The Week in Event Names: A Pop Quiz

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A lot of noodle-scratchers in town this week. Can you make heads or tails of them? No. 2 pencils only. Answers after the jump.


I. Short answer

1. What is the Eleventh Commandment?

2. How does King Midas In Reverse work?

3. Who are Mill Valley's Most Honest Men?


II. Match the leader with the band

4. Jimbo Trout
5. Star Anna
6. Flash Gilmore

a. The Laughing Dogs
b. The Funbeatles
c. The Fishpeople


III. Place the following bill-sharing bands in a logical narrative order

7. Decapitated, The Faceless, All Shall Perish, The Red Chord, Veil of Maya, Cephalic Carnage, Decrepit Birth, Carnifex, Animals As Leaders, Vital Remains

8. Circle One, Negative Trend, Last Round Up, You Die, Nihilist Cunt, Mental Cancer


IV. Essay

9. If "Karaoke Killed the Cat" is at Elbo Room on Monday, how can Kitten on the Keys be at the Rite Spot on Tuesday?

Answers

1. Find out on Friday at Rasselas. Also see this Reagan dictum.

2. Find out on Thursday at Slim's (and don't be surprised if it turns out to be something gross.)

3. Ten bucks says John Muir was one of them. In the meantime, find out on Tuesday at Hemlock, where Audacity, a punk band who have a song called "S.S. Homo," are also playing.

4. c. (Wednesday at Johnny Foley's Irish House.)

5. a. (Tuesday at Hotel Utah.)

6. b. (Wednesday at Uptown Nightclub.)

7. Find out at the Summer Slaughter Tour this afternoon and evening at the Fillmore.
Sample answer:
"Hey, where's Carnifex?"
"Oh, we Decapitated him because his Cephalic Carnage was getting all over the Veil of Maya."
"You mean The Red Chord?"
"Well, yeah, it didn't used to be red."
"So he must have been The Faceless one back there."
"Headless, even, you might say."
"Well, that's a shame. And on his Decrepit Birthday, no less."
"Tell me about it. Seems like nothing Vital Remains since we elected those Animals As Leaders."
"Boy howdy. Hey, did you hear about that egg recall?"
"All Shall Perish."

8. Find out at 924 Gilman on Saturday.

9. Keyboard Cat will never die.