The progenitors of the entire scene, these boys started things off way back in 1962. That's right, before the Google. The band's frontman and primary songwriter was ?. Though the singer has never confirmed it, records indicate that his birth name is Rudy Martinez. We hope even his mother calls him ?. Or maybe affectionately just "mark". He claims to be a Martian who lived with dinosaurs in a past life, and talks about traveling into the future and visiting other planets, asserting that he has done so.













* Special marks to the entire Witch House genre for effort. And in particular:

twYlY<ght>ZoNe - going less for the freaky punctuation, but the alternating caps and nonstandard spelling mark these out as arty but still definitely google-able 6/10

Δressed Up Like Δogs - limp, those are just deltas instead of Ds. Anyone with basic Greek could read that. 2/10

❖ - Excellent, I can't even type their name in my text editor. However, they have compromised with a boring myspace name with regular letters that anyone could type. 7/10

- Excellent, I can't even type their name in my text editor. However, they have compromised with a boring myspace name with regular letters that anyone could type. 7/10 /// /\/\/\ \\\ - Bloody yes, brilliant. Inspired even. They have relied soley on punctuation to sketch out an M, ascii art style. 10/\/\10





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‽

The 'interrobang' is yet to be used (to my knowledge - I can't google it of course), and it combines to typography marks in one, plus it's a fucking awesome name for a symbol.

