Namelgängers: Composer Portrait

I'm facebook friends with someone with my same name, a bluegrass musician in Maine.  We discussed forming a "James Welsch" band, culled from the diverse talents of people all over the world with our identical name ("namelgängers", as we call them on googles) - & there's another who composes classical music in New York.  This is especially funny to me--;  there was a time when I used to compose classical music & proudly put the name "James Welsch" on the upper-right-hand margin of the page. So I find it satisfying that old friends or teachers who are wondering if I ever succeeded in the art might find that I've completed graduate studies & written an opera. Anyone considering naming your baby Circes Xavieranda might reconsider, with 21st century public googlibility, there are advantages to having a name with several namelgängers. Now I've found this youtube interview with my namelgänger, sadly crushing the confusion that I wrote his music.

"We have a hard time keeping her in clothes"

I was worried I was spending too much time at home on the computer, so I came to the library to use their computers. It was a strange coincidence that, on the week that my Firefox browser has been crashing all the time, I worked as a waiter at a shwanky party for the Mozilla people. I resisted the tempatation to ask for computer help while working behind the soup bar, & I love their AdBlock add-on too much to put my saliva in their Celery Root bisque (which was delicious).

I am listening to the second half of Olaf Mary's "Jenny Ruth 'Bill Clinton' Crawford" Mix Tape Was Lost, too long for one sitting last night, which I recommend especially if you are a young woman going thru some confusing changes. Mr Mary Mohammad, who is the wonderful singer singing "We are riding in a boat to sail" about half-way thru?

Speaking of my housemate's name, & also of the 21st Century ease of finding people with your identical name, we call them namelgängers, my father sent us this image from Reno's Fox News website:

http://www.foxreno.com/slideshow/18447461/detail.htmlindex.html?currentSlide=4&taf=reno

I'm facebook friends with a James Welsch who's a bluegrass musician in Maine, & there's also a classical composer in New York. James Welsch & I proposed starting a James Welsch band. Remember when we found dozens of James Quills, James Quilliam, & James Quillers?

The last anecdote comes from Miss Waswo, who's car is broke down in a small ghost town in California right now. The story is long & descriptive, as only things that happen to her can be, but culminates in being cornered by a creepy man with two chihuahuas. He told her one of his chihuahuas was "BRUTALLY RAPED", but the upside was, that's how he got the other chihuahua. My question is, how does one know when chihuahua love is consensual?

I also wanted to recommend putting "Dolly & Friends" on your Netflix queue. It's spectacular. She's amazingly pure in the 70s, & her guests are fabulous. Except for Kenny Rogers, who seemed like he got a little sauced before going on her show. Dolly Parton will always love you, & as we've learned from the opening song, whenever she's with us she thinks of butterflies:

James Quills of the World

A few weeks ago, "Gabe" of Speak, Peppery posted "Great Moments in Social Networking", where he reported: "From my Facebook Feed: Sam Amidon is now friends with Sam Amadon".

Mr Quill & I just did a search for other James Quills on Facebook, & found a host of copacetically named doppelgängers.

-James Eliot Quill

-James Quill (San Francisco, CA)

-James Quill (Ireland)

-James Quiller (London)

-James Quiller (Texas)

-Dustin James Quilling (Wisconsin)

-James Quilliam (Pennsylvania)

-James Quilligan (London)

I wonder if the last mentioned lives on Walkin' Street.
There's chatter in the living room of starting a facebook group - "James Quill & Beyond".
I've always been fascinated by the various James Welsches out there, battling me in google searches. I'm grateful that one of them is a respected composer, which is perhaps useful if old friends or elders Google me & are glad that I have been so successful.

In related news, the Encyclopedia of Life is live & finally physical. Over one million species so far, & infinite to go, one of the more daunting projects on this series of tubes. http://www.eol.org/