In keeping with our dismal spring, it looks like Folklife could be damp. Go anyway -- support local music! This week's picks:
14 Iced Bears
This sounds like a cookie order . . . or a crime scene in one of Jasper Fforde's Nursery Crime novels. For some reason, including the word "bear" in a title makes it automatically funny and awesome at the same time. Including one or more actual bears is not recommended.
Bad Mitten Orchestre
This looks cute on the page, and then you say it aloud and there's a whole new joke. It belongs to the same category of near-homophones as Square Pig in a Round Hole, so of course I'm going to choose it.
Pipsisewah
Because it is fun yet difficult to say, I was ready to believe this to be a Washington State place name. It isn't, but it should be.
The Ross Sea Party
Another entry in the "Do They Know Me?" category. Although my interest lies more with the Weddell Sea Party, in researching Ernest Shackleton and the ill-fated Endurance, I also learned about Aeneas Mackintosh and the perhaps more ill-fated Aurora. Polar explorers were nuts, but they left us amazing stories that you couldn't make up. I hope this "party" is more the fun kind and not the dying-of-scurvy kind.
Sea of Bees
A different kind of sea, one I wouldn't want to cross without the proper gear. Saying the name aloud evokes CBGB.
Naming a band is an act of concentrated creative expression. Square Pig in a Round Hole exists to reward five favorite band names each week. Winners are listed alphabetically. Selection is wholly unscientific and subject to whim, with a bias toward wordplay, humor, and local flavor. In most cases, I won't know anything about the bands at the time of selection. Thanks to the Seattle Times club listings for abundant source material!
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