All I do is look at words and I looked really fast a a bunch of words and thought I saw the word "Spittlekings" but I'm pretty sure I didn't and I can't even find the word that might have looked like Spittlekings to my tired eyeballs. Now I'm thinking...if Spittlekings was the name of a band, what kind of music would they play?
Last week one of the interns told me he read my book at it was "creepy."
Also, something's wrong with my computer at work. Whenever I go to blogger everything except that which I type is in some eastern European language, which reminds me...last week Marty put his head on the pillow and two second later I said "Is it ok if I open the window," and I guess he was already asleep because he said "You have to put the accent marks over his name."
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I believe that the Spittlekings would play songs of love (like the Mambo Kings) but in a more abrasive sort of way. Or perhaps it would be a band of elderly gentlemen in a barbershop quartet who realize that "Barbershop Quartet" isn't a very good name, but that "Spittlekings" might be sort of hip, something the kids might like.
Creepy?? Hmmm.
I recently recommended your book to someone who is teaching a contemporary short fiction class this summer at George Washington University in DC. She said CP was super nice and sent a PDF right away so that she could decide if she wanted to use it for her class.
spittlekings: part big band, part punk-ish? like andrew bird meets the pixies.
and creepy? like a luminous fox. :-)
Sara and Christina you are both very wise and should be allowed to name bands professionally. This would be a very cool job I think. There's the bands = cool. There's the naming, which could be quite poetic (i.e., cool). And people who work in the music industry make lots of money. Hooray. Jobs.
S - thank you for recommending my book to someone.
C - yes! creepy like a creeping nighttime fox creeping through the prairie grasses all aglow. this can be a new (imaginary) assignment. after writing the rotten tin-foil piece, write the luminous creeping fox piece. Thanks.
I believe the Spittlekings were klezmer artists who toured mostly Yiddish speaking ghettos in Eastern Europe. The original pronunciation was Schpittelkings.
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are you sure it wasn't the spittlekinks? the name having been truncated to the kinks at the request of the record label? the rest, as they say is history.
the thing is: marty is always putting accent marks over everything. it's like that in every workshop i've ever been with him.
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