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When the Sassy Librarian<\/a> suggested that I start a blog, I naturally planned to name it Ethan Lewis’ Blog.\u00a0 After all, my website is www.ethanlewis.org<\/a>, the online forum for my history class is ethanlewis.ning.com<\/a> and I feel like it is a nice brand identity.\u00a0 But then I was told that “Ethan Lewis is boring.\u00a0 Think of something interesting.”<\/span><\/p>\n So I began trying to brainstorm names of blogs.\u00a0 “Blog Horn” and “My Librarian Is Sassier Than Yours” quickly went by the wayside.\u00a0 “30 Minutes Or Your Pizza’s Free” was an early favorite.\u00a0 But then I thought that I’d like to have a reference to one of my favorite movies.\u00a0 Unfortunately, I’m not blessed at remembering movie dialogue except for some rare cases.\u00a0 Basically I have memorized just about every line from The Godfather<\/i><\/a>, The Godfather Part II<\/i><\/a>, The Adventures of Robin Hood<\/i><\/a>, and This is Spinal Tap<\/i><\/a>.\u00a0 An eclectic mix!\u00a0 Rather than picking a quote from a film, I decided that I’d like to veer a bit off the beaten path, and choose a song title by Spinal Tap.<\/span><\/p>\n Spinal Tap has been very influential to me.\u00a0 Ever since my first year of college, when I was a member of a band (Br\u00e4inh\u00e4mmer) that pretended to be German heavy metalists and whose main influences were TIST <\/i>and The Hammer of the Gods: The Led Zeppelin Story<\/i> (a sensationalist bio of the mighty Zep by Stephen Davis).\u00a0 Later another of my bands (The Trouser Helpers) derived their name from a throwaway line by David St. Hubbins on the Arsenio Hall show.\u00a0 Since then I have gone so far as to decorate my office with a vintage TIST<\/i> movie poster and action figures.\u00a0 In choosing a name, I relied on one of the all-time greatest websites, the Spinal Tap Fan Site<\/a>, by Chip Rowe.\u00a0 Rowe is an interesting guy, who is an expert on Spinal Tap, as demonstrated in his book Spinal Tap A to Zed.\u00a0 <\/i>Rowe has combed the movie, subsequent articles, tv appearances and other sources to compile the everything anyone needs to know about Tap.\u00a0 But when I started looking at the titles, I realized that many probably wouldn’t work:<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0And then I found it.\u00a0 My “Eureka” moment!\u00a0 A deep track on Tap’s psychedelic album “We Are All Flower People”, the epic “The Incredible Flight Of Icarus P. Anybody”.\u00a0 I knew then, that I had found my muse.<\/span><\/p>\n\n