Cheap Thrills #2: Create a Fake Band

In general, fun stuff is only as fun as you make it. So it's probably best to suspend any pooh-poohing that might be lurking in the corner of your soul before you try this one. Otherwise, you'll probably just have a terrible time. So shut up and grab a pen!

I ended up doodling Chad's album cover 

while he was composing his salsa/trip-hop 

number on GarageBand.

1) Get your Band Name
Go to Wikipedia and click on "Random Article" on the left-hand column (or you could just click here). The header of the article that comes up is your band name. Mine was "Gandaki Zone".

2) Get your Album Title
Go to The Quotations Page and click on "Random Quotes" on the left-hand column (once again, you can just click here). Scroll to the last quote. The last 4 or 5 words of that quote is your album title. Mine was "Being Left 50,000 Pounds".

3) Get your Album Cover
Go to Flickr and click on "Explore" (magic link here). The 3rd picture is your album cover. Mine, perhaps appropriately so, was a picture of some hip-hop dudes making the peace sign.

4) Now What?
Get your creative juices flowing by writing a couple lyrics to your fake band's award-winning song. Or if you're a muso, try pumping out a couple of measures from your album (GarageBand is kind of fun for this).

This activity gets some extra hype if you do this with someone else. Along with the strange feeling of being five again, both of you will probably bust out into some "I'm-so-embarrassed-we're-doing-this-thing-but-it's-actually-kind-of-fun" giggles at some point in time. And nothing brings people together like shared vulnerability!