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Maria Daines
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11/8/2006 8:52:26 PM
How did you get your band or artist name?
Just curious, sometimes there's a good story behind a name.
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father_time
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11/8/2006 9:45:28 PM
well, and this is a true story btw.. I had a dream where I asked this alien in a UFO what name I should use. The alien told me I should call myself "the missing link", which I did for several years. Eventually I had another dream where I told the same alien I wasn't that thrilled with that name, and asked if he had any other ideas. And he said "Father Time is the missing link."
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Maria Daines
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11/8/2006 9:50:31 PM
Aha....right, hmmm, and does this alien visit you often? :)
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father_time
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11/8/2006 10:18:04 PM
well perhaps their main window to humans might be in the REM state. Then again it was probably just a couple strange dreams from eating spicy food or something.. You'd think if they were gonna go to the trouble, they would've given me a name that led to fame and fortune or something! :)
Actually I've had enough unusual experiences that I definitely don't believe we're alone in the universe.
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Lane
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11/9/2006 3:28:40 AM
We wanted to put our music on the internet, couldn't decide on a name so it was a kind of 'well, it'll have to do for now' thing! We were going to change it but kind of like it now....just as well really, considering it's our last names too!!
Good topic maria! xx
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Eaglehead
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11/9/2006 6:45:33 AM
You might wanna take a look at me 'n' George Eaglehead's hairstyles (or lack of hair) and our nose dimensions............... ha ha ha
Chris
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The Vic Genna Gemini Pact
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11/9/2006 8:22:34 AM
Well, My Name is Vic Genna, and My wife is a Gemini. She is the most supportive person I have ever encountered concerning my music, and everything else in my life.
The Vic Genna Gemini Pact is the Pact of commitment, loyalty and Love I have made to her and we have made to/with each other.
It's a story of LOVE really. :)
thanks for asking
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 9:02:16 AM
It's a lovely instant name and easy to remember Cathy, I really like it :):)
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 9:04:01 AM
LOL, good one!!
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 9:05:31 AM
Beautifully told and it's also an intriguing name, great to hear these stories, thanks Vic :)
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 9:06:50 AM
I am sure of it too, when you consider how vast the universe is, we simply cannot be the only ones.
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WAR and SIN
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11/9/2006 10:57:11 AM
HARDLY LUCKY because everyone always said we were so lucky to be good..lucky for the breaks..lucky to get to play live shows on the radio...and it was hardly lucky...it was all hard work and getting through the tough times...we started as Hard Luck which was more negative and flipped it to a positive.
ATTENTION - While we are on the subject of ALIENS
ALIENS ARE COMING TO ABDUCT ALL THE GOOD LOOKING AND SEXY PEOPLE.
YOU WILL BE SAFE, I'M JUST EMAILING TO SAY GOODBYE
LMFAO
WIKKED
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pmh
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11/9/2006 4:17:07 PM
back in early highschool (so , 1990 or so) Superchunk had an album out (No Pocky For Kitty) with a song on it called Punch Me Harder, ,, i dug it and stole it, , maybe cuz i liked how Eric's Trip (great canadian indie rock band from the '90 as well) stole their name from a Sonic Youth song, , but really, cuz my songs back then were even more personally heartrenchingly sappy and although i needed to write them, and loved them, i knew how bloody sappy they sounded, and figured anyone writing lyrics that cheesy and "oh-poor-me"-ish needed a good hard punch to keep them in line. i truly don't think that my lyrics are nearly as whiny any more (and i was never insincerely whiny like so much of that emo-trash Dashboard Confessional-like crap out there) but the name stays, cuz i still love and identify with it. and i know that i'm still sappy at heart, , , and i definitely definitely need and appreciate a good punch to lift my head back up sometimes.
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The Rubrics
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11/9/2006 5:12:38 PM
Believe it or not, "The Rubrics" is a political statement of protest...an inside joke that has to do with the state of the university I teach at. Almost every assignment you give out as a professor these days has to include a "set of rubrics" or detailed guidelines for doing the assignment. No detail of the assignment must be left untouched so that the student is left taking no intellectual risks toward their goal, not of learning, but of getting a good grade. In their extreme, rubrics rob the student of learning an important intellectual skill: problem and question formation since rubrics present the student a problem already predigested. . Well, I'm well-known as a cynic and an "anarchist" at my university, so performing under a name that might connote agreement with a prevailing pedagogical fad or with "any rules and standards" is quite humorous to some colleagues.
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 6:31:58 PM
Reply to Wikked - don't leave us to the ugly bugs ball pleeeeeeease!!! This reminds me of an acoustic set Paul and I used to play under the name, FunDepression, some of the dives we played were just, well, super depressing, but we were 'supposed' to be having fun LOL, we liked the name but everywhere we went venues either couldn't remember it or couldn't spell it so we ditched it and eventually ditched the set too LOL!!
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 6:33:02 PM
Reply to pmh, love this name & story and must check out your music, thanks :)
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Maria Daines
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11/9/2006 6:39:26 PM
Reply to The Rubrics, another fascinating name and quite cleverly chosen with an ironic twist, it's amazing how the powers that be in any given arena seem to delight in removing a person's capacity to think for themselves, we are all supposed to come out the other side of any learning experience moulded into one shape, nope, it never happens!!
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The Rubrics
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11/9/2006 8:28:28 PM
Good god, I was actually clear in my explanation of the Rubric's name... This old academic is finally learning to communicate clearly I guess. :-) I'm so glad you see learning in the same way I do. :-) I'm not just an old obstructionist (another name given to me at the university).
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The Man With No Band
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11/10/2006 11:50:25 AM
The name may sound simple enough ... (Some guy playing with no band) but the name is really derived from several aspects of my life... It's true that I am not playing in a band, but the name is also in reference to the fact that most of my band of friends are dead now, my band of children are all grown now, my wedding bands are useless now.. (two divorces)... and when I finally found the right one, Leukemia took her away ... All of that plus I am not really talented enough to be a "One Man Band", (had trouble holding cymbols between my knees) :) .... maybe I'm a band short upstairs, but anyway, it all led to "The Man With No Band" ....
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pmh
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11/10/2006 5:04:34 PM
i was already quite the Rubrics fan, , , and after reading this, i am even more so. the college i'm in right now does this with their assignments, , as well as giving hour-long reviews before a test the students have already had two weeks to prepare for and i think it is taking away from actual learning. praise to you, good sir, , , at believing in education, as well as irony!
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The Rubrics
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11/10/2006 7:14:30 PM
Thanks pmh... :-) You actually made my day with your response. We need more people like you! Want to do an independent study for 3 credits? :-)
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Maria Daines
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11/10/2006 9:01:22 PM
Obstructionist, there's another great band name!!! And would you believe it, today on some news programme the word Rubric was used and I thought of you, today is only the 2nd time I've ever heard the word :)
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Product Recall
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11/11/2006 6:20:44 AM
Easy
Product Recall - Return the goods
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The Rubrics
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11/11/2006 10:50:38 AM
Up until recently, the word "rubric" wasn't used much at all except in religious, liturgical circles. The "red" words found in monastic prayerbooks and the like are "rubrics" (cf 'rouge'), that is, "stage instructions" that tell you how to act and move during religious rituals.
More useless information suppose to inspire your imagination!
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Maria Daines
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11/11/2006 7:28:00 PM
That's a tough journey (man with no band) glad you're here sharing it with us :)
Best wishes
M&P xx
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The Man With No Band
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11/11/2006 11:55:18 PM
It's All Good.... Thanx Maria
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Spank Momma
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11/12/2006 8:08:52 AM
Wow you asked a very good question, lots of feedback, My name Isle Of Ewe is just simply a new way of saying I love you, and not getting into too much trouble.
Also it has a furry critter in it and everyone who knows me knows I hold innocent creatures above man.
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Maria Daines
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11/12/2006 10:12:04 AM
Isle of Ewe I'm so pleased you answered this thread, I've always wondered what your artist name meant, thanks so much :)
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Maria Daines
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11/12/2006 10:13:34 AM
Product Recall, another great name!! Some good comments here, keep 'em coming :)
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SqurlyMurly
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11/13/2006 6:37:29 PM
My real name is Muriel (3 syllables) but for whatever reason, relatives (and there were lots of them) pronounced it Murl. I have a lot of squirrels around my house and when I keep long late hours i tend to get a little squirrely! One of our friends happen to teasingly call me squirrely Murly. When our "new" band took its first gig we were called SqurlyMurly & The Nutball Gang. The band was very short-lived and since I was pretty much recording on my own I kept SqurlyMurly. However, I am thinking I may change it to just SqurlyQ. I like that name (I'm a 3 Stooges fan and remember an episode that keeps it fresh in my mind). What do you think....SqurlyMurly or SqurlyQ?!
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Below-Sixth
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11/13/2006 10:16:37 PM
Below-Sixth, Our band name...Comes from, A street in north beach that band practice first took place at for us! Sixth street and we practice below the sign! "Below-Sixth"....
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Maria Daines
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11/13/2006 10:24:28 PM
Well SqurlyMurly is stuck in my mind now! I won't be able to get used to you by any other name Muriel, it's easy to remember and gives you an identity which is different from many others, I like the original SqurlyMurly. Another interesting story behind a name too :)
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