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Booking Bands + Campfires
Just got back from a great 3-day excursion to the Lassen Volcanic National Park and highly recommend it to anyone looking for amazing scenery and bizarre geologic formations. With places like Yosemite and Tahoe so close, I think this park isn’t top of mind and I was completely unfamiliar with it.
One of the highlights was sitting around the campfire playing Booking Bands with my wife Jennifer and our friends, Mouy and Ian. I first learned of this little brain exercise when I heard Jim Coudal speak at the SXSWi festival this past March. When the floor was opened for questions, Coudal said any questioner needed to open with a booking band. I took it a step further by adding Hollywood to the mix: Interview with a Vampire Weekend at Bernies (if you follow the link to Jim’s speech, my question is on there at 37:10).
Basically, try to combine a band name with the title of a book (or vice versa). Coudal described the creative process occurring in your brain as massive rolodexes where you might lock on a band name and then begin rifling through book titles trying to find a match.
One thing all four of us realized is that we all need to read more. Needless to say, the game never ends. I spent most of Monday randomly sending IM’s with Mouy when one of us would come up with another one. I started writing down our list and I’m sure I didn’t get everything from around the campfire. So without further ado….
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The Old Man and the Sea & Cake
National Velvet Underground
Big Black Beauty
The Flying Burrito Brothers Karamazov
The Doobie Brothers Karamazov
The Bacon Brothers Karamazov
The Allmann Brothers Karamazov
The Beach Boys from Brazil
The Petshop Boys from Brazil
The Boys from Brazilian Girls
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Theft
Al Green Eggs and Ham
The Dangerous Book for Boys to Men
KRS-1 Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Love in the Time of Choler-Abba
A New Earth Wind and Fire
Cujo Strummer and the Mescaleros
Jimmy Eat World According to Garp
Interview with a Vampire Weekend
Everclear and Present Danger
Three Cups of TRex
The Sorcerer’s Stone Temple Pilots
Cat Power of One
Cat Power of Now
Of Mice and Men at Work
Arcade Fire Starter
Slaughterhouse Five for Fighting
The Woman in White Stripes
Cinderella
Steppenwolf
A Midsommer’s Night Dream Syndicate
All Quiet on the Western Front 242
System of a Down and Out in Paris and London
Oliver Twisted Sister
Flaming Lipstick Jungle
Aimee Mann of La Mancha
Three Musketeers for Fears
Lovely Bones Thugs & Harmony
Shiny Toy Guns, Germs and Steele
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How to Become an Eco Bounty Hunter
Tim Ferriss, Treehugger.com and Gizmodo team up with a great contest to help reduce tech-waste. Specifically, they are targeting the phone companies to accept old and discarded cell phones through the mail. Great idea.
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