Ever wonder where O got her name?

I'm still feeling very winter dol-drummy. O hasn't been worked since the weekend - although I hope to finally change that tomorrow. I haven't felt much like writing either... just haven't had the energy, or the subject matter. Someone asked while back where O got her names (show and barn), and so for fun I thought I'd give you a few little video clips explaining the names.

If you're not familiar with Kill Bill, you should be. Both Gogo and O-Ren got their names from this movie. Their namessakes are ruthlessly amazing superbad bad guys. I was having trouble naming Gogo when I first got her, and then my internship boss at the time (who is still a friend today) happened to be talking one day about the Big Boss' kids' pony named Gogo, and I immediately loved the name. Kill Bill happened to be on TV that night, and it solidified the name for me. When Gogo was turned out to pasture, I briefly toyed with the idea of adopting a super crusty ancient old mare to be her companion, figuring the mare would probably die long before I ever had to move the mares away from where we were all living, and I could give her a nice ending to her hard life. I had randomly decided that the mare, who was bright chestnut, would be named O-Ren, to match Gogo's comrade in Kill Bill. Unfortunately the mare keeled over and died before I could pursue that adoption any further, so the name died out before I ever got to use it. When I got O, who is of course bright chestnut, it was immediately the first name that popped into my head, and it stuck.

Not to mention the fact that O is just as much of a total badass as her namesake. Watch and see (warning: much language and decapitation):

Yep. That's her, in a nutshell. She is perfect compliant and nice, until you bring up a subject that she doesn't like... then she will cut your head off with a katana. 

So where did The Reeling come from? It's a song by Passion Pit, one of my very favorite bands. I picked the name one day, randomly, when the song was playing on my iPod. Much like all of the names I give my animals, they usually just explode into my head and they are perfect. The longer I sit and think about names, the more I can't come up with the right one. They almost always have to organically spring out of a situation that feels like it matches the animal. Pangea, for instance... I had a whole bunch of names written down, and couldn't force myself to like any of them. One day on a trail ride, the word Pangea just popped into my head out of nowhere, for no particular reason at all. I loved it, it matched the enormous size of her head, and it stuck.

That's a level 5 shroom trip right there. Not that I know what that's like or anything.

I picked it because that song and video pretty much describe what it feels like to ride O - complete and total chaos that leaves you feeling very confused and dizzy and reeling about a lot of the time. Most of the time it is very fun, but sometimes she makes your head spin and you just have no idea what the hell is going on.

So what did you name your horse after?