What’s in a name?
A Hell of a lot in my home!
I get allot of shit for naming my youngest son “Cash”. (More than I’ve gotten for naming my oldest son Sidney.) Just again today someone had to point out that they know of someone having a baby, and they are going to name him “Cash”. I get folks trying to a start shit about this all the time. So let me ’clear the air’ over his name:
Cash Aron-Hasil is my youngest son’s full name. He was born May 31, 2003. Johnny Cash (Who’s real first name was J.R. ) died: September 12, 2003 almost four months after Cash was born.
In 2001 his father and I were killing time before a show, and he made a joke about how we should name our next son “Cash”. Which later turned into a joke about naming him Cassius (Because I’m a big Ali fan). Well in 2002 when I got pregnant with him, we let our oldest son pick the name. I’ve already made a blog about that! You can read it here: A Boy Named Cash
So the point on this is: I name my kid that before he even died! Stop saying I rip you or “Slash” off, or stole you damn idea folks!
Now on the Cash’s middle names: Aron is with one “A” because that is how it was spelled on Elvis’ birth certificate. It’s not some much that I wanted to name him after Elvis, be to name him that in memory of my Grandmother. Who happened to be the biggest Elvis fan ever! I have all of her old Elvis records and she once even climbed over the wall at Graceland.
“Hasil” is after Hasil Adkins. Even The Cramps have covered him (”She Said” was a Hasil Adkins song). On February 15, 2003, when I was six months along with Cash, I not only got to see him play, be was able to meet him! That is when he signed my belly and we decided to name the baby after him. Sadly, Hasil Adkins passed away April 26, 2005.
But even if I did name my youngest son after Johnny Cash, I didn’t name my oldest son after Sid Vicious. My oldest son’s name is Sidney, Sid Vicious name was John Simon Richie. His name started as a joke too. We got the idea from the movie “Toy Story” that just came out on video while I was pregnant.
His full name is: Sidney Christopher-Gray. He was born July 23, 1997. “Christopher” is after “Christopher Robin” in the Winnie-The-Pooh stories and “Gray” in from: “The Picture of Dorian Gray” by Oscar Wilde.
We didn’t even really call him “Sid” much till he was three and told us he wanted to be called Sid. But then when he was eight, he decided he wanted everyone to call him Sidney again. I have no idea why… The kid is just weird like that!
