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AGE: 31
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This user is 31 years old.
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This user became a TMBG fan in 1987.
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This user's favorite album is Pink.
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This user could keep listing favorite lyrics forever.
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This user knows you are SHOCKED by this.
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But this user loves Flansy too!
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This user is LEARNING accordion.
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This user has heard there are other things in life besides TMBG, but doesn't really believe it.
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This user knows that John wearing his glasses is a level of sexiness that it is beyond the capacity of human language to describe.
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This user's favorite State Song is Montana.
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This user's favorite album cover is Pink.
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This user thinks West Virginia is pretty much the sexiest thing ever.
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This user has over 65,000 pictures of John Linnell on her computer (so far).
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This user's favorite color is a blank stare.
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This user will punch you in the face if you make fun of John's (AMAZING) teeth. Or his age. Or anything else about him, really. (Unless it's really funny.)
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I am Quinn. I run Museum of Idiots (updated June 29). I'm just a teensy bit obsessed with Mr. Linnell, which is big news to you if you've ever visited my site (or talked to me for more than five minutes). My unnecessarily detailed explanation of how I became a fan/fell in love with John is right here. I trade bootlegs. I'm also in charge of Cowtown.
I got this done on my right leg for John's 51st birthday:
And I got this one on my left arm on the ten year anniversary of the day I fell in love with him:
Other TMBG things I do: I have a Linnell/TMBG zine called This Could Lead to Excellence or Serious Injury. I've got a Tumblr where I post John gushing, rare mp3's, John gushing, videos and pictures, AIM quotes I find amusing, John gushing, and miscellaneous TMBG goodness. Oh, and John gushing. I also co-run Little TMBG Things. Sometimes I write fanfic. And I started fan pages for Sapphire Bullets, Gigantic, They Day, and Dial-A-Song on Facebook.
Other stuff: I have an English degree from Smith College. I have a sweet kitty named Smokey. I write poetry and fiction and do a couple of other zines. And that, sadly, is pretty much the extent of my life outside TMBG.
The Absolutely Neverending List of Things About John That are Adorable, Sexy, or Just Generally Completely Amazing[edit]
- GLASSES GLASSES GLASSES GLASSES
- Also, GLASSES GLASSES GLASSES. (No seriously. You don't even KNOW.)
- ACCORDION aka sexiest instrument ever
- How RIDICULOUSLY, UNREASONABLY, INSANELY brilliant he is as a person
- How RIDICULOUSLY, UNREASONABLY, INSANELY brilliant he is as a songwriter
- HIS FLOPPY HAIR
- CONVERSE
- Completely unreasonable spazziness
- His veiny veiny arms
- His long long fingers
- COFFEE
- His beautiful big brown eyes
- Reading a lot!
- How in love he and Flans are with each other
- Turtlenecks! Stripey shirts! Pocket t-shirts!
- Collecting old cameras
- Collecting encyclopedias
- His teeth!
- THE MANCCORDION™
- His "distinctive" voice
- Looking down while he plays accordion
- When his hair does the little flip at the end thing
- Tight tight tight black jeans
- The creases around his mouth
- Constant incredibly spazzy arm things
- "I don't think I have a favorite dinosaur, though I am very fond of the marine reptiles of the Mesozoic. I've got a beautiful plastic replica of an ichthyosaurus sitting on my shelf."
- "Being a guy, I'm a good griller."
- Standing up on his toes while he sings
- Jumping around while he sings
- Using words/expressions nobody uses ever
- "Oh hello, I'm John Linnell and I'm having deep deep thoughts beyond the comprehension of your mere mortal minds."
- The boy cleans up nice
- His death hangup
- His aging hangup
- The fact-checking
- Constantly constantly talking with his hands
- STRONG ARMS
- When he has stubble
- Casually doing things like throwing the word obsequious or a mention of Ruy Lopez into a song
- BEING THE CREEPIEST PERSON EVER
- That whole incredibly depressing/horrifying lyrics with unreasonably cheerful melodies thing
- When he says things that apparently make sense in his own head but none to anyone else ever
- When Flans tells an AMAZING story at a show and then he tries...
- The Claw Hand™
- Closing his eyes while he sings
- His Lucky TV Shirt™
- How hung up he gets on shirts and then wears them all the time in general
- Having no ability to improvise whatsoever
- The way he sings "go(es)"
- Hearing him breathe on Nightgown Of The Sullen Moon
- When he leans against walls
- How he looks in red
- When he's sweaty and his shirts are clingly (this is a legit word ok)
- "Where did it come from? I made it up..."
- "The Professor"
- The State Songs liner notes
- When he reaches up and tucks his long hair behind his ear (not even how it looks after he has, just the actual motion of him reaching up to tuck it)
- His long hair in general
- APPARENTLY HE ACTUALLY HAS LEGS
- His voice on West Virginia
- His voice on Savoy Truffle
- Pushing up the sleeves to his long-sleeved shirts
- "Cooking up"
- "[Flans] is Trotsky."
- "I mean the whole idea of mermaids as erotic is really weird I think because--because they don't apparently have--"
- Anagrams
- Getting really excited about the stylophone
- "We could say, like, 'Americans are stupid,' but that would be incredibly mean."
- "I wish I liked Slurpees."
- "Sometimes you just resent the way the other guy breathes."
- "We just think puppets are kinda cool. We like puppets. Some of our best friends are puppets. We're puppets."
- When he's singing and closes his eyes and scrunches up his nose
- His chin-crinkling smiles
- The throwing his arms up in the air at the end of Conan appearances thing
- "Baby check me out" on live versions
- His voice going up on the third verse on "You can tell just by looking at my skull"
- "That's right. I'm a cold-hearted creep."
- "I'm actually the flamboyant member of the band, as many of you are already aware."
- "Who's the other rocker who became a--not that I'm a rocker. I don't mean to say that I'm a rocker."
- When he attempts to play guitar
- Having an incredibly twisted sense of humour
- When he hums
- When his voice cracks a little
- Jared
- His fake British accent
- His fake accents in general
- Random eyebrow-raising
- "I guess the song is a metaphor. We who have nothing to 'wind string around' are lost in the wilderness. But those who deny this need are 'burning our playhouse down.' If you put quotes around certain words it sounds more like a metaphor."
- Tapping his foot while he sings (yes I know this is a normal musician thing to do but IT'S CUTE WHEN HE DOES IT OK)
- "You know, John and I have been gettin' kind of lonesome waiting for people to call us..."
- When he uses one hand to scratch his head on the other side
- "I usually do this one when the guitar string breaks. Right now the guitar string has not broken. . . So I guess you all understand what I mean by that. . . Uh, ok. I'm gonna do the song now."
- His neck
- His ears
- How much he loves his bike
- Being a bike messenger
- "He enjoys peanut butter much more than the average person." (--Ira Glass)
- Inexplicable blondeness
- The fact that he doesn't know how to play accordion entirely correctly
- His lumberjack shirt
- Random awkward pauses
- Pronouncing words "interestingly"
- His attempts to make relevant pop culture references
- Happy bouncy instrumental interludes in incredibly morbid songs
- When he writes things
- When he draws things
- The fact that he thinks it's cool to do things like use a band organ
- "It's grammatical, sure."
- How he looks when he's drinking his coffee
- "[Being named one of the Most Beautiful People is] perfectly true, and if you could see me right now, you would understand why."
- When he's surprisingly all badass
- When Flans is all sharp and he's just wearing a t-shirt
- "The lyrics have defied simple interpretation, probably out of irresponsibility or laziness on the part of its young author."
- Not knowing how to pronounce "agate"
- The acne scar on his right cheek
- His dabblings in foreign languages
- Being inexplicably embarrassed about actually learning one
- His fondness for wax museums
- The bridge of I Palindrome I
- When he swears
- When his voice is particularly Linnellian (e.g. Dead or Bangs)
- Being a college dropout rebel, man
- Writing awesome songs between lunch and dinner
- When he wears a sombrero
- The fact that he came up with the idea of doing a concept EP about New York City mayors
- Writing songs for the Mundanes but being too shy to sing them
- "I seemed a lot more effeminate than I think of myself. I think of myself as just sort of me. But there was something strangely fey about my performance, which shocked me."
- His bony elbows
- When his monitor falls out of his ear and he has to fix it
- His nose
- His handwriting
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