I miss when I was in an indie band in my adolescence and every cool-sounding, esoteric noun I discovered felt like a perfect band name, song title or lyric. 

Like, I would have gotten a lot of mileage out of “Laramidia”

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Man. Dog. Van. building things, surfing and playing disc golf

Love it. Been taking lessons to get better at figuring out how to sing not fk up the strumming pattern. It's tough.