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Fake Band / Album Cover Meme

Post author:HFM
Post published:January 7, 2008
Post category:Memes Music
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via (original link, no longer active -http://www.xtra-rant.com/2008/01/06/2331/) Xtrarant…

Generate a fake band and its first album:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band. (Reference Ellipsoid)

2. (original link, no longer active -http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3) Quotations Random (one which is funnier)

The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.

3. http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover. (Like Jason, I also chose the third creative commons license picture by wmbreedveld rather than just the third picture.)

Thus:

Reference Ellipsoid: One Which Is Funnier

2022-03-17 Update:
I’m sad this one broke with the quotations link page, because it was fun. And was appropriate given how random many cover album names seem.

Invisible libraries, fake band names, and gardens of forking paths

Post author:HFM
Post published:October 15, 2002
Post category:Books Brain Food Funny Websites Recently Read
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Funny and/or cool websites I’ve noticed lately:

Garden of Forking Paths
Welcome to the Garden of Forking Paths, one of the most intriguing areas of the Libyrinth of Allexamina. Here you will find access to the garden planted by J.L. Borges, the Argentine writer, poet and philosopher. Although I tend the garden as well as I can, beware: among these sprawling labyrinths you will find illusions most seductive and truths most elusive. Let me show you around.

The Invisible Library [link updated in 2013]
a catalog of “imaginary books, pseudobiblia, artifictions, fabled tomes, libris phantastica, and all manner of books unwritten, unread, unpublished and unfound.”
2011 Update: a Salon article on the idea of an “Invisible Library”

Rocklopedia Fakebandica
T h e U l t i m a t e F a k e B a n d L i s t

The Lipstick Librarian

You’ve seen her darting into the stacks in search of Moody’swearing Chanel knock-offs and Kenneth Cole shoes. You’ve glanced at her from the corner of your eye during conferences wolfing down free scones while decked in what you’d swear was last year’s Mizrahi. Or you’ve seen her with that Linda Evangelista-like pout and Oliver Peoples frames as the umpteenth person has asked her where the bathroom is. And you wonder, “who is that exquisitely attired woman and are my tax dollars paying for it?” Who is she? She’s a Lipstick Librarian!