Abortive sorrow...

Have just been spending some time checking a list of supposedly bad Australian band names here...some of them really were tragic, which threw me back to 1983 when I came up with my first band name. I'd just discovered the wonders of punk rock & was revelling in its general obnoxiousness & nihilism...I'd also just finished reading 'The Great Gatsby' for school...now there's a line in there somewhere where Gatsby gazes across the water at the green light and muses on the abortive sorrows of life...That was it! The perfect punk rock band name - Abortive Sorrow...brilliant! I thought I was so damn clever - the name was snotty & offensive (& very punk) but yet also had a literary reference, thus lending it some kind of artistic flair...I feverishly spent much time drawing 'Abortive Sorrow' in notebooks & searching for the perfect font...I think the favourite was (tragically) in the Old English lettering favoured by so many bad metal bands (but no umlaught over the 'o'). I was unpacking a pile of old stuff at my folks awhile back & I found an old folder with 'Abortive Sorrow' scrawled across it - I ended up chucking it out...maybe I shoulda kept it...damn! Needless to say Abortive Sorrow never quite made it into the flesh...