10, 2008 @ 7:26 am
Nicely done, I’d better join the crowd and do this too hehe.
Comment by Rach — January 11, 2008 @ 5:22 pm