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It’s Supernatural How Spaced Out We Can Be

They Might Be Giants, BOOK – This album was originally supposed to be finished in 2020, but since Coronavirus got in the way of just about everything, it was delayed until late this year. I really hadn’t had the time … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Art, Authors, Book Reviews, Conspiracy Theories, Current Events, Dreams, Games, Health, History, Humor, Language, Mathematics, Monty Python, Music, Mythology, Politics, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, William Shakespeare | Tagged best foot forward, book, brian karlsson, dinosaurs, elves, first earl of snowdon, hamlet, hugh martin, john flansburgh, john linnell, land of nod, nazis, photography, princess margaret, ralph blane, the pamphlet ep |

Have Your Elf a Merry Little Christmas

We watched a few Christmas-related things this month, and I wasn’t necessarily planning to post about them all at once, but that’s kind of how it worked out. There were some things for which I don’t necessarily have a full … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Art, Cartoons, Celebrities, Christianity, Christmas, Comics, elvis presley, Fairy Tales, Holidays, Humor, Magic, Muppets, Music, Nursery Rhymes, Religion, Sonic the Hedgehog, Technology, Television, They Might Be Giants, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged adventures of sonic the hedgehog, babes in toyland, ballet, boogeyman, captain and tennille, clarence carter, clarence nash, dan castellaneta, dance, dogs, don knotts, donald duck, donkeys, donny osmond, dr. demento, dr. ivo robotnik, drew barrymore, duck the halls, dudley moore, el vez, elves, fat daddy, flaming lips, fozzie bear, free design, frosty the snowman, grounder, gus goose, j. otto seibold, jingle bell rocks, john denver, john linnell, john lithgow, john waters, johnny marks, laurel and hardy, lew zealand, liberace, little bo peep, long john baldry, ludwig von drake, macaulay culkin, march of the wooden soldiers, marie osmond, matt groening, michael stipe, mickey mouse, miss piggy, monkeys, nat king cole, nativity, north pole, nutcracker suite, olive the other reindeer, penguins, pigs, princess sally acorn, reindeer, robots, rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, run dmc, santa claus, santa claus the movie, scratch, scrooge mcduck, sean marshall, sonic christmas blast, superman, susan cooper, the small one, the three little pigs, the twelve days of christmas, tom bosley, tom tom the piper's son, tom wilson, vivian walsh, wayne coyne, ziggy, ziggy's gift |

Nunquam Domum Relinquo

I’ve been listening to some relatively new music recently, so here are a few thoughts: Kim Boekbinder, Split the Light – This album is a collection of songs based on all the colors of the rainbow. It’s not a totally … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Humor, Language, Music, Politics, They Might Be Giants, Tori Amos | Tagged brexit, candy darling, coronavirus, daddy's home, ditty bops, exotic monsters, jenny lewis, john linnell, joni mitchell, kim boekbinder, marilyn monroe, nina simone, penfriend, ramones, roman songs, she makes war, split the light, st. vincent, state songs |

Listening Backward

One thing I was reminded of in response to my recent post on Satanic panic was that there were some people who genuinely did do horrible things due to what they thought were messages from the Devil or some other … Continue reading →

Posted in Beatles, Camper Van Beethoven, Cartoons, Christianity, Conspiracy Theories, Humor, Music, Religion, Satanism, Television, The Simpsons, They Might Be Giants, Urban Legends, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged aleister crowley, backmasking, bart simpson, camper vantiquities, charles manson, david berkowitz, demons, john linnell, michael ian black, paul mccartney, satan, satanic panic, serial killers, sgt pepper's lonely hearts club band, subliminal messages, the exorcist |

Turtlenecking with the Best

Before he and John Linnell started They Might Be Giants, John Flansburgh was in a band called the Turtlenecks (even though it seems to be Linnell who actually WORE turtlenecks more often), which he’s mentioned before as sort of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Albums, Frank Black/Black Francis, Humor, Music, Neko Case, New Pornographers, They Might Be Giants, XTC | Tagged brain candy, choir, don't let's start, fountains of wayne, friend and lover, john flansburgh, john linnell, julie kantner, kids in the hall, liz phair, paul mccartney, peter and gordon, podcasts, r. dean taylor, scott mccaughey, tom petty, turtlenecks |

Can Anybody Help Me Turn Off the Poisonousness?

They Might Be Giants, The Escape Team – This is a weird sort of project based on a series of characters that the band developed with artist David Cowles. I remember seeing a few of the videos back on the … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Art, Comics, Humor, Music, They Might Be Giants | Tagged david cowles, ed big daddy roth, john flansburgh, john linnell, rat fink, robin goldwasser, the escape team |

I Don’t Need a Rationale to Sing the Internationale

They Might Be Giants, My Murdered Remains – Even though TMBG’s albums tend to have a lot of songs, there are also quite a few they record that don’t make the cut, many of which are still quite good or … Continue reading →

Posted in Christmas, Holidays, Humor, Language, Music, Relationships, They Might Be Giants, Urban Legends | Tagged accordion, aerosmith, cats, corn mo, dial-a-song, glean, gudetama, hardy fox, i like fun, john flansburgh, john glenn, john linnell, jonathan richman, marty beller, more murdered remains, my murdered remains, nikola tesla, records, residents, robin goldwasser, run dmc, sanrio |

My Murdered Remains Are Incapable of Learning Anything

They Might Be Giants, I Like Fun – There was a time when I would have been a lot more preoccupied by the release of a new TMBG album. I mean, it’s still exciting, but not the event it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Current Events, Fairy Tales, Frank Black/Black Francis, Language, Music, Politics, They Might Be Giants | Tagged bluebeard, bob hope, donald trump, i like fun, john flansburgh, john linnell, oyvind fahlstrom, william carlos williams |

No Place in the Processional and No Seat in the Convention Hall

They Might Be Giants, Phone Power – TMBG have always been a prolific band, and not everything they do fits all that well onto their albums. Sometimes this doesn’t stop them from including these songs on the albums anyway, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Albums, Music, They Might Be Giants | Tagged apples in stereo, destiny's child, dial-a-song, don quixote, dunkin donuts, gilbert and sullivan, john flansburgh, john linnell, kimya dawson, phone power, puppini sisters, schizophrenia |

And Sometimes Why

They Might Be Giants, Why? – This is the band’s fifth children’s album, intended as a follow-up to their first of that sort, 2002’s No! The other three, produced by Disney, were topic-specific and intended primarily for young children. This … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Albums, Animals, Music, They Might Be Giants, Uncategorized | Tagged captain beefheart, danny weinkauf, dunkin donuts, elephants, john flansburgh, john linnell, norma tanega, robin goldwasser, rosie o'donnell, why? |