The Pharmacy
Not only for getting pills
When researching baby names (as I did last year, expecting my new baby girl) and checking out books which establish current and/or historical naming trends for individual names, I found myself realising that some names, that is well-known, established names, were glaringly absent. Like Elvis, for instance. Elvis is a name that seldom pops up any more. Or Genghis. I was hard pressed to find a single Genghis in any of my baby name books! It’s a good name to give a kid if you want him to be successful!
Of course, names like Elvis and Genghis are so readily associated with their historical icons people really don’t want to give them to their children. The names are so charged with impressions, ideologies and events associated with those who became these stately figures that their monickers have become burned, forcing people to look elsewhere to find a suitable sobriquet.
With that in mind, I believe that, if the current path is any indication of the future, all pharmacies will have to be renamed because the term “great music” will be unequivocally be associated with Seattle’s The Pharmacy. I mean, if The Pharmacy (the band) keeps giving us songs like Mirror, no longer will pharmacies be known as the place where you acquire prescription drugs and other useful necessities. A “pharmacy” will instead evoke strong, polished, tempo-wavering melodies, creeping up to catch you through hook-laden guitars and delightfully varied keys. Seriously! It’s best you start forgetting about a “pharmacy” as a haven of personal hygiene products, because it will instead refer to a song where pop-rock elements join in with a subtle punk undercurrent cohesively, with nothing feeling tacked on.
Therefore, I propose we start referring to pharmacies as “sebastians,” because pharmacies are going to have to steal their new name to feel vindicated, you know.
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Comments
April 1st, 2008 | 4:38 pm
It all about the name trend, they will came back some time.
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