John Flansburgh from They Might Be Giants was 65 yesterday. 65! Also, TMBG were on #kimmel last night, kicking ass.
https://youtu.be/5pnOWMzkRIE
#TMBG
@kylemeredith
Fabulous #TMBG interview 
If the world’s burning, at least They Might Be Giants brought a Mellotron 
“‘The world is such a dystopian hellscape that people are relieved we’re still here’”
“Death remains their most evergreen subject. ‘It’s not just a theme—it’s the Swiss army knife of songwriting’”
“‘I don’t believe anyone really dies… Not with this kind of technology. We’re just… around.’”
#NoAccordionContent but we can’t have everything 
Tune Tuesday's theme this week is Space Walk!
So, how about They Might Be Giants' song "Space Suit." https://song.link/us/i/1542969124
05.06.25
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Happy Birthday Flansy!!
I hope you find lots of rare records on your west coast tour. See you in the fall!
Holy crap! I just found this 17-year-old ukulele cover of "Kiss Me, Son of God" by TMBG (one of my favourite songs), and it has two new verses added into the song. Unexpected cool find https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szila-3QEjY #TMBG
Ridiculous, weird, interesting, fun things that make me happy to be a human and rekindle hope in the infinite creative remix humans have been doing for half a million years (a non-comprehensive and pretty half-assed list):
Edit: added a buncha pound signs because why the hell not
They call him Doctor Worm.
Vaccines are really bad, says Doctor Worm.
He says a lot of things.
He's not a real doctor,
But he has a real worm,
He has an actual worm.
His brain has a worm. 
#tmbg
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:yc54nj2zlnqrdotewpkbrauy/post/3lmx4lbftkc2z
Apparition improbable d'un T-Shirt hors du temps THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS : je ressors mes CDs qui ont plus de 30 ans et apprends que ce groupe de génies est encore actif
#TheyMightBeGiants #TMBG
Triangle shrimp, Triangle shrimp
Long antenna with a very sharp crimp
When she fights, Triangle wins
Triangle shrimp
~They Might Be Giants, almost
Getting to the *Seriously Hairy* part of Atomfall now, heading into the Windscale facility. The mysterious voice on the telephone unexpectedly reveals itself to be a They Might Be Giants fan.
LLMs are the reason #TMBG taught us the word “obsequious"
Oh wow, #TMBG! I need to listen to that.
"But there's been a weird new phenomenon, which is that amongst very young people, there's a lot of interest in this song that was a really dark horse, “Stuff Is Way.” It was never intended to be a single. It's just a very deep album cut from probably a number of years ago … There's some young person who made an anime video for it, which references some cultural things that I don't even really know about. And it just went viral for some reason. And now, if you go on TikTok, there are something like 14,000 dance videos to this song, which is not even really a dance track, and it is one of our most popular songs on Spotify … And this is just like a really oddball track, not a pop song, not anything we were ever thinking of promoting, but now we're being forced to learn it. So we're going to be playing in the live show, because we have to, apparently."
– John Linnell of They Might Be Giants, interview on wbur.org December 2024.
Blues jays vs Grackle
Only one can survive
Today's Thursday Five List theme comes from @satsuma and it's "Five Kisses" - songs about significant kisses.
So, let's do this thing.
3OH!3 (pronounced "three oh three") ft Kesha - My First Kiss https://song.link/i/377809926
Pearl Jam - Last Kiss https://song.link/us/i/158051176
Dua Lipa and Blackpink - Kiss and Make Up https://song.link/us/i/1434849693
They Might Be Giants - First Kiss https://song.link/us/i/674893899
TRI.BE - Kiss https://song.link/us/i/1637029090
