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This user uses he/him pronouns.
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AGE:
20
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This user is 20 years old.
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This user became a TMBG fan in 2009.
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This user plays bass.
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Introduction[edit]
Hello there, the name's Eric, but you can call me Robot Parade. Or don't. Known for being an avid editor, musician, and having electric brains. I go by EricIsTired (eric_is_tired) elsewhere online.
On the wiki I mostly patrol Recent Changes to see what's going on, making edits when I can. I created the List Of Artists That Have Opened For They Might Be Giants, a big list of every single band that has opened for Them in Their history. I also made a Sandbox page so I can create little biographies over some of the bands that have opened for TMBG that might not be as notable or relevant to most fans.
I discovered TMBG through my dad, who bought me and my siblings Here Comes Science after I heard The Ballad Of Davy Crockett (In Outer Space) on the Disney Channel. I fell in love with the album, and my family quickly bought their other kids albums. (I vividly remember spending hours watching the videos for each song on the Here Comes series, and on the games built into the Enhanced CD for No!). When my dad mentioned their adult albums he played me three random songs he found on YouTube (Istanbul, Particle Man, and Meet James Ensor) and I grew interested. When my family moved towns I started to listen to all of their discography and I became obsessed. I pretty much exclusively listened to TMBG in 2019 and 2020.
While my music taste has since branched out beyond the band, I'm now attending college to be an elementary music teacher and inspire a love for music in my students the same way that TMBG inspired that love in me. I also use my encyclopedic knowledge of TMBG to annoy my friends. (We can't do anything without me relating it back to TMBG, lol). I'm a part of the band Sewage Lagoon where we play our own alternative rock songs.
Other Bands[edit]
They Might Be Giants will forever and always be my favorite band of all time. But I listen to a lot of bands and musicians, so here is a rough list of my Top 25 favorite musicians.
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| Tier They Might Be Giants
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They Might Be Giants
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| Tier 1
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Interpol
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| Modest Mouse
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| AJJ
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| The Hoosiers
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| Cake
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| Tier 2
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Matchbox 20
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| Jack Stauber
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| Throw Me The Statue
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| Marcy Playground
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| Sarah and the Sundays
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| Tally Hall
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| IDKHow
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| Wallows
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| Garbage
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| alt-j
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| The Drums
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| Voltaire
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| Tennis
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| The Jungle Giants
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| Last Dinosaurs
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| Alvvays
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| OK Go
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R.E.M.
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers
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| The Shins
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| Collective Soul
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This user doesn't know which John they prefer.
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This user's favorite Venue Song is Albany.
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My Opinions[edit]
Taglines[edit]
This is a list of all the Taglines that I've written.
- A user is editing from beyond the grave / On a wiki page, beyond the grave (Microphone)
- Team up with other editors making pages when they combine / Or make up a simple Userpage formed out of edits of the one kind (Meet The Elements)
- Ninety-three edits times a million more / Quite a page we've planned / The wiki must scroll now carefully / And figure where we'll land (Moving To The Sun)
- Editing a page so dated / Made of links and code so ancient / Bitter dudes writing stubs and banning bots (Impossibly New)
- Should you edit when the vandal is in front of you? / Or is it worse because it's on a page / Where your eyes don't go? (Where Your Eyes Don't Go)
- This Might Be A Wiki / No longer edits this page / This Might Be A Wiki / Now we're all out of taglines (Kendra McCormick)
- Hi, this is John of They Might Be Giants, and you're reading the Main Page on TMBW / If you're editing from your car right now, we urge you to sit back, relax, close your eyes, and drive really fast (We Just Go Nuts At Christmastime - Frank O'Toole Version)
- The admin was ready to get us ready to say goodnight / But there was an edit, a subtle edit, we vandalized (Our Cannibal Friends)
- There are vandals on the wiki who can edit us / We won't be afraid of those vandals (P.S.O.K.)
- We've exhausted all available edits / And scrolled around in circles to the point / Where you made me blank the page (Cave Fish)
- Trypto-page / It began, I was reading like I am / By the edit of the wiki / And the special page observed (Tryptophane)
- I can hear the friendly edits of a page that I'd be offered / If I had a wiki to offer me a page (You Don't Like Me)
- At the bottom of the wiki page / I found the image file-link / Of W. A. White with his face clearly posted on it (Thankful For Your Service)
- The web has forgotten / The web moved along / The crowd at the wiki / Went back to their homes (Meet James Ensor)
- Scan the page, scan the edits / Lyric sing-along / Write your note, leave your interpretation / The wiki led you on (With The Dark)
- Whatever happened to vandalized / Unloved, resentful wiki pages? / Will they be spamming us at 3 a.m.? / Whatever happened to them? (What Did I Do To You?)
- And the admin's getting mad / With all this time you waste / Trying to put an edit on it / The allure of this wiki's page (On The Drag)
- You know I pegged you for an editor / When you said the word "tagline" / Where did you come from, anyway, / A wiki? (Fortnight) This one got changed 10 hours after I made it :/
- Wiki editor / Vandal defender / Tagline extender / Re-Pete Offender (Re-PETE Offender)
- Everyone is agreed that you have to concede to the admin / (Shout!) Hooray for the TMBG Wiki (Buckle Down, Winsocki)
- The only way I get any sleep / Is if ten wiki pages are open (Less Than One)
- If your some page I used to know I sure don't recognize you so I'm only / Hanging round, a random page, in the wiki, where nothing familiar can be found (Shape Shifter)
- Why did you vandalize the wiki? Why did you vandalize the wiki? I can't leave this page alone for five minutes (Why Did You Grow A Beard?)
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813-edit contributor!
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This user is incredibly grateful for the Show Preview button
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That being said, he often forgets to use it
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This user often finds and reverts vandalism.
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This user has rated the following songs.
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This user has attended the following shows.
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Pages Created[edit]
This is a list of pages that I have created or helped to create.
Pages To Be Created[edit]
This is a list of pages that are up for potential creation in my mind. Not all of these ideas are necessarily going to come to fruition, but pages may be created once I put in more research into the subject.
- Graphic Artists/Animated Music Video Directors
- Directors of Other Music Videos
- Other Potential Pages
- Todd Terry (Remixed several versions of “S-E-X-X-Y” for the single release)
Collection[edit]
I collect CDs and some vinyls, and I'm currently on a quest to collect every TMBG CD, so we'll see how far I can get. It's gonna be hell finding a Long Tall Weekend CD, but I think I can manage it within the next 30 years. In addition to this collection, I also own:
