Notices by Snake Girl Ellie (noelle@elekk.xyz), page 18

@rach it's not illegal to throw your used playdate in the ocean

tired: DnD
wired: D&D
inspired: D'n'D

It feels like Monday, so I keep thinking about how my :dnd: campaign is gonna start soon, *even though we just ran it last night*.

@grainloom nooo, too scary

@Crash @queenofhaiku because, see, he can throw them a long way

@Crash @queenofhaiku It just occurred to me that Gox can trust an awful lot of people.

@Crash must... stop...

When I was driving once, I saw this printed on a bridge: "I don't want the world, I just want your half"

IS THE BRIDGE

of "Ana Ng"

They Might Be Giants were the first band I really loved, and I was sad when I realized that they just weren't doing it for me anymore. I thought maybe overexposure had made me not like the new stuff, so I stopped listening for a while. And then Holly happened and I didn't get to listen to My Music for a while, and just got out of the habit, I guess.

I dunno why I started listening again today, but I'm glad I did!

@Crash Oh, STD is a *super* solid album, it's just that most of it isn't new tracks. :)

I... never actually listened to Long Tall Weekend, after the disappointment of Factory Showroom.

Mink Car has, like, three good songs, and they opened with the second best, "Bangs", which is probably also the best song to open with since it's catchy and opens quickly. (The other two are "Man It's So Loud In Here" and "My Man".)

And after that... I sort of just stopped listening!

@Crash It did, yeah, and "Dig My Grave" might have fit in the middle there, actually. If you used it as a halfway point, with "Fingertips #2" leading back into the rest of the short tracks...

John Henry opens well with "Subliminal" and its accordion-and-guitar pairing.

Factory Showroom is the first really disappointing album - there are only a couple songs on it I actually like, and of those they probably should have opened with "Spiraling Shape", even if it takes them 30 seconds to get off the vibraphone.

Severe Tire Damage isn't really its own album, but it opens with the *excellent* "Doctor Worm".

Apollo 18 is the first one where they stumble - they shouldn't have opened with "Dig My Grave" (and in fact maybe it shouldn't have been on the album, since there's not really another good place for it). The quiet guitar intro really doesn't do anything to sell the album.

Apollo 18 should have opened with "Someday Mother will die and I'll get the money" from "I Palindrome I" - it's a shocking statement that grabs your attention and tells you what the album's about.

Seriously, though, TMBG (or at least their early producers) *really* know how to open an album.

The Pink Album starts off with "Everything Right is Wrong Again", letting you know what to expect from the band in general.

Lincoln starts with those arresting staccato power chords at the beginning of "Ana Ng".

Flood switches it up with the choir and orchestra in "Theme From Flood".

Misc. T has the marimba of "Hey Mr. DJ".

@confusedcharlot it was!

Bonus: every time I hear "Spy" I think of the time I saw TMBG in concert and they played a 10-minute extended version of the song.

John Henry is probably at the top of my list of most solid overall TMBG albums. It's got a couple songs that have substantial claims on being in my top ten, but I don't have a lot of complaints about any of the songs on the album, and it's *really* well put-together.

(Important: it was released when cassettes were still a going concern, so sides were still important, and JH shows a very strong understanding of how to compose a side A and side B.)