I just finished watching the documentary DVD, GIGANTIC (A Tale of Two Johns) about the band THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS (TMBG). What music I've heard of theirs I liked but I didn't get into them. The only CD I have of theirs is FLOOD. After watching this DVD, I'm a big fan now. I want to hear the rest of their music. Does anybody have any TMBG CD's I can borrow?
I have one little bitty GIANTS story I can share.
When I was going to art school at SVA, I had a summer internship at Condé Nast where I was a rover, a person who jumps from one magazine art department to another for two week stints at a time. I was at SELF magazine when I met John Flansburg, he's the one wearing glasses. The art director mentioned that he was in a band but I wasn't familiar with them. His job there was to come in for one week every month and design the magazine's contents page. It didn't seem like he had a lot of work to do and it didn't look too hard. I thought that I could do that job. Haven't my coffee fetching skills for the department shown that I was ready for the chance to design? But he was such a surge of energy when he came into the art dept. Extremely funny, charismatic and no attitude at all. He mentioned that he started a phone service called Dial-A-Song, where you could call his answering machine and hear frequently updated new TMBG music material. Here's the number, (718) 387-6962. He promised to give me a Band T-shirt, but he left after he finished designing the contents page and I had moved onto my next magazine assignment at Vogue. I never saw him ever again.
John Flansburg, you owe me a T-shirt.
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Hi Henry.
It's 7:22 sunday morning and I've got some time to kill before the laundry is ready to go into the dryer. So.
I heard mixed things about that documentary. Work was busy when it came out in the theater, so I never got to see it myself. Good to hear you liked it.
I was a pretty big TMBG fan in my youth. In fact, a few weeks after I got my driver's license(I must have been 17 or so), I drove myself and 4 friends to Toad's Place in Connecticut to see them in concert. I told my parents I was sleeping over a friends house. It was the biggest lie I ever told and well worth it. In fact, I still wear the t-shirt I bought that night--it says 'they might be dead' above an illustration of a dead cockroach.
Anyhow, laundry's calling. I have a few CDs if no one else ponies up.
rachel | | Email | Sun, Jan 25, 2004 // 7:41:52 am | #
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i had a drumstick of the drummer they toured with when i saw them up at binghamton.
lincoln is their best album.
c. | | Email | Homepage | Sun, Jan 25, 2004 // 5:17:24 pm | #
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Henry discovers pictures
Simone | | Sun, Jan 25, 2004 // 8:08:32 pm | #
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damn! I just read that they played at Joe's Pub yesterday.
Henry | | Email | Homepage | Mon, Jan 26, 2004 // 3:26:39 pm | #
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