So you might have taken a hint from our
Guide to PAX that we're nerds, it's not really a secret, but I hasn't come up too much here on our blog, but I hope you're ready for a little more nerdity. Last week Cami and I saw Jonathan Coulton and They Might Be Giants and the Showbox SoDo, and it was amazing! Apologies for the low quality cell phone pictures.
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| Jonathan Coulton at the Showbox SoDo |
Jonathan Coulton was the opener for TMBG and he was fantastic, in fact I wished he'd played a few more songs, but hey that's how it goes with openers right?
If you play video games you might know who Johnaton Coulton is, he's probably most well known for writing
Still Alive, the song written for the ending credits of Portal. He's also the mastermind behind the song
Code Monkey, and my favorite (which didn't get played at the show)
Re: Your Brains which is a song in business letter form from a zombie to his former coworker who is still human. Strangely enough Jonathan Coulton was
at PAX too, but there was a million mile line to meet him.
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| John and John at the Showbox SoDo |
However, the main event of the evening was our favorite nerd rock back of all time,
They Might Be Giants.
Thier music pops up in the most unlikely of places such as the theme song for
Malcom in the Middle, Tim Burton's
Coraline, and 2 well-knows songs from Tiny Toons;
Istanbul and
Particle Man (currently under the tyrannical oppression of YouTube, hence no animated version...)
However, of our favorite songs we were lucky enough to hear
"Why does the Sun shine?" and
Ana Ng. Sadly "
They'll Need a Crane" was not on the set list.
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| RIGHT BEFORE WE TOUCHED EET! |
Of the newer songs our favorites were "
Marty Beller Mask" (their new drummer truly looks like he is having a seizure while he is playing!) and
"You probably get that a lot". The pièce de résistance was getting to touch Flansburgh's guitar (for the 2nd time!).
This is a good time to note that John Flansburgh, at 51 years old and weighing what appears to be as much as Cami and I put together has hands DOWN more hippity-hops on stage than most 18 year olds. Additionally, John Linnell age 52, even with his crooked teeth and mismatched ears is still as cute as he was in their videos from the 80's - a fact that we attribute to his intense eye contact with everyone within about 10 feet of his keyboard
(because he is more or less blind without his glasses. We are all amorphous blobs to him).
One last shot of two very happy girls, status post BO assault by a bunch of sweaty, middle-aged nerds! NO REGRETS!
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