Michael Shilling's novel, Rock Bottom (Back Bay Books, 2008), is out as a paperback original and is a rollicking good read. It takes place during the final day of what will be the final tour for the former 'next big thing', the Blood Orphans. Told from the points of view of each of the four band members, as well as their manager, it's a difficult book to put down once started. Shilling's own experiences with playing in a band shine through loud and clear.
The fine folks from Back Bay Books have offered the Emerging Writers Network a handful (ie, five) of copies to give out as awards to the five best band name suggestions. Michael Shilling will be the judge of this contest, and while the official publication date is January 9, we'll hold off judging until January 15, with winners announced on the 16th. This gives everybody a little more time to come up with that perfect name for a band, and Michael's reading in the area that night and I hope to be in the crowd listening.
So, enter by posting your band name in the comments section of this post. Do so before the clock shifts from January 14 to January 15 and during the day of the fifteenth, Michael will make his decisions. From there, I'll post the five winners here on the 16th and they can email their addresses to me to pass along to Back Bay Books.
I'd quote Bret Michaels from Rock of Love 3 - The Love Bus, but the only line I can remember from last night is "Choking is a bad thing," and that really doesn't apply. Or does it?
Update: Per the question below, let's say that each participant may suggest three band names, but let's not go higher than that.
LIfEUNDERGROUND
Posted by: sarah | January 05, 2009 at 10:27 AM
Tongue and Groove
Posted by: Matt Moorman | January 05, 2009 at 10:35 AM
band name - Queen Kicktoria
(this is also my roller derby name, so DON'T STEAL IT)
Posted by: Whitney | January 05, 2009 at 10:38 AM
split shift
Posted by: Michelle Vandepol | January 05, 2009 at 10:45 AM
St. Dymphna and the Five Lunatics.
Posted by: Kathleen Maher | January 05, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Quidado and the Piso Mojados
Posted by: dustin | January 05, 2009 at 11:09 AM
Precious Bodily Fluids.
Posted by: Pete | January 05, 2009 at 11:16 AM
Can I have more than one?
Terlingua Jesus
Virtual Fridays
Reverent Slim & the Fervor
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | January 05, 2009 at 11:46 AM
The Freudian Slips
Red Light Special
Alabaster Twin
Posted by: harmony | January 05, 2009 at 12:12 PM
Scowcroft Brzezinski
Bette Davis Lies
The Market Corrections
Posted by: Mike Wendling | January 05, 2009 at 12:18 PM
An Undefinable Word
The End Of The World As We Know It
Sitting In The Dark
Posted by: thelittlefluffycat | January 05, 2009 at 12:54 PM
Sorry, this is addicting:
Merely Traitors
Engines of Lust
Foolish Idle Boys
Theory of War
Overtures of Peace
Posted by: Cowtown Pattie | January 05, 2009 at 01:20 PM
1. Gandhi and the Gatt Gunners
2. RU-486
3. The Geologists
Posted by: kyle | January 05, 2009 at 01:24 PM
Allegra and the Dust Mites
Done and Done
Constellation Class
Zipp and the Do Das
Posted by: Matt | January 05, 2009 at 03:36 PM
A cover showing kids shooting the finger arouses the wonder of why any publisher with the vaguest aspiration of reaching a broad audience, whose readership is predominately older, non-I Pod men and women, would pander so narrowly. You're not alone. Tin House, in announcing their Winter Issue of fiction and poetry touted in its first paragraph "letters from a shit-house friend." Like you, immune to good taste, they reached out to our youth, our future, where sadness and humor, reflection and irony are all relics of an ancient age. And maybe they are.
Posted by: Ward Jones | January 05, 2009 at 04:05 PM