hats without heads

[travisezell]

Without context, here is an incomplete list of some of the things that over the last few years I have glibly claimed would make good titles:

Even Slightly Reasonable Candidates

• The Biggest Jerk in Jerktown
• The Nth Lull
• You Were Only Last Night
• Sam Hill
• For Want of Plankton
• Meaning is Plastic
• Hannah's Idea
• Suicide Prep Kit

Totally Ridiculous Candidates

• The Smell-Good
• The Man Thing
• Thought and Thought (band name?)
• Like Vodka and Everything
• Zodiac Doctor: A Skunk-Noir Thriller
• Elf Maxwell
• Hot Night 2: The Night Just Got Hotter
• How To Get A Monkey To Beg
• Dr. Sex Monster, M.D.

And then there's...

Titles I've Made Up In Dreams

• Protomica
• Full Rules and Half-Roof
• Shadows, Be You Ridiculous
• Every Room is Empty
• The Eventualist
• Corn Dogs
• Wcutch
• For a Lovely Metropolis
• Help the Bandit in Another Way
• Reset
• Shave the Birds (fictional Nirvana album, had Kurt never died)
• Thoughts Can Become Plans
• The Pusher
• The Thornberrys
• Quitsville
• Which Arrows Matter? (classic rock album)
• Orange Blossoms and Blue Spring (a collage/painting)
• Yes, or Probably No
• The Crotch of Objects

And why not...

People/names/etc. I've Made Up In Dreams

• Andy Boom Ezell (son)
• Katy Strained Ezell and Bob Agave Ezell (twin children)
• Hiroshi (son)
• Dolly (daughter)
• Detective Inspector (cat)
• Hidéhalda (giant intelligent rottweiler-like monster)
• Mingles Malone (slang? what David Bowie/Thomas Jefferson called everybody)
• John Drake (member of the comedy troupe "Drake")
• Wong Kar Wyoming (band)
• Rod McCog (?)
• Ode Young (real name Odin Young)
• squitterketch (a music genre)
• Yafen ("yawfin," a girl's name)
• Sid (called herself "Sidso")

And lastly, since this segued into a whole dream-writing thing...

Some Strange Lines I've "Written" in Dreams

• (From this)
  I am Belmondo and as I die I write, "If I write this down, it will help me later to understand why it happened," with a pad and pen.
  
• (From this)
  My head is spinning and I recite this mantra to calm myself down:
  My tongue is written on my hand,
  My hand is written on the stone,
  The stone is written in the sand,
  The sand is written on the bone.
  
• (From this)
  I wake up with these lines stuck in my head, as if it were a real song:
  I look to the part that's given
  To see how we've been livin'
  Whoa-ee-oh-whee-oh!
  

In the future, look for a similar post about the world of Dang Mundane. (Edited to add: Well, maybe. I just peeked and there's not as much to build on the "Dang Mundane" thing as I remember there being.)