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Scottish Highland Games SomaCow Media is proud to present SomaCow, brought to you this week by They Might Be Giants. A phenomenal band doing remarkable things utilizing a modicum of skill playing various instruments. In this hour we discussed Producer Jen and I’s two concerts in one day. As she gets frothy talking about TMBG, I will allow her to explain further: Hi! Jen here. I’m still giddy about that day… I started listening to TMBG back in the late 80s and was an instant fan. The first song I heard was Cowtown, and I just thought it was so different and quirky. About a year later, I went to my first TMBG concert and what an amazing show (Thanks Janus Landing in St Pete!). I have almost always known every song by heart at every show. Over the last 20 years, I have seen them every time they have come to the state. Geoff and I started talking on MucheDumbre because I had “Blue Canary in the Outlet by the Lightswitch…Who watches over you? Make a Little Birdhouse In Your Soul” as my signature. We married 5 years later, and were introduced at the reception as a couple for the first time to Birdhouse. So this band has a deep meaning to me. We found out the day before the shows, that Geoff won tickets to see a small intimate showing at a local radio station. We got there early, per usual for us, and sat downstairs as instructed. One by one we identified them…the other winners. There is something about a TMBG fan. While we all might look different, you can just tell a TMBG fan from others. I had my camera there, just in case we could take pics (it ends up we couldn’t) and then my sensors went off. OK, that just sounds dorky, I really just looked to my left and saw John and John getting out of a van. They were walking them through the front door with the fans just sitting there? I mean we’re not a crazy bunch, but I have seen J & J yell at many a Florida crowd for being too rambunctious (seriously, mosh pits and crowd surfing to Birdhouse in your Soul??), but this crowd was calm. I mean yeah, I had my camera pointed through the glass taking pics, but why not?
So we filed upstairs, with me pushing forward and, having scoped out where the little studio was, got to be first in line. It ended up that it didn’t matter though, as Geoff’s winning was “special” so we were in the front row anyway! They played 4 songs, “Mesopotamians” off of their new album, “Dr Worm”, “Istanbul (not Constantinople)”, and then “New York City”, so all great songs. They were a little off, though. We had been warned that one of the Johns was sick (to be revealed later-hold tight!), and Linnell stated he had just woken up. If only I could have snuck a shot of his bed hair!
Ooh, I got it! So the sounds were a little off and they stumbled on some words here and there. Not their best show, but still cool as shit. I think the best part was during a commercial break when they broke out into the themes from Barney Miller and The Rockford Files. So after this 1 hour show, they start packing up and said they had to go to get ready for the HOB show that night so they couldn’t stick around. Some douche kept begging Linnell for an autograph pointing out he had Flansburgh’s but not his. Linnell said, “how about if I shake your hand. That’s more personal than an autograph, right?” and the guy said no! So I took this opportunity to quietly move my sympathetically pregnant belly up to the Johns and quickly ask, “We do a podcast/internet radio show and would love it if we can play your music on SomaCow” and I got a quick “sure!”. I was about to pass out I was so excited. They also do a podcast you can download on iTunes (or your iTouch you can win here!) for free. So fastforward a few hours and Geoff and I are on our way through beautiful Thursday afternoon I-4 traffic to get to Downtown Disney and the House of Blues. HOB is probably one of my favorite venues we have in Central Florida… We get there to find out that to get in the front line you have to eat at HOB or buy something in the store. Well, the store had crap in it. We were all prepared to buy stuff at the concert, but not from HOB. So we were 2nd in line in the ‘regular people’ line. My only issue was I had to find a table. Between my being all knocked up and Geoff’s toe (see the next SomaCow Episode), it was just necessary. We had a plan. Sis and her friend go to the bar with drink orders, Geoff goes to the table with the stuff to scope it out and I find the table. I run (yes, literally run) to “my table” only to find it is taken. I look and see one. I pass someone whoosh! and scoop up the table. Geoff sees me, smiles, and grabs two extra barstools on the way over. Victory! Now at this show, they did their thing. John Flansburgh came out and announced to us all that he had the flu (so it was him!), and that he had taken every OTC flu medicine known to man and was ready to put on the best show of his life thanks to all of these pharmaceuticals! He didn’t disappoint. He was funny all running around the stage. You could tell he felt no pain but would the next day! Every single song was AWESOME. They have the best concerts. They will play about 80/20 if not 90/10 of old to new songs. They know their audience and why they are there. Have you had that experience? Or the opposite? TMBG knows that they have a babillion hits (to their fans), and they always throw a new one or two in there you haven’t heard in a while. They get their new stuff out there, too, but focus on the old. They make their fans happy. And happy we were! Oh man and Dan Miller on acoustic guitar doing his 10 minute intro to Istanbul. Just amazing and the SomaCalf went nuts! She was flopping left and right, she loves that guitar! We were both prepared to leave early if need be, due to physical pain, as we’ve seen their show, but there was nothing that would take us out once it started…except when the lights came up. Brilliant show, and since this will probably be our last concert for the foreseeable future, it was the perfect one. Mickey shares his wisdom on following the styles of Information Society and speaking your mind. Oh, and this is also the I Love You episode (if you don’t know, they’ll explain it) so Geoff gives us all 5 great tips to keep love alive and we definitely do! And we also played this great music:
Somacow Media is proud ter present SomaCow, broot ter yer on dis gran’, bonny day by Finnegan Seamus, McMeck o’Malleys Sheep Shaggerin’ ‘all an’ Bail Bonds Service. Fer al’ yisser four legged legal endeavors, call Finnegan! we spent a gran’ porshun av dis ‘our discussin’ al’ things Oirish, includin’ de nade ter draink, me desire ter join de military, chinese grub, an’ tattoos. Jaysus! No wonder that country never built roads ’til the English came and gave ‘em what for. History is replete with fine examples of Irishmen that have really made the world a better place, and SomaCow salutes them today: (The Sweetest Pieces of Irish Lass)
Excellent Irishmen, all of them.We’ll be out toasting your health this Monday at Wall Street, enjoying some drinks and watching Enter the Haggis beat down the stage. We never really got into it during the show, but… Who invented that gay “pinch if you aren’t wearing green” schtick? Was that just a Woolworth’s invention to sell off massive reserves of shitty green clothing, or is there some real reason we do it? I never seem to get pinched by hot women, just weird dudes that look all happy about doing it. I have no idea why people generate so much pleasure from touching me. Psychos.
Don’t forget to check out J’s Newsbomb at the :40! We also chatted about McCain, who apparently forgot to buy something at the Green Zone market last time he was in Iraq and has returned once more this week to bust down on some Baghdad Bargains. Best of luck to you, sir. Please try not to create an international incident during your visit. And Obama, who had to work hard to distance himself from yet another foaming at the mouth lunatic, this time in the form of his Reverend. I am not sure I disagree with Goodman Wright’s statements, because, behind all the “fohty acres an’ a mool” rhetoric, there is some real truth is what he is saying. Consider these quotes: “We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.” Well…. We did, regardless of how I feel Israel has a right to exist, we are pissing on the Palestinians when we support Israel. You cannot take a side without opposing another. What we have allowed to happen, both with arms trade and resource rape, in Africa and other places, is simply unconscionable. The fact is, militant and psychotic Islamic fundies would not be able to win the hearts of these people if we would start showing them the good that America can do. Another Wrightism: “Barack knows what it means to be a black man to be living in a country and a culture that is controlled by rich white people…” “Hillary can never know that. Hillary ain’t never been called a n*****.” (censoring mine) That is a fact. White rich people DO run this country. Well, rich white people and Saudi Royalty. AND! Hillary has never been called the n-word. She has, quite reasonably, lived a life of hate from the right, but nothing along the lines of what many blacks experience, even today. These are opinions, given by a black man speaking to a congregation. They do not indicate Obama’s mind, no less than the fact that George Bush attended a school run by a religion known for having sex with pigs indicates that George Bush enjoys sticking his junk in a squealing oinker. ALL religion is dumb. As long as you people in this country insist on having a President that goes to church, you will continue to experience stupid preachers that say outlandish shit, and retarded terms like “Chief Spiritual Advisor”. What is this, Tenochtitlan circa 4oo BC? Ooonga the motherfuck Boonga, people. One opinion that is fact is that we played fabulous music this week:
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