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Alec Soth’s recent post on titles made me think about my recent titler’s block when it comes to damn near everything I’m working on. Here are a couple remedies, or at the very least, entertaining time-killers, for when that perfect title is escaping you.

Guided By Voices Song Title Generator – Robert Pollard, former lead singer/head song writer for the greatest band of all time, penned some of the best and worst song titles imaginable. How the same person can come up with both ‘Smothered in Hugs’ (an arguably great song title) and ‘Car Language’ (an arguably terrible title) is beyond me. This site allows you to generate equally amazing and ridiculous titles on a random whim. My person fav. so far – ‘An Efficient God’.

Book Title Generator – Far less random then the GBV generator, this handy little tool allows you to enter in ten words of your choosing and then arranges them according to a pretty intelligent algorithm. Say your stories/photographs are about Americans, consumerism, politics, and toilet paper. Perhaps one of these titles might be suitable:

Title One: Greedy Americans to Smelly Flags
Title Two: The Smelly Store
Title Three: The Dollar to Greedy Americans
Title Four: Greedy Store
Title Five: The Wiping Dollar
Title Six: Voting Flags
Title Seven: Wiping Americans
Title Eight: Smelly Voting
Title Nine: Voting for Flags
Title Ten: Wiping and Voting

I’ll take five or eight any day.

Oh, and that’s ‘Titler’ with a long ‘I’. If it rhymes with ‘Hitler’, you’re saying it wrong. Very wrong.

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