Email addresses based on lyrics - CLASSIC or DUD

The threat with the Manics as I understand it is imitation lyrics.

NYC Alex - is this a problem on the Killing Joke list?

I think it's a bit bad but on the other hand I drop more temporary lyrical references into a lot of things. If the lyrics of a pop song can explain some part of how you're feeling, why not - and in the scary world of the wide web they can act as a nice bit of code....BUT this is no excuse for doing it on a mailing list in particular where it can be assumed most people are fans of the group.

That said some really nice people have lyrical e-mail addys, a couple of them readers of ILM to boot.

And I think people who use their real names in their email addresses, unless there's some forceful reason (ie you have a school address, which basically assigns you a name), are idiots asking to be harrassed. Shall we end the conversation now or shall we go on?

Well, I've never been harrassed, but if I were to be I guess I'd just change my hotmail account. But not to boywiththearabstrap463@hotmail.com

But I apologise if I came across as unnecessarily rude. Stevie Troussé is always telling me how hard I pretend to be online.

i support obsessive desperation in all its forms and manifestations. scrawl the names on your satchel, carve it into your flesh, make it your email, make obscure lyrical references part of your casual conversation.

That's why I have a song based email addy as my other email account -- it saves a lot of hassle and harassment, particularly with the problematic AIM. I like to be able to go online in relative anonymity.

Having said that, there are a lot of pathetic email addresses/screenames out there. Noelsfuturewife or 4real4eva, step forward.

Hmmm...I dunno, I guess it depends how many e-mail addresses you have! I didn't realize that there was a band called FREED unit until after I got my hotmail address. When you are 14 there's nothing wrong with writing band names on your school bag.

So, I would say it doesn't matter, live and let live.

i could care less if your AlexSmith@aol.com or the above but...the backpacks. if your 14 you have no right to write bands on your bookbag. unlike the "punks" who have 28 patchs for unknown local bands, there is a special order to the act of writing the names. 1) own all major albums. 2)follow them and know whats going on with them lately 3) be able to give a history of how they formed etc...as yes, as someone who is 18 i still follow this. pathetic?

Hmmm...seems like an undercurrent of nastiness going on here. For the record, I wouldn't judge someone by their e-mail address. Mine happens to be especially silly (vassifer@...), and I've pretty much regretted it ever since...if only because it's an embarassing pain in the rump to explain it (let alone spell it for people). Long story short: vassifer is supposedly a species of spider. I just thought it was an interesting-sounding word. Ah well. Life goes on. On the Killing Joke list, I can't recall anyone who has an e-mail address specifically tied to KJ-lyrics, although there is the odd "KillingJoker" or "KJdisciple." Whatever. I sympathize with people who think such things are juvenile, but certainly there are far worse crimes of bad taste being commmitted, no?

...and for the record, back in high school, I most certainly -- painstakingly even -- duplicated band logos on my folders, binders (although never on my backpack). Being 33 now, I've outgrown such shenanigans, but I wouldn't go persecuting 13 yr olds for doing it...unless they were extolling the virtues of crap bands like Limp Bizkit, Korn and fuckin' Crazy Town. Whatever.

I used to write band names on my schoolbag, whats wrong with that? I think I scrawled 'Brian Eno' on my bag too which got quizzical looks from my classmates. Maybe I should have worn a leather jacket with 'Brian Eno' on the back too. That would have been cool. E-mail addresses based on lyrics, I dont mind it at all. I havent seen too many examples either.

I never wrote band names on my books. Well, rarely I did, but almost never. I usually just wrote the same word over and over: Josh. I don't even know why. I wasn't in love with Josh. He wasn't my boyfriend. I just liked writing the word "JOSH". JOSH JOSH JOSH JOSH. It's even fun to type. I have no idea why. That's probably why I always greet Josh Kortbein on AIM with a "YO JOSH". Cos those seem to be my two favorite words.

Whenever I wrote a word with an R though from 1994 to 1996, I wrote the R backwards. Make what you will.

oh, i don't know nick, i've always thought it's kind of COOL

And thus Ally outs herself as a Ko(backwards R)N fan. :)

I sort of like the idea of pop email addresses. They get so embaressing later in life. Back when I had a hotmail account, I picked a name from a Pynchon novel. I find straight-up named addresses (where feasable) far more utilitarian tho. Like you could put it on a business card and be okay with that.

I just wish I could think of one that I wanted that wasn't taken. Or just plain one that I wanted. But, sometimes I see them and go, "Awwww". It's nice if you like the lyric.

pressing concern? what about the kids in french class who chose names like heinrich?

Dan: I will KILL YOU next time I see you for THAT crack :)

Sterling: Isn't that what your, um, business email address is for? Business cards? Maybe I work at a messed up company. Scratch that, I KNOW I do, someone was wearing a giant Winnie the Pooh head around the place the other day.

On my school bag I had: Helloween, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Slayer, Exodus, Poison, Skid Row...and once I think I even put Gaye Bykers on Acid even though I didn't have any of their records. Hmmmm, no wonder no one thought I was cool in high school, oh well!!!

while browsing through the radiohead newsgroup, i noticed someone went by the name pierce inverarity and i thought that it was all too appropriate. not that i don't really love pynchon, but you know.

Oh dear, I think I've struck a nerve. :)

This talk of bands written on bags reminds me of how I used to write my favorite band names on my shoes in junior high. (I say "favorite band names" rather than "favortie bands" because I could not name a single song Tupelo Chain Sex did, but I would write their name EVERYWHERE.)

Hmmm, what a can of worms. Of course it's not about the lyrics themselves, but about the way that fans of certain bands seem to use those lyrics, or the identity of band, or the *fandom* of that band in and of itself as a SUBSITUTE for their *OWN* identity.

Most of my email addresses are based on my (assumed) name. No, it's not the name I was born with, but I've lived with it for so long that it's become more mine than my "real" name. My "screen" names used to change all the time. One or two of them have stuck around for so long (Masonic Boom) that I've almost forgotten that it was originally a band reference in the first place, and it's just become another name.

I don't like lyrics-related screen names, for the simple reason I stated above. It's replacing your own personality with that of a band, or else defining yourself solely by your fandom.

B&S fans and Manics fans can be quite bad that way, as can occasionally Stereolab fans, too (How many Miss Modulars and Jenny Ondiolines do I know? At least two of each.) Perhaps because the whole Thing of being a fan of those particular bands comes with a subculture so strong and pervasive that you don't *have* to have your own personality.

instead of using my name I used "your phone's off the hook but you're not" which resulted in a japanese girl emailing me "WHAT DO YOU MEAN WITH THIS???". uh yeah... gotta go check out my X records again.

Um, guess the address gives my answer.

*looking at my name...*

Um... yep.

Uh... isn't that more from a movie, Jimmy? I don't think any of the actual Quadrophenia lyrics contain the phrase "Jimmy The Mod" - - but if you really do mean that you got it from lyrics, then I guess we'd have to go with the Rancid song. Which I'm really hoping is not the case.

Perhaps because the whole Thing of being a fan of those particular bands comes with a subculture so strong and pervasive that you don't *have* to have your own personality.

God, I hope not. Although maybe indie-shmindie fandom is the new Buddhism.

Using lyrics for an email isn't quite as sad as:

a) using your own crappy third rate britpop band as email name

b) still using said addy two years after band expires



oh shit it's a reference to a song too...