User:My Evil Twin's Twin/About

"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.

They Might Be Giants is this user's favorite band.

This user's favorite John is John Linnell.

This user's favorite album is Apollo 18.

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.

FAN	This user became a TMBG fan in 2001.

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

FAV	This user's favorite TMBG song is Hey, Mr. DJ, I Thought You Said We Had A Deal.

"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.

HRW	This user is also on Homestar Runner Wiki.

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

I am also on Myspace, under my real name, which I still intend to keep anonymous.

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

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

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

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

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