Avatars &Nicknames

I might have shared the small and uninteresting history behind my nickname in some other thread already, but suppose that it's appropriate to post it yet again.

Naturally, Beau Heem equals boheme. I made the name up, because the owner of a rock club where me and me pals were about to make some rock/prog improvisations wanted to know our band's name in order to make some advertisement. As it happened, we did not have a name (and still use a different one every time we're to perform), and I had to come up with something.

Being as witty as always , I told him that we were to perform under the name of 'boheme of nature, scientific an orchestra". Surprisingly, he asked me to write it down (to put it in the local newspaper or something...), so i thought I have to come up with something reasonable (and something the other members of the group could accept/understand).

We ended up performing under the name "Beau Heem and the Destructive Science Orchestra".

The name, of course, was too long to be used in newspaper ads... ...none were made...
I was the main vocalist/showman of the group, so the name Beau Heem clung to me.

Suits me just fine. I tend to use it wherever a nick is needed.

Avatar, on the other hand...hmmm... I think it says it all by itself, does it not???

-Beau

Lunar is from a song on our first album (Lunarscape), an 11 minutes "epic" about an astronaut stranded somewhere out in space with only one comunication link - The Intergalactic Radiostation.

The avatar is the Yin-Yang, the principle of everything and nothing (This symbol is also tattooed on my left shoulderblade. I had it done at The Flaming Lotus - Long Island, 1998)

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Lunar...

My avatar represents birds on an electric wire, a picture I drawed from a photograph I found on a book about birds.

Here is a link to a wider version of this picture : http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v381/lubi/birds.jpg

John Gargo wrote: My avatar is from this flash cartoon... http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/190638 Click on "WATCH THIS MOVIE" to check it out.  Let me know what you think of it after it finishes....

...what can you think of it? It's the cheap flash cartoon equivalent of the smelly kid in junior high who carved crude pictograms into his desk.

Brian Eno and Richard D. James really deserve something better to represent them...but maybe you don't.

Danbo is Polish for "he who spanks chickens" before basting and roasting. It seems my father passed the name down from my great great great great grandfather Danbo Jablonski, chicken spanker of the Queen Jimmina Gartenski of Upper Eastern Outer Krakow and highness of Discoski Pavoratti. Danbo was caught spanking one of the Queens serving wenches and was beheaded with a butter knife in the courtyard, but continued spanking a chicken throughout the whole ordeal. Legend has it that he spanked that chicken for three full minutes after his head rolled. My current avatar is the Holy Hand of Jablonski and reigns over the family crest at the home in Hamtramick Michigan.

I hope this sheds some light on my personal history.  

My avatar is - as of February 18th - the album cover of Frank Zappa's fusion masterpiece "Hot Rats"

The name billyshears67' was inspired by a beatles song. The song being Sgt. Pepper's and the Lonely Hearts Club Band. Billy Shears was, I guess, Paul for that song (strange, I know).

Yeah, I'm a huge Beatles fan & a huge Frank Zappa fan.

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