a good title is good to find

one of the only reasons this blog still exists right now, without frequent posting, is because i like the title so much.

i like the idea of this blog, meant to encourage me to write, being called "Written Off"

its an excellent title really. just witty enough for a blogful of wit (that, i admit, does not exist yet.)

Written Off: a blog about writing.
i identify it somewhat with the phrase "pissed off," which i find kind of funny, and will use as a title if i ever decide to catalogue my peeing experiences online (so don't steal it.)

i am also a literary outsider -- that is, i have never been published, much less completed a manuscript of anything...and therefore, as a writer, it is easy to be....well, you get the idea.

originally i was going to title this blog "Writing Off"...but the comparison to the phrase "Jerking Off" was too ready...and i didn't want this to be a place of the writing equivalent of public masturbation.....or at least for people to realize that it was such a place initially.

anyways, i am fascinated by a good title, a good name. they say not to judge a book by its cover, but if it has a good title on it i'm half inclined to read it. the catch phrase potentiality of it is mystical to me -- that and the fact that it can stand for the summation of a book, it can be the significance of it. i want to write a book where every line is good enough to be its title. i love titled chapters as well, and i especially love books and chapters of books that begin with a quote from another work -- the network of meaning produced is like summoning a ghost of meaning that haunts the read of a work -- you can't touch it or define it, but its there, and you know it, and the author knows it, and it unlocks portals to secret underworlds of meaning.

one of the other genres of naming is that of the band name. sometimes i'll be in the shower, or driving through a crappy section of town, and a phrase will punch me in the brain as being extremely catchy and fluid-in-the-mouth-of-an-MTV-newanchor-like -Tabitha-Soren-or-Serena-Altshcul. i want to be in a band. i have no musical inclination other than i love music, and i can sing a little. but i want to be in a band that is as good as U2 and Radiohead, and will go down in history as one of the greatest bands ever, and when i think of forming it, it of course will need a good name. the name would have to reflect the members, naturally. i was thinking of forming my theoretical band with my lesbian-roommate and her intended, and calling it Mother Mayhem.

is that not a catchy name? not bad at least.

a mostly lesbian band named Mother Mayhem. its cool. and kind of funny. like "mother may i?" gone wrong. and it has the ring of some kind of 80's chick rocker metal band, but we would play music that is mostly acoustic and like Over the Rhine or 10,000 maniacs, with a boy singer.

its such a cool name to me, that it would be a shame to waste.

drummers, cellists, and bassists wanted. prodigies welcome. no egoes please.