"Be Quiet, Audio Science, Mommy's on the phone!"

this may or may not make me a freak, but i've been thinking about what i am going to name my kids since i was about 14. i've always wanted to name them something unusual, without going overboard. gavs and i have decided that in a ideal world we would have three kids, two girls and a boy. we aren't totally agreed yet but i think that it's going to go like this (keep in mind that they'll be raised in scotland)-- girl 1) nola mary (and we're going to hyphenate our names- for the sake of blogging i'll leave that off, but for those of you who know us you know it'll be d...-f....)

girl 2) suki laire d-f boy 1) dantes robin andrew d-f (and yes, that dantes as in edmond dantes of count of monte cristo fame). now, gavin doesn't like the name Laire nor does he like Dantes. Suki has GOT to have a middle name with ls in it though (maybe lola, lolita, ladli, something like that) and i'm stuck on dantes so i think he's just going to have to deal. suki is an off spelling of a belle & sebastain song, 'sukie in the graveyard', dantes we all know, nola we all know, and the others are mostly homages to family (mary is my deceased mother's name, robin is my brother, and andrew is my brother's name and my father's middle name). Laire is just a scottish name that starts with L that i kind of like, so it's subject to change.

anyhoo, all of the thinking about baby names (and a nice chat with meeg) got me to thinking of all the crazy, wacky names that celebs name their kids.

i'm going to give you a little taste of what the up and coming generation has to deal with...

we'll start with shannyn sossamon who named her child Audio Science. i think she did it just because she's crazy.

jason lee named his child Pilot Inspektor, but that's because he's a scientologist and therefore doubly crazy.

ahhh, the classics (and excusables)-- moon unit and dweezil zappa. their dad was frank. he was allowed to be as wacky as he wanted. i LOVE the name dweezil (oh, wait. is that just because he's sexy?)

you can always count on Bob Geldof for a good crazy name like Peaches or the ultimate in crazy (and yet somehow i absolutely adore it) Fifi Trixibelle. bob is another one of those guys who's just off it so i guess he's excused (he played Pink in the movie, after all...does it get more trippy than that?).

penn jillette, on the other hand, is talentless and not cool and so had no excuse for naming his child Moxie Crimefighter. except that's kind of cool, too.

on the other side of the spectrum of celeb baby names that people make fun of are names like Apple and Moses Martin (and even Peaches Geldof). they're english, people! they've been naming their kids after fruit for ages-- just let it go!! as for Moses, who knew that Gwyn was part Jewish? not me, but apparently she is and she was paying homage to that part of her heritage, so i say go for it!

i think Jamie Oliver and his daughter Poppy Honey are just downright adorable. i love that name. couldn't be cuter (neither could he- i don't even mind the weird lispy thing!).

i also think that Romeo and Brooklyn Beckham are cute names (i especially love Brooklyn). Cruz, well- meh.

i think the lesson here people is that you never know if you're suddenly going to become famous for that novel you've always wanted to write (ahem), or for doing something totally obscure and random- so watch what you name your kids! it's a fine line between audio science and poppy honey. one's adorable. one will be beaten with sticks on the playground. you guess which is which.