Ideocracy is an Idea Misspelled
Fans of the band Bury Me Standing will know from whence I thieved the title of today's post. According to Gralie Bohe's novel, The Boy in the Yellow Leatherette Portmanteau, Dante Jivanadalli originally wanted to call their first album of the new century Ideocracy is an Idea Mispelled, but Josue Baluende was emphatically against it. Teri Ainsworth and Ross Kerrinza also disliked it, but Jivanadalli remained stubborn. It took a long time for the band to persuade Jivanadalli out of his fervor, but when he did finally agree to abandon his argument, the band still did not have a title. The band considered releasing the album without a title but they had done that on their fifth album, and they did not want to do it again. They took a week away from each other, for everyone in the band to come up with a list of titles. They met up for "beer, beans, biscuits and bitchin" (Ainsworth's phrase for the process the band used to handle their interior conflicts) at Baluende's house in Whittlespear Beach. These get-togethers were informal and happenstance, but they had one strict rule: only the four members of the band attended. No one brought their personal support team, no friends, no wives, no agents, no managers, no gurus, no personal trainers, no assistants of any kind. They cooked their own food. The biscuits in "beer, beans, biscuits and bitchin" could be biscuits (buttermilk or sourdough) or they could be tortillas, corn chips or garlic bread. The beans could be nachos. […]https://vraic.wordpress.com/2026/10/11/ideocracy-is-an-idea-misspelled/