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 #9-9 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 9, Number 9 Sunday, 9 August 1998 Today's Topics: Re: TMBG: whistling in the dark Re: TMBG: Re: Sightings Re: TMBG: Re: Sightings Re: etc TMBG: the latest TMBG references TMBG: TMBG list mention by... Re: TMBG: Rammstein TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #9-8 (non-tmbg) Non-TMBG: Undead have feelings too! Re: TMBG: They Might Be Pictures TMBG: Particle Man Lip Sync TMBG: New York Stories - tmbg edition 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 ). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message-Id: <199808080820.EAA11157@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 03:21:06 -0500 From: Mitchell Harding Subject: Re: TMBG: whistling in the dark >>I like to think that the entire rest of the song (perhaps the entire >>album) is the entire quotation. > >That woman must have one friggin' big forehead, in that case. Or it was very small print. Harf, Mitch ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980808151206.11574.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Michael Fink" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Sightings Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 08:12:05 PDT >man, i'd hate to have your friends, then, because i do the same exact >thing... luckily, they don't get annoyed with me. instead, we break >out into song in whatever public place we're in. we end up singing >"we want a rock" in the mall because we see mike who we once >gave a gift of a pet rock to. you must bear in mind that my friends are not huge TMBG freaks (like myself) yet. I am working on that major character flaw for them though.... > this world has a song about everything. that could be, but I have yet to run across one about 'panda's mating with our faces' mike "who hasn't listened to every song in the world yet" fink *'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'* Boycott Microsoft http://www.vcnet.com/bms *'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'*'* ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199808081547.XAA26795@vector.wantree.com.au> From: "Carla Stagles" Subject: Re: TMBG: Re: Sightings Re: etc Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 23:46:13 +0800 > > this world has a song about everything. > > that could be, but I have yet to run across one about 'panda's mating > with our faces' there is a song i heard performed by Corky and the Juice Pigs which involved pandas and their subsequent demise but i am not sure whether or not they decided to "sit on my face and tell me that you love me!" you can bet they considered it though.... my TMBFriends and i tend to leap upon the use of "he's not a real *insert word here*" to which reply "But he is a real WORM!" and get cold, silent stares because no one likes a geek, especially one who knows more about something you've never heard of than you do. BTW *HOW COOL AM I?!* my friend Rex's band played support for TMBG when they last came into the squalid little city of Perth.. and he has been invited to play with them again next time he is in the states (which will be soon.... ish) what should i do? i will be apart for an intimate muso-to-muso "much respect" "love your work" type convo with Them by only ONE DEGREE OF SEPARATION!!!! maybe i should send something to get signed but surely there is something MORE special and not embarrassing for Rex to take over there?? THINK PEOPLE THINK!!! what can i do!? Thanks!! (in advance) carla "lost my lucky ball and chain" PS. please bear in mind i live very far away from the johns and have never seen them in the flesh... they haven't been here for nigh on two years. sadly, i wasn't READY for the TMBG infusion back then.. oh, back then, before The Spice Girls, before Monica Lewenski. When the world was still young and things were as they SHOULD be. Damn kids of today, don't know their elbows from their cheese stick... *mumble mumble*... cat nip... *mumble*... Reagan.... *mumble*... meatballs.... eh ha ha ha! *mumble* ------------------------------ From: filthyscarecrow@webtv.net Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 11:15:33 -0500 (EST) Subject: TMBG: the latest TMBG references Message-ID: <4444-35CC79A5-26@mailtod-152.iap.bryant.webtv.net> I got two. My little brother says on "the angry beavers" two brother beavers were arguing and the name "chess piece face" was used as an insult. In the latest issue of Wizard Magazine, on page 56, there's an intern wearing the stamp shirt. "yep, it's pretty well frozen solid" -satan ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Message-ID: <6b9dded0.35cc886a@aol.com> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 13:18:33 EDT Subject: TMBG: TMBG list mention by... :) well i saw moxy fruvous in toronto friday night - even if you dislike them, read this anyways. as i met jian (one fo the guys in MF) after the show, we were talking about the MF newsgroup and i told him my email address and he said "oh yeah! how are you doing?" :) and then - "linnell.. linnellgirl, you're the they might be giants fan.. so how's that debate going on the mailing list, ya fighting for us?" :) i thought that was cute. anyways. sarah ------------------------------ Message-ID: <004601bdc2fb$826cf340$acc608d1@idiotnot.visi.net> From: "S. Bergeron" Subject: Re: TMBG: Rammstein Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 14:36:48 -0400 :> It's entirely correct that "Du hast" means "You have". :> If Rammstein intended "You hate" as the title, it is "Du ha(ss)t", the :> second person form of ha(ss)en, "to hate" :> the (ss) indicates an s-set, or the funny B looking charachter in German :> that indicates a double s. :> There is a posibility that either the company had no s-set in their :> typeface for the CD case, or it's simply a misspelling. : :Okay, I'm going to guess that the last two lines of this post are the :case. Because, um, Rammstein is a GERMAN group. You know, like, from :Germany? No offense to everyone who drew on their German knowledge from :assorted classes, but I would think a German band would know what they're :doing in the German language. And, as someone aptly pointed out (in a :post largely ignored by everyone discussing this thread), Rammstein did an :English version of "Du Hast [sic]", and they say "You hate..." So what? They realized how stupid the song would be if they translated it into English. I can name two other examples: Nena -- 99 Luftballoons Falco -- Der Kommisar (performed by Under The Fire) "Du Hast" means, "You Have" Jack Bergeron, idiotnot@visi.net bluedawg@tmbg.org "Someday, somebody else besides me will call me by my stage name."--Doctor Worm http://www.tmbg.org/~bluedawg/ ------------------------------ Message-ID: <000401bdc302$26f9d4e0$60701ad0@kathy> From: "Kathy Hardiman" Subject: TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #9-8 (non-tmbg) Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:24:22 -0400 somebody wrote, "is it me or do you have some kind of facination with the undead"..... well, NO i just find them funny. has anyone here seen Dead Alive? could you imagine john or john in that situation? i mean, what would they do if a zombie came up after the show all sweet and such and said, "i'm your biggest fan".....hell, what would any of you do? getting odder by the minute...... ----kathy---- _____________________________________________________ publishers weekly said that its "a satisfying blend of earthly terrors and supernatural suppositions"....... THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS FOR SCIENCE (newly expanded cosmos) http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Lounge/9921 ------------------------------ Message-Id: <199808081932.PAA09558@ussenterprise.ufp.org> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 14:33:32 -0500 From: Mitchell Harding Subject: Non-TMBG: Undead have feelings too! >well, NO i just find them funny. has anyone here seen Dead Alive? could you >imagine john or john in that situation? i mean, what would they do if a >zombie came up after the show all sweet and such and said, "i'm your biggest >fan".....hell, what would any of you do? Are you suggesting that their being undead is important? What, are you prejudiced against undead or something? I'm sure They'd treat their undead fan the same as they'd treat any other fan, because they realize what apparently some of you don't -- undead have feelings too. Sure, they lack feelings in their extremeties, and you can cut off their limbs without them feeling even a pinch, but they have feelings where it counts, dammit! Frankly, I'm disgusted by your callous disregard for their dignity and emotions. Harf, Mitch "The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they're going to be when you kill them." Support the Harf Project: All your questions answered, all your problems solved: ------------------------------ From: tmbgirl@juno.com Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1998 15:15:07 -0600 Subject: Re: TMBG: They Might Be Pictures Message-ID: <19980808.151513.11142.0.TMBgirl@juno.com> hEy hEy! > Just wanted to let you know that I have a TMBG pictures pages >that I just set up <> >http://centum.utulsa.edu/~maxwellkd/www/theypix.html okay so... i would just like to say that i think we should make the Tide logo into the OMLT... we voted on the desing so long ago that it's all just a faded memory (heh, catch the NIN ref.) anyways... i'm not in charge so i have no problems suggesting this... :P take it easy, JOrdaN http://www2.netcom.com/~arnot/joda/bootlegs.html http://members.tripod.com/~tmbgirl/index.html "They Might Be Giants is available now in shopping mall record stores, under the Ts, right next to Tiffany." _____________________________________________________________________ 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 Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Message-ID: <19980808224045.5693.qmail@hotmail.com> From: "Charis Campbell" Subject: TMBG: Particle Man Lip Sync Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 15:40:45 PDT Yesterday was the last day of my work at Hollis, ME Summer Recreation. We held a barbeque featuring the kids doing lip sync to- you guessed it- Particle Man. It was really cute. The kids sang to the last track of TEY, kids singing Particle Man, instead of the track on Flood cause my CD is skipping on track 7 (grr!). Anyway, I tried some choreography with the kids, they staged a fight for Triangle Man, etc. I threw a bucket of water at them during the Particle Man verse (does he get wet?- yes!). They forgot most of it except the clapping before Universe Man, but they got a bit carried away with the fight... Anyway, it went pretty well, just my feeble attempt to spread some TMBG cheerfulness. :) Charis Bates College 2002 (my 'mate is from Winchester- anyone from there?) "And the truth is, we don't know anything." TMBG ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Message-ID: <35CD1B31.B0D16BBD@earthlink.net> Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1998 20:44:49 -0700 From: KenL Subject: TMBG: New York Stories - tmbg edition Hey folks, While on vacation in New York City, I did a lot of record shopping but there wasn't much excitement TMBG-wise. No bootlegs to speak of. But I did find a copy of Severe Tire Damage used. Which I found to be a bit of a surprise as it hadn't been released yet. I have a mixed reaction to the record. It was great to hear the new/unrelased stuff (dr. Worm etc.) but the live versions weren't overly fantastic. Mostly they just made me want to be there. I loved the lyrical contant on the Planet of the Apes song but the actual song itself wasn't that spectacular. they've improv'd better. Overall, it's fun to own but I'd rather have new stuff or all the unreleased/b-sides old stuff from the elektra era. I would have liked it if Older was included but hey...enough complaining. the best thing about the album is knowing they're still out there. I'm looking forward to seeing them September 11th at the House of Blues out here in L.A. The other TMBG related thrill was from hearing them on the radio. While driving from Buffalo to NYC. WBER in rochester was having a 1989 flashback hour and they played We'll Need a Crane. Technically that was from 1988 of course but the girl on the radio said it was from the e.p. which I guess was her way of cheating. It's the first time I've heard that one on anything but the cd since I saw them play it on Letterman or the tonight Show or whatever it was all those years ago. Till the next time... 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