'People should get beat up, for statin' their beliefs…'
(ironic humour, 'Shoehorn with Teeth': They Might be Giants album, Lincoln).
A possibly amusing anecdote:
Back in 1990 I worked with a lovely 60 year old American lady. One Saturday night TMBG were coming to this fair city for a gig, for which I had a ticket. Come lunchtime on Friday I was in the work bar, as was the aforementioned lady, Priscilla, and we struck up a conversation. 'So, what are you doing on the weekend, Priscilla?' says I. 'Oh, I'm going to see 'They Might Be Giants',responds she. Well, as you can probably imagine, I nearly fell over backwards.
After I'd recovered, further conversation produced the fact that back in the states she'd been the life-long best friend of the mother of one of the two Johns, and had often seen them experimenting musically as kids while visiting her friend. They were originally planning to stay at her place while here, but had to change to a hotel for some forgotten reason.
Anyway, as a consequence of my connection I got to meet them and had my cassettes of Lincoln and Flood autographed.
Before the show Priscilla had never heard their music, so I played her some of Flood. The first thing she said to the Johns when we went backstage after the concert was 'What does it all mean?'
discovers a better way to fill in hollow plastic bases.
