What's in a name?

May 25, 2011 - 6:53pm - by admin

Zach Bussey did a post a few days ago about discovering a dude in the Twitterverse who has the exact same name as him (weird!) and with that in mind it feels like a good time to share one of my darkest, most embarrassing secrets with you guys.

Because isn't that what The Internet is for, really?

(besides pr0n and 4chan, of course)

Let me preface:

one day while tuned in to our local 'rock' (read: mostly Metallica) station Power '97 when the DJ said something that made me spend the next minute or so trying to figure out who the heck had said my name.

Turns out the DJ hadn't said my name, but instead was talking about these guys:Yeeeeeeeeeah.

To demonstrate.

Say the following things out loud, one after the other:

ALYSON SHANE

ALICE IN CHAINS

Okay, stop laughing. I know they sound exactly the same.

So while Mr. Bussey over there might have a doppelganger out there in the big, wide Twitterverse, every time someone says my full name this is what I think of:



And while I was pretty indifferent towards The Band That Shall Not Be Named before this, now I have to hate them on principle. Because not only do we have the exact same-sounding name, but a Wikipedia search has informed me that they were formed the same year that I was born.

Really guys? C'mon!

But maybe I'm approaching this the wrong way?

Maybe I should embrace my grunge-metal fate and start wearing leather jackets and shades everywhere.

Maybe I should grow my hair out all frizzy-gross and learn to play the electric guitar?

Maybe I should join the band that sort of shares my name?!



I mean, come on, how badass would this be?

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