Various comments on the tmbg chat (Thanks Aleigh!)
Richard Dub
flans: my favorite song is called "unreliable narrator". Linnell just wrote
it!>>
I drool in anticipation. What a great idea for a song. I wonder if it will
actually be a story about an unreliable narrator or be narrated unreliably?
Or both?
<<q: who are you influenced by?
q: ... ramones, talking heads, television ...>>
I think that's the first time I've heard the Johns actually say they were
influenced by Talking Heads. It makes me happy.
<<q: I thought you feared your internet fan base, what drove you to come here?
linnell: well, we get to answer the questions we don't fear, and ignore the
creepy ones>>
I love this quote!
<<q: have you seen eyes wide shut?
flans: my friend saw it and said it was strange, and maybe really bad
flans: I think you can't say bad thing about it infront [sic] of "film"
people>>
I guess I'm a film people, but I loved it.
<<q: Since I'm too far from NYC, I will rent a movie tonight. Any
suggestions?
flans: the last waltz
linnell: there's a really great documentary about the '92 presidential
election called "feed">>
I will see both as soon as I can!
<<q: will you be cutting back on touring now that you have families? I'm sure
all of us hope not
flans: I'm building a replicant of linnell. we will be touring for all of
2000-2003!>>
It shouldn't be too hard to make lifelike, luckily.
<<q: hey, can you tell us about your upcoming children's album?
flans: I wrote a song called "Clown Town." It's very kid oriented.>>
Hmm... sounds like Cowtown. Wouldn't it be cool if TMBG just took old songs
of theirs and changed all the lyrics slightly to make them appropriate for
children on the new album? Especially if the new lyrics somehow thematically
fit the old lyrics. I think I'd actually prefer that to a whole album of new
songs.
<<q: what are your favorite websites (besides tmbg.com, 'course)
flans: I like "The Smoking Gun">>
Shameless plug for his friends.
-Richard
Nathan
>Wouldn't it be cool if TMBG just took old songs
>of theirs and changed all the lyrics slightly to make them appropriate for
>children on the new album?
I had actually thought about this some time ago, and was jokingly altering TMBG
songs to remove anything that could be construed as offensive (bowdlerizing
them, you could say). I don't really remember that many of my bowdlerized
versions (this wasn't anything that I did "officially," just in my own mind).
I do remember that "Dig My Grave" became "Dig A Hole."
Also, for what it's worth, some kids are afraid of clowns, but I'm never heard
of kids being afraid of cows.
Nathan
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next week." --"Weird Al" Yankovic
Christopher M. Stangl
> linnell: well, we get to answer the questions we don't fear, and ignore the
> creepy ones>>
I evidently asked John Linnell exactly 65 creepy questions.
> <<q: have you seen eyes wide shut?
> flans: my friend saw it and said it was strange, and maybe really bad
> I think you can't say bad thing about it infront [sic] of "film" people
>
> I guess I'm a film people, but I loved it.
I know I'm a film people, and loved it too. You can, however,
say bad things about it in front of me. I will probably be interested in
refuting or "pigheadedly arguing" over said bad things, though. To quell
Flans' fears, it is neither very strange nor bad.
> movie tonight. Any suggestions?
I recommend a film called "They Might Be Giants."
> flans: the last waltz
Yuck!
> linnell: there's a really great documentary... called "feed"
I don't know about "great," but "Feed" is pretty damn funny and
well worth your time. Its biggest problem is an obvious lack of focus (the
film is strung-together fragments of satellite feeds of candidates
preparing to go on television and/or embarrassing themselves). The
highlight, hands down, is Bill Clinton spitting and saying "goddamn it!"
> Wouldn't it be cool if TMBG just took old songs of theirs and changed
> all the lyrics slightly to make them appropriate for children on the new
> album?
No.
> flans: I like "The Smoking Gun"
Top secreeeeet! Classified!
I don't like The Smoking Gun especially, and its greatest (only?)
contribution to civilization is Flans' song "The Smoking Gun".
-Rev. Chris Stangl
Richard Dub
Christopher M. Stangl <cst...@blue.weeg.uiowa.edu> wrote in message
news:Pine.A41.3.95.990721...@green.weeg.uiowa.edu...
> > <<q: have you seen eyes wide shut?
> > I guess I'm a film people, but I loved it.
>
> I know I'm a film people, and loved it too. You can, however,
> say bad things about it in front of me. I will probably be interested in
> refuting or "pigheadedly arguing" over said bad things, though.
I find myself more frequently arguing with people who liked it but think the
entire thing was Bill's dream. Geesh. 40 posts to alt.movies.kubrick later
and I'm still mad.
> > Wouldn't it be cool if TMBG just took old songs of theirs and changed
> > all the lyrics slightly to make them appropriate for children on the new
> > album?
>
> No.
Now, THAT'S the spirit of the album!
Incidentally, I don't just mean making the naughty bits appropriate for
toddler's ears... I mean changing the entire lyrics and meanings of each song,
but still having the new song sound approximately like the old (ex.
Cowtown/Clowntown). And if the new meaning somehow relates to the old meaning
of the song, so much the better.
> I don't like The Smoking Gun especially, and its greatest (only?)
> contribution to civilization is Flans' song "The Smoking Gun".
There's one incredibly funny article in there about a health inspector's
report on a restaurant which offers Winonaesque ping pong ball shooting women.
The final critique:
1) Restaurant will refrain from storing food in locations over x degrees
2) Restaurant will refrain from serving food where water is violently ejected
from a vagina
Freakin' government, always telling us what we can and can't do....
-Richard
Camper V. Brainhurt
<< flans: the last waltz >>
Chris Stangl:
<< Yuck! >>
Yeah, most Canadians are pretty yucky. The Band, however, are only 3/4
Canadian, and about 0/4 yucky.
...and I'm sure 'Yuck!' would be their response to you as well.
-save THS from the ball & chain
there might come a time when things between us get just a little bit too weird-
cVb
Christopher M. Stangl
> I find myself more frequently arguing with people who liked it but think the
> entire thing was Bill's dream
I have never heard that theory, and also it doesn't make sense or
lead to any interesting conclusions that I can think of.
-Rev. Chris Stangl