Ever since the last rock band I played in, the thing I enjoy most now is dreaming up various stunt bands with funny names. "Wouldn't it be fun to build a band around [this or that name or concept]." But I'll never actually do them, because I know in very concrete and experiential terms how much hassle is involved in putting a band together, rehearsing it, keeping it together etc. and how it always seems to take some unpredicted course, sometimes for the better but usually for the worse. Whereas my ideas in my head just stay how they are. Never realized I was a Gnostic whose thinking has respected philosophical underpinnings. I just thought I was a lazy perfectionist.

So, bands like Donnie K'Bob and the Shawarmy Gyroes, Fat Man and the Little Boys, Messmaker, Paper Jam and Proper Fucking English will just have to live in my mind. Sorry to disappoint all you thronging millions out there. That doesn't stop someone else from coming along and ruining those ideas of course, but I'M not gonna be the one!

Edit to add: Rickety Chair and the Loose Stools