From: owner-tmbg-list To: tmbg-digest Subject: They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #41 Reply-To: tmbg-list@tmbg.org Errors-To: owner-tmbg-list Precedence: bulk They Might Be Giants Digest Monday, 23 October 1995 Volume 01 : Number 041 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: apf@caess1.cae.aro.allied.com (Adam P. Fistler) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 12:39:16 EDT Subject: Re: shes an angel. > From tmbg-list-owner@ufp.org Fri Oct 20 02:10:39 1995 > Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 01:06:14 -0500 (EST) > From: sara kathleen smith > just wanted to clarify the point that shriners wont REALLY let you ride > their buggies up and down the sidewalk twenty thousand million times. boy > did we ever try. > Well they only got to ride in the shrinner moblie because thier TMBG and thier cool like that. ------------------------------ From: Donel Young Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:51:31 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Joshua Fried NYC Concerts FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Donel Young 908/295-2406 The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. Presents Composer Joshua Fried's New Experimental Vocal Work and Noted Work "Travelogue" The New York Times dubbed Fried's Travelogue a tour de force and Village Voice critic Kyle Gann called it "Brilliant...a Hitchcockian, mind-blowing theater piece." NEW YORK -- The Club at La MaMa E.T.C. presents Joshua Fried's new concert work, Voice Crossing: Experiments for Six Performers. Fried, "a composer of wild electronic imagination and stirring showmanship," (Village Voice) builds on the style of his acclaimed solo experimental music/performance piece Travelogue, using six singers/actors who respond to high-intensity vocal material played over headphones, with electronic accompaniment by Fried. The work is funded, in part, by a National Endowment for the Arts Composer's Fellowship and by a New York Foundation for the Arts Artist's Fellowship in Performance Art and Emergent Forms. When: Friday, October 27th, and Saturday, October 28th 10:00 p.m. Where: La MaMa E.T.C., The Club 74 A East 4th Street Tickets: $12.00, call 212/475-7710 Friday performers: Mary Christopher, Paula Cole, Gretchen Krich, Randolph Curtis Rand, Lawrence Rawlins, Susan Thompson Saturday performers: Karen Ginsburg, Robin Goldwasser, Gene Gutierrez, Aaron Landsman, Marlene Tholl, James Urbaniak The vocal technique Fried uses in both works relies on the element of surprise, therefore each performance requires a new cast. In Voice Crossing, only the singers can hear the vocal material in the headphones, each hearing something different from the others. They have never heard these sounds before, and yet they are asked to imitate exactly what they hear -- with every word and expression intact, and with absolutely no lag time. Fried says, "this last requirement makes the task quite impossible and the result produces a bizarre unknown language." Fried uses canonical writing, polyrhythms and phasing in the spirit of Conlon Nancarrow and Steve Reich to structure the highly dramatic headphone material. The electronic accompaniment, which the audience can hear but the performers can't, utilizes the above techniques in addition to dance rhythm and found sound. This work continues Fried's exploration, which he began with the solo piece Travelogue, of communication, individuality and control. It also deals with the inexorability of time. The performers are constantly on edge and the imperative to "don't look back" provides a degree of tension. Occasionally an isolated intelligible word or phrase emerges. Expanding this technique from one performer to six, Fried notes, "creates an automatic Tower of Babel effect, which I comment on in the score. And of course, there's the sheer joy of polyphony!" Fried's Travelogue has been performed at New York's Bang on a Can Festival with Dora Ohrenstein (Philip Glass Ensemble), ISCM's World Music Days Warsaw 1992 with Shelley Hirsch, New York's La MaMa Theater with Dina Emerson (Meredith Monk), The Fourth International Symposium of Electronic Art, and elsewhere. Fried's next major work will be a collaboration with noted choreographer Douglas Dunn in Spring of 1996. Next summer, Fried will be a resident artist at the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center, on Lake Como, Italy. Fried is also known for his invention The Musical Shoe Tree. It consists of four ordinary shoes mounted upside-down on stands and plugged into electronics, which are activated by striking the shoes. Fried's recording Jimmy Because, with guest guitarist Fred Frith, was released by Atlantic Records. Fried is also credited as re-mix producer on dance records by The Might Be Giants, Chaka Khan, and Ofra Haza. # # # ------------------------------ From: brown-eyed pickle boy Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 12:16:56 -0500 Subject: re: survey well, since it seems it's not as unappreciated as i thought... 1. once, at the Majestic Ballroom in Dallas, back in '94 2. [Self-Titled], Lincoln, Flood, Misc. t, Apollo 18, John Henry, The Statue Got Me High single, The Guitar single, I Palindrome I single, WDTSS single, and Back to Skull. 3. lincoln, today, but that is subject to the fact that as soon as I send this, my opinions may change. 4. not as much as other people think. 5. innie ;-) searching for truth and freedom have a nice day, if you want. If you don't, have a bad day. it's the same to me. ------------------------------ From: The TICK Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 13:34:10 -0500 Subject: [none] and so voting continues. every day, you read your digests, or insta mail, or even both, and people talk about voting. YOU TOO CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!! you don't have to register!! you don't have to pick a party!! YOU ONLY HAVE TO VOTE!!!!!!!!!!! do it, and persephone will thank you. ------------------------------ From: "Jason Dusich" Date: Fri, 20 Oct 95 11:36:54 PST Subject: TMBG Baby. Hey all, Someone asked, "As for bring up an old thread (if anyone is still around from then [if anyone is still around]) How is the kid that listened to TMBG while in the womb?" Jack is doing well. He'll be two on March 16, and already has a large vocabulary. Although he has made up his own words for things like banana and balloon, we all know what he means. To his credit, he refuses to watch Barney, and has never even seen Mr.Blobby (sorry to bring that up again). I baby-sat last weekend, and now Jack can identify many TMBG songs by pointing to the CD player and saying, "John." He still likes coffee. He also loves to type on my computer, so if you want an e-mail from him, or a picture (I have hundreds) write me at home at JayDusich@aol.com. Thanks for humouring me, Jay ------------------------------ From: joekeith@dircon.co.uk (Joe Keith) Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 23:04:34 +0100 Subject: More of that informal survey.... Well - a week into this survey, and the repiles are pouring in. Thanks. Just in case anyone missed the original post, or there are new members that weren't around last week, here are the questions again: 1. Have you been to a TMBG concert? If so, where? 2. Which TMBG (officially sanctioned) albums do you own right now? 3. Which is your favourite ALBUM? 4. Do you suffer from Arachibutyrophobia (_NOT_ arachniphobia)? 5. Do you have an innie or outtie belly button? :-) - -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Replies to either the list, or preferably to me. Results of the survey will be posted in due course...... Joe - -- * JoeKeith@dircon.co.uk ************************************************** * "this record is for the freaks and the fuck ups. the lonely and awkward. * the last ones picked. never picked. the hopeless romantic dreamers. we * wouldn't fit in the box made for us. so much the better cuz it is a * coffin. don't be bullied. don't give up. stay free." -- Wynona Riders * Still coming soon: http://www.ftech.net/~joekeith/ ------------------------------ From: michael.carr@stonebow.otago.ac.nz (Michael Carr) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 14:06:52 +1200 Subject: does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? Okay, then. What's a shriner? PLUS can I start a new letter this time about what the worst (gasp! YOu mean there is one?) TMBG song is? My pick was going to be Hotel Detective, but I changed my mind, and I think I'm going to go for "Fingertips." ___________________________________________________________________ Rumour has it that David Hasslehoff of Baywatch fame is putting a new album out, it's called "And You Thought My Acting Sucked" - -Dennis Miller ___________________________________________________________________ Michael Carr (email: michael.carr@galadriel.otago.ac.nz) Large cash donations always accepted. ___________________________________________________________________ ------------------------------ From: Patrick Savage Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 00:33:18 +0600 Subject: Stump! Quite a while ago Myke said: >> Are some of these Stump the Band/Spin the Dial songs, or are they "actual" >> covers that have either been recorded or performed on a regular basis (as in >> the case of Frankenstein)? > > The latter. A Stump the Band list would take years, and I > think it's been compiled. These were all compiled on occasion-- > see the Early Years Faq for specifics. So what other Stump the Band songs do you guys know about? Does anyone where I might find a list? I've heard they've played a lot of...ummm... intriguing songs like: Smells Like Teen Spirit, Dancing Queen, YMCA, Runaway, Stairway to Heaven, Disco Inferno (!) etc..so I'd like to know what other stuff's been done. > They also covered Walt Kelly's "Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow". Break out the CIGARS!!!!!!! Weeeeee're off to the drugstore to whistle at girls! Pat - --- psavage@vt.edu ------------------------------ From: Jon Mann Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 15:42:17 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: survey, survey, survey Well, everyone else seems to be doing it, so I may as well answer this stupid quiz thingy... 1/ Since I've only been to one of Their concerts, I guess that has to qualify. (At the Synagogue in Adelaide, Aus.) 2/ In order of purchase, Flood, 'Pinky', Lincoln, Apollo 18, John Henry, Back to Skull, Guitar single, and a copy of the Misc. T. album. 3/ Flood without a doubt (though at least with some of the other albums, I don't know every note by heart). 4/ Quite the opposite, I can't live without whatever the aforesaid phobia is. (If it is the peanut butter thing, that is - if it has something to do with spiders I'm stuffed). 5/ I don't have one. I am a clone. Does anyone really care? I don't. - ------------------------------------Garfield says:---------------------- - - Jon 'the Bosch' Mann - "Poor Jon, sitting there so peacefully. - - - jemann@smug.student. - I really should stop harassing him. - - - adelaide.edu.au - But first I have to get rid of this brick." - ------------------------------ From: mdukelan@wyoming.com (Rabid Child) Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 01:20:50 -0700 Subject: Re: does it mean you have to throw your body off a building? >Okay, then. What's a shriner? > >PLUS > >can I start a new letter this time about what the worst (gasp! YOu mean >there is one?) TMBG song is? My pick was going to be Hotel Detective, but I >changed my mind, and I think I'm going to go for >"Fingertips." > EGAD! NOT AGAIN! LEARN, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS THE WORST TMBG SONG!OKAY, IF YOU WANT TO KNOW, THE ONE THAT BUGGED ME THE MOST THE FIRST TIME I HEARD IT, AND THE ONLY ONE THAT HAS MILD BUGGAGE POTENTIAL AFTER ALL OF THESE YEARS IS DEAD. NO IDEA WHY. YES, I KNOW I'M SHOUTING, BUT MY CAT IS ASLEEP ON THE CAPS LOCK BUTTON, AND I CAN'T GET HIM OFF!!!! - -RABID CHILD * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * _Send vibes to mdukelan@wyoming.com_ - -No other Rabid Child is quite like this...RaAAAH! Rabid Child! 8o) _Send flames to president@whithouse.gov_ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ From: Benjamin Hauck Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 12:36:51 -0400 (EDT) Subject: I am in love with a girl named William Allen White Ben or Been here, bizzy. Virtually know won nose hoo eye yam. I'm Ben or Been, also known as Benjamin Hauck. Sew wot? Well, I was visiting the Kenyon College Bookstore in June and for under five deer--er, bucks--I got the autobiography of William Allen White. He's that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist on the Big Head shirt of TMBG's. It has pictures of him in the book, but not the one on the shirt. He's a rather cute man, I must say heterosexually. I haven't read the book though, and since I'm bizzy, I'm not planning on it for a really long while. Love yo' mutha, Eat kibbles and bits of kibbles, Ben or quite possibly but not yet verified (the line's bizzy) Been ------------------------------ From: "'Alejandro' Joseph Koenen" Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 01:24:16 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Stump! On Sat, 21 Oct 1995, Patrick Savage wrote: > > They also covered Walt Kelly's "Lines Upon A Tranquil Brow". > > Break out the CIGARS!!!!!!! Weeeeee're off to the drugstore to > whistle at girls! > > Pat Stike up th Choir! This Life is for The Squirrels. Lets go to the Drugstore and whistle at girls! .............................................................................. . . . Be the first one on your block, to have your boy sent home in a box . . . .............................................................................. ------------------------------ From: mdukelan@wyoming.com (Rabid Child) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 12:48:36 -0700 Subject: Vote Tally For the "Name That JH Girl" contest Send Votes To: mdukelan@wyoming.com with any subject, just start it with *** Under the new system, I think you can just reply to this message and it will be sent to me!!! (And don't worry too much about that *** thing, that's just easier to keep track of, I always read all of my non-Mr.Blobby mail) Here is something odd, I have fifteen votes in currently, and only six names have been voted for! also, there are thirty names on this list!!! Did you people just submit names for other peoples pleasures?!?!?! Vote today, or may the fleas of a thousand camels infest your armpits!!! So here are the votes I have so far...VOTE TODAY!!! The list will be tallied and posted around HALLOWEEN!(Seeing's how she's so spooky and whatnot.) Zoe 2 Madaline Chloe Alice 1 Persephone 8 Persephone Jane 4 Pandora 1 The John Henry Girl Hagas Elizabeth 1 Trinni Eunice Astra Phoebe 2 Genevieve (*Pronounced JEN-uh-veev) Genevieve (*Pronounced jean-vee-EHV) soph Stephanie Desdaemona Esmarelda Jane Jennifer Angie 1 Jerry Freak Girl 1 Freakcicle lol Little Lizzie Borden} (Well seeing as she's carrying that pick-axe O.J. Simpdaughter} and looking so demonic and all.) Princess Angelna Contessia Lousia Fransicia Bonana Fana Fo Feska The Third (Tee hee). - -(Thanks to Adam for that one.) If I feel like it, and I receive no decent arguments against, all unvoted for names will get nixed sometime! Unless there is a rally of opposition here, persephone looks like the winner! - -Rabid Child VOTEVOTEVOTEVOTEVOTE * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * _Send vibes to mdukelan@wyoming.com_ - -No other Rabid Child is quite like this...RaAAAH! Rabid Child! 8o) _Send flames to president@whithouse.gov_ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ------------------------------ From: "The Princess Bridesmaid" Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 18:23:20 EST Subject: Re: More of that informal survey.... Alright! Alright! I give in Here goes... > 1. Have you been to a TMBG concert? In order... yes, no, no. As Jennifer and Destin can back up, Jen and I went to one concert here in Atlanta last christmas time. It was a religious experience for me, really. Since then I have attempted to go to 2 more concerts, both of which fell through, to my everlasting torment. The first was the infamous Athes concert ("I have found hell, and it is Athens" - Me) and the other was Zephyrfest in New Orleans. What was up with that one? I ask you? > 2. Which TMBG (officially sanctioned) albums do you own right now? The PINK Album, Lincoln, Misc. T, Flood, Apollo 18, JH, Live in NY (promo), Singles-everything but O tannenbaum, (I'm waiting to get my hands on the vinyl), State Songs. I think that's all. > 3. Which is your favourite ALBUM? My God, you mean I have to choose?! > 4. Do you suffer from Arachibutyrophobia (_NOT_ arachniphobia)? Probably, I'm scared of lots of things. > 5. Do you have an innie or outtie belly button? :-) innie, and it's cute. Cathy ******************************************** "I am not the only dust my mother raised" They Might Be Giants Catherine Gurry catherine.gurry@Agnes.ScottLAN.edu ********************************************* ------------------------------ From: tmbgfan@bga.com (Adam Gierisch) Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 20:21:08 -0500 Subject: misc stuff Greetings, As my thoughts gathered I decided to send them all at once. First, the survey. Here we go: 1.I've had the great pleasure of seeing Them once at a great venue named Liberty Lunch in the Live Music Capital of the World, Austin Texas. 2. I own The Pink Album, Lincoln, Flood, Misc T, Apollo 18, John Henry, Back to Skull, WDTSS (and I hope I will soon own Super-Fueled Freaksicle) 3.Right now, I'd have to say Lincoln. 4. Can't say that I do(Well I could but that would be a lie). 5.Innie Secondly, I have decided to go buy an XTC and Residents album. Any suggestions as to which ones I should get are welcome. I'm not gonna get the tribute album because I want to hear the genuine XTC sound. Lastly, the name is Persephone. Adam "The Lurker" Gierisch - ---------------------------=========================-------------------------- http://smf-staff11.facsmf.utexas.edu/adam/ Adam Gierisch tmbgfan@bga.com "The sun is a mass of incandescent gas" They Might Be Giants ===========================-------------------------======================== == ------------------------------ From: joe.kopera@cynosure.com (Joe Kopera) Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 02:05:00 GMT Subject: Hellooooo Umm...Hello. I thought I'd introduce m'self...Since I've ben reading the list in one form or another for about a year now. My name is Joe and I'm a sort of disgruntled 17 year old living on the outskirts of Baltimore. I got into the Giants around Flood, but it's probably my least favorite album (though everything by them rocks). The first concert I ever went to was TMBG at Wolftrap in JUne `94. That got me hooked. Saw them twice more...and then borrowed the Video Comp from my friend. I love THem. They're my idols. `Nuff Said, xcept some other stuff that I listen to is Ska, The PIxies, XTC, beck, The Cure, Stone Roses, etc... Umm..yeah. Any other Giant-heads on here from around Baltimore-Parts? ... Joe.Kopera@cynosure.com - `Tis an ill wind that blows no minds -><- ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12 ------------------------------ From: Inigo Saenz Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 10:44:22 +0100 (GMT+0100) Subject: Chaos among heterosexuals. Is this William Allen White the guy who appears in the TMBG videos ? If so, why does he ? If not, who is that cool old man ? Thanks. ------------------------------ From: Fancy Lad Date: Mon, 23 Oct 95 12:35:52 CDT Subject: Re: Stump! > So what other Stump the Band songs do you guys know about? Does anyone > Smells Like Teen Spirit, Dancing Queen, YMCA, Runaway, Stairway to > Heaven, Disco Inferno (!) > they did 'the gambler' too. (made up theyr own verse) ------------------------------ From: The TICK Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 15:52:43 -0500 Subject: voting don't think that I think you have allready voted, just because persephone is winning. you haven't. I know where those 8 votes came from. they weren't from you. IT IS YOUR MORAL AND CIVIL OBLIGATION TO VOTE TO NAME THE JOHN HENRY GIRL. you're letting your fellow citizens down. don't be the last one to vote for persephone. do it, or she will destroy you. i'm serious. um, this message has bounced three times when i sent it to tmbg.org. ------------------------------ End of They Might Be Giants Digest V1 #41 *****************************************