User talk:My Evil Twin's Twin

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"I know he looks like me, hates work like me, and walks like me.
He's even got a twin like me."
-- My Evil Twin

Hi. Of all They Might Be Giants songs, the above is probably my favorite line.

By the way, my favorite color is orange.

My TMBG History

I started listening to TMBG around 1997, give or take a couple years. My older brother, a fairly large TMBG fan, had a copy of Flood, but the only song I liked to listen to was Particle Man. Whenever I came by, and he was playing it, I always said, "I want to listen to Particle Man!" After a while, I started to like Dead and We Want A Rock.

Soon, my brother left home for a couple years and I didn't know where to find his copy of Flood. Maybe one of his friends was borrowing it or something. But after a while I forgot almost entirely about TMBG.

Around early 2001 or so, my best friend reintroduced me to TMBG. He showed me the educational song Why Does The Sun Shine? (The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas). It wasn't from Flood, so I wasn't familiar with it. But I still liked it. He let me borrow They Might Be Giants (debut album), and I really liked that. Later, I borrowed his John Henry album, which I also really liked.

Early fall 2001, my friend gave me Severe Tire Damage for my birthday. I really liked that, too. It had my old favorite Particle Man, which made me happy, and it also had Birdhouse In Your Soul and Istanbul (Not Constantinople), which I recognized from Flood.

A month or so later, I was looking in my brother's boxes under his bed, and I found his TMBG CD's. He didn't just have Flood, but he had almost all the albums. I wrote to him, asking him permission to listen to them, and he said okay. Now, I'm a bigger fan than he is.

My Top 100 Favorite TMBG Songs

"And I've been walkin' my fingers through my mind / But when you think of that you hurt your mind" -- The Spine, page 2, line 3

I am also registered on Homestar Runner wiki hrwiki.org as My Evil Twin's Twin.

I am also registered on Wikipedia; however, my username over there is not My Evil Twin's Twin.

Any comments or questions? Just type them up on this page.

[edit] Fan of a Fan: An Homage to My Evil Twin's Twin

My Evil Twin's Twin wins. This is an homage to an excellent fan, of which there are many, but s/he is but one, and one is way more than zero, so may my words render fitting honor. Shall I call you "Evil" for short, or shorten it still further to "Eve?" Nietzsche once said that Philosophie must be a woman, for she is fickle when sought, and prefers to be seen in her best attire. Perhaps we TMBG fans are all at heart mere lovestruck schoolgirls, in awe of the tender masculine intellectualism which the Johns have lovingly musicized. To all Wikians who find themselves reading this, note please how very difficult it would be to actually enumerate one's Top 100 TMBG Songs, and how much courage it must have taken to commit such a list to fan scrutiny. Eve inspires me to compile a similar list of my own, but I am a new fan, and am still busy organizing my favorites according to common aesthetic. One day, one day soon...

Let it be further noted that Eve has manifested something of which so many of us have but dreamed: The poem, Dizzy TMBG, compiles lyric fragments into a unique, totally new reading experience, but one which still maintains and builds upon the spirit of the music. In true post-modern, absurdist revelation, the form of the poem mirrors its content, from the blender-intro to the anagrams to the run-on lines of varying length and poignancy. I've often imagined the wonders which a re-arrangement of TMBG elements might yeild, and now I know not only that such a creation is possible, but also that I'm not the only one who has dreamed of stirring the pot and adding personal spice, and that such experiments can indeed bear fruit and multiply. I salute you, My Evil Twin's Twin. One day, when I have more fully absorbed the goodness which is They Might Be Giants, I will respond to your creation with a similar effort in hopes that the kaleidescope be widened still further, but you will forever and ever be the first and greatest.

In closing I wish to acknowledge My Evil Twin's Twin's myriad--nearly uncountable--(dare I say legion?) wiki contributions of the smaller, more scholarly type. In my early halcyon days of wikidom, the entries on the "Recent Changes" page invariably showcased an endless flow of added tidbits to the sundry pages of Wikiland from the learned mind of the mysterious "My Evil Twin's Twin." Dozens of entries became hundreds, and I was overwhelmed--humbled--by the fecundity. Such a fount of inspiration should be lauded, nourished, and exemplified.

Wiki on, True Fan.

Your Eager Student,

--Flux

Messages to My Evil Twin's Twin

26-Jun-2004: Please don't forget to add a summary line to your edits. Even if it seems redundant, it really helps out with the RSS feeds, quick visitors, etc. Thanks. --SR

26-Jun-2004: I don't really understand RSS. I clicked on the RSS and XML buttons, and it just showed a big long list of ununderstandable stuff. I clicked on What is RSS? and I didn't really understand that either. But yes, I'll try a little harder writing more summaries. --My Evil Twin's Twin

20-Jan-2006: How come all your user stuff is in the main namespace? And why did you categorize this page? It's just kind of odd (and would get you quickly banned on most other wikis). — User:ACupOfCoffee @ 17:21, 20 Jan 2006 (EST)

22-Jan-2006: I actually don't think it was me that categorized the page. If it was and I don't remember, I didn't know that this could get me quickly banned. And I don't want to get banned. --My Evil Twin's Twin

something-May 2006: Hey, I found this page of yours and thought you might want to link to it on your page: My Evil Twin's Twin's Random Thoughts. I don't know exactly how sane that thing is, but I'm not one to judge. ~ magbatz 22:07, 10 May 2006 (CDT)

18-May-2006: Oh. Well, I started keeping track of all my random thoughts (meaningless phrases that pop into my head for almost no reason, half the time when I'm half-asleep) a couple years ago, and I started that page when I just felt like "going crazy" with editing like it says in the "Getting Started" section of the Main Page. The reason why I took the link off my userpage was because it doesn't have anything to do with TMBG, except I think it's sort of TMBG-like style. I don't add recent random thoughts to the list anymore either. I don't really know what to do with the page, and I don't know how to delete wiki articles anyway, but if you know how to delete articles, ask me for permission before you delete it. --My Evil Twin's Twin

So, uh, someone has been trying to leave you a message. -CapitalQ / @ / 11:00, 8 June 2007 (UTC)

So, uh, why oh why did someone do that? Why oh why would someone say a bunch of rambling words including vulgarity on my page, yelling at someone I don't think is me? I'm glad it got quickly cleared back to normal, because I don't want f-words on my page. --My Evil Twin's Twin (6-13-07)

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[edit] Fan of a Fan: An Homage to My Evil Twin's Twin

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