Internet: Wikipedia Names Your Band

Here's a fun time-waster, courtesy of the internet.

1. Go to Wikipedia. Hit "random". The first random Wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.
   
2. Go to Random Quotations. The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.
   
3. Go to flickr and click on "explore the last seven days". The third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.
   
4. Use Photoshop or similar to put it all together.
   

There's a group of these album covers on flickr.

Here's my contribution. Band name = Surberg (municipality in Bavaria). Album title = "Administered With Subhuman Inefficiency". (Quote from Eric Ambler.) Cover is a beautiful black and white shot of an elderly lady walking through a rain-slick town square at night, with head down. I suspect Surberg are a post-industrial German band, who make experimental "found sound" collages, live in a squat, but go home to get their laundry done.

Books: Harry Potter

Eric reports that JK Rowling has "outed" Albus Dumbledore from her popular Larry Kotter books.

We should have known something was up from the anagrams of his name: Aroused Dumbbell, A Bulbous Meddler, Bad Lube Smoulder, A Sore Bum - Dull Bed.

One blogger is having trouble accepting the news, but a commenter says: "the gayness of a male character is always narratively compatible when a book is set in an English boarding school."

Gadgetopia reports on the Wikipedia "war" over Dumbledore's entry.

Music: Birthplace Quiz

Match the singers to their birthplace.

1. David Byrne (Talking Heads)		a. England
2. Win Butler (Arcade Fire)		b. Scotland
3. Lloyd Cole (The Commotions)		c. Germany
4. Sebastian Bach (Skid Row)		d. Texas
5. Tanita Tikaram		e. Canada

Incidentally, if you go to Sebastian Bach's Wikipedia page looking for clues, you'll learn that, "he has also reportedly stolen Nardwuar's favorite wool tuque." I thought this was "Wikipedia vandalism", but it may be true. However, I note on the Chris Martin (Coldplay) page, "He has a baritenor voice and is known for his frequent use of fellatio."