User:Overjoy
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Hello. Welcome to my page at TMBW.net.
My name is Lydia. I'm 18..
I play music and stuff.
I love to write songs.
That's it.
[edit] The Early Years
When I was three years old, I watched so much television, some other parents might consider it abusive. I can remember seeing the Tiny Toon Adventures episode that changed my life. I can remember Plucky as Linnell and Hamton as Flansburgh (though I didn't know Their names at that time). I can remember Hamton mouthing along to Particle Man and Dizzy playing the accordion. I can remember making that episode my favorite.
I saw the KaBlam! videos for Why Does The Sun Shine? and Doctor Worm back in 1997/1998 and I remember loving them. I also saw both the Cartoon Network videos for Courage the Cowardly Dog and Dee Dee And Dexter in 2000/2001. I also knew about Them singing the Malcolm in the Middle theme song. Around the same time, I saw an interview with Them on Nickelodeon. It was late at night and I was trying to sleep, so the volume on the television was quiet. I knew who They were, but I knew next to nothing about Them, so I watched the screen as they popped up clips from the video for Ana Ng but I couldn't really hear anything. I remember that there was this glasses guy, playing his guitar funny, and talking quite a bit, and there was this skinny, big-eyed scrawny guy holding an accordion and saying nothing at all. I thought he was creepy. I had some weird idea that They had this Penn & Teller thing going on, but I didn't really know.
But I did know one thing: They weren't normal. I liked that.
[edit] The Later Years
I started getting into a LOT of music back in the summer of 2004, primarily focused on a band that wasn't They Might Be Giants. But I did know more about Them, or at least, what my dad had told me. He had two of Their videos in his music files: (She Was A) Hotel Detective and Ana Ng. I knew about the Homestar Runner video for Experimental Film, so a year later...in 2004, on a whim, I got Flood. I found out more about Them. That's when I put names to faces: The glasses guy was John Flansburgh, and the creepy accordion guy was John Linnell. I loved the album so much, but I soon lost it among one of my younger sisters. They liked the album more than I did. One day, my dad actually started playing the album in the car. He LOVED it. We'd all be singing songs together in the car. I loved all of the music, but I had difficulty on figuring which Johns sang the songs. I wanted to know, but I was too lazy to figure it out. One day, I went to go watch my newly TiVo'd copy of VH1 Classic's The Alternative. And I saw it... an answer. It was the video for Birdhouse In Your Soul and I found out "Linnell?! The creepy accordion guy?! He sang this?" I also saw the videos for Don't Let's Start, Ana Ng and (She Was A) Hotel Detective. I found out that Linnell had sung most of my favorites, and he still sings my favorites. And here I am today.
[edit] I OWN.
- (Album Favorites: Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head, Number Three, She's An Angel)
- (Album Favorites: Ana Ng, Purple Toupee, Mr. Me, Pencil Rain, The World's Address, I've Got A Match, They'll Need A Crane, Shoehorn With Teeth)
- (Album Favorites: Birdhouse In Your Soul, Particle Man, Twisting, Letterbox)
- (Album Favorites: I Palindrome I, The Guitar, Narrow Your Eyes, See The Constellation, Turn Around)
- (Album Favorites: Subliminal, AKA Driver, No One Knows My Plan, Dirt Bike, A Self Called Nowhere, The End Of The Tour)
- (Album Favorites: Metal Detector, New York City, XTC Vs. Adam Ant, Spiraling Shape, Pet Name, The Bells Are Ringing)
- (Album Favorites: Rat Patrol, Older, Dark And Metric, Reprehensible, Certain People I Could Name, They Got Lost, Lullabye To Nightmares)
- (Album Favorites: Bangs, Man, It's So Loud In Here, Another First Kiss, Hovering Sombrero, Yeh Yeh, My Man)
- (Album Favorites: Where Do They Make Balloons, In The Middle, In The Middle, In The Middle, Lazyhead And Sleepybones, Bed Bed Bed, Sleepwalkers)
- (Album Favorites: Experimental Film, Memo To Human Resources, Wearing A Raincoat, Museum Of Idiots, It's Kickin' In, Damn Good Times, I Can't Hide From My Mind)
- (Album Favorites: I'm Impressed, Take Out The Trash, Climbing The Walls, The Cap'm, The Shadow Government, Bee Of The Bird Of The Moth, Contrecoup, The Mesopotamians)
- (Bonus CD Favorites: I'm Your Boyfriend Now, We Live In A Dump, Vestibule, Homunculus)
- (Album Favorites: Los Angeles, Vancouver, Omaha, Houston, Columbia, New Haven, London)
- (Album Favorites: Now Is Strange, I'm All You Can Think About, Skullivan)
- (Album Favorites: West Virginia, South Carolina, Montana, Iowa, Maine)
- (Album Favorites: Poison Flowers, Extra Krispy, Dedicated, Dashiki Lover)
- And a whole load of other random songs.
[edit] TMBG, Yes, But What Else?
I LOVE They Might Be Giants. My favorite band, in fact, but They're not the only band I listen to. I've never really spoke on this site about my other musical choices (because it's a TMBG site) but everyone else does, so I better get with it.
I also love...
- Grew up on The Beatles. I love A Hard Day's Night and Abbey Road. My favorite Beatle is the late great George Harrison, and his is my favorite solo work.
- The Cure
- The Flaming Lips
- Ben Folds Five/Ben Folds as a solo artist.
- Nirvana
And I like...
- Jonathan Coulton
- "Weird Al" Yankovic
- The Decemberists (yeah, enough accordion for ya?)
- Modern Broadway showtunes. I'm sorry.
- Beck
- U2
- Placebo
- The Dresden Dolls
- Jimmy Eat World
- Michael Penn
- The Smiths/Morrissey...my band teacher looks a little like Morrissey.
- Elvis Costello
- Steely Dan
- Suzanne Vega
- Weezer
And there's a billion more, but I'm lazy.
[edit] Undying Proof That I Am, In Fact, Insane
I'm crazy, if you haven't figured it out already. Before I first took this quiz, I predicted that I would get Mink Car as my result. Because it's a crazy album, right?
Which They Might Be Giants album are you?
Mink Car? I must be completely insane.
