#and i read tmbw a lot

[gelarshiesprofruitboarder]

i love when songs dont mean anything so i can just make ir about whatever its really fun

[tmbgareok]

I read on TMBW that you guys didn’t really think Don’t Let’s Start was a very standout track until it got popular. Are there any other tracks like that?

Also, any tracks you guys thought would be popular that weren’t?

JF: That is true but there is a bit more behind it. Don't Let's Start was one of the last things we recorded for the album, so unlike a lot of the material (like Puppet Head or Everything Right) on the first album, we didn't know how much people would like it, but given it's place on in the sequence I think it could be said we were confident it was a solid track.

Kind of notoriously a dj in Pittsburg PA, believe at the "sister station" to WDRE on Long Island, started spinning the song and it took off in the way that things do.

As for other songs like that--Ana Ng has a similar story where we thought it would be a good teaser track, I think with the notion that Purple Toupee or some other track was the "single", but Ana Ng ended up blowing up immediately.

[half-man-half-lime]

Okay, I've been on a huge Homestuck nostalgia kick since I started bingeing Homestuck Made This World, maybe it's time to share the wildest piece of art I've ever received. (Again, but the old post isn't good)

So, for context, it was, if memory serves, around the end of 2011 on the MSPA Forums. I was very, very into Homestuck, and They Might Be Giants, and had given a lot of listens to their new song Three Might Be Duende, looking at interpretations on TMBW and reading the Wikipedia article on the concept of a Duende.

So that was an admittedly brief period of time where I was musing on a possible self-insert fan-session Forum Adventure revolving around that song's motifs. The twist in my head was that, in this setting where I've already read Homestuck, the existence of SBURB is the work of Andrew Hussie, John Linnell, and John Flansburgh practicing some sort of witchcraft to bring the fictional game to life and trap me and my friends in it to tap our struggles for magical artistic power.

Which is to say, when the MSPA Forums Art Secret Santa came along, my request was roughly "either something with Troll They Might Be Giants, Troll Linnell and Flansburgh and Troll Hussie scheming, or something Chanukah related because I'm Jewish".

Which was a lot to ask, in retrospect. I gave someone a Grand Highblood piece that honestly wasn't terrible for 2012 me, and I got.... This.

They mixed all the prompts. Glorious, a strange combination, and arguably way nicer than I necessarily deserved. Troll Marty Beller has drumsticks for horns. What else can I even say?

I remember the artist's DeviantArt username was EVLIllustration, I'm not sure if they're still around.

Happy Chanukah season everyone.

[selfcallednowhere]

So a couple of days ago I learned a REALLY REALLY REALLY UNBEARABLY EXCITING fact about John which I for some baffling reason somehow did not know already.

It was a long rambling road to get to this fact! What started it was I was thinking about the picture that they used for him in the Most Beautiful People poll results, which honestly I don’t think is that great:

I mean he looks fine enough I guess, but I’ve just never been crazy about this shoot--I don’t think he looks that hot. And I was thinking that there are other pictures from right around that time where I think he looks much better, and one of those would’ve been the one I picked. But then I was actually looking at them and saw that it would’ve been pretty impossible to crop Flans out of any of the other ones cos they’re standing too close together, so really that’s probably the whole reason they picked this one (yes it is a crop, here’s the original:)

So then I thought of this picture, which is like in my all-time top-five pictures of him and I DEFINITELY would’ve used, but I couldn’t remember exactly when it was from, I thought it was sometime around that time though:

I thought I remembered what article it went with, this one where he’s talking about how he often starts writing a song by just sitting on his bed with an accordion and fucking around and waiting for something interesting to come out, but I couldn’t remember what the article was. I was all googling within the articles page on my site trying to find it but I couldn’t for some damn reason. Eventually I did, and it’s from 1992 and I was like “1992??? That is not what I picture him looking like in 1992 at all! WHAT.” and I felt all dumb for being so off on being able to recognize how he looked in different eras. Much later that day it occurred to me that maybe I was wrong about this being the article that the picture went with, maybe I was just conflating “interview where he talks about sitting on his bed playing accordion” with “picture where that’s what he’s doing,” and that maybe @statesongs had a scan of it on her amaaaaaaazing TMBG magazine scans Flickr, and yes she does and yes I was totally conflating the two things, it’s from an entirely different article from 2000. Which means it wouldn’t be possible for them to have used it in the poll cos that was two years earlier, but I at least felt somewhat less dumb for not being quite so off on what era I thought the picture was from.

So ANYway, backing up. when I was still trying to find the other article I tried doing a general search of it in case it was up somewhere else besides my site (even though really I know my site is pretty much the only place to get old articles unless they were posted in the last ten years or so, unless of course @statesongs does have a scan of it up!). I have search suggestions turned on, and with “John Linnell” one of the ones that pops up is “John Linnell teeth,” OMG. I lol’d. GOOD TOPIC.

But one of the other ones that turned up was “John Linnell net worth,” and I was like “Wait, is this an actual thing that people know?” and was just kinda curious about it actually. So I actually searched for it and it turned up this result which SHIIIIIIIIIIIT. I mean who knows if that’s actually anywhere close to true--@kittysneezes did tell me that there’s a running joke on Comedy Bang Bang that this site is always waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay off and saying people are way richer than they are. I do know that his neighborhood is CRAZY expensive these days though, Wikipedia says “In 2015, houses in various parts of Windsor Terrace sold for about $1.2 million to $2 million in 2015, and apartments cost from $400,000 for a one-bedroom apartment to more than $1 million for a three-bedroom apartment” which WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. So y’know, who knows. But I mean even if he doesn’t actually have eight million dollars, the idea of him having any millions of dollars is...kinda weird for me, and not something I’ve ever really considered as a possibility before. But...it’s also pretty hot???

That is not the unbearably exciting fact though! (I told you it was a long rambling road.) I looked at a few more results for his net worth, and I found one saying in its like one-paragraph biography of him (who knows why they considered this worth mentioning when he was only there for a semester) that HE WAS MAJORING IN ENGLISH AT UMASS. WHICH IS WHAT I MAJORED IN AND ALWAYS WANT SO BADLY FOR HIM TO HAVE MAJORED IN. OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG I’M FLIPPING OUT Y’ALL. LIKE I CANNOT EVEN TELL YOU HOW MOTHERFUCKING EXCITING THIS IS. FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK.

I had no idea what their source was, if it were even true, but the next day (not even trying to figure this out, just cos I felt like it) I was reading his pages on both Wikipedia and TMBW, and IT SAYS IT IN BOTH OF THOSE. For its source Wikipedia links to this interview with Flans, which I must’ve somehow missed. Still gotta listen to see what exactly he says about it.

Ant was all insistent that it can’t be right cos you can’t declare a major your first semester, but I looked at the UMass site and it didn’t say anything saying you can’t--it just said that you have to declare one by your third semester. (I can’t actually remember when I declared mine.)

@kittysneezes alerted me to this thing from a ‘94 Info Club mailing list, where he says that comp lit was one of his fav subjects, which is separate from English but y’know they’re like sister subjects so I WILL TAKE IT.

However, it sounds like he wasn’t planning to stay an English major--in this thing he wrote all about his experiences with school he says “I considered studying music as a major subject but the programme was rigid, so I took a year off. That turned into 27 years.” I’m just like “YOU SHOULD’VE STUCK WITH ENGLISH THEN.” (Also ohhhhhhhhhh my god, this is SO TYPICAL--”Well yeh music is my passion, I love it more than anything else in the whole world, but OMG the program for it is haaaaaaaaaaaaaaard, I’d have to do woooooooooooork, BETTER JUST LEAVE.”)

When I was still in touch with John Andrews (the Mundanes guitar player/primary songwriter), I asked him one time about John’s college experience, and he said “I think he mostly just stayed in his room and read a lot of books” and I was like “Yeh, sounds about right.”

Also! The college I went to, Smith, is part of something called the Five College Consortium, with four other schools in the area--it means students at one of the schools can also sign up for classes at any of the other four. And do you know what one of the other schools is? UMASS AMHERST. Soooooooo maybe if I’d been there 23 years earlier our paths could’ve crossed. I think about this a lot.

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