So I am taking this senior seminar to round out my career as a classics major. It is entitled "Art and Text" and it basically picks apart every single inkling of Homer in every piece of art from the Minoans through Byzantium. The seminar is three hours long, and while the topic is gripping, one can only be gripped for so long before they run out of air and/or their eyeballs pop out of their skulls. I, wanting to neither suffocate nor lose my eyeballs, got a little creative with the whole scene as a consequence. What would you do if you were stuck in an art class for a hundred years with very very little stimulation? Think about your hypothetical avant garde punk band? Me too. And you know what? It turns out there is a lot of avant gard jargon floating around the classics scene. I started compiling a list of every phrase from my professor's mouth with potential, and with earnest excitement I realized that it looks a good deal like a track list! Anywho, I figured I would share. So without any further ado about nothing, I give you my avant garde punk band:

 Christina Gubala and LUNATIC FRINGE (a phrase my professor used when describing other archeologists' description of the dude who went searching for the actual site of Troy. I guess they all found him to be quite a whack job). 

 1. Turkish Sponge Divers: they found this crazy ass sunken ship that contained brilliant ancient texts

 2. Annonymous Reviews: my professor told us about a paper he had written that was rejected for publication via an annonymous review that claimed his paper soddomized the history of British archaeology

 3. Ram Jug Painter: We don't know his name… just his work, on the jug. Onto which he painted a ram, apparently. 

That's all for now, but stay tuned for more tracks and finally an album name. Hopefully after I turn in the final paper, we can start making music.

-Christina Gubala