More locals making good!

I open up my latest issue of Paste Magazine (of which you can probably tell I'm a fan of) and who is in there, big as a minute, but Orlando's own Band Marino. Holy crud!!

Paste Magazine Digital Version, July 2008

If you go to the digital version of the magazine (which is a pretty cool feature they have!), turn to page 20 to see what I'm talking about. Of course, it's a cutesy little feature about how an employee of the magazine also has the surname of Marino, and a very short interview with frontman Nathan Bond. Which I suppose is somewhat appropriate because Bond is not very tall, either. Heh, heh.

Anyway. The third layer of irony is added, when the writer asks Bond about the Dolphins. I thought, oh, the interviewer knows the band is from Florida and thus asks about them Dolphins. I didn't realize the meta-name-incidence until I visualized my school's media specialist, whose last name is also Marino, wearing her Marino Dophins jersey. She does this because a) people in South Florida, where I am, love the Dolphins. And b) because her name is also Marino.

So is the Paste writer's, and so is the band. From Orlando. Who play in West Palm fairly regularly and who the Orlando hometown crowds go crazy nuts for. A friend of mine calls them "Brand Marino" because they've become such a machine.

Well, they've made it into Paste, so they are off for great things. Hooray for homegrown Florida music!

www.myspace.com/bandmarino