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 #2-339 tmbg-list Digest, Volume 2, Number 339 Wednesday, 11 December 1996 Today's Topics: TMBG: Birds laugh, into my windshield. TMBG: How to record DAS Re: TMBG: Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl, after all" TMBG: SEXXY Single TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-338 Re: TMBG: Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl, after all" TMBG: Mail to news TMBG: Atlanta show TMBG: #'s TMBG: that great disco upstairs TMBG: grinch, etc. Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. Re: TMBG: that great disco upstairs TMBG: So I rolled up the window and said "Hey, no one can hear me Re: TMBG: So I rolled down the window and said "What's the deal?!" Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: "in the room women come and go" Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. Re: TMBG: How to record DAS/SEXXY Update Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. Re: TMBG: HCISLAG, etc RE: TMBG: Happiness bleed from every street corner... Re: EXTREME Non-TMBG: Overpopulation TMBG: World Conquest Re: TMBG: What TMBG album hooked you? Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: Input -=> Output Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: HCISLAG, etc Re: TMBG: SEXXY Single Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: SHEER LUCK!!! ROCHESTER SHOW!!!!!! TMBG: Juno, AOL, ect. WAS: Re: TMBG: Enough About The Day. ()()()()()() TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-334 Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. TMBG: Now That I Have Everything TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y Re: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y TMBG: posters TMBG: All sorts of stuff. TMBG: So I rolled down the window and said "Freaksickle!" TMBG: While we're brainstorming songs... TMBG: ????????Hungry muscians searching for their "pepper" TMBG: TMBG vindication in Class TMBG: Topics as of late TMBG: Opening Band Re: TMBG: Atlanta show Re: TMBG: #'s TMBG: Seven samurai? RE: TMBG: #'s TMBG: Popularity Re: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y Re: TMBG: SEXXY Single Re: NON-TMBG: World Conquest TMBG: WDTSS on New CDs Re: TMBG: #'s Re: TMBG: So I rolled down the window and said "Freaksickle!" Re: TMBG: Happiness bleed from every street corner... TMBG: Uh-Oh.. i guess... Concert loudness, PLEASE HELP! TMBG: Anyone gotten in to DAS this/last week? Re: TMBG: Uh-Oh.. i guess... Concert loudness, PLEASE HELP! Re: TMBG: SEXXY Single TMBG: postcard TMBG: Equipment, Atlanta, Marriages, #'s, Re: TMBG: posters Administrivia: For all administrative issues, such as change of address, withdrawal from the list, etc., send a message to the following address: tmbg-digest-request@tmbg.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- The views expressed herein are those of the individual authors. --------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wglodell@baraboo.com (Wyatt Glodell) Subject: TMBG: Birds laugh, into my windshield. Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 05:54:22 -0600 I just noticed that right at the end of Birds Fly on misc. t, while they are sustaining the "eeeeeeeEEEEEEEEEE" there is a very quiet noise that sounds like a laugh, like a "hohaha" REALLY fast. Or i'm just insane (dont think so, the voices in my head just said i wasn't) Also, is anyone willing to give me any live preformances/PODAS, or anything if i send a blank tape and SASE? Maybe if i do actually get to go the the rochester show, i'll get it on tape. I have a cheap, 10 dollar walkmen that records and the micraphone, while being pretty bad quality, picks up things that are pretty quiet/far away. Well, then i'd have something to trade. "Mice are for people that are too lazy to remember the keyboard commands" "Keyboards are for people too cheap to buy a good mouse" "Shut Up, Me" I hate arguing with myself, i always loose WYATT GLODELL WGLODELL@BARABOO.COM ------------------------------ From: wglodell@baraboo.com (Wyatt Glodell) Subject: TMBG: How to record DAS Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 06:18:07 -0600 This proobably sounds dumb, but i have one of those radio shack microphone with a suction cup on it things, and i dont know where to stick it. Anyone know? OW!! I just got a big shock from my headphones!!!!?!?!?!?!?! "Mice are for people that are too lazy to remember the keyboard commands" "Keyboards are for people too cheap to buy a good mouse" "Shut Up, Me" I hate arguing with myself, i always loose WYATT GLODELL WGLODELL@BARABOO.COM ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:43:23 -0500 From: "Erik J. Chuss" Subject: Re: TMBG: Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl, after all" Date: Mon, 9 Dec 1996 16:34:37 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: BlueDawg On Sun, 8 Dec 1996, Joshua Hall-Bachner wrote: >> >most of the people who were associated >> >with TMBG, and were net-wise, have had fallings out with Flansburgh >> Wait...Bo Orloff, Bill Krauss...who am I missing? And what, exactly, >> happened with Bill? I hear all the time about how there was this big thing >> between Lincoln and Flood, but I have no idea what it was. >It's messy...really messy...Myke has more info on it than I do. >Jack Bergeron, bluedawg@tmbg.org, www.monopuff.org/~bluedawg, Jeep Driver I had asked Myke directly and indirectly (a.m.tmbg) about it and he seemed very hesitant to provide any information about it. All he said was Bill and JF have not talked for years. I have always felt the people who know the story behind this are playing "I know something you don't know and I'm not going to tell you". If anyone does know it would be interesting to hear the story. TIA. Erik "Back in Just 5 Minutes, reads the sign above your station" ------------------------------ Subject: TMBG: SEXXY Single Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 8:47:42 EDT From: John Pletikapich I've gone to 4 or 5 record stores and have only been able to find the 3 song single. I've read here that there is another version with more songs, right? Any advice how to find the longer "single"? Please pardon my ignorance. -- john@msd.measurex.com ------------------------------ Subject: TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-338 Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 10:00:12 -0600 From: Danny Jones Bill Tatalovich wrote: >Okay, I've let all of this go on for a pretty good period of time, but >it's time I took action. I don't know about the others on this list, but >I'm really tired of logging on to check my mail and finding a lot of >non-TMBG stuff on the TMBG list. Gay marriages, what you did on your >summer vacation....I for one couldn't give a s***. That's a pretty compelling case for a moderated list, as far as I'm concerned! * * * I wonder if TMBG will reschedule Nashville. I would like that a lot. Nashville is almost as close as Atlanta for me. I wouldn't make that long drive on consecutive nights (as originally scheduled), I might could do it if they come back at the End of the Tour. I'll ask the girl with the crown and the scepter on WLSD. ------------------------------ From: Kaylum@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:31:32 -0500 Subject: Re: TMBG: Eighty dolls yelling "Small girl, after all" << I have always felt the people who know the story behind this are playing "I know something you don't know and I'm not going to tell you". If anyone does know it would be interesting to hear the story. TIA. >> I agree!! It's one thing to say, "Okay, no one else needs to know about this, so we'll keep this personal," and quite another to keep dropping hints about it in public and then say, "But I'm not gonna say any more about it," which happened quite a bit on the newsgroup. It would be nice to hear the whole truth. Kay, who cherishes the drumstick she got at the Atlanta show! ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 11:34:00 -0500 From: Leo Bicknell Organization: From the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC-1701D Subject: TMBG: Mail to news I found a fairly serious flaw in the mail to news gateway today. I am attempting to fix it, but unfortuntely this stuff doesn't quite work as documented. If you see any wierd stuff please mail me asap. ------------------------------ From: Joey@scott.net (Joey) Subject: TMBG: Atlanta show Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:29:02 GMT Hello there fellow TMBG fans, Well the Atlanta show was awesome. It was my first show, and it definitely won't be my last. The only stupid thing about it was the moshing. Everything was going fine until Flans tells everyone to join in on the conga line during No one Knows My Plan. Next thing you know the conga line goes haywire and people start pushing very ferosciously. Then right after NOKMP they play Until My Head Falls Off (my favorite song off of Factory Showroom), sadly enough I wasn't able to enjoy it due to all of the moshing and pass the dude. Me and my friend got literally destroyed during this stupidity. We got hit in the head a countless number of times during the endless crowdsurfing. It forced us to go to the side and leave our up front positions. Does this happen frequently or was it just the Atlanta crowd? Well anyway it was worth the 2 and 1/2 hour drive up there and back. Does anyone know if they will be rescheduling the Nashville show. I will have to go if this happens. Anyway, to anyone attending a future show, enjoy it and watch out for the moshers and crowdsurfers. Joey ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:50:37 -0500 Subject: TMBG: #'s >>Your Lucky Numbers Are: 32, 80, 3, 87, 30, 47, 10 (Can you match them up with TMBG songs? ...trying to think of more songs w/ numbers in them...) (I must be tired, cause that is very dumb) << 32 footsteps 80 dolls yelling small girl after all number 3 87 advil now there's 30 left I ate 47 so what happened to the other 10 you forgot 20,000,000,000,000 times. (is that right??) (: haras~ gro.gbmt@lrigllennil lahhtnisdk\moc.loa.srebmem\\:ptth ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:50:23 -0500 Subject: TMBG: that great disco upstairs Can anyone tell me if they've been selling posters at recent shows? I need ta know! And if so, how much? Respondez by email, si vous plait. And the dj on WBER was talking about the upcoming show (being Rochester) and he said how he couldn't wait for the concert. I called up and asked about an opening act. And he told me that they are still trying to get someone, but it's very top secret and if he told me he'd have to kill me. :) But we'll definitely know if they do get "them"... hmm, the suspense is killing me.. >>Whats the deal with all the posts that have _So I rolled down the window and said "blah!"_? Is it just me or is it kinda annoying? Does it have something to do with TMBG or is it just witty of its own accord?<< i like it. Second to really obscure subject headers. (how many of you could tell me this one is from KITH? It's Buddy Cole. :)) ~sarah :) linnellgirl@tmbg.org http://members.aol.com/kdsinthhal ------------------------------ From: KdsInThHal@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 12:50:33 -0500 Subject: TMBG: grinch, etc. This is being sent to the list rather than email, because obviosly people still are not getting the message. Hopeflly this may prevent further chain letters... >> I am an adult who happens to care quite a lot about getting a large company to help children in hospitals. Obviously you are not, and therefore I pity you. << By the way, i don't have anything against sick children, but I already got one by email, and that's how you should have sent it too, if you had to send it at all. Not to the list. Hey, you could have sent them to each person on the list, but you don't mess *with* the list. >>Do you want to know why you don't send chain letters for any reason? Do you you really need this AGAIN? Do we, the tmbg-list, really need to hear this again?<< My sentiments exactly (you son of a bitch... no, just kidding, but I couldn't help it), you think we'd all know to knock it off already. >> as I did not (and do not) view this message to be a chain letter. All it required was a "send now" from you.. and maybe to include it in mail you send to friends..<< there you have it--the definition of a chain letter. ~sarah :) linnellgirl@tmbg.org http://members.aol.com/kdsinthhal ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:44:20 -0500 (EST) From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 10-Dec-96 TMBG: #'s by KdsInThHal@aol.com > you forgot 20,000,000,000,000 times. (is that right??) It depends. In the United States, saying twenty-thousand million is completely meaningless. Elsewhere, it means the same thing as what we call twenty billion in the U.S. So it's 20,000,000,000. ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:01:12 CST From: Aaron Kohlbeck ~sarah wrote: > >> I am an adult who happens to care quite a lot about getting a large > company to help children in hospitals. Obviously you are not, and therefore I > pity you. > << > By the way, i don't have anything against sick children, but I already got > one by email, and that's how you should have sent it too, if you had to send ^^^^^^^^^^^^ Wait! You got a sick child my email? I wonder what kind of compression they used. Uuencode? Binhex? What? ;) Anyway, I was having this really weird thought while I was trying to figure out how to do my next program for class: Freak flag (def. from old song that I can't remember but people have discussed here before) - someone's hair (the long hair being the freak flag) TMBG (HCISLAG) - "I want to raise my freak flag higher and higher" Now, if someone's freak flag is their hair, does this mean that the John's really have a desire to return to the decadent age of the 80's and spike their hair? Get it really long and have a huge mass of hair just sticking straight up from their heads (ala Kid of Kid n' Play?) Just a thought. Aaron -- Aaron Kohlbeck kohlbeck@cae.wisc.edu http://www.cae.wisc.edu/~kohlbeck Check out the Herald Online: http://www.badgerherald.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:26:53 -0500 From: Trippy Subject: Re: TMBG: that great disco upstairs At 12:50 PM -0500 12/10/96, KdsInThHal@aol.com wrote: >Can anyone tell me if they've been selling posters at recent shows? I need ta >know! And if so, how much? i've seen Them at the Roseland, Electric Factory, SUNY Albany, and the Tradewinds in the last four months or so, and i haven't seen any signs of any posters... trippy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:29:08 -0500 From: Evan Chakroff Subject: TMBG: So I rolled up the window and said "Hey, no one can hear me Anyone have more info on the concert in Granville at Denison Univ. this friday (right?)??? Are tickets on sale? Where? I need to go to this, assuming there are actually going to be tickets sold, cause I figure they wouldn't play to an empty room... -- Evan Chakroff The Internet Mystery Spot http://spot.home.ml.org This Statement Is False ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: So I rolled down the window and said "What's the deal?!" Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:31:27 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Bongaarts In the immortal words of Kevin McGuire: >Whats the deal with all the posts that have _So I rolled down the window >and said "blah!"_? Is it just me or is it kinda annoying? Does it have >something to do with TMBG or is it just witty of its own accord? It's a corruption of a line from the third verse of "They Got Lost", which my frazzled finals forehead can't piece together at the moment. -CB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:37:27 -0500 From: Evan Chakroff Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s At 12:50 PM 12/10/96 -0500, KdsInThHal@aol.com wrote: >>>Your Lucky Numbers Are: 32, 80, 3, 87, 30, 47, 10 >(Can you match them up with TMBG songs? ...trying to think of more songs w/ >numbers in them...) (I must be tired, cause that is very dumb) ><< > >32 footsteps >80 dolls yelling small girl after all >number 3 >87 advil >now there's 30 left >I ate 47 >so what happened to the other 10 >you forgot 20,000,000,000,000 times. (is that right??) > just 20,000,000,000 (twenty thousand million... yeah...) >(: haras~ >gro.gbmt@lrigllennil >lahhtnisdk\moc.loa.srebmem\\:ptth > bored with your signature? fforkahC navE topS yretsyM tenretnI ehT gro.lm.emoh.tops\\:ptth eslaF sI tnemetatS sihT (that was harder than I thought it would be...) ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: "in the room women come and go" Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:40:25 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Bongaarts In the immortal words of Evan Chakroff: >Not to criticise what could very well be a perfectly vaild e-mail >campaign... but does anyone have e-mail bomb software? 50,000 messages, >isn't that do-able? :) You can do it in one line of Perl. Don't. -CB, who is disturbed that people think flaming an offender is an effective method of enlighting her. (Of course, it doesn't make forwarding what is effectively a commercial advertisement to a mailing list where it is not relevant right.) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:41:18 -0500 From: Evan Chakroff Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s >It depends. In the United States, saying twenty-thousand million is >completely meaningless. Elsewhere, it means the same thing as what we >call twenty billion in the U.S. So it's 20,000,000,000. > Why would they do that? Is there some secret meaning? (Or just making the lyrics fit better?) Also, was that all the numbers they've had in songs? -- Evan Chakroff The Internet Mystery Spot http://spot.home.ml.org This Statement Is False ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:43:55 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Bongaarts In the immortal words of Aaron Kohlbeck: >> By the way, i don't have anything against sick children, but I already got >> one by email, and that's how you should have sent it too, if you had to send > ^^^^^^^^^^^^ >Wait! You got a sick child my email? I wonder what kind of compression >they used. Uuencode? Binhex? What? ;) hugs :) >Now, if someone's freak flag is their hair, does this mean that the John's >really have a desire to return to the decadent age of the 80's and spike >their hair? Get it really long and have a huge mass of hair just sticking >straight up from their heads (ala Kid of Kid n' Play?) Just a thought. While rereading this, I got a rather vivid image of someone touching a Van de Graaf generator... -CB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:29:12 -0500 (EST) From: "Two turntables and a Michael Rose..." Subject: Re: TMBG: How to record DAS/SEXXY Update On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Wyatt Glodell wrote: > This proobably sounds dumb, but i have one of those radio shack > microphone with a suction cup on it things, and i dont know where to stick > it. Anyone know? Er, there is a joke here somewhere. You might want to stick it where you hid your upper case letters and apostrophes. Or try the back of the earpiece on the phone receiver, since on most current models, that's where the sound comes from. > OW!! I just got a big shock from my headphones!!!!?!?!?!?!?! Get out of the shower! And now onto the SEXXY EP update. There seem to be two record stores which have brought copies into this city, and they sell, respectively, for $10.99 and $11.99. However they don't have any more copies right now. I called the enormous HMV superstore which covers approximately 80% of the city and seems to be growing, and they said they might get some copies in after Christmas, and they will cost $13.99. (All figures in Canadian currency, of course). So basically we're getting the shaft. After finding out that the reason I stopped getting info club mailings was because they simply stopped mailing to Canada without telling anyone, finding out that I cannot buy the EP for a reasonable price in this city kind of, er, pissed me off. I'm ready to tell Elektra where to stick it. MIKe *TMBG Info Club ID No: 18902* ----------------------------- Making a mockery of technology, finding even more wasteful uses, it's: Mr. Flippy's Red Light Funtime Party Hour! ---> http://www.yucc.yorku.ca/~flippy Where all of your diseases have silly names Song of the day: Ween "What Deaner Was Talking About" ------------------------------ From: Brooksie2@aol.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:29:51 -0500 Subject: Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. >Now, if someone's freak flag is their hair, does this mean that the John's >really have a desire to return to the decadent age of the 80's and spike >their hair? Get it really long and have a huge mass of hair just sticking >straight up from their heads (ala Kid of Kid n' Play?) Just a thought. Well, either that or Johnny Marr in what is known as his "loaf of bread" hair stage. Or maybe they just want a red, white, and blue mohawk. A friend of mine did that when she was squatting in Boston years ago. (As have many others... The hair, not Boston.) It looked wonderful on her. Somehow I just _can't_ see Flansburgh or Linnell with mohawk, though, much less a multi-colored one. But just sit and think about that for a moment. Doesn't part of you have to laugh at the image? Thinking that Pillarbox Red would make for a nice freak flag, Brooks. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:32:20 -0500 (EST) From: Ryan Staib <97starya@james.hawken.edu> Subject: Re: TMBG: HCISLAG, etc On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Aaron Kohlbeck wrote: ** Wait! You got a sick child my email? I wonder what kind of compression ** they used. Uuencode? Binhex? What? ;) Err, you introduced yet another meaning... I think you mean 'by.' :) ** Freak flag (def. from old song that I can't remember but people have discussed ** here before) - someone's hair (the long hair being the freak flag) Well, I don't know here. J&J almost never use anything from a song that means what it originally did. They always mutate it to serve their own purpose. My interp of HCISLAG: Each line (or verse, or part, whatever) has 2 meanings to it, and it's quite clever. In the middle of a sentence, it will switch meaning, so that the sentence as a whole has a different meaning that the first half of the sentence. The first meaning is literal. How can he physically sing like a girl? It's hard to get your voice high. Second, how does he have the personal freedom to sing like a girl, since it's not socially acceptable. 'I want to raise my freak flag higher and higher-' first half. Here, his 'freak flag' is his voice. He wants to raise it higher and higher. How can he do it? Women can sing higher than men, but he still wants to sing like a girl. He wants to raise his freak flag (voice) higher, like a girl's. This leads into the 'never be alone' part, and being objectified/stigmatized. Singing like a woman will ostracize him, showing him as a freak for singing like a wuss. His voice becomes a freak flag that signals his freakdom, but he still wants to be accepted, not rejected. 'How can I sing like a girl-' physically, how can he? It's hard. 'And not be stigmatized by the rest of the world?' The whole phrase taken at once now means 'how can he sing high and not be judged unfairly?' Well, I think you get the point. The second half of the song is where he has sung like a girl, and everyone points and looks, and he feels really freakish, so he doesn't sing anymore. Pretty good song. UNRELATEDLY: Well, that letter is _*not*_ a chain letter. It perhaps has some of the characteristics as a chain letter, it is not a true chain letter. The only real bad thing she did was send unrelated material to the list. Chain letters do not ask you to send them in the body of another email. They tell you to send them to five or whatever other people, and the list of names is usually passed to you. Alternatively, they ask you to spread them around, as an independant unit, for no reason. Attach a date to this current letter, and no one will keep it around. This one actually has a point, whereas most chain letters are in themselves the point (or pointless, actually). Now, the question is: Should a company be asking for 50,000 messages? Perhaps you should be venting your aggresion at the company. They are not being commercial or having some ulterior motive or somesuch, however. A company does not donate books, in exchange for _free_ email, if they want to be greedy. However, they should not be asking for messages. 50,000 is a bit excessive. Why not just donate the books anyway, since they claim this is their goal? Still, I really feel it would be better if they'd just post it on a webpage or something, instead of asking people to let their friends know. Of course, it's not really a chain letter, since it just says to tell your friends to email them, it does NOT say to pass the letter along! Look at the exact wording. Just because the person happened to forward us this message, it does not mean that the letter itself told them to forward it. It's not a chain letter if it does not include a continuation of the letter. If it doesn't ask you to form a chain, how can it be a chain letter??? Have I made myself abundantly clear? It is unrelated. For that, you're allowed to tell people not to send it. However, don't get mad about a chain letter, when it's NOT a chain letter. Don't you dare. You have no right. Besides, it _is_ for a good cause, donating books to children's hospitals. It was just a forwarded message, not a chain letter, and it was for a good cause. Reason to crucify someone? I think not. RS ------------------------------ From: "Rensink, Brenden BHS" Subject: RE: TMBG: Happiness bleed from every street corner... Date: Mon, 09 Dec 96 07:31:00 P I talkedto my english teacher who is a music expert.he said that marvin Gay was that guy who always says,"let's get it on!".And phil ochs was some folk musician.You they are the exact opposite types of music, so it is just the irony of them getting married. I don't know. Brenden - nednerB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 96 15:46 EST From: kbrodbec@remcen.ehhs.cmich.edu (Kirsten Brodbeck) Subject: Re: EXTREME Non-TMBG: Overpopulation > >about gay marriages and such... >a really interesting book on this is _The Wanting Seed_ by Anthony Burgess >It's quite funny...in the beginning, homosexuality is praised and heterosexuals >are discouraged because they're trying to reduce the population...the book >goes on but i won't ruin it for anyone interested...i think one >of the slogans is "it's sapiens to be homo" :) And then there's _The Forever War_, by Joe Haldeman, in which eventually anyone who *isn't* homosexual is considered a pervert. Kirsten -- ______________________________________________________________________________ "I stand on my head and watch it all go away." -Rancid "Junkie Man" Kirsten Brodbeck AKA Crow kbrodbec@remcen.ehhs.cmich.edu ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:53:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Juliet Subject: TMBG: World Conquest "Will you join in our crusade? Who will be strong and stand with me? Somewhere beyond the barricade is there a world you long to see?" -From the musical "Les Miserables" Okay, TMBG fans... it's time. **Have you ever had to sit idly by and watch people slam your choice of music by saying it's "silly," "disturbing," or "crap?" **Have you ever cringed when you hear people rant and rave about how "alternative music" is just pop-rock of the 90's and how you aren't worth anything unless you've been listening to Marilyn Manson since your mother weaned you? (No offense meant at all to Marilyn Manson or his fans.) **When "Snail Shell" became a hit, did you want to physically torture people who said they "just LOVE that NEW band that does that snail shovel song... Aren't they called They Could Be Dinosaurs or something?" **Did you want to maim all the Hootie and the Blowfish fans who glared and made fun of you while you enjoyed yourself when TMBG was playing? (Once again, no offense to Hootie and the Blowfish or their peaceful, intellegent fans) Then, my friends, join WORLD CONQUEST '97!!! This is like WORLD CONQUEST '96, only hopefully we'll have more people this time... (20 or so young adults in the Memphis area didn't make for a very successful world conquest.) **How can I join WORLD CONQUEST '97?? It's easy... Just convince everyone you know that the Supreme High Empress Helen has revealed that she really controlled the world anyway by controlling the minds of the Secret Masters who are the puppeteers of the Illuminati, which runs all of the world's government systems. Once you convince all your friends and family, they too will have their minds controlled by the Empress (me) and the world will be a better, more TMBG-friendly place. =) Thank you for your cooperation and I hope you join WORLD CONQUEST '97! =) Sincerely, Your Ruler- Supreme High Empress Helen =) (NOTE: For those of you who are humor-impared, this is a joke. Something to give amusement.) ******************************************************* Helen Joan Chipman "No one's picking up the phone uhjchipman@latte.memphis.edu guess it's me and me... And this little masochist, she's ready to confess I love you, all the things that I never thought that she could feel..." my Romeo. -Tori Amos, "Hey Jupiter" ********************************* http://www.people.memphis.edu/~uhjchipman ------------------------------ From: "Rensink, Brenden BHS" Subject: Re: TMBG: What TMBG album hooked you? Date: Mon, 09 Dec 96 11:11:00 P My best friend's older brother listened to them. So I got hooked on Lincoln and the Pink album. Then my friend went and bought all of there stuff. ( it was in 92) so we had up till apollo 18. But my first real ones I got hooked on were lincoln and the pink album. Brenden - nednerB AKA - The Hypnotist of LAdies ~in alliance w/ the vigilant philbuster~ misuser of verbs ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:45:38 -0500 (EST) From: Lawrence P Solomon Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s Excerpts from internet.music.tmbg: 10-Dec-96 Re: TMBG: #'s by Evan Chakroff@ix.netcom. > Why would they do that? Is there some secret meaning? (Or just making the > lyrics fit better?) Also, was that all the numbers they've had in songs? Saying twenty thousand million is meant to be an exaggeration. Almost everyone says something like that at one point or another just because it's so far out..... All the numbers? every 4 is waltz again every 5 and dime's been gained and spent number 3 28... 29... 30.... 31... 32 footsteps 20000000000 times a 6 of miller high life 80 dolls yelling 'small girl after all' 1 pill at the bottom they look out for number 2 i dunno, 30, 45 minutes maybe she's 5 feet tall and sick of me now I rock a barstool and I drink for 2 i didn't apologize for when I was 8 and I made my younger brother have to... there's only 1 thing that I know how to do well there's only 1 thing that I like and that is whistling in the dark and hit my head on the wall of the jail where the 2 of us live today 2 by 2 the enter the jungle and soon they number more 3 by 3 as well as 4 by 4 apollo 18 the warm blood flows through the large 4 chambered heart i'd ask you if you don't mind to kiss you 100 times big hand's on 120 little hand's on e (sorry about that one :) for I am 1000 years old 87 advil in the bottle now there's 30 left i ate 47 so what happened to the other 10 in 1844 the democrats were split the 3 nominees for the presidential candidate in 4 short years he met his every goal mr james k polk our 11th president 1000 eyes are staring; they pull away her earplugs 10000 years of unerasable acts they count the arms, the legs, the heads and then divide by 5 that's all I can think of, but I'm sure there's something else.... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:55:36 -0500 (GMT-0500) From: BlueDawg Subject: Re: TMBG: Input -=> Output On Mon, 9 Dec 1996, Leo Bicknell wrote: > Amazement never stops on the information superhighway. > I'll never figure out how a web site can be up for months before > someone points out some glaring error that the site deigners > never saw. It raises many questions, including "Is everyone > so dumb they didn't notice?" One of those being those annoying "This Site Under Construction" points. > Well, I'm pretty sure the answer to that question is no. > People notice, they just don't tell anyone. _Please_ tell someone. > If you find an error on the web site, mail us. If you have an > idea of how it could be easier to use, mail us. If there is something > you would like to see that is not on the web site at all, mail us. And since he forgot....the address is: web@tmbg.org > Your input is _very_ important. There's many more of you > than there are of us to catch errors and come up with ideas. > Please share your thoughts with us. We're also looking for content for the little monopuff site. If anyone knows where to find anything, mail me: bluedawg@tmbg.org, or web@tmbg.org. Jack Bergeron, bluedawg@tmbg.org, www.monopuff.org/~bluedawg, Jeep Driver Come To Utopia! telnet://blacktape.cs.uchicago.edu:3000 I'm Bluedawg .sig? No thanks, I don't cmoke ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:03:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Fransburgh Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s sorry, i just had to throw this one in...how could we forget it?! 93 000 000 miles away!!!! (and that's why it looks so small!) :) thanks! --fran(sburgh) ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: HCISLAG, etc Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 15:00:46 -0600 (CST) From: Chris Bongaarts In the immortal words of Ryan Staib: >they claim this is their goal? Still, I really feel it would be better if they'd >just post it on a webpage or something, instead of asking people to let their >friends know. Of course, it's not really a chain letter, since it just says to As a matter of fact, they did. http://www.polarexpress.com/ >message, not a chain letter, and it was for a good cause. Reason to crucify >someone? I think not. Agreed. Reason to politely suggest she not do it? Absolutely. (Doubly underscore "politely.") -CB ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:28:41 -0500 From: BOBA Organization: InfiNet Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY Single John Pletikapich wrote: > > I've gone to 4 or 5 record stores and have only been able to > find the 3 song single. I've read here that there is another > version with more songs, right? > > Any advice how to find the longer "single"? Please pardon my ignorance. i just went to National Record MArt, and poof, it waqs there! -- Matthew Ondrey Boba@tmbg.org http://bobasboots.home.ml.org http://wendyrulz.home.ml.org ------------------------------ From: wglodell@baraboo.com (Wyatt Glodell) Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 16:37:04 -0600 >sorry, i just had to throw this one in...how could we forget it?! >93 000 000 miles away!!!! >(and that's why it looks so small!) :) >thanks! >--fran(sburgh) > And " A Million earths coul fit inside" there must be more.....i cant think of any ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:03:10 -0500 (EST) From: gonk@valley.net (Robert Grabill) Subject: Re: TMBG: SHEER LUCK!!! ROCHESTER SHOW!!!!!! > YES!!!!!! I just found out my dad will be in rochester getting ready >to move over the vacation and i can visit him there!!! i thought i would >have to be in LA. I'M SO HAPPY!!! I'm not positive yet, but almost, that i >can go to the rochester show! >Now i wont be depressed all day at school! I thought you were 12, oh well, if your birthday came, 13s of the world untie! Anyway, I'm just responding so you all can feel my sympathy. They are playing in boston on thursday which is only 2 hours away. But it's 18+ which makes no sense, because the only thing that 18 year olds can leagally do that 13 year olds can't is drive (which I don't think there will be too much of) and buy cigs (ditto) damn you paradise rock club! ------------------------------ Subject: TMBG: Juno, AOL, ect. WAS: Re: TMBG: Enough About The Day. ()()()()()() From: istanbul@juno.com (Justin Smith) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:03:27 EST There is nothing wrong with using a free e-mail service, as long as you have a really crappy ISP. My ISP takes 1 minute PER MESSAGE to download mail, and it starts deleting stuff after 50 messages. These conditions would be quite impossible for participating in a mailing list like this one. (I bet you're starting to wish I hadn't discovered Juno, because then I wouldn't be here!) Oh, and whoever asked about my quote, I'm sorry I didn't notice it or I would have answered the question myself. +++ This is Justin W. Smith's amazingly terrific signature +++ jsmith@e-tex.com istanbul@juno.com justin@tmbg.org Play Dragon Warrior Text Adventure! www.dragonfire.net/~MonoPuff/DW/ +++ "We're willing to sleep with beautiful women." - John Flansburgh +++ On Sun, 08 Dec 1996 18:33:42 EST ununoctium@juno.com (Ununoctium U. Ununoctium) writes: > So is this supposed to be you ridiculing me for my use of >juno? There's something wrong with free stuff? I'm not exactly sure >what you're trying to say... AOL is a better deal so it should be >stereotypified more often? Is that it? > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >Once I was >But am no more >So it goes >------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:16:58 -0600 From: vdanklef@facstaff.wisc.edu (Vicki Sullivan Danklefsen) Subject: TMBG: Re: tmbg-list Digest #2-334 Evan wrote: >My dad listened to Metal Detector and >said it was like music he listened to when he was young :| I don't quite >know what to make of that. Oh well. Maybe because it's "beach music." Tee hee. Robert Grabill wrote: >Also I had a dream the they were popular and Weird al did a parody called >B-U-N-N-Y No one has taken this one yet? B-U-N-N-Y. Tail made of fluff... -------------------- Vicki Sullivan Danklefsen Editor Health Sciences Public Affairs UW-Madison ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: grinch, etc. From: ununoctium@juno.com (Ununoctium U. Ununoctium) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:33:04 EST On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:01:12 CST Aaron Kohlbeck writes: >Freak flag (def. from old song that I can't remember but people have discussed >here before) - someone's hair (the long hair being the freak flag) > >TMBG (HCISLAG) - "I want to raise my freak flag higher and higher" > >Now, if someone's freak flag is their hair, does this mean that the John's >really have a desire to return to the decadent age of the 80's and spike >their hair? Get it really long and have a huge mass of hair just sticking >straight up from their heads (ala Kid of Kid n' Play?) Just a thought. Not to rain on your (One More) parade, but the song that the freak flag line comes from is (if I remember semi-correctly) by Crosby, Stills & Nash. For those of you who have never heard of them outside of Woodstock II (what a joke), they were a somewhat popular band in the late sixties-early seventies, hippie types. In this case the freak flag, or long hair would be straight (ironed straight if your hair was naturally curly) and go straight down with a part in the middle. So this is not exactly a mohawk (or a crazy 80's 'fro)... On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 13:40:25 -0600 (CST) Chris Bongaarts writes: >-CB, who is disturbed that people think flaming an offender is an > effective method of enlighting her. (Of course, it doesn't make > forwarding what is effectively a commercial advertisement to a > mailing list where it is not relevant right.) In my own defense, it was not a flame, by definition, it was my defense after being publically attacked. Even when it is off topic, it is only fair for the accused and attacked to defend themselves. On Tue, 10 Dec 1996 14:53:15 -0500 (CDT) Juliet writes: >Then, my friends, join WORLD CONQUEST '97!!! Is this anything like the Oklahoma Flesh Fest 1996? If it is, count me in! (I count 2-3 people who have even a vague idea what I'm talking about ;) ... The boy with a REAL freak flag of his own... *------------------------------------------------------------------------ Once I was But am no more So it goes *------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:33:52 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Subject: TMBG: Now That I Have Everything Ok, I will make this short. I have changed the special offer on my web page. I am now offering a .wav of Now That I Have Everything on the EFnet #TMBG Home Page. This is recorded off of PODAS so the quality is as good as could be expected. I am pretty happy with it. Go get it! http://www.fyi.net/~josh/irc.html Josh josh@fyi.net ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:58:41 -0500 (EST) From: gonk@valley.net (Robert Grabill) Subject: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y >>Also I had a dream the they were popular and Weird al did a parody called >>B-U-N-N-Y > >No one has taken this one yet? B-U-N-N-Y. Tail made of fluff... Well, I could post a cure for cancer and no one would care at all. They don't listen to me, ever. it's probably because I don't post a lot. but now I will, I'm gonna respond to every single thread ever. and don't say I didn't warn you. BTW this is my .sig (You must be 18 to buy it, but that means you can go to concerts) ------------------------------ From: "Buster T. Bunny" Subject: Re: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 18:47:35 -0600 ---------- > From: Robert Grabill > Subject: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y > Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 5:58 PM > > > >>Also I had a dream the they were popular and Weird al did a parody called > >>B-U-N-N-Y > > > >No one has taken this one yet? B-U-N-N-Y. Tail made of fluff... > Sounds good to me...maybe I'll write this one with Babs Bunny as my inspiration..... Buster T. Bunny President, Acme Communications http://www.acmeonline.net Internet Tech, Computer Services Company http://www.computer-services.com Home is where the one whom your heart belongs to is... ------------------------------ From: mjames@envy.loyola.edu (Matthew James) Subject: TMBG: posters Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:47:52 -0500 (EST) I have never seen a teacher being *sold* at a concert but I have seen them hanging up at many concerts in which you can take them. I have only been able to grab one, a John Henry cover one, and I almost got one at E-town but missed out. I did see a Cub poster though. Matt -- Member of the ARM since '96 (let's give 'em hell) *------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James polk@tmbg.org Matt.James.K.Polk@tmbg.org mjames@envy.loyola.edu Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America "Cracking toast, Gromit!" New, Official Bruce Campbell Gazette page: http://www.bcgazette.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 19:56:35 -0500 From: ntodd@uvm-gen.emba.uvm.edu (Nathan Todd) Subject: TMBG: All sorts of stuff. First of all, gay marriages: Any two consenting adults should have the right to marry. Any law prohibiting this is a bad one. Second, the Rochester show...I might be able to make it! Does anyone know if there are still tickets left? I'm not sure how quickly tmbg shows are selling out these days. I'm attempting to convince my friends to take the looooong trip to Rochester from vermont... Any info on the show? What exactly may be played...special xmas stuff? Who all is going? Thirdly, to whomever decided that we all needed a scolding for not forwarding the email message concerning books for kids. First of all, you have been completely answered to why sending forwards at all is bad. Second of all, I find it offensive, and more than slightly amusing that you use self-centered & selfishness as such terrible things. One does not have the *duty* to go around saving all the little kids and giving them books and all. Granted, it may just be a nice thing to do, but it by *no* means is some sort of moral requirement that one must give to charity and give books to kids to be a good person. I'm not saying that it is wrong to give the kids books, just that I shouldn't be insulted for knowing that it's not my responsibility. Sorry to spend so much time being un-TmBgish. Back to studying for finals!! A-Woo-HA! Nathan Todd a.k.a. Tenman *~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> You know your duty to mankind, VOTE INSECTS '96: "Insects, Jesus, & God For President, Vice President, & Sub-Committee" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 20:01:35 -0500 (EST) From: Joshua Hall-Bachner Subject: TMBG: So I rolled down the window and said "Freaksickle!" >And Remember... Mashed Potatoes CAN be your friend, if you have an open mind. I must say that this quote is pretty ironic considering the content of your message. >It really has nothing to do with overpopulation at all, it has to do with >increased diversity of the gene pool, and with this diversity, the >increased ability to survive major changes in the environment. First, if the population decreases to the point where we *need* added genetic viability, the United States laws are not going to be being followed anyway, are they? And second, what with the easy availability of sperm banks (for men as donors and women as recipients) and the existence of surrogate mothers willing to have babies for gay men, gay women and men (and, indeed, straight women and men) can lend their genes to the pool easily. And third, the Defense of Marriage Act doesn't say anything about the issue you raise, and if it did, there are hundreds of things it could do before keeping gays from marrying that would be more effective. >this definitely bothers me, i've seen TMBG several times in the last few >months, and every show was basically the same, they were still great shows >but i would have appreciated a little more variety... Well, think about this. How many people go to see several TMBG concerts in different cities soon after each other? Almost none. With no significantly large group of people who are going to every show or even two or three shows on each leg of the tour, the same old setlist will be brand new to most of the crowd at every concert. >SuperFueled Freaksicle (aka SuperCharged Freaksicle) will be put out by >Elektra, and will contain new songs that are not on Factory Showroom like >They Got Lost and what-have-you. I've been over this. Superfueled will have "the best of" the Elektra-era TMBG B-sides, some live tracks, and some unreleased tracks. None of the mini-tour songs like "They Got Lost" will be on it. >if you're gonna say it like that, tom hanks is gay 'cause he played a gay >guy once I think many of this list's members must originate from Betelgeuse, because they are completely unable to recognize sarcasm in all it's many-splendoured forms. >Whats the deal with all the posts that have _So I rolled down the window >and said "blah!"_? Is it just me or is it kinda annoying? Does it have >something to do with TMBG or is it just witty of its own accord? In reverse order: It has to do with TMBG in the sense that it's a paraphrase of a quote from the song "They Got Lost" (lyrics available on www.tmbg.org, your source for all your lyrics questions...) Anyway, I posted a message with the quote as my subject: "So I rolled down the window and said 'Hello, excuse me, hey!'" Someone else (Kilroy, I think, but it could have been someone else...) did the same thing with something else in the place of "Hello, excuse me, hey!" and it snowballed from there. I am a trendsetter. I am almighty. I am KEWL. All bow down before me. :) /---------------------------Joshua Hall-Bachner---------------------------\ | particle@servtech.com http://www.servtech.com/public/particle/ | |"We all have our idiosyncracies -- maybe thinning hair, or gum disease." | \---- Kowanko, "Will You Come To?" ------ Thank You, And Goodnight. ------/ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:33:00 -0800 From: "MICHAEL BORNHORST@warnerbros.com" Subject: TMBG: While we're brainstorming songs... ...with numbers here on the list, I was thinking about other motifs in Their songs. They seem to have a thing for jail. Off the top of my head "10 years later they were sharing the same cell" (also a TMBG song with a number in it). "Till kitten's out of jail" "In my prison cell I think these words..." "And hit my head on the wall of the cell where the two of us live today." And I seem to remember more but I can't think of them now. That's where the list comes in. It seems to be a recurring image in their songs, and I wonder what this says about the Johns... Michael MICHAEL_BORNHORST@warnerbros.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 17:53:00 -0800 From: "MICHAEL BORNHORST@warnerbros.com" Subject: TMBG: ????????Hungry muscians searching for their "pepper" (Ed. note: Not that mainstream success is important to us, but I'm sure TMBG would like to make off this experience) I've had this theory about TMBG's popularity and how their success might have been entirely different had their albums come out in a different order. It should be noted that I've been a fan since Lincoln came out (remember seeing "Ana Ang" on MTV's "Post Modern" and having to get the record) but I *really* enjoyed "John Henry" and wish "Factory Showroom" showcased more of the full band sound. That being said... I've this feeling that "Birdhouse In Your Soul" was this group's "Pepper" (Butthole Surfers' summer hit that got them airplay after years of being ignored). People bought "Flood" and, perhaps, liked it enough to check out "Apollo 18" only to hear songs like "Fingertips" and the over-all space/science theme of the album and dismiss the band as a gimmicky. A quirky fluke. (Again, *not* my opinion, just the word on the street). Had Apollo come out before "Flood" things might have been different. Aside from "Statue" there really wasn't a radio-friendly single on the album. You release that first and the fan base grows at the rate it had grown w/ the pink album and Lincoln. Then you release "Flood" with "Birdhouse" and "Istanbul" and "Racist Friend" and your bound to get a little more airplay on radio and MTV. Also, if Flood comes out a few years later there's more alternative music found on the radio and TMBG probably get more exposure. Then "John Henry" would come out with their "full band" sound and with it, perhaps more acceptance from the mainstream (if that matters). I doubt this band will ever get bigger than it is now. In fact, I'd guess that it's getting smaller (but I don't have much to base this on aside from literally *no* airplay in major markets--I've recently moved to LA from Chicago) and no video from "Factory Showroom" No video? Not a good sign. The record company hasn't helped much. I don't understand why some songs (Snail Shell) are picked as singles while other, more catchy tunes (End of the Tour, Destination Moon, AKA Driver) go unpromoted. I remember Flansburg saying in an interview sometime this past summer that "HCISLAG" was going to be the song that put his children through college. This band is still searching for its "Pepper." Just my $.02 Michael MICHAEL_BORNHORST@warnerbros.com ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:27:30 -0500 (EST) From: Queen Sneepy Subject: TMBG: TMBG vindication in Class I was in my L351: American Literature 100-1865 class this morning, and we usually start off class with a little bit of banter on how we spent our weekend. I made mention of how I'd gone and seen Them in Cincinnati on the fifth, and the professor, upon hearing this, wondered just what kind of music They played. Well, I said, a little of this, a little of that: Polka, rock, country, funk, etc. To which he replied, "Wow, they _are_ giants!" Hee hee... just a fun anecdote! *^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^*^ Stefanie Elliott "Devil Bunny! I snort the nose, Lucifer! Banana! Banana!" smelliot@falstaff.ucs.indiana.edu Satanic Debbie Boone in _Bloom County_ **StarWars*DNRC*Medievalist*X-Phile*TMBG*MiSTie #14672*MacUser*Comics*Reader** ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:34:14 -0500 () From: BlueDawg Subject: TMBG: Topics as of late Gay Marrage: Well, me being the one who took the brunt of the flames for the political discussion on the list about a year ago; I was afraid to touch it. I will give my opinion, not that anyone cares. I find it dispicable that religious zelots would try to force thier values on another. The whole Gay Marrage issue comes back to this single point. Think about it. I, personally, despite my religious teachings, do not believe homosexuality is immoral. The tenants which the gay-bashers base their arguements on are from the book of Leviticus, which also advocates polygamy, impregnation of your childless, widowed sister-in-law, and sacrifices to be made at the temple after a woman has completed menstruating. Jewish Law is to be taken with a grain of salt, IMHO. Legally, I don't see how *anyone* can justify discrimination, which the ban on gay marriage clearly is. I voted for the only candidate, as far as I know, who advocated legalizing gay marriage. Superfuled Freakcycle/Then: SF will be like Misc T, with the songs from Istanbul, WDTSS, (The A18 EP, which I can't remember right now), and S-E-X-X-Y. Then will be: Big Blue Dog Album + the b-sides from that period, Lincoln + b-sides, assorted oddities from Dial-A-Song and the demo tape. That's about it....Cya on The-Next-Girl or Utopia Parkway. --Bluedawg out. Jack Bergeron, bluedawg@tmbg.org, www.tmbg.org/~bluedawg Jeep Driver, Poker Time! telnet://the-next-girl.cs.uchicago.edu:7000 ObWittySig: "The back wheel's 'O' is now a letter 'D'...I was an 'I' and now I'm a 'V'"--J. S. Linnell ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:54:09 -0500 (EST) From: Josh Subject: TMBG: Opening Band If Cub is not opening for this whole tour then who will be opening for the next portion? Josh josh@fyi.net ------------------------------ Subject: Re: TMBG: Atlanta show From: jenifer.stewart@juno.com (Jenifer W Stewart) Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:04:08 EST Does anyone know if they will be rescheduling the Nashville >show. I will have to go if this happens. I don't know, but as far as I DO know, They haven't rescheduled their concert they had to cancel in Jacksonville yet. In fact, They're not even scheduled to come to Florida at all anytime soon. Jen Mammal, mammal, Their names are called They raise a paw...... - TMBG ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:23:29 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hare Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s And, of course there's 93 miles times a million more 1 fingernail across your back Punch the clock at 8 25 O'clock Etc. etc. yada yada... *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Hare - It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me? - TMBG tomhare@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu particle_man@tmbg.org hare@tmbg.org *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Fransburgh wrote: > sorry, i just had to throw this one in...how could we forget it?! > 93 000 000 miles away!!!! > (and that's why it looks so small!) :) > thanks! > --fran(sburgh) > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:25:37 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hare Subject: TMBG: Seven samurai? I once saw, one someone's signature files from the list, a quoted TMBG song mentioning something about samurai in a field, something like that, however I have never heard of this song? What is it? *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Hare - It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me? - TMBG tomhare@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu particle_man@tmbg.org hare@tmbg.org *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: "Maria, Nick" Subject: RE: TMBG: #'s Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 13:38:40 +1100 And, of course, 1000 years old! > >At 12:50 PM 12/10/96 -0500, KdsInThHal@aol.com wrote: >>>>Your Lucky Numbers Are: 32, 80, 3, 87, 30, 47, 10 >>(Can you match them up with TMBG songs? ...trying to think of more songs w/ >>numbers in them...) (I must be tired, cause that is very dumb) >><< >> >>32 footsteps >>80 dolls yelling small girl after all >>number 3 >>87 advil >>now there's 30 left >>I ate 47 >>so what happened to the other 10 >>you forgot 20,000,000,000,000 times. (is that right??) >> > >just 20,000,000,000 (twenty thousand million... yeah...) > >>(: haras~ >>gro.gbmt@lrigllennil >>lahhtnisdk\moc.loa.srebmem\\:ptth >> > >bored with your signature? > > >fforkahC navE >topS yretsyM tenretnI ehT >gro.lm.emoh.tops\\:ptth >eslaF sI tnemetatS sihT > >(that was harder than I thought it would be...) > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:24:24 -0500 From: Evan Chakroff Subject: TMBG: Popularity I just feel compelled to share this: At lunch today we got to talking about music, and Bush came up... here's a part of that conversation: John: Yeah, Bush, they've got like four chords... Hank: And a beat... Emily: If they weren't talented, they wouldn't be popular. (She was serious...) ALL: Laugh (We all just looked at each other, and cracked up...) Emily: They've got talent, they just don't know how to use it. (Serious again... she is DUMB AS A ROCK) that's all folks. It was hillarious, maybe you had to be there... -- Evan Chakroff The Internet Mystery Spot http://spot.home.ml.org This Statement Is False ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:46:18 -0500 (EST) From: Tom Hare Subject: Re: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y All righty, here you go (I'm good at this, maybe I could be weird Al) They Might Be Giant's B-U-N-N-Y (said) Little Bunny Fufu I don't wanna see you Scoopin' up the field mice And bopping their heads B-U-N-N-Y Tail made of fluff Says 'What's up Doc' To everyone else B-U-N-N-Y There he is Hopping on your head Carrot in one hand You think he's dead B-U-N-N-Y N - Because he's naked, bunny Y - Because he's naked, bunny (Unnoticed by few Very very few And that includes you) Dresses like a girl Dresses like a guy And I know that I Just wonder why B-U-N-N-Y One furry leg Draped across your badge Warner's big gold two Initials inscribed B-U-N-N-Y N - because he's naked, bunny Y - becasue he's naked, bunny You gotta understand It never was his plan To be in Space Jam Okay, I think that it was pretty obvious who its central character was :) Pity me for watching too many cartoons as a smaller child. *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Hare - It's not my birthday, so why do you lunge out at me? - TMBG tomhare@freenet3.scri.fsu.edu particle_man@tmbg.org hare@tmbg.org *----------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Buster T. Bunny wrote: > ---------- > > From: Robert Grabill > > Subject: TMBG: B-U-N-N-Y > > Date: Tuesday, December 10, 1996 5:58 PM > > > > > > >>Also I had a dream the they were popular and Weird al did a parody > called > > >>B-U-N-N-Y > > > > > >No one has taken this one yet? B-U-N-N-Y. Tail made of fluff... > > > > Sounds good to me...maybe I'll write this one with Babs Bunny as my > inspiration..... > > Buster T. Bunny > President, Acme Communications > http://www.acmeonline.net > Internet Tech, Computer Services Company > http://www.computer-services.com > > Home is where the one whom your heart belongs to is... > ------------------------------ From: mattm@mixcom.com Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:46:24 -0600 Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY Single John Pletikapich wrote: > > I've gone to 4 or 5 record stores and have only been able to > find the 3 song single. I've read here that there is another > version with more songs, right? > > Any advice how to find the longer "single"? I would have responded to him personally, but I figure theres otheres out there with the same question, when I got it , I got lucky, the place I went to had 1 copy of each, my only suggestion is, call ahead and try to avoid big chains like Best Buy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:45:18 -0600 From: Simon Koch Organization: United Federation of Planets Subject: Re: NON-TMBG: World Conquest Juliet wrote: > (NOTE: For those of you who are humor-impared, this is a joke. Something > to give amusement.) Hey, wait a second, I thought I was going to be Supreme Ruler and Dictator of the world. -- "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." - Dr. Who ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 21:49:01 -0600 From: Simon Koch Organization: United Federation of Planets Subject: TMBG: WDTSS on New CDs Anyone know if WDTSS is going to be on Then or SuperFueled Freakcycle? I cannot find the EP anywhere! -- "The trouble with computers, of course, is that they're very sophisticated idiots." - Dr. Who ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 08:44:06 -0800 From: J Mathews Organization: United Federation of Planets Subject: Re: TMBG: #'s EVERYONE (except me, or someone w/better things to do than post forgot 64 worlds fair. Jeremy Mathews ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:10:37 -0500 (EST) From: Ekul Hpesoj Nevets Subject: Re: TMBG: So I rolled down the window and said "Freaksickle!" On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, Joshua Hall-Bachner wrote: > >And Remember... Mashed Potatoes CAN be your friend, if you have an open mind. > > I must say that this quote is pretty ironic considering the content of your > message. I don't think it is ironic (but whom I to say so, I wrote it so I don't have an open mind) because I wasn't trashing gay marriages or anything of the like, I was trying to bring in a second point of view, i.e. oppenning up the mindss who would be opened. Sorry if the origenal post wasn't worded in such a way... > >It really has nothing to do with overpopulation at all, it has to do with > >increased diversity of the gene pool, and with this diversity, the > >increased ability to survive major changes in the environment. > > First, if the population decreases to the point where we *need* added > genetic viability, the United States laws are not going to be being followed > anyway, are they? 1) A law that isn't followed doesn't make it a bad law... 2) genetic viability is ALWAYS needed. When it is noticed id when it is too late. > And second, what with the easy availability of sperm banks > (for men as donors and women as recipients) and the existence of surrogate > mothers willing to have babies for gay men, gay women and men (and, indeed, > straight women and men) can lend their genes to the pool easily. Very valid point, no argument here... > And third, > the Defense of Marriage Act doesn't say anything about the issue you raise, > and if it did, there are hundreds of things it could do before keeping gays > from marrying that would be more effective. I do belief I have sstated a few times that this is just my view of how these law(s) could be reassoned, not that it really is. If I didn't say it before, I say it now... If that is not how the law states its defense than you can throw everything I said away, it is worthless, or perhapss you can tack it n as an added reason that perhaps wasn't thought of before. I dunno, its up to you. I dunno, perhaps its just me, but I think that this letter (or part thereof) had a little bit of heat added to it. I woould really appreciate if people replied in personal mail for now on (as listies are ssick of this) and with a little lesss emotion. I try not to attack anyoone personally (how am I ding?) I'd apreciate it if you'd do the same. SJL *------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Steven J. Luke SteveL@tmbg.org Niagara University s0003483@monteagle.niagara.edu Biology Major Have a Happy Day!! Wahoooo!! And Remember... Mashed Potatoes CAN be your friend, if you have an open mind. *------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:04:59 -0800 From: J Mathews Organization: United Federation of Planets Subject: Re: TMBG: Happiness bleed from every street corner... Rensink, Brenden BHS wrote: > > I talkedto my english teacher who is a music expert.he said that marvin Gay > was that guy who always says,"let's get it on!".And phil ochs was some folk > musician.You they are the exact opposite types of music, so it is just the > irony of them getting married. I don't know. > > Brenden - nednerB I already knew that, but it gave me a thought: Two different kinds of musicians (people) getting along, and the world became a better place. Agree, disagree (most likely) then mail me and tell me I'm an idiot. Jeremy Mathews ------------------------------ From: wglodell@baraboo.com (Wyatt Glodell) Subject: TMBG: Uh-Oh.. i guess... Concert loudness, PLEASE HELP! Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:41:15 -0600 I am talking to my dad right now. Okay, done. He seems fine about me going to the rochester show. But, this sounds funny, he wants me to wear earplugs?! He is a musician and health nut, and thinks it'll damage your hearing. Anyway, i am trying to convince to let me go /w out. So i am asking, in most they concerts, are they set up REALLY loud? i didn't think so? please respond. oh, he called again, appearently my stepmom heard them a long time ago in a club and said they were _Really good_ and not to loud. But my question i was trying to ask was, are the concerts very loud? do your ears ring for hours afterwards? I'm gonna look into buying tockets tomorrow, but dont know how (i've NEVER been to a concert) so is there one ticketmaster number to call and ge tthem sent to you? I sure hope they are not sold out. Oh yeah, why dosent someone make a sign for people at the list to meet. There seem to be a lotta people going, and i really want to meet all of you. Alright, that's it. Wyatt, who head probably caved in, he is so happy. I can't wait till the 29th! but i still need tickets. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 09:25:05 -0800 From: J Mathews Organization: United Federation of Planets Subject: TMBG: Anyone gotten in to DAS this/last week? I've been trying to get into DAS at all time of day for the whole week. Anyone get in recently? Jeremy Mathews If you want to unsubscribe to the list, the procedures are at http://www.tmbg.org ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:51:21 -0500 From: jchaffer@tmbg.org (Jonathan Chaffer) Subject: Re: TMBG: Uh-Oh.. i guess... Concert loudness, PLEASE HELP! At 22:41 12/10/96, Wyatt Glodell wrote: > I am talking to my dad right now. Okay, done. He seems fine about me >going to the rochester show. But, this sounds funny, he wants me to wear >earplugs?! He is a musician and health nut, and thinks it'll damage your >hearing. Anyway, i am trying to convince to let me go /w out. So i am Why not just wear the earplugs? Big cotton ones. After all, you could be the only one at the concert who's shielded from the bells' effect! -- Jonathan Chaffer Student, University of Michigan http://www.tmbg.org/~jchaffer/ ftp/finger (My Mac): tmbg.reshall.umich.edu "Nate, with my brains and your flexibility, we could rule the world!" --Me "Duty now, Spud." --Gnl. Boy "It's a rock gyro thing." --John Linnell ------------------------------ From: mjames@greed.loyola.edu (Matthew James) Subject: Re: TMBG: SEXXY Single Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 23:49:18 -0500 (EST) > > > > I've gone to 4 or 5 record stores and have only been able to > > find the 3 song single. I've read here that there is another > > version with more songs, right? > > > > Any advice how to find the longer "single"? > > I would have responded to him personally, but I figure theres otheres > out there with the same question, when I got it , I got lucky, the place > I went to had 1 copy of each, my only suggestion is, call ahead and try > to avoid big chains like Best Buy Tower Records must have had at least 8 or 9 copies of both the full single and the 3 song one (We've Got a World version methinks, strnge how a lot of people are getting the Sensurround 3 songer, maybe this is a demographic thing?). So check out tower, I went to the one in Rockville (yes, I will be going back to Rockville, argh!) Matt -- Member of the ARM since '96 (let's give 'em hell) *------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James polk@tmbg.org Matt.James.K.Polk@tmbg.org mjames@envy.loyola.edu Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America "Cracking toast, Gromit!" New, Official Bruce Campbell Gazette page: http://www.bcgazette.com ------------------------------ From: mjames@khserver.loyola.edu (Matthew James) Subject: TMBG: postcard Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:05:40 -0500 (EST) I got a lovely Apollo 18 postcard in the mail today from Leo and tmbg.org. It's great, thanks Leo!! Matt -- Member of the ARM since '96 (let's give 'em hell) *------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt James polk@tmbg.org Matt.James.K.Polk@tmbg.org mjames@envy.loyola.edu Loyola College, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America "Cracking toast, Gromit!" New, Official Bruce Campbell Gazette page: http://www.bcgazette.com ------------------------------ From: NitpickR@aol.com Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 00:06:17 -0500 Subject: TMBG: Equipment, Atlanta, Marriages, #'s, Hello 41- I may have posted this, and if so, delete it, my mind is on finals not TMBG. Well, here is my little bit about the equipment... They didn't have all their stuff stolen, just a lot of it. Grahm still had his bass. Linnell had his keyboard that he just figured out where the coffee stand was... His accordion was old from ten years ago at least. It is the one from the Puppethead and DLS videos, and in considerably worse condition. I guess blowing your accordion up and pasting it back together will do that... I couldn't tell if Eric had a new guitar or not. He seemed to have problems with it at first, but it looked like his normal guitar. Flans had a large guitar along with the Conan one. He was having problems at first too. Atlanta- The crowd was really cool untill No One Knows My Plan, as said before... Then it got heavy. People had the sense either to take down a lot of crowd surfers, or throw them to the front, where I attempted to hurt them, or throw them at the bouncers. The show was allright. The neatest part was during Istanbul. Eric and Linnell and Brian were doing the intro, and Grahm and Flans dissapeared. Then Flans' head appears behind Brian's and he takes two drumsticks and starts playing the cymbals. Then Grahm does the same. Then they all played the drums together, and it sounded really neat. During Your Own Worst Enemy, Flans and Grahm sat down on the drum riser and did the backup and bass parts like that. It was cute. I made a tape of the show, but it has no encores on it, because I only brought a 90 minute tape. They played all the songs on the set list BTW, I got one 8^). After Atlanta show- I took a lot of pictures and stuff like that. Brian signed my shoe that previously only had Tony on it. Now it has Brian, Tony, and all of Cub. I also held my hand out and took a picture of us. I really really hope it turned out. I snapped some shots of Linnell and Flansburgh, and we'll see how those turn out too. I also took pictures of John and John's car, Cub's Van, and the Tour Bus among other things. I touched Flans' elbow... I also could have broken into their car, but decided better of it. I'm kind of unhappy Flans and Linnell didn't want to talk or anything, but oh well. Brian was nice. Gay/Lesbian marriages- In response to the person that said the stuff about some people being able to save the human race and all that, I don't belive that is valid. There are now ways of having children that don't require sex. I am not sure on the correct term, so I am not going to try. #'s- 3, 4, 5 -The middle of The Guitar I don't know if these were added, but how about: She's got 3 cars as many years I've lived in this city -The Famous Polka The 1 and only living doll -Living Doll XTC vs. Adam Ant, only 1 will survive -XTC vs. Adam Ant 93 miles times a million more -Moving To The Sun I didn't sing the line before this 1 -Weep Day You were not the 1 I was addressing -Weep Day 4 flights up and... -Feel-Good Sublet There are 3 diseases in every business, well jeepers, we have 2 or 3 children- Confusing His Mind Swing is a word 6 feet down. 387-6962 -Swing Is A Word If you're driving down the highway at 100 mPh -We Just Go Nuts at Christmastime Leaving on runway number five -Next Plane to London The fare went up to 100 dollars- Get Away And then the 2 became 4 -King of Wingo That's all I can reel off right now. Adam Rubens~ NitpickR@aol.com * adr49289@pegasus.edu.cc.ucf Gone savage for teenagers with automatic weapons and boundless love. Gone savage for teenagers who are aesthetically pleasing, in other words, fly. Los Angeles beckons the teenagers to come to her in busses. Los Angeles loves love. -Soul Coughing Adam's do It xourself .sIg fIle ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 10 Dec 1996 22:48:24 -0700 From: carrots@primenet.com (Aaron Cohen) Subject: Re: TMBG: posters >I have never seen a teacher being *sold* at a concert but I have seen >them hanging up at many concerts in which you can take them. I guess it's illegal to sell teachers in this country. ------------------------------ End of tmbg-list Digest #2-339 ******************************