Now who’s going to carry the torch for band named after French poets? Someone — maybe that guy from Snow Patrol — is gonna have to change his stage name to Jules LaForgue, just to maintain the cosmic balance.

i for two will not miss rainer maria at all. sorry.

Sam, I think a German poet would be most appropriate, which is why when I actually form my theoretical band, our songs will involve a shoutout or two to Bertolt Brecht… awww yeah. And Joie, did you not notice the sarcasm in the post (I like RM, but I’m not earnest about them or anything)? At any rate, no need to apologize for matters of taste.

i missed the sarcasm. it must have been the sad lack of caffeine in my yesterday. and the fact that i was wearing a black hoodie.

Hmm…I tend to think of Rilke as a French poet even though he wasn’t, because by the end of the career he was writing almost exclusively in French, sorta like Samuel Beckett. But, in the true Germanic spirit, I vote that, leaving Brecht for you, the next “solo” project formed by a former member of blink-182 must include the name “Christian Morgenstern.”