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8.17.2007

The Wrong Eno!

For some reason, it recently occurred to me that there's a bunch of mostly non-related, semi-famous guys named Eno. I am not entirely certain what to do with this information.

Our Five Guys Named Eno are: Brian ("non-musician," "sound landscaper," theorist, and known bald man), Roger (a/k/a "Brian's younger brother" or "the Eno with hair"), Jim (Spoon's drummer), Will (the playwright), and William Phelps Eno (a/k/a the dead one).

One possibility is to make up a quiz testing one's knowledge of all things Eno. I figured it'd be more fun if two people competed, and then when one person gets an answer wrong, the other one can shout "it's the wrong Eno!" really loud.

Another idea is to pitch a sitcom. I'm thinking something like...Brian's in New York City giving a lecture on, I don't know, the effects of tape-delayed bell tones on people's perceptions of perfumes, for which Roger has agreed to provide the music. Jim's in town because Spoon has a gig the same night, and Will's attending opening night of a new play. As it happens, after all these events conclude, the various Enos coincidentally end up at the same bar when - the co-presence of so many mostly unrelated Enos calls up the ghost of William Phelps Eno himself. Wacky hijinks ensue, from which various Enos might learn something or other.

1 comment:

yellojkt said...

And that doesn't even include Emo Phillips.