Amenables: the legend behind its name

I just couldn't go without mentioning how we ended up naming our band "Amenables."

This is the beginning: it was some time around October, 2007 when Woun, Michelle, Sun, Ken, and I were having dinner at Racha Cafe. Our conversation went from one topic to another, finally arriving at my preparation for the graduate school. I brought up numerous GRE words I'd just learned to see if the other members recognized them.

Enter the word, amenable, pronounced as either uh-mee-nuh-buhl or un-meh-nuh-buhl. It is an adjective that means willing to answer or agree. Instantly observable were its religious association(Amen+Able!) and the perfect mathematical balance of two alliterative words with equal number of letters. We amenably agreed to use it for the name of our band. Because the word was an adjective, we began to brainstorm to come up with the best noun to follow. "Amenable Bastards" appeared to prevail over many other mediocre candidates for a while until more elegant, relevant, concordant, and magnificent "Amenable Saints" entered the competition.

Hench, "Amenable Saints(Amenaburu Seinto)" stayed as the unofficial name of our band for about five or six month. It eventually had to face some harsh criticism, primarily dealing with its difficulty, both in its meaning and pronunciation, let alone the fact that the targeted audience would be non-English speakers. Yet, the band mates somehow wanted to preserve the magical word, amenable. Defeated by the strenuous quest for the quintessential noun that would exhaustively encompass all four of our diverse identity as well as our grand mission, the amenables finally attained a sudden epiphany. "Why not just name ourselves 'Amenables??'"

Yes, we are the amenables. No word, other than amenable, can comprehensibly describe the ineffable quality of our mission.

Will we able to stand up for our name against the constant trials and tribulations? Only the history shall prove. May the Lord continue to shine our way, and let us be amenable to the holy tasks given to us from above!