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September 4th: Negative Suck Cubed Equals Awesome

2007-09-04 · list · John · 2:57 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Everyday life (also: Personal life, Pop culture, Nerdfighteria) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: community lore

Answering Hank's suggestion that he isn't proud of 'Moe and the Lawns', John lists the names of the hypothetical bands he would be in if he could play music, then praises Hank for the new Brotherhood2.com and thanks him and Katherine for their visit.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Greeting; John tired; reply to Hank's implication about 'Moe and the Lawns'; John can't make music

  • ★ John says he is extremely tired, joking that he thinks a tsetse fly bit him. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:00
  • ★★ John objects that Hank implied he wasn't proud of 'Moe and the Lawns', which he calls the greatest of his many hypothetical band names. (playful) — 00:00:00 · Hank Green
  • ★★ John says he is not a talented musician (he can't sing, has no rhythm, plays no instrument) but always wished to be in a band, so he thinks up band names. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:39 — List of hypothetical band names ('blank and the blanks', ska, rap); learning 'chest of drawers' at 25

  • ★★ John lists 'blank and the blanks' names by genre, from Barry and the Hatchets (death metal) to Schrodinger and the Maybe Dead Cats (art rock) and Holly and the Louias (gospel). (joke) — 00:00:39
  • ★ John says he was 25 when he learned the phrase 'chest of drawers', having heard it as 'Chester drawer'. (playful) — 00:01:08
  • ★★ John adds other names: a ska band, The Moby Moby Dicktones; a rap name, MC1100 or MCMC; a noise band, All Loud on the Western Front. (joke) — 00:01:49

00:02:17 — Noise and nerdcore band names; the new Brotherhood2.com; thanks for Hank and Katherine's visit; sign-off

  • ★★ John's nerdcore band would be called 'Negative Suck Cubed equals Awesome', the phrase in the video's title. (joke) — 00:02:17
  • ★★ John praises Hank for turning the Brotherhood2.com problems into the new Brotherhood2.com: the WikiWikiWookie is back and the forum 'my pants' is busy again. (playful) — 00:02:17 · Hank Green, Brotherhood 2.0, Brotherhood 2.0 forum
  • ★ John says the site now goes down only rarely, maybe a couple of times late at night for a minute, and asks viewers to be patient. (hedged) — 00:02:17 · Brotherhood 2.0
  • ★★ John thanks Hank and Katherine for visiting last week (week of 27 August 2007); he and the Yeti had a great time. — 00:02:46 · Hank Green, Katherine Green, Sarah Urist Green

Humor (dominant)

  • Naming a band for each genre, John reaches art rock. — 00:01:08

    “My art rock band would be called Schrodinger and the Maybe Dead Cats.”

  • Explaining the 50s band Chester and the Drawers, John recalls being asked about a nice chest of drawers. — 00:01:08

    “And I was like, do you mean Chester drawer? Oh, chest of drawers.”

  • Moving on to genres beyond 'blank and the blanks', John names his noise band. — 00:02:17

    “If I was in a noise band, we'd be from California, and we'd be called All Loud on the Western Front.”

Threads in this video

Where the stories that moved here went next

Mentioned

People: Judy Blume (“Judy and the Blooms”) · Katherine Green · Michael Jackson · Sarah Urist Green

Projects: Brotherhood 2.0 · Brotherhood 2.0 forum (“my pants are on fire”)

Works: All Quiet on the Western Front (“All Loud on the Western Front”) · Moby-Dick (“The Moby Moby Dicktones”)

Groups: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (“The Moby Moby Dicktones”)

Terms: in your pants (“my pants are on fire”)

Concepts: Schrödinger's cat (“Schrodinger and the Maybe Dead Cats”)

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