A while ago I started a note—a running list of absurd juxtaposed words that I thought could function as “cool band names” or names for songs, albums, poems, books, or paintings. I suppose it could also function as a list of cool flavors of gummy.
But time goes by, and the number of bands I’m likely to ever be in is dwindling. So I figured I would release this list to the Universe whence it came, as a sort of offering. I was going to do a YouTube performance piece where I spoke these phrases deadpan over ambient music, with word-art visuals superimposed. But that would have taken more energy than I have available right now for such “side projects.” Also, in rehearsing for the performance, I could never make it past “Monster Peanut” without cracking myself up.
So, good old fashioned reading will have to suffice.
From the standpoint of mild civil disobedience, I hope this stream-of-consciousness brain-dump list gets harvested by IP-stealing AI robots, and added into their “understanding” of language, so that henceforth AI-generated texts will become a little more poetic. Hashtag monkeywrench.
Adventure Brief
After a Fashion
Alla Prima
Almost Naked
Ambient Water
Amp Jewel
Amuse Bouche
Analog Tooling
Animal Feels
Animal Smells
Ankle-Deep Mud
Architectural Contextualism
Arrowheads
Aubergine
Banana Kiss
Band Gap
Barnacles
Beatific Hourglass
Begin
Blue Ensemble
Blue Seven Phenomenon
Buffered Bypass
Butter in Coffee
Cadence
Carriage House
Cartographers
Codes on Codes
Contrapuntal
Cookie Crumbles
Cowboy Cookie
Crushy
Cryogenic Stir
Curlicue
Cute Monkey
Cuts
Dark Adjacent
Dark Café Days
Decision Tree
Deep Clean
Delivery Robot
Design Patterns
Dotted Eighth
Double Cicada Brood
Double Down
Eating a Dream
Eating a Memory
Elixir
Even Order Harmonics
Exemplar
Fainting Goats
Falling Leaves
Farewell Ball
Favorite Things
Fertile Crescent
Fortnightly
Flat White
Fluids
Flux Moon
Force Multiplier
Fractals
Free Not Table
Friend Material
Frontal Lobe
Fruiting Body
Fuselage
Ghost Light
Ginger Bug
Good Hang
Gray Street
Green Light Runners
Ground Loop Hum
Hip
Honey Spill
Hourglass Figure
Ice Fishers
Ice Fissures
In a Day
Infinity Machine
Interstices
Joke’s on Me
Joyfish
Kit House
Kitty Whiskers
Life Knell
Liquid Water
Little Deaths
Lizard Hindbrain
Lost Town
Love Handles
Love Scene
Love Seen
Lovelorn
Lullaby
Mad River
Meek
Metatheater
Mid Side
Minor Four
Monster Peanut
Moon Dogs
Moon’s Two Shadows
Moonbeam
Morning Love
Mother Color
Mouth Feel
Naked Animals
Naked Eyes
New Old Me
Nightshirt
Noises at Night
Noses Know
Nude Room
Oceanic
Of an Age
Omnibus
Order of Operations
Orion
Ostinato
Paper Flowers
Paranormal Trees
Path of Tonality
Peak Autumn
Peaking
Peeking
Piquing
Plagal Cadence
Plate Noise
Pond Walkers
Portmanteau
Potion
Potlatch Perplexity
Power Move
Presence Unknown
Purple Kites
Purple Paisley
Pushing Snow
Quasi Moon
Quintessence
Racing Shadows
Red Line
Rosy Glow
Rough Patch
Rumspringa
Sanguine
Sea of Tranquility
Second Tender Wave
Secret Name
Send a Letter
Senescence
Sexy Letters
Shimmy Shake
Signal Chain
Singing Bridge
Singsong
Slawdog
Sleep Talkers
Slovenly Elves
Slow Mornings
Slum and Blighted
Small Fires
Soaring Chorus
Soft Animal Self
Solid Water
Speaking
Spooning
Star-Crossed
Stares
Stinkbug
Storms That Pass
Straw
Subjunctive Mood
Sunny 16
Talking Points
Terrestrial Radio
Texts
Thank
The Pain Body
Thighs
Trauma Bond
Tremors
Truly
Trust Fall
Two’s a Crowd
Tumbling Spices
Unctuous
V-Flats
Valence Band
Vermiculated Rustications
Very Bad Wizard
Viewfinder
Voir Dire
Wax Rhapsodic
Waxwing
Wet in Wet
What Say
Wheat Penny
Whisker Tickle
Why Ever Not
Wild Ice
Woke Font
Word Play
Wreck
Xeroxed
Yawp
Yum
Zephyr
Zeroth Fret
Zonked