TMBG 30 Day Challenge: Day Three
3) One of your favorite TMBG kids songs
Ehhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, not exactly my favourite division of Their output. But I do completely COMPLETELY adore “Meet the Elements”—I think it is absolutely outstanding and will repeat it. Oh, and I love “I Am Not Your Broom,” but that doesn’t really count cos it wasn’t written as a kids’ song. Some of the other stuff is pretty ok, especially on No!, but I just…am bitter about the Disney albums and don’t spend a lot of time listening to them.
- JF: Yeh I think a lot of people sort of think like, "What would the difference be between a They Might Be Giants adult record and the kids' record?"
- JL: I think one of the rules was, if it made kids cry, we wouldn't put it on the children's record.
- World Cafe, 2001
I went to the “Four of Two” clock, but not at the right time, sadly. (Yes, it’s dark. It gets dark early in the winter, and I am not the earliest riser, so I could not always make it to stuff with full daylight.) The building it’s on is now a Restoration Hardware, for all your overpriced housewares needs.
So Flans posted this video from my Youtube today, and I was all excited…and then I remembered that he presumably saw my description, which includes “However, JL GLASSES HELL YES. (Yeh, I need to point out every time this happens. BECAUSE IT IS EXCITING DAMMIT.)” Soooooooooooooooo embarrassed. Well WHATEVER. I think I’ve posted this here before but enjoy the cuteness again ok?
(10:20:07 PM) apollonum: wow john’s position is kind of sad though
(10:20:13 PM) typewrittengirl: what do you mean
(10:20:20 PM) apollonum: HE’S BEHIND EVERYBODY
(10:21:05 PM) apollonum: “hey guys i’m in the band tooooo remember me i wrote birdhouse hiiiiii guys”
(10:21:14 PM) apollonum: and then dan miller jumps in front of him
(10:21:28 PM) typewrittengirl: awwwwwwwwwwww
(10:21:43 PM) apollonum: he’s so awkward
(10:21:56 PM) typewrittengirl: he’s always awkward HE’S JOHN LINNELL
(10:22:07 PM) typewrittengirl: IT WOULD BE AWKWARD FOR HIM TO *NOT* BE AWKWARD
From their Facebook post:
People of Facebook! WE NEED YOUR HELP! Please forward this to your friends around the world! TMBG are making brand new video for the new version of Alphabet of Nations. It’s a crowd-sources video featuring people from around the world! We’re trying to get people to post photos on instagram with the hash-tag #TMBGnation.
This is soooooooooo not gonna work. No offense to them, but I think TMBG will be really hard-pressed to find any big fans of them in, say, Qatar, and have an even harder time finding ones who have smartphones. I can’t afford a fucking smartphone, and that makes it awfully exclusionary, which is not cool.
Today is the tenth anniversary of the release of No! Here’s “Clowntown,” which was left off because they apparently realized how TERRIFYING it is.
