Comments on: Work vs. Play

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 15:54:08 +0000

I would also like to commemorate the beginning of the project that resulted in the wonderful metal case of CDs that I purchased at your recent show in Somerville. My current unemployed status gives me the opportunity to skim several years worth of your weblog posts to see all the good stuff I missed.

Thanks for all the great music and I look forward to hearing what you do in the future.

By: David Kraut

David Kraut — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 00:07:19 +0000

Ah, and so it begins. While searching your blog to find out the name of that drum sounds kit you told me about, I found this entry. Who could have imagined where this post would take you two and a half years later?

Congrats on what sounded like a very successful and cool SF show and looking forward to your next NYC performance. (Wife and I watched Spiff’s videos of “Re: Your Brains” and “Creepy Doll” this weekend to make up for our 3,000 mile distance from the show)

By: JC

JC — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 14:37:32 +0000

Linnell has for a long time been a puppet of the lemurs. You think a HUMAN wrote Particle Man?

By: Joy

Joy — Wed, 21 Sep 2005 03:11:30 +0000

The lemurs have previously attacked John Linnell of They Might Be Giants. He has since repented.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 20:19:27 +0000

Everyone loves volcanoes (except for the people who are burned alive by them).

By: superjerk

superjerk — Tue, 20 Sep 2005 16:44:26 +0000

I don’t know about the rest of the stuff, but a song about volcanoes would just have to be cool…or hot…or something.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:29:57 +0000

Oh no. You’ve offended the lemurs. I cannot be responsible for what happens next. It’s all out of my hands.

A challenge: I dare you to right a volcano song, using the term “pyroclastic flow”! Lots of Hawaiian words you can pronounce as you like. There’s a bulge near Sisters, Oreogn, which might just be a new volcano in the making. Plus, we’ve a a volcano right in the middle of Portland! How cool is that? No word yet on whether in contains a mad scientist’s lab.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 22:09:29 +0000

Oh yes, Glenn, tell the lemurs I’m sorry, but the schwa sound just doesn’t cut it for that particular syllable in that particular word. Also, Oregon sucks. Kidding!

By: JC

JC — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 21:25:56 +0000

Glenn: I hadn’t heard of that, but I like it. Direct support and feedback is a cool thing. If I can actually get this thing-a-week going, maybe that’s a nice place to plug in that kind of a feedback loop. We’ll see, I may just be talking out of my ass. I mean, it might only last for two weeks.

Arlo: yes, I choose not to compete!

Ed: Now you’ve got it. That’s why it will only last two weeks. My only idea so far is eating cheese.

By: Edminster

Edminster — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:46:14 +0000

Oooh… Maybe week one could be the cheese-eating, and week two can be a remix of week one!
There you go, two weeks out of the way!

By: Arlo

Arlo — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 20:34:52 +0000

Cool! Sounds just like Songfight!, but without all that pesky competition!

By: Glenn

Glenn — Fri, 16 Sep 2005 19:25:00 +0000

Are you familiar with the catandgirl.com Donation Derby? If people send her money, she sends them a cartoon of how she spent the money!

While this idea may not translate directly into song writing/producing well, it might be able to be stretched into use. (e.g. people could donate towards a song, or pay to have certain ideas added into a song…)

I just really like the idea of the fanbase being able to support directly, and getting some sort of direct feedback for it.

Incidentally, in “Brookline”, I think you might have made the atomic lemurs upset with the pronunciation of “Oregon”. It’s “Or eh gun”, rather than “Ore-gone”.

Keep on rockin’

Glenn