Naming a band is an act of concentrated creative expression. Square Pig in a Round Hole exists to reward five favorite band names each week. Winners are (usually) listed alphabetically. Selection is wholly unscientific and subject to whim, with a bias toward wordplay, humor, and local flavor. In most cases, I won’t know anything about the bands at the time of selection. Thanks to the Seattle Times club listings for abundant source material!
We braved the heat and smoke last night to go out to Cafe Racer, where we got to run through a sprinkler to reach the entrance. We were rewarded with a fun, free punk show featuring past Square Pig honorees Klondike Kate and Mud on My Bra!, as well as Juicy Thompson and the Snuggle Regime and Porn Bloopers, both of whom I am surprised not to have written about before. I’ll have to keep them in mind for the future because this week’s list is already full:
What with the high temps and the wild fires and the global warming, if Earth had skin, it would be blistered by now.
Poignant and strange. I like that the name is so long in honor of such a tiny spirit.
With the words separated it seems to be about a monarch but if you’ve lived here long enough, you know better. Never been anywhere louder.
I’m always pleased to find a band name that runs up against my fiction interests. (My debut novel, The Gospel According to St Rage, features a high school girl who starts a garage band and gains superpowers.) Everybody wishes for superpowers but few who have them can afford to go public.
Joycean circularity with a nice waltz rhythm.
Karen Eisenbrey 