They Might Be Giants at the EMP, yarrrrr.
Today I slept in, then played Puzzle Pirates for a few hours. Not much to say there, except that I moved my boat to Diamond, got a ton of new maps, was out pillaging, had a super-full boat, semi-decent jobbers, and had a CRAZY good run between I think Turtle and Byrne... Nykkel can attest to this, we beat up a yellow AND an orange ship :) Tons of poe for all! Blammety blam blam. Oh, also, Spinn finally gave me a crew title... I'm the official Gunner of the Yo-ho Yoyos. YAR! He was like "You realize that this is the highest honor I can bestow upon you short of naming you captain?" Heh. Lily says I should be crew Statistician, though :)
Anyway, in the evening I went to the EMP for a They Might Be Giants concert. It was on the Bowery when it began to snow. No, it was in the Sky Church at the EMP... and I showed up around 8:30 for a doors 8pm, show 9pm concert, so it was already pretty crowded. I bought a copy of the Working Undercover for the Man CD so I'd get a free Gigantic poster (DVD Release November 18!), and then went inside. I did see Wim and Kylee and whatnot in the crowd, but didn't feel like fighting through it, so I turned around and there was DJ (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
mightyflorist), so I just hung out with him the whole time. Eli had lent me audiophile earpluggies, which were funky but very effective, the music quality was fantastic and I had no headache afterwards.
Opening band was called Slomo Rabbit Kick. They were.. quirky cute appropriate-TMBG opening material, but I still resent any opening band at a 9pm Sunday concert. Still, I laughed at their jokes, and would go see them again someday with their full band, I suppose.
Then there was TMBG. I dunno, this must be my 20th or so TMBG concert in my life? I've been a fan since sometime in 1990, so that's over half my life now. I've lost track of how many concerts of theirs I've gone to... so, this one was pretty good in terms of general playlist and in terms of crowd talk, and uniqueness. It was pretty bad in terms of encores, and also in terms of crowd enthusiasm. Actually, hmm. Playlist bad, uniqueness good, would be a better way to put it. I was happy to hear a lot of the more unique songs (I do not think I have EVER heard them play "Dead", for example), but there were some major songs left off that I was sad about. Ok, here is playlist (yes,jinian, of COURSE I wrote it down):
James K Polk / Cyclops Rock / Wicked Little Critta / [ Puppet show: Intro to Deeply Felt Puppet Theatre / Robot Parade (kids ver) / I Love to Sing / Monkees Theme ] / John Lee Supertaster / Bangs / Meet James Ensor / Doctor Worm / The Famous Polka / Drink / Subliminal / New York City / The Guitar ("Future of Sound!" interlude) / Birdhouse In Your Soul / In The Middle / Dead / Twistin' / She's An Angel / Fingertips // Violin / The Kids are Alright // Istanbul
Things:
- FAMOUS POLKA!!!! I was on PP earlier and I told Spinn I was going to a TMBG concert (for those playing the home game, Spinn's my PP crew captain but he's also a friend of mine from my highschool days, and we used to go to TMBG shows together, and he almost got sued by TMBG for a Shpi-dahh! shirt he made), and he said "If they play the famous polka, bounce up and down a lot for me!" and I thought they never played the polka anymore, but hey. cool.
- DEAD! Wow, I swear in the 11+ years I've been going to TMBG concerts, I'm not sure I've ever heard them play it. Wow.
- Twisting - now... in the old days, Twisting was a song to FEAR. I remember being in the middle of a TMBG concert ten years ago or so, they played Twisting, the crowd went crazy, moshing, crowdsurfing, etc, and I ended up 15-20 feet from where I started, covered in the sweat of many. Tonight at the EMP, I don't think there was anyone moving besides a couple people bouncing up and down. Bleh.
- Dan Miller played the keyboards for Doctor Worm. Funky!
- Fingertips :)
- Okay, this'll sound dumb, but I still get teary-eyed when they play She's an Angel. It's just like, there I am, at a TMBG concert, staring at John Linnell, and I'm like 15 or 16 years old again. Sigh.
- The EMP had this funky backdrop thing going, so like, during Subliminal they had all these bizarre patterns... and during Sun Is a Mass they had a fireball type thing going on... during some song Linnell's like "Hey, have you guys been watching this back thingy? It looks fascinating!"
- Before Cyclops.. Flans: "I have an 80-foot friend. I am the luckiest guy alive." Linnell: "I only have 80 1-foot friends... I am the unluckiest guy alive."
- before some random song... Flans: "Because it is a lie-ocracy... that makes up our band. And the current republican administration. I mean, dude. Not to get political on you guys, but... What the FUCK? Do you know what I mean? Hello? I don't want to specifically diss anyone in the government but.. WHAT?"
- Linnell: "Dude, you guys say 'woo' at anything we say." Crowd: "WOOOO!" Linnell: "Yeah. Like, if you're gonna be so superficial..."
- During the Guitar... "Is it Dan? I don't know."
- OH DUDE! I forgot. Flansburgh's wife Robin came out to sing In The Middle! It was so cool! I'd never seen her sing it before! She made it the "adult version"... "Use your eyes to look out, use your ears to hear... move yer ass across it when the coast is clear" or whatever, I can't remember exactly, but it was funny. (zaph is more in the know than I am, maybe he knows whether she's been singing it with them a lot lately.)
Right, and they had the puppet show. The funniest thing is that the poodle dog had a banjo and it was left-handed, just like Flansburgh. I believe both of the John's wives were singing the parts of the other two puppets. See, they'd played a kids show earlier that day in the EMP, so they probably still had all the stuff set up. It was cool.
I would have liked them to play a bunch of other stuff... Pet Name, Don't Let's Start, 4 of 2, End of the Tour... Also just a lot more from Apollo and Lincoln, both of which were totally unrepresented in a Flood-heavy Particle-free setlist.
I saw another guy in an Apollo 18 shirt and I commented on it. But his is in a lot better condition than mine. I guess the difference is that I used to wear mine a ton, although I've pretty much only been wearing it to TMBG shows for the last 6-7 years. Still, I'm not sure I have any other clothes that I bought in 1992 and still wear on a semi-regular basis, so... :)
Gave DJ a ride home. Played more PP. I was going to buy clothes, but Spinn caught me at the clothes shop so I ended up giving him 3k for the flag instead, and then went on a short pillage run... got a total newbie and taught him the ropes, but wasn't sure I felt comfortable recruiting him to our crew. Oh, I had my first PvP fight by accident :( I targetted a ship and blew the crap out of them cannon-wise, then once we'd beaten them I was like "OH SHIT!" and /tell'ed the captain that I was really sorry and didn't mean to do it, and apologized a ton... caught up with the guy at the next island and gave him back his poe (but not the rest of the stuff, no way to do that). He was all like "hey no prob man.. youre really good with those guns ya know!" or something. I wonder how many other crews bother to do that when they accidentally attack a player ship... I explained that my crew is NOT a PvP crew, which is why I was being such a dork over it. Whee.
Oh fuck it's late.
Anyway, in the evening I went to the EMP for a They Might Be Giants concert. It was on the Bowery when it began to snow. No, it was in the Sky Church at the EMP... and I showed up around 8:30 for a doors 8pm, show 9pm concert, so it was already pretty crowded. I bought a copy of the Working Undercover for the Man CD so I'd get a free Gigantic poster (DVD Release November 18!), and then went inside. I did see Wim and Kylee and whatnot in the crowd, but didn't feel like fighting through it, so I turned around and there was DJ (
mightyflorist), so I just hung out with him the whole time. Eli had lent me audiophile earpluggies, which were funky but very effective, the music quality was fantastic and I had no headache afterwards.Opening band was called Slomo Rabbit Kick. They were.. quirky cute appropriate-TMBG opening material, but I still resent any opening band at a 9pm Sunday concert. Still, I laughed at their jokes, and would go see them again someday with their full band, I suppose.
Then there was TMBG. I dunno, this must be my 20th or so TMBG concert in my life? I've been a fan since sometime in 1990, so that's over half my life now. I've lost track of how many concerts of theirs I've gone to... so, this one was pretty good in terms of general playlist and in terms of crowd talk, and uniqueness. It was pretty bad in terms of encores, and also in terms of crowd enthusiasm. Actually, hmm. Playlist bad, uniqueness good, would be a better way to put it. I was happy to hear a lot of the more unique songs (I do not think I have EVER heard them play "Dead", for example), but there were some major songs left off that I was sad about. Ok, here is playlist (yes,
jinian, of COURSE I wrote it down):James K Polk / Cyclops Rock / Wicked Little Critta / [ Puppet show: Intro to Deeply Felt Puppet Theatre / Robot Parade (kids ver) / I Love to Sing / Monkees Theme ] / John Lee Supertaster / Bangs / Meet James Ensor / Doctor Worm / The Famous Polka / Drink / Subliminal / New York City / The Guitar ("Future of Sound!" interlude) / Birdhouse In Your Soul / In The Middle / Dead / Twistin' / She's An Angel / Fingertips // Violin / The Kids are Alright // Istanbul
Things:
- FAMOUS POLKA!!!! I was on PP earlier and I told Spinn I was going to a TMBG concert (for those playing the home game, Spinn's my PP crew captain but he's also a friend of mine from my highschool days, and we used to go to TMBG shows together, and he almost got sued by TMBG for a Shpi-dahh! shirt he made), and he said "If they play the famous polka, bounce up and down a lot for me!" and I thought they never played the polka anymore, but hey. cool.
- DEAD! Wow, I swear in the 11+ years I've been going to TMBG concerts, I'm not sure I've ever heard them play it. Wow.
- Twisting - now... in the old days, Twisting was a song to FEAR. I remember being in the middle of a TMBG concert ten years ago or so, they played Twisting, the crowd went crazy, moshing, crowdsurfing, etc, and I ended up 15-20 feet from where I started, covered in the sweat of many. Tonight at the EMP, I don't think there was anyone moving besides a couple people bouncing up and down. Bleh.
- Dan Miller played the keyboards for Doctor Worm. Funky!
- Fingertips :)
- Okay, this'll sound dumb, but I still get teary-eyed when they play She's an Angel. It's just like, there I am, at a TMBG concert, staring at John Linnell, and I'm like 15 or 16 years old again. Sigh.
- The EMP had this funky backdrop thing going, so like, during Subliminal they had all these bizarre patterns... and during Sun Is a Mass they had a fireball type thing going on... during some song Linnell's like "Hey, have you guys been watching this back thingy? It looks fascinating!"
- Before Cyclops.. Flans: "I have an 80-foot friend. I am the luckiest guy alive." Linnell: "I only have 80 1-foot friends... I am the unluckiest guy alive."
- before some random song... Flans: "Because it is a lie-ocracy... that makes up our band. And the current republican administration. I mean, dude. Not to get political on you guys, but... What the FUCK? Do you know what I mean? Hello? I don't want to specifically diss anyone in the government but.. WHAT?"
- Linnell: "Dude, you guys say 'woo' at anything we say." Crowd: "WOOOO!" Linnell: "Yeah. Like, if you're gonna be so superficial..."
- During the Guitar... "Is it Dan? I don't know."
- OH DUDE! I forgot. Flansburgh's wife Robin came out to sing In The Middle! It was so cool! I'd never seen her sing it before! She made it the "adult version"... "Use your eyes to look out, use your ears to hear... move yer ass across it when the coast is clear" or whatever, I can't remember exactly, but it was funny. (
zaph is more in the know than I am, maybe he knows whether she's been singing it with them a lot lately.)Right, and they had the puppet show. The funniest thing is that the poodle dog had a banjo and it was left-handed, just like Flansburgh. I believe both of the John's wives were singing the parts of the other two puppets. See, they'd played a kids show earlier that day in the EMP, so they probably still had all the stuff set up. It was cool.
I would have liked them to play a bunch of other stuff... Pet Name, Don't Let's Start, 4 of 2, End of the Tour... Also just a lot more from Apollo and Lincoln, both of which were totally unrepresented in a Flood-heavy Particle-free setlist.
I saw another guy in an Apollo 18 shirt and I commented on it. But his is in a lot better condition than mine. I guess the difference is that I used to wear mine a ton, although I've pretty much only been wearing it to TMBG shows for the last 6-7 years. Still, I'm not sure I have any other clothes that I bought in 1992 and still wear on a semi-regular basis, so... :)
Gave DJ a ride home. Played more PP. I was going to buy clothes, but Spinn caught me at the clothes shop so I ended up giving him 3k for the flag instead, and then went on a short pillage run... got a total newbie and taught him the ropes, but wasn't sure I felt comfortable recruiting him to our crew. Oh, I had my first PvP fight by accident :( I targetted a ship and blew the crap out of them cannon-wise, then once we'd beaten them I was like "OH SHIT!" and /tell'ed the captain that I was really sorry and didn't mean to do it, and apologized a ton... caught up with the guy at the next island and gave him back his poe (but not the rest of the stuff, no way to do that). He was all like "hey no prob man.. youre really good with those guns ya know!" or something. I wonder how many other crews bother to do that when they accidentally attack a player ship... I explained that my crew is NOT a PvP crew, which is why I was being such a dork over it. Whee.
Oh fuck it's late.
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thought so! :)