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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.

Babel
This user uses Monobook.
RV This user often finds and reverts vandalism.
CTB This user has contributed to the following pages.
INT This user has written the following song interpretations.
SV This user has rated the following songs.
FAN This user became a TMBG fan in 2004.
Image:Tmbgnumber1.jpg They Might Be Giants is this user's favorite band.
Image:Linnell_45.gif This user's favorite John is John Linnell.
In fact, this user has a crush on John Linnell.
Image:Weinkauf_45.jpg This user's favorite band member is Danny Weinkauf.
This user got a high five from Marty Beller.
This user's favorite album is John Henry.
This user's favorite EP is
S-E-X-X-Y.
This user's favorite EP is
The Spine Surfs Alone.
Image:Vancouver 45.JPG This user's favorite Venue Song is Vancouver.
FAV This user's favorite TMBG song is Spiraling Shape.
AGE:
18 		This user is 18 years old.


Image:Babel keyboard.JPG This user plays keyboard.
Image:Guitar_45.gif This user plays guitar.
Image:Trombone 45.JPG This user plays trombone.
F#, C# This user likes songs in the key of D Major.

HRW This user is also on
Homestar Runner Wiki.
WA This user is also on
The Weird Al Wiki.


Contents

[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...

  • The Beatles
  • 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
Once my favorite band when I was at my horrible 14-year-old stage, but his lyrics are often...terrible, for a lack of a better word. The Head on the Door, Wish and Wild Mood Swings are incredible, though. Disintegration is musically stunning, but often lyrically muddy. He sings about the same stuff all the time - sex, drugs, and religion. Ugh.
  • U2
I don't know too many people who hate U2. The Unforgettable Fire is gorgeous. The Joshua Tree is required listening.
  • Placebo
Effeminate men singing about abusive relationships in which he's the abuser. But that's one song. Otherwise, beautiful music. Black Market Music and Sleeping With Ghosts are amazing.
  • The Flaming Lips
A recent favorite. They've been recommended to me before, and it took two years of recommendation to start listening to them seriously. Wayne Coyne has great hair, past and present. Oh, yeah, and he rocks. Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots and The Soft Bulletin are great, but I love Clouds Taste Metallic and Transmissions From the Satellite Heart, too.

And I like...

  • Jonathan Coulton
  • "Weird Al" Yankovic
  • The Decemberists (yeah, enough accordion for ya?)
  • Modern Broadway showtunes. I'm sorry.
  • Nirvana
  • Beck
  • Ben Folds Five/Ben Folds as a solo artist.
  • The Dresden Dolls (Oh, yes. Who Killed Amanda Palmer? is coming out later this year. IwantitIwantitIwantit.)
  • Jimmy Eat World
  • Michael Penn
  • The Smiths/Morrissey...my band teacher looks a little like Morrissey.
  • Elvis Costello
  • Steely Dan
  • Suzanne Vega

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.

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