Dada Is My Name

Banana is my name Banana is my name, I’m yellow or green sometimes I turn brown when you leave me. I’m curved and cylindrical, used for much innuendo, I’m unpeeled to be eaten, nice and mushy. I’m in smoothies and splits, muffins and cakes, pyjamas may dress me, come and find me.   I’ve been a star of many silent films – slip on my peel like my good friend Charlie Chaplin. Gorillas and Monkeys clamber for me. I’m big where it’s warm, I don’t stretch or bend, but I’m easily cut up or you can spread me. Banana is my name, come and eat me! Now time for my anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/stop-or-banana

“The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.” A man most associated with surrealism, Breton was also a Dadaist in his early years (whatever a Dadaist really means). The French writer was a champion of a shared Dada/Surrealist method called automatism where creative works are mostly produced spontaneously without constraints, planning, and overly conscious thoughts. After a brief medical career, where he took a major interest in mental illness, Breton moved to Paris where he would soon join the Dada movement and play a major part in its beginnings in France. Breton appeared in the first Dada performance in Paris in early 1920 which was the start of many provocations and controversies during that same year and in the years directly after. One of these performances included Breton appearing with a revolver tied to each of his temples. “I do not think that the nature of the finished product is more important than the choice between cake and cher...

Stamp is my name Stamp is my name, stamp Stamp STAMP, put out your hand and I’ll stamp you. Collect me, collate me, put me on mail, lick me please so I can get sticky. Make me worth millions, stick me under your sheets, make me all rare so I can get famous. Or make me all common, send me each day, although I am shrinking, living in the past. You can do me with your feet, dress me in ink, I’ll cause a stampede, run and find me! Now time for my anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/stamp-is-my-name

Let’s Start The Naming…. The world can be divided up into Dada / and / Anti-Dada – but not really The First Names on Earth? According to the Christian bible, Adam and Eve were the first man and woman. According to some sources Adam lived for 930 years and Eve bore 63 children. Quote of the Day "DADA, as for it, it smells of nothing, it is nothing, nothing, nothing." (Francis Picabia) What Name Is It? a  sweet , usually  brown ,  food  made from  cacao   seeds , that is usually  sold  in a  block Name: Chocolate https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/chocolate A Name Fable That Never Was… Sir Orange once purchased a pet dog for his daughter and son, Molly and Wally . The dog didn’t have a name so the dog wasn’t alive and no one cared about it. Until finally, on a Winter’s day, Molly came up with the name Richard , or Dick for short. Richard , as soon as he got his name, becam...

Sea is my name Sea is my name and my sister is See I cover the world with salt potions. I spend all my day ebbing and flowing, waving at my sister See and the World. I’m BIG and I’m small, sometimes I do roar, I’m surfed and I’m skimmed, penetrated. I’m fished and I’m swam, I’m boated and netted, sometimes my insides are taken or poisoned. I expand and I still, I touch everything and some things get worn out by my presence. Jump inside me, contemplate me, dream of my swim, I will see you some day when it’s sunny Now time for my anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/sea-is-my-name

Tristan Tzara “You'll never know why you exist, but you'll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously.” One of the main forces behind the Dada movement, Tristan Tzara, a Romanian born French poet and essayist, caused a sensation in the early twentieth century with his provocations, disruptions and ideas. Originally named Samuel Rosenstock , Tzara joined with other Dada originators such as Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings, Marcel Janco, Arthur Segal, Jean Arp, Sophie Taeuber, Richard Huelsenbeck, and Hans Richter in Zurich to form a loose Dada collective during the World War I years. Putting on performances at the Cabaret Voltaire – which included reciting and performing experimental poetry, dance, prose, music, sounds, visual art and other creative expressions – the group quickly gained notoriety. However, like everything, it didn’t last and the group eventually dispersed, with Tzara taking Dada to Paris in 1919 to continue his Dadaist work with...

House is my name House is my name, I’m open to some, hidden to those without means. My hat’s name is roof and it likes to lick rain, it drinks and it gurgles in gutters. I have many doors to enter me whole, I have windows that look into my soul. Sometimes I crack, get broken into, sometimes my guests leave me dirty. I get slept in, arranged, painted and slapped, I get locked and unlocked to the world. I am many and few, single and none, yarded, concreted, made up to look gold. I am bought, I am sold, rented and leased, most people just want me to spend time inside me so come take a look, open my doors, come inside please! Now time for my lame anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/house-is-my-name

Let’s Start The Naming…. Dada Is My Name DadaIsMyName Dadaism Y Name Dadaism Yna Me Dada Is Myna Me… Name Fact In 2013 a teenage girl from Iceland won the legal right to use her first given name, Blaer, which means, light breeze . Iceland is known for having strict naming rules, with the authorities arguing that the name Blaer wasn’t feminine enough https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-21280101 Quote of the Day “One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'.” (Winston S. Churchill) What Name Is It? perennial plant widely cultivated as an annual in many varieties for its long conical orange edible roots; temperate and tropical regions Name: Carrot https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/carrot What’s My Name? 1. I was born in Germany 2. I was a professional tennis player 3. I am a former world number 1. 4. I won...

Cup is my name Cup is my name, I’m empty so fill me, make me hot, make me cold, imbibe me. I’m plastic, ceramic, paper, and glass I’m hard when I’m steel, don’t bite me. I’m shaped like a cylinder, in all shapes and sizes, give me water, give me tea, coffee or beer, soup and wine go down fine any drinkable liquid satisfies me. Make me clean when I’m dirty, lick me all around or immerse me in water or sun just scrub me. Don’t drop me, you’ll break me, smash me, or crack me, look after my needs and I’ll quench you. Cup is my name, pick me up, place me on lips, tilt your head back, try to find me Now time for my anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/cup-is-my-name

Let’s Start The Naming…. Simon Says, put your name on your head! Tattoo your name on your forehead! Name Fact Name Dropping : dropping names, usually considered important, into conversations with the intention of impressing other people. “I ran into my mate Michael Jordan the other day before having a cocktail with Sharon Stone” Quote of the Day “Call him Voldemort, Harry. Always use the proper name for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.” ― J.K. Rowling,  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone Nursery Rhyme Naming Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white as snow… Random… The only difference between women and men is wo What Name Is It? a  small   stick  of  coloured   wax  used for  drawing  or writing Name: Crayon https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/crayon What’s My Name? 1. I am an English singer-songwriter 2. At age 19 I t...

Rock is my name Rock is my name and I’m hard to the touch, the bigger I am, the harder I am to move. I get pushed up hill every day by some guy named Sisyphus and when he reaches the top, I roll back down so he can start all over again. I can form you a cave, a shelter, or fence, you can use me to throw or skim lakes. Paint me but don’t expect me to speak, I can get worn away over years. I’m on surface, underwater, cliff faces and hills, Mountains and streams, sitting quietly. I’m all over the Flintstones and sometimes I rock out, sometimes I am precious, sometimes confused with a stone, Rock is my name, don’t come and bite me! Now time for my anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/rock-is-my-name

Let’s Start The Naming…. Simon Says, put your hands on your name tag! Put your hands on your name! Name Fact In 2005 a US woman held an auction on eBay to legally change her name to whatever the highest bidder wanted her to change it to. Just over $15,000 later ($15,199 to be exact) Terri Ilagan had become GoldenPalace.com https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/03/31/golden_palace_rebrand/ Quote of the Day “I’m not my name. My name is something I wear, like a shirt. It gets worn. I outgrow it, I change it.” (Jerry Spinelli) What Name Is It? Any of various colors resembling the color of blood; the primary color at one extreme end of the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 610 and 780 nanometers. Name: Red https://www.dictionary.com/browse/red What’s My Name? 1. I was born in 1914 2. I died in 1953 3. I am known as a Welsh Poet 4. I married Caitlin Macnamara in 1937 5. I was notorious for my heavy drinking...

Rain is my name Rain is my name, sometimes I come hard, some times I come down in a sprinkle. I’m wet and I’m moist, I hug then I drop from the clouds, I get everywhere   and help everything living today and tomorrow. I feel very loved, needed, and craved by everyone and every thing. People dance for me, pray for me, beg for my juice especially when dry and needing relief. I’m collected and used, Swallowed, consumed, I mix with all others to get changed. I’m BIG and I’m small, I disappear all the time, I roll down with the others, joining together to sit still. I am the whole world, I bring all my wet goods, Rain is my name and you need me! Now time for my anti-dada moment that I share with all my named friends… This is the T-shirt and Hoodie I wear, the poster I see on my wall: https://teespring.com/rain-is-my-name

Let’s Start The Naming…. “Could you just call me Pigeon?” he asked the teacher when she read his name. “Does your mother call you Pigeon?” “No.” “Then to me you are Paul.” ... “Nathan Sutter,” the teacher read. “My mother never calls me Nathan.” “Is it Nate?” “She calls me Honeylips.” (Brandon Mull,  The Candy Shop War ) Name Fact Second Street is the most common street name in the US https://www.nlc.org/most-common-us-street-names Quote of the Day “There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi.” (George Carlin,  Brain Droppings ) What Name Is It? a written  text  that can be  published  in  printed  or  electronic form Name: Book https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/book What’s My Name? 1.      I w...