Hey there everyone.
I’m excited to tell you all that I now have caught a cold, which means that the next few days of this month are going to be even more fun!
Laughter is usually the best medicine, so I’ve gone into Day 3 of NaPoWriMo with a keen sardonic slant, with a view to brainstorming made up names, in this case musical band names.
There is a flow to the piece (which is a list poem) when read aloud but I like to also think that each one of these bands could actually exist on some alternative plane of reality and I’m sure that if challenged, I could write material for them.
Feel free to let me know in the comments which one(s) is/are your favourites. If you have any topics/themes you’d like your favourite fantasy band(s) to cover then let me know too, I’ll then write you a song in their particular style dedicated to you and your blog for good measure 😉
Enjoy folks, here we go.
Photo by Gitty413 at Pixabay
“Band Rehearsal” by David Ellis
Intellectual Wasteland
Glassy-Eyed Animals
Ordinary Epiphanies
Strolling Through Background Noise
Ghostly Convulsions
Retired Punks
Guilty Of Love Crimes
Solo Co-Operative
Fashionable Hell
Tasty Admissions
Surprising Repetition
Limited Buffet Blues
Random Imposters
Relaxing At Your Gaffe
Roulette Wheel Of Fastidiousness
Anxiety Biography
Virus Prevention Measures For Cave Dwellers
Straightening Premium Vegetables
Lazy Landscape Avant-Gardeners Confrontation
Chocolate Teardrops
Damn Nuns
Permission To Be Serious
Same Day, Different Leash
Mechanical Loss
Denying Interventions
Sunshine Eavesdropping
Zero Value, Revenge Unlikely
Mercy Redundancy
Sweat Hammer
Ambitious PR Disasters
Still want more? Well maybe these links to other amazing poets and their Day 3 entries that also contain list poems (and many other types of poetry too) that will be sure to hit your high notes 🙂
1. NAPOWRIMODREAMINGPATH – Day Three – Band Names
2. Tidbits by Shannon – Ages & Stages: A Review
3. ORIENTATION::QUILTER – Day Three NaPoWriMo 2018
4. Scrambled, Not Fried – Semicipher
5. palimpsestic possibilities – the innumerable bands of the second floor ward
6. lifelessons – a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown – “When Life Gives You Lists, Make Poetry”
7. Voyagedesmots – Tonight Live at Institut de Beauté…
8. Ladyleemanila – C is for Cascade
9. 1st Non-Manuscript – Charlene Delfin’s second blog – Day 3: Horror Novel Titles
10. KATIE STATEN – NaPoWRiMo #3 – About the Murder
11. WHAT LIFE SAID TO ME – NaPoWriMO 2018: Day 3 – Romantic Novels…You Never Heard Of Before
12. JIM’S LITTLE PHOTO AND POEM PLACE – Moon Gazing
13. Author Emily Ramser – The titles of poems I would have written you
14. inktuition – a poem to my creative blocks
15. MY OWN GARDEN OF VERSE – MEIN GARTEN DER GEDICHTE – NAPOWRIMO 3: UNWRITTEN POETRY
16. The Great Unknown – NaPoWriMo 2018 April 3: The Non-News in the Village Says
17. barbaraturneywielandpoetess – Band’s Got the Runs
18. Voiceless Fricative – COWBOYS
19. ORDINARY AVERAGE THOUGHTS – National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 3
20. this and other poems – 3/4
21. The Moving Finger Writes – Roshni Rajshekhar Nair – The Third Man
22. QUEST FOR WHIRLED PEAS – A List Poem of Imagined Movie Titles Based on Stuff Strewn Across My Desk
23. Poetic Pixels – The Desert is I
24. Rhyme and Reason – Poetry Meets Film Reviews – Trollhunter (2010)
25. Summer Blues – A Poetry Blog – The Other Way
26. Poetry by Hasen – Searching For Lost Empire
27. Purple Mountain Poetry – DAY 3, DAY 3, WHAT’LL IT BE…FUR FUGS ACHE
28. NOT THE WHOLE STORY – MANIFESTING LEMONS
29. My Middle Name is Crazy – things I wish I said
30. SOUL STRUCTURED LINES – NAPOWRIMO DAY 3: INTERNET THEMED BAND NAMES
31. Brittany’s Blog of Random Things – NaPoWriMo Day 3: In a Certain Order
32. ARHtistic License – Strike Up the Band
33. Yesterday and today: Merril’s historical musings – Faith in Spring: Haibun, NaPoWriMo, Day 3
34. words in your eyes – NaPoWriMo 3
35. Raven Redux – Spring Cento
36. TAROT PROSE – Unfinished Poem Titles
37. Top 10 – What Rhymes with Stanza?
38. kavyastream – From the Start
39. Unassorted stories – Two festivals of me
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I would love Denying Interventions to cover Benevolent Aliens as a theme. Are you up for it? You can check my blog RealitywithaTwistBooks under the Latest Twisted Posts tab for inspiration if desired.
Lol I’m up for anything like this Sheri, let’s see what I can come up with! I did use some of your posts as inspiration for this as well 🙂
“Alien Friends With Benefits” (by Denying Interventions/David Ellis)
In the movies, all species from outer space want to do is devour us
Take away our land, air, sea and atmosphere, leaving nothing but a smoking crater
Subjecting us to cruel experiments
and some jiggery pokery regarding our butts
Before blasting us all to kingdom come!
But I don’t really believe this is the case
Why judge all races to human standards, alien or otherwise
I truly think there are benevolent aliens out there amongst us
Waiting to shake hands and make friends
Willing to play with our nephews and nieces
While we all enjoy a bit of Space Weevil on the BBQ
and drink chilled brews and futuristic cocktails
Maybe they too crave chocolate doughnuts
Or cake with candy sprinkles and a cherry in the middle
Who are we to stop them if they want to party?
As intelligent life forms, we have so much in common to talk about
And I’m sure they will dig all of our TV shows
I mean who doesn’t like Game of Thrones? (Very few)
We should want to learn more about their technology
Their relationship with the planets of the universe
What they like doing on their weekends off
And what their opinions are of alpacas and llamas
Are they really just horses covered in fluff? Maybe soon enough, we’ll find out!
So, give them a chance and hear what they have to say
Let’s consider cultural and ecological realities, where we can all co-exist
No need to consider blowing each other to bits
Let’s share knowledge, resources and life hacks
A new perspective could be on the horizon
Or at least somebody new to kick back and share doughnuts with
And to be frank, that’s pretty damn beautiful in anyone’s book
Love it! Thanks so much! Would you mind if I put this into a quote post officially on my page and link it back to you?
Hey there Sheri. You most certainly can, I’d be happy for you to do that 😀 Glad you liked it, I really tried to get inspired from your own posts when I wrote it 🙂
Yeah, the references to my posts were really fun and you caught the flavor of the Twist. 🙂 I appreciate the research and thought that went into it. Thanks for the permission…I’ll post it soon 🙂
I’m sorry you have a cold. Maybe listening to some soothing music by the Virus Prevention Measure for Cave Dwellers would help. Follow that up with two tunes by the Ghostly Convulsions, and you’ll be good as new in the morning.
Lol I didn’t realise that I could look for home therapy through my own words! Even though I feel rough, I think I am fighting this one pretty well, it doesn’t feel like it is going to linger for a long time thank goodness. I’ll just keep writing and working hard to take my mind off of it. Mind over matter and all that 🙂
I’d love to hear Intellectual Wasteland covering one of Strolling Through Background Noise’s biggest hits.
Either that or Permission To Be Serious’ view on our impossibly competent, in no way a caricature, forever the epitome of sense, Foreign Secretary BoJo.
Interesting choices Matt my friend 🙂 I see a mashing up of Intellectual Wasteland covering Strolling Through Background Noise very much like a Godspeed Black Emperor noisefest kind of vibe (but with existential lyrics over the soundscapes). Maybe I could mess around with that concept further down the line but as a special treat for you, I did whip up something by Permission To Be Serious, feast your eyes on this 😀
Bojo – No! (By Permission To Be Serious/David Ellis)
BoJo!
Bro!
What the hell is wrong with you?
For starters, one thing needs to be cleared up
Just like your Worzel Gummidge haircut
You’ve dragged us along with the NHS under a bus
After Brexit, lies are now your chief export
It’s no wonder you’ve lost the majority of the people’s trust
BoJo!
Bro!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Politicians are characters meant to be revered
Not feared for what they are going to say
Let’s trade you for someone who actually cares
Instead of letting you mouth off
And cause international incidents
BoJo!
Bro!
What the hell is wrong with you?
Didn’t they ever teach you the art of diplomacy at school?
Is this how you earn your wage as Foreign Secretary,
Attacking established cultures and minorities?
A loveable buffoon or bumbling rogue is not what we see
In fact the only thing clearly to be seen on the horizon
Is a cabinet reshuffle or three, see to it Theresa May before it’s too late!
On second thought don’t bother, it would be better to vote you all out
We’re all tired of playing your political games, when people’s lives are at stake
If Bojo is just the tip of the iceberg, consider yourself sunk like The Titanic
Yes, that’s cold but no more than you all deserve
I’ve already pre-ordered the album
Lol Excellent. I’ll start loading the van tonight and tomorrow we go on tour!
Can I be roadie? Pleeeaaase? 😍
You would be my first choice for roadie in a heartbeat 😀