Errors-To: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Reply-To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Sender: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Precedence: bulk From: owner-tmbg-digest@tmbg.org To: tmbg-digest@tmbg.org Subject: tmbg-list Digest #15-26 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 15, Number 26 Friday, 26 February 1999 Today's Topics: TMBG: TMBG inspired Art TMBG: new tour dates Re: TMBG: TMBG inspired Art TMBG: Liveconcerts.com TMBG: 20th century schizoid man Re: TMBG: mp3s for beginners please!! Re: TMBG: Liveconcerts.com Re: TMBG: mp3s and such Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony # 2 Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony # 1 Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony TMBG: How MP3's work... Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony TMBG: Magic Mirror TMBG: RARE tmbg promo CD-5 for sale Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony TMBG: Fingertips! TMBG: Y I'm here TMBG: hi!! TMBG: I don't like Re: TMBG: Y I'm here Re: TMBG: I don't like TMBG: Re: Flans being in 4th place TMBG: Fingertips and Favorite Johns Re: TMBG: Re: Flans being in 4th place Re: TMBG: I don't like A call to arms! (was Re: TMBG: Re: Flans being in 4th place) Administrivia: If you wish to unsubscribe from this mailing send mail to tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org for instructions on how to be automatically removed. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- tmbg-list is digested with Digest 3.5b (John Relph ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 01:21:37 -0600 From: Bob Scott Message-ID: <36D4FA01.9F321C9B@tmbg.org> Organization: They Might Be Giants, Unofficially http://www.tmbg.org Subject: TMBG: TMBG inspired Art Okay. Here's the big deal. The clencher. You're gonna love it... Or maybe not. Anywho, Mike Leffel handed me a picture, which I scanned in, and if you're a TMBG fan, I'm sure you'll understand the blatant reference to Communist China. See it at: http://members.theglobe.com/bobscott/images/leffel1.jpg Let me know what you think! bobscott@tmbg.org AKA Bob "Bringing the world more of what they hate" Scott You know the address! ------------------------------ From: LimeZinger@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 04:38:28 EST Subject: TMBG: new tour dates they don't affect ME but i love you all anyways. 03/04/99 Philadelphia PA Electric Factory 03/11/99 Kutztown PA Keystone Arena 03/13/99 Providence RI Lupo's Heartbreak Hotel 04/21/99 Valparaiso IN Valparaiso University 04/22/99 Decatur IL Kirkland Arts Center 04/27/99 Joplin MO Taylor Perf. Arts Center 05/01/99 Norton MA Wheaton College sarah ------------------------------ Message-ID: <36D55E8F.39D2E180@sevenlands.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:30:39 -0500 From: carlyn nugent Subject: Re: TMBG: TMBG inspired Art Wow, very cool. Great inking, too! Brush or pen? By the way...Hi, everyone. I'm new to the list. I've been lurking and occasionally posting on the ng for about a year now. Carlyn ------ carlynn@sevenlands.com carlyn@tmbg.org "You sayin' I've got a big bum?" "Big?!? It's like two badly parked Volkswagens..." Bob Scott wrote: > > Okay. Here's the big deal. The clencher. You're gonna love it... Or > maybe not. Anywho, Mike Leffel handed me a picture, which I scanned in, > and if you're a TMBG fan, I'm sure you'll understand the blatant > reference to Communist China. > > See it at: > http://members.theglobe.com/bobscott/images/leffel1.jpg > > Let me know what you think! > > bobscott@tmbg.org > AKA Bob "Bringing the world more of what they hate" Scott > You know the address! ------------------------------ Message-ID: <36D56121.5D638B08@sevenlands.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 09:41:37 -0500 From: carlyn nugent Subject: TMBG: Liveconcerts.com Did anyone catch this? I was planning to end my day at the office with it, since it started at 6:30. I didn't realize till I tried to tune in that it was PST, not EST! Whoops. I don't have internet at home, so that was that. I'm just waiting for it to be archived. Anyway, was it a good performance? Was there video or just audio? Just wonderin'. Carlyn ------ carlynn@sevenlands.com carlyn@tmbg.org "You sayin' I've got a big bum?" "Big?!? It's like two badly parked Volkswagens..." ------------------------------ Message-Id: <36D57076.43077EFE@mail.hcc.cc.fl.us> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 10:47:03 -0500 From: Bert Rubini Organization: none Subject: TMBG: 20th century schizoid man > and about Jesus not being in this century... are the rules limiting > their time of existance to this century, or their impact on people in > this century? because there is a difference. he HAS influenced a > lot of people this century, whether we like it or not. and i don't. > Flans should kick his little godly behind in this race. Do you consider Issac Newton, Beethoven, Thomas Jefferson, etc. to be 20th century figures? > On > most mp3s I have played around with the 256 version maybe sounds 3-5% > better than the 128 version except in extreme cases where the music has > certain features which don't mp3 well at 128. And both these version are > within about 6-8% as good sounding as the original. 5% better? 6% better? 8% better? I don't understand how you can quantify that kind of thing. bert np: David Byrne/Brian Eno "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" -- My homepage - now updated with even more boring photos and mindless tedium!: http://www.hcc.cc.fl.us/services/faculty/bertrubini/home.htm ------------------------------ From: rhilton@bitc.org.uk Message-Id: Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:15:48 +0000 Subject: Re: TMBG: mp3s for beginners please!! There seems to be lots of talk about mp3s most of which, frankly, goes straight over my head. Can someone point me to a website that will explain mp3s in simple terms? Thanks Richard still working with a quill pen ------------------------------ Message-ID: <004a01be60e8$f4438f20$a78f0fce@oemcomputer> From: "Manuel Goncalues" Subject: Re: TMBG: Liveconcerts.com Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:02:04 -0500 -----Original Message----- From: carlyn nugent Newsgroups: alt.music.tmbg To: tmbg-list@tmbg.org Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 9:46 AM Subject: TMBG: Liveconcerts.com >Did anyone catch this? I was planning to end my day at the office with >it, since it started at 6:30. I didn't realize till I tried to tune in >that it was PST, not EST! Whoops. I don't have internet at home, so >that was that. I'm just waiting for it to be archived. > >Anyway, was it a good performance? Was there video or just audio? > >Just wonderin'. > >Carlyn >------ >carlynn@sevenlands.com >carlyn@tmbg.org > >"You sayin' I've got a big bum?" >"Big?!? It's like two badly parked Volkswagens..." > It was 'OK', though it was shorter that the posted 2 hours. For some reason, those drums messed up the whole sound of the show, swamping out the rest of the band. They had the cannon at the show, too. It came in audio-only format.(Sounds like the title for a drive-in movie!) That's all I have to say. Dave, terse and metric. ------------------------------ From: linnel@snet.net Message-Id: <199902251814.NAA07227@pop.snet.net> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:09:16 -0500 Subject: Re: TMBG: mp3s and such [Unknown MIME type or encoding (text/enriched), contents not processed] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:07:23 -0600 Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony # 2 Message-ID: <19990225.122045.10726.3.khurby@juno.com> From: mike k let's hope these messages are in proper sequence okay, i figured this out the main function of the internet is for older men to constantly search for high quality pornography thusly after hours upon hours of looking for smut people look for redemption and the most readily available form would be voting for jesus as man of the year now who's smart i'm smart mike who remembered porn this time ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:03:35 -0600 Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony # 1 Message-ID: <19990225.122045.10726.2.khurby@juno.com> From: mike k it's all nice and good that jesus is beating flans the only thing that i don't understand is who is voting for jesus i can't imagine that hardcore religious people are busying themselves with online voting contests it's obvious that some zealot is stuffing the ballots and, really, that's a horrible horrible thing in other news, i've voted for flans six times today what have you been doing? mike - who forgot to mention porn ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: MrShow@aol.com Message-ID: <4fd5437e.36d59894@aol.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 13:38:12 EST Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony In a message dated 2/25/99 2:05:08 AM, "Leon X. Deggs" writes: >People: >Let me help you solve the problem of the Flans/Jesus thing. >Let's assume that the Jesus voters were also cheating. that must be it, because as we all know, Flansburgh is so much more popular worldwide than Jesus. >Why should they need to prove it if their belief is strong enough? >Enough people believe Elvis lives and he is often seen in shopping malls. >But no-one EVER sees Jesus. Why? well actually they do. people also claim to see the Virgin Mary and angles. they call them call them 'visions.' >Also, why wasn't Buddha or Allah mentioned? NOT because these cultures >don't have computers or Internet access, but rather because they don't wish to >belittle their faith by participating in some childish voting ballot. you spoke too soon. the Prophet Mohammed just surpassed Flansburgh by about 2000 votes. so yes, their cultures do have computers and are voting. http://members.xoom.com/yafka ------------------------------ Message-ID: <002501be60f8$7049e740$5a228a81@rcn.nmt.edu> From: "Refund" Subject: TMBG: How MP3's work... Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 12:52:55 -0700 Here are a few sites that may help you out... http://www.idg.net/idg_frames/english/content.cgi?vc=docid_9-123582.html http://www.mp3.com/faq/ Signed, Nick Wolf, TMBG Ambassador to the State of New Mexico My Shoutcast channel is at 129.138.34.90:7050. No guarantee it'll be up all the time, but at least it's a start, no? Oh yeah. Visit www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Amphitheatre/5550 The first Julie Plug tribute page in history!!! [Attachment omitted, unknown MIME type or encoding (text/html)] ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 15:36:57 -0500 Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony Message-ID: <19990225.154430.6990.2.hotel_detective1@juno.com> From: e f rae last night, i had a dream... i found myself in a desert called "Cyberland." it was hot, my canteen had sprung a leak and i was Thirsty. out of the abyss, walked a truly angelic looking John Linnell, carrying a cool jug of Orange Kool-Aid and a roll of dental floss. as i quenched my thirst, he told me to be a prophet, and to tell all the people of the world to vote for his godly friend John Flansburgh, for he is the new savior. when i asked John why he had the dental floss, he told me that is was something more than a mere mortal such as myself could understand... actually, i had no such dream like this, but i felt like making a little story up there - although i ripped off Rent in the first few sentences. i thought it'd be a nice little intro into the whole Flans-Jesus thing. although i too am upset that Flans is not winning, i can kinda see how Jesus has the lead. i mean, i don't know about anyone else, but in my area, the Christian to TMBG Fan ratio is about 40 to one (actually, probably more than that since the only TMBG fans in my area are myself and one other guy). and besides, Christians are very bent on proving how great that Jesus guy is, "oh yeah, He's our Lord And Savior, He got crucified for us, blah blah blah." i'm sure ya'll have heard it. maybe the Christians aren't cheating, or even voting for that matter. i mean, doesn't it seem a bit suspicious that the guy winning is also known for doing other odd things like turning water into wine and such? think about it folks. ever-sincere, eriKa, who, along with her Parrot, is investigating a scandal between Jesus and the Phone Company - he's sleeping with former MCI/Sprint spokesperson Candice Bergan! "It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts I do understand." - Mark Twain ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: KoalaBeers@webtv.net (Dude Menes) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 14:15:42 -0800 (PST) Subject: TMBG: Magic Mirror Message-ID: <11023-36D5CB8E-172@mailtod-242.iap.bryant.webtv.net> http://www.pressanykey.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/pak/magicmirror.pl ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 16:29:01 -0700 (MST) From: Shane Henson Subject: TMBG: RARE tmbg promo CD-5 for sale Message-ID: Hi, I just wanted to let everyone know that I am selling an unusual Domestic (U.S.) Radio PROMO only CD-5 on ebay (www.ebay.com). It is "Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought We Had A Deal" The easiest way to view everything that I am selling, (along with a photo, and a more detailed description of the CD) you can enter through the "search" link at the VERY top of the ebay page, and enter my name shanex under the "seller search" feild. OR you can enter the item #: 71288934 in the appropriate feild (on the same page). I DID NEGLECT TO INCLUDE ON EBAY, THAT THIS T.M.B.G. RADIO PROMO WAS NOT RELEASED WITH FRONT COVER ART WORK. ONLY A STICKER ON THE BACK, AND A SILKSCREENED DISC (WHICH ARE BOTH VIEWABLE ON EBAY). ThanX, and good luck... ShaneX ------------------------------ From: Batbrain99@aol.com Message-ID: <1f8ab621.36d5f081@aol.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:53:21 EST Subject: Re: Non-TMBG: Flansburgh versus Christ and modern irony >that must be it, because as we all know, Flansburgh is so much more popular >worldwide than Jesus. not in my book! im sure you were making a joke, since nobody around seems to give a damn about TMBG. Hmmm.... maybe Australia. Anyway, I dont care for Flans that much either. He writes ok, he sings ok, and he can play the guitar. Woohoo. Maybe if it were Linnel I would vote... no...actually I wouldnt. Too lazy. But good luck to flans anyway! >Why should they need to prove it if their belief is strong enough? >Enough people believe Elvis lives and he is often seen in shopping malls. >But no-one EVER sees Jesus. Why? I think a better question is "why isnt this a Flans vs Elvis thread?" I think Elvis should be a nice contender. ------------------------------ From: Batbrain99@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 19:55:31 EST Subject: TMBG: Fingertips! Out of curiosity, what part of fingertips does everyone believe makes the song so great? Which little melody could the song not do without? My personal fave is Mysterious Whisper, mostly cuz it bugs the hell out of my family. Batbrain ------------------------------ From: KoalaBeers@webtv.net (Dude Menes) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:26:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: TMBG: Y I'm here Message-ID: <17718-36D5F83C-1106@mailtod-241.iap.bryant.webtv.net> I'm here becaues I was born. I am just like all other men,I play with my self in the bathroom and eat a lot of beef and beans. Now you know why i'm here. To all those who don't know what the hell I'm talking about: this dude sent me a letter asking why I'm here. my signature: "Get out my house!!!!!! or else...!?" - Dude Menes ------------------------------ From: KoalaBeers@webtv.net (Dude Menes) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:33:19 -0800 (PST) Subject: TMBG: hi!! Message-ID: <17737-36D5F9DF-226@mailtod-241.iap.bryant.webtv.net> I'm A crazzy sykopath. I've been known world wide as: pimppdaddy, Fallowme,and [my all time favriot] Dubsquint. I am pestering The Square because I had to find a reason to send something to the tmbg mail list to bother those sons, and dauters, of bitches. by by "Get out my house!!!!!! or else...!?" - Dude Menes ------------------------------ From: KoalaBeers@webtv.net (Dude Menes) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:35:43 -0800 (PST) Subject: TMBG: I don't like Message-ID: <17733-36D5FA6F-332@mailtod-241.iap.bryant.webtv.net> I don't like the tmbg mail list so I'm picking random victoms to send mail to. So Your the lucky winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Get out my house!!!!!! or else...!?" - Dude Menes ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990226014137.8290.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Nathan Mulac DeHoff" Subject: Re: TMBG: Y I'm here Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:41:37 PST Dude Menes wrote: > I'm here becaues I was born. I am just like all other men,I play >with my self in the bathroom and eat a lot of beef and beans. Now you >know why i'm here. "Just like all other men"? Don't you think that's a bit of a hasty generalization? I mean, I'm a man (at least, I was the last time I checked), and I don't eat that many beans, nor do I--uh, I think that's enough information for now. Incidentally, Dude, you still haven't explained why you're on this list. This is the TMBG mailing list, not the beef-eating male masturbators' mailing list. -- May you live in interesting times, Nathan DinnerBell@tmbg.org http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Corridor/5447/ ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ From: KoalaBeers@webtv.net (Dude Menes) Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:50:17 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: TMBG: I don't like Message-ID: <17728-36D5FDD9-651@mailtod-241.iap.bryant.webtv.net> --WebTV-Mail-411742785-333 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit you can eat my shit. "Get out my house!!!!!! or else...!?" - Dude Menes --WebTV-Mail-411742785-333 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from mailsorter-101-3.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.99) by postoffice-242.iap.bryant.webtv.net; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:45:11 -0800 (PST) Return-Path: Received: from ziplink.net (relay-0.ziplink.net [206.15.168.49]) by mailsorter-101-3.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8/ms.graham.14Aug97) with ESMTP id RAA18572; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 17:45:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from oemcomputer (bay2-329.quincy.ziplink.net [206.15.147.90]) by ziplink.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id UAA03677 for ; Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:43:49 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <000401be6128$5e219d80$5a930fce@oemcomputer> From: "Manuel Goncalues" To: "Dude Menes" Subject: Re: TMBG: I don't like Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 20:36:00 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.1 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 So, what is my prize? Dave. -----Original Message----- From: Dude Menes To: Sheez_Anti@webtv.net Cc: tmbg-list@tmbg.org Date: Thursday, February 25, 1999 8:37 PM Subject: TMBG: I don't like I don't like the tmbg mail list so I'm picking random victoms to send mail to. So Your the lucky winner!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Get out my house!!!!!! or else...!?" - Dude Menes --WebTV-Mail-411742785-333-- ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19990226025606.5623.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Alex Pedraza" Subject: TMBG: Re: Flans being in 4th place Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 18:56:05 PST How can the Flans be in 4th place on person of the century? I mean I love him and Linnell very much but I hadn't even heard of them before my friend's boyfriend introduced us to them and also when I went to thet concert ( and of course now I know that they rock ) anyhoo, whenever I wear my tmbg shirt ( the music is happiness) no one knows who the hell they are so how can he be in 4th place cause that's pretty good considering kurt is way lower than him ( I forget in which place ) so that was my only question how can he get so high of most people don't know who they are? That's all -me! ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 21:54:01 -0500 Subject: TMBG: Fingertips and Favorite Johns Message-ID: <19990225.215406.10710.0.hotel_detective1@juno.com> From: e f rae a ha! here we go. Fingertips, eh? i like "I've Found a New Friend Underneath My Pillow" and "Please Pass the Milk Please." they're kinda neat - very brief, but neat nonetheless. also, a comment i noticed in a previous letter (i deleted it, so i can't put a Handy Dandy Sample of it here) made me think, does anyone, or everyone, here have a specific John they prefer over the other? i mean, i like them both, but if i had to pick one... it'd probably be Linnell - but not for any real reason beyond the fact that i tend to dig the lanky, enigmatic type of gentleman (see also: Ben Folds, Stephen Malkmus) and that he plays bari sax, and so do i, so it's something to admire. now, i've got nothing against Flans. he's a great guy, i'm sure. well, i'm sure they're both nice. i don't even actually know either of them, so where do i have room to judge. i'll just shut up now... ever-sincere, eriKa, who wishes she had a middle name as cool as "Conant" "Curtsey while you're thinking dear, it saves time." - the Queen of Hearts ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Message-Id: <25FEB99.24060308.0298.MUSIC@MARISTB.MARIST.EDU> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:16:41 EST From: Misty Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Flans being in 4th place >that was my only question how can he get so high of most people don't >know who they are? That's all > Basically because of a lot of people like you and me (and, in fact, the whole list). It's well-known that TMBG has a wide internet following. That's why they're releasing that MP3-only album. Therefore, a lot of the fans just voted and voted and voted and voted and voted, until Flans got up to where he is. And he's even gotten higher, reaching #3 once, at the peak of the 87advil cheat. In case anyone on this list doesn't know what I'm talking about, or who does but just hasn't voted yet, I have a link to the voting site at my page: http://lavender.fortunecity.com/fullmonty/22/mywebpage.htm Misty, a firm believer in the art of shameless self-promotion. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:32:43 -0500 Subject: Re: TMBG: I don't like Message-ID: <19990225.223245.2974.1.captainmarvel2@juno.com> From: Derek A Klein Gee, isn't he a wonderful person...now please tell me there's a way to keep him from posting. Derek "What is everyone staring at?" >you can eat my shit. ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ From: Kaylum@aol.com Message-ID: <49e2db04.36d6145e@aol.com> Date: Thu, 25 Feb 1999 22:26:22 EST Subject: A call to arms! (was Re: TMBG: Re: Flans being in 4th place) The Prophet Mohammed has passed Flans, bumping him down to fifth place :( Something must be done! Diamond Jack must prevail! Kay ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #15-26 ******************************