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STELLA! she/her what’s it like to be alive?

[kyssimmee]

my @tmbgareok drawing

[luntfontanne]

damn he really is an all-time poster

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[tmbgareok]

JF, whats your favorite dessert??

JF: Floating Island.

[tmbgareok]

what are your thoughts on “outsider music”? both the genre and the term itself.

JF: It seems a neutral enough label on the surface, but the problem with labels is that by definition they place a frame, or add some kind of topspin, on to musicians that defines them before the actual work does. This brings up a whole bottomless topic regarding the use of biography of artists to lead the conversation regarding authenticity that makes me itchy. In the case of "outsider music", having an artists mental health being a defining characteristic of the genre feels kind of bad and voyeuristic, even if it's not inaccurate.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outsider_music

>>Outsider music (from "outsider art") is music created by self-taught or naïve musicians. The term is usually applied to musicians who have little or no traditional musical experience, who exhibit childlike qualities in their music, or who have intellectual disabilities, mental illnesses or a nerve disorder. The term was popularized in the 1990s by journalist and WFMU DJ Irwin Chusid.[1]

Outsider musicians often overlap with lo-fi artists, since their work is rarely captured in professional recording studios.<<

[ducksstab]

what makes people go on amoeba what’s in my bag and choose the most basic records ever. like, i love the beatles but no one needs to be recommended abbey road.

[ducksstab]

the birthday party tape from the thrift store for 20 cents

[tmbgareok]

A request for a small correction on TMBW

As I am always using this fan-run wiki as a resource for set lists, I notice our Woodstock entry included this slight misquote:

>>Most Shocking Stray Catcher: The band Geese. Remarking on the phenomenon of industry plant musical acts, Flansburgh said, “It turns out, you don’t even like Geese!” He said later that Geese were very talented.<<

I could be wrong but I'm think I said "It turns out you don't like Geese" (which might sound worse (!?!) but it was kinda my backward snarky way of poking at how we are all being TOLD that liking Geese was a psy-op by a marketing company and we were all just hypnotized into enjoying them which I elaborated on at the time)

Now I was being sassy expressing it this way, and it may be a distinction that means little to anyone, but to be clear--I love that band and Cameron Winter and I seriously take issue with all of this pearl-clutching about some promotion co. hire on their behalf going wrong. I wish them the best of luck and want to see them become even more successful.

Either way-I just wanted to be on the record as a fan. Brooklyn-based bands gotta stick together.

[ducksstab]

it’s crazy that they might be giants just, like, has an active tumblr and you can ask john flansburgh questions whenever you want

[crittaslink]

transcript:

JF: there's the "easy" way, and there's the "They Might Be Giants" way, ladies and gentlemen. [audience cheering and yelling "yes!"] why, why!? I can't work under these conditions.

[ducksstab]

making myself a tmbg rarities cd for some reason and i didn’t think about how i would have to order all the songs and it’s taking me forever and i’m putting way too much thought into it

[ducksstab]

my external disc drive is broken. or my newly unpackaged cds are broken. what’s even the point anymore. to life.

[tmbgareok]

what's your favorite swear word?

JF: ha. A gentleman never tells.

[tmbgareok]

what’s the last record you bought?

JF: I was just gifted the Allen Ginsberg Shimmy Disc album the Hal Wilner put together... Oh, I bought the first Zombies album that just got reissued. It is a little bumpy but the highlights are jewel-like.

[crittaslink]

[ducksstab]

making myself a tmbg rarities cd for some reason and i didn’t think about how i would have to order all the songs and it’s taking me forever and i’m putting way too much thought into it

[lawoftheclaw-deactivated2025073]

No you dont get it; in Severance, the people have jobs but they dont like it. thats what makes it so genius in a sense...

[ducksstab]

john flansburgh “statue of liberty” enjoyer. john linnell “fly on the wall” enjoyer it all makes sense. it’s all starting to come together.