Life after the Talcott Parsons Project?
Posted on Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Readers of this blog may be familiar with the great Talcott Parsons Project, widely hailed as The Greatest Sociology Novelty Band Ever, and for whom I play lead guitar. Last night, our drummer Chris and I were contemplating what we could call our band if the TPP were no more (especially if the break-up were ugly, full of lawsuits and hateful name-calling in the press, which—lets face it—would be likely). Here are our ideas so far:
- Fleetwood Marx
- Goffman Turner Overdrive
- Death Cab for Cooley
- Gans n' Roses (or, for local flavor, Uggens n' Roses)
- System of a Durkheim
- Foucault Fighters
- Crosby, Mills and Nash (Crosby, Mills, Nash and Jung)
- Bill Haley and His Comte's
- Simon and Garfinkel
- Karl Mannheim Steamroller
- Bellah and Sebastian
- Chris and Coser
- The Mighty Mighty Boss-Tonnies
- A Tribe Called Joel Best
- Arendt in Chains
- Twisted Simmel
- Better Than Elster
- and my personal favorite...The Rolling Stinchcombes