Welcome to the TMBG club
Now, you may be asking, "Who are these guys?" Straight from Brooklyn, New York, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS is one of the greatest bands to survive the 1980s. They have been around for over years now and are still going strong. When They started, it was just two guys; John Linnell and John Flansburgh. As the story goes, they met in junior high in Lincoln, Massachussetts and became friends in high school. Their debut album, They Might Be Giants was released in 1986 and at the time, it was just them, their instruments, and a drum machine. Their most notable and popular rythm section to this day was the Band of Dans; Danny Weinkauf (bass) and Dan Miller (lead guitar). Sadly, Dan Hickey left this year and was replaced by Marty Beller of their new side-project, TMBG's Other Thing. Their most resecent achivements include winning a grammy for their song "Boss of Me" for the TV show "Malcom in the Middle" in 2002, and in the same year became the subject of a documentary movie called "Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns." For the people who want to know, the name They Might Be Giants is said to have been derived from a movie from 1970 starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, and is of no greater significance.

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10/21/06: Well DA hasn't really done anythign new for DA clubs yet so I don't know what rumors I was hearing. Besides that I personally have been really busy so anybody who's sent a note to us asking to join may be a bit delayied. Terribly sorry for the inconvieniance. Don't give up hope well get it together soon.
New Members =skoticus ~takandzimjohnnydevi

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Welcome to the TMBG club
Now, you may be asking, "Who are these guys?" Straight from Brooklyn, New York, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS is one of the greatest bands to survive the 1980s. They have been around for over years now and are still going strong. When They started, it was just two guys; John Linnell and John Flansburgh. As the story goes, they met in junior high in Lincoln, Massachussetts and became friends in high school. Their debut album, They Might Be Giants was released in 1986 and at the time, it was just them, their instruments, and a drum machine. Their most notable and popular rythm section to this day was the Band of Dans; Danny Weinkauf (bass) and Dan Miller (lead guitar). Sadly, Dan Hickey left this year and was replaced by Marty Beller of their new side-project, TMBG's Other Thing. Their most resecent achivements include winning a grammy for their song "Boss of Me" for the TV show "Malcom in the Middle" in 2002, and in the same year became the subject of a documentary movie called "Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns." For the people who want to know, the name They Might Be Giants is said to have been derived from a movie from 1970 starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, and is of no greater significance.

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9/2/06: Well we are officially 3 years old. I've been working hard on updating the club and working out the members page. I've been gettign this club ready for the club feature on DA's new format coming soon. I havn't heard when but they've been giving out hints and tidbits every now and then (I just don't have the browser to view it on). I'm ready for DA ver. 5 I hope they are.
AS for the members' page, if your name is missing or you think it's not in the right section, 1st read the new rules to see where you fit in(I'm still updating them sorry, it'll be done soon) or send a note saying that it's missing. Besides the members and the rules there are a few small things that I need to fix, I still havn't gotten staff figured out, my VP hasn't responed to me and I need to work on the Band News section better. I got the membership out of the way 1st because it's something that needs to be done for DA. If there's anything you think still needs improovement don't be afraid to say so. Have a happy holiday!!

New Members =skoticus ~takandzimjohnnydevi

\Band News/
TMBG website! | Links and More | Tour Dates | Dial-A-Song.com
To contact Dial-A-Song from your phone, like done by so many other people, call 718-387-6962.

For the TMBG newsletter updates as of
5/15/06: Click this [link]

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How to Join
Send the club A NOTE or send the president or Vise Pres. a note saying you want to join. We will put anybody under the Congress unless they say they want to be one of the higher and helping possistions.

President: ~Vice President: ~Secritary of State
\Members/

Welcome to the TMBG club
Now, you may be asking, "Who are these guys?" Straight from Brooklyn, New York, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS is one of the greatest bands to survive the 1980s. They have been around for over years now and are still going strong. When They started, it was just two guys; John Linnell and John Flansburgh. As the story goes, they met in junior high in Lincoln, Massachussetts and became friends in high school. Their debut album, They Might Be Giants was released in 1986 and at the time, it was just them, their instruments, and a drum machine. Their most notable and popular rythm section to this day was the Band of Dans; Danny Weinkauf (bass) and Dan Miller (lead guitar). Sadly, Dan Hickey left this year and was replaced by Marty Beller of their new side-project, TMBG's Other Thing. Their most resecent achivements include winning a grammy for their song "Boss of Me" for the TV show "Malcom in the Middle" in 2002, and in the same year became the subject of a documentary movie called "Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns." For the people who want to know, the name They Might Be Giants is said to have been derived from a movie from 1970 starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, and is of no greater significance.

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Contests and Events // Dev Chat Room
6/28/06: OK I've gone through and redid most of the rules. There are still somethings I have to redo and add. I ahd to stop cause I was getting a headach. This is the 1st time in the last 3 weeks that I've had time to redo them, and if I have time I'll go through the members and fix that up so I have that ready for the DA Ver. 5 update.

Staff
This is my ( ~anniemae04 ) club, and part of the problem that it's not as active as it could be is that I don't get off my ass to get people to submit stuff. When I asked for people to help I was hopping that I'd find people as eager as me to update when one of us couldn't do it (but that depends on how offten the TMBG newsletter gets released anyway which I've seen go months without an update). I'm not fireing anybody but if you wish to resign from a position, now would be the time to talk to me. I know that you've got your galleries to work on and your lives are as just as busy as mine. If I get new staff members the password will be redone.

Members
Ok this new DA thing says that it'll only allow 100 members now, and I know that we're not up too 100 members at all, so everybody who is a member now will stay and not get kicked off but here's the new deal:
Dead members will be kicked off, you're dead so you're not helping the club.
There will be a note that will go around in a month that will ask you if you still want to be a member. If you don't reply by the end of July 2006 you'll be kicked off. That doesn't mean that if you reply Aug 1st you won't be accepted back in. You've been here since the start, you have a seat if you want it. This note is to help find the dead members.
All members joined before July 4th, 2006 will still be members unless they ask to resign.
I hate to say it but I may need to take a fandom test. Those of you submitted work to the club deffinatly have a spot and many of you I know are true diehard fans but whenI 1st started the club I think that some of you only joined cause you were watching my normal account so you wanted to give me support. I'm not sure how I'm going to "Snuff out the none belivers" but I can go through your gallery and tell. Which is good reason to have TMBG as one of your favorite bands, or...
For all of you who don't have club icon and name ~gigantic in your Journal or Sig. you may want to do that now.
For those of you who are TOO BUSY that's why I am tellign two months in advance. Don't come to me 5 months later saying, "Hay! All these new changes suck why didn't you ask the club before you did this?" Cause I'll say, to bad, pound sand, you should've been paying attention. If you have problems with this, nows the time to harp about it. I will be deleting all the Join request notes from this gallery and my gallery. I'm not starting with a clean slate but I'm making it eaiser to deal with.

Submissions
I would love to make this place more of a TMBG resorce place, for people to show off their livejournal icons and fanart, but I dont' want people to think that we're stealing their work. I'm going to go through all the old submissions and try to find the original links and link back to them.
Some of you say, "why don't you ask people to submit things?" To let you know I've tried that already, and I've gotten yelled at by people saying I have no place to bug them about thier pictures in the club. And they're right, so it's your responsiblity to tell me what pictures you want submit. I'm not going to go looking for them in your gallery.
This has been a rule of DA's since clubs 1st became popular; I can't fav to many pictures. I'm only supposed to fav pictures that have something to do with the club and belong to non-members. It was a thing were DA thought that clubs were abbusing the fav system Ex.) An artist started a club, then instead of submitting things to the club she/he faved all her/his pictures to the club just to get the original deviations more favs on them. We dont' do that here, and I don't want DA to think that's what we're doing. I'm not goign to your gallery just to fav stuff.
I need your full writen permmision to submit a picture. Don't send a note asking for me to look at the pictures your drew hoping I'm going to randomly submit it. This is really stupid, but I had one of My Own pictures deleted cause I didn't have permission from myself to submit it. So please say it writing, "Could you please submit this to the club (link)?"

Format
Yes I'm going to change the newletter posts. They've always been on the main page because I want non-members to get the same information but it just takes up too much space cause they can get pretty big. Plus I want people to join other TMBG communities too. We don't have the space or time to give contast news updates like you'd find in the forums, livejournal, or TMBWiki. The links section will become more important for the serious TMBG fans and that on my part I need to fingure out.

Sudjestions
If you have any sudjestions then by all means ask away.

New Member *tehmandy

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How to Join
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President: ~Vice President: ~Secritary of State
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CAST YOUR POD TO THE WIND!
PODCAST 8A THE HALLOWEEN SPECIAL!
Even as they hunker down to finish two new albums, TMBG returns to podcasting with an extra-ghostly episode. Includes the brand new "Haunted Floating Eye" among other scary rarities. Get the podcast via your iTunes application,
or click here: [link]
or here: [link] (for those of you with RSS-capable browsers)

DIALASONG.COM NOW ARCHIVES TMBG PODCASTS!
Come and get your past podcasts in this highly photographic setting.

IN SPAIN? SEE TMBG!
It's true - the Giants will be performing a full band show on December 1st in Barcelona, Spain
Ticket info here: [link]

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS DO THEIR PART FOR THE KIDS -
HOLIDAY BENEFIT SHOWS ANNOUNCED
Some are for kids, some for adults. (please don't confuse the two) All shows are full band efforts!

November 18 Nyack, NY
daytime show for kids, nighttime show for adults
Tickets at [link]

December 09 Philadelphia, PA
two shows for kids
Tickets at [link]

December 16 Brooklyn, NY
daytime show for kids, nighttime show for adults
Tickets at ticketweb.com

With the exception of the daytime Brooklyn show to benefit Brooklyn PS146, all these shows are benefits for a great non-profit organization called Generation Schools. Here's a bit about their scene:

Generation Schools is a nonprofit organization piloting a new urban public school model where skilled teachers teach a handful of students, not a roomful -- without increasing costs. The schools will offer unparalleled opportunities for students and comprehensive residencies for new urban teachers. The "break-the-mold" concept was honored in a prestigious global competition as one of the world's best emerging social innovations.

Generation Schools is opening its first school in the fall of 2007. Their remarkable new school model actually reinvents -- not just reforms -- the possibilities of America's public schools. We all know it takes much more than test scores for a child to prepare for life. Kids shouldn't have to choose between academics and art. With the Generation Schools model they won't have to. Informed by research from many fields and expertise from varied constituents, it is strategically designed to be academically rigorous, physically and creatively demanding, and socially and emotionally supportive for every child enrolled.

For more about Generation Schools go to [link]

VENUE SONGS IS NOW ON YOUTUBE!
[link]

Glasgow [link]
Pittsburgh [link]
Hollywood [link]
Charlottesville [link]
Asbury Park [link]
Asheville [link]
Brooklyn [link]
Anaheim [link]
Albany [link]
Vancouver* [link]
Dallas [link]

*yes, it's that model from Project Runway.....


NEW FREE MP3 AT TMBG.COM
Those of you on our mailing list can still access these fun freebies at tmbg.com/freeTunes.html (the username / password combo is still tmbg / thespinesurfs)

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS' MYSPACE PAGE IS GETTING UPDATED FREQUENTLY.
VISIT NOW AT myspace.com/theymightbegiants

DOES THE VENUE SONGS DVD/CD SET MAKE THE PERFECT THANKSGIVING DAY PRESENT?
No! or Here Come the ABCs might work better- but buy 'em all anyway at [link]


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Get brand-new They Might Be Giants recordings for free on your computer!
- New free MP3 at tmbg.com
- Subscribe to the They Might Be Giants podcast!
Details below...

From Flansburgh:
"Greetings from the road. We've crossed the halfway mark of our tour and wanted to thank everybody who has come out so far.

We are headlining Tulip Fest in beautiful Albany, NY (home of the Egg) and it is utterly free! We were restricted from announcing it until last month and then sorta forgot to remind everyone about it when the tour started.
Also on the free show docket, we've got a taping of a radio appearance at WHYY around noon on June 30 in Philadelphia (that is an all-ages event) and our first annual Podcast Spectacular the next night at the Mohegan Sun. That is going to be with a horn section and some very special guests -- and again it is totally free. The Mohegan Sun is a couple of hours drive from NYC or Boston, and we encourage everyone to come on down. We guarantee the event will be a total gas."

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS' "BEARDO 2006" TOUR
CATCH IT WHILE YOU STILL CAN!

May 09 Columbus, OH at Newport Music Hall
tickets at ticketmaster.com

May 10 Pittsburgh, PA at Mr. Smalls Theater
tickets onsale at [link]

May 11 Knoxville, TN at Sundown in the City - FREE SHOW!

May 12 Philadelphia, PA at Theatre Of Living Arts
tickets at ticketmaster.com

May 13 Albany, NY at Tulip Fest - FREE SHOW!

June 30 Philadelphia, PA at WHYY

July 01 Uncasville, CT at Mohegan Sun - FREE SHOW!


NEW FREE MP3 AT TMBG.COM

Posted now at tmbg.com/freeTunes is a free mp3 of Kendra McCormick - a 52-second-long song we created for a CD101 radio listener's phone machine. As a reminder, the username is tmbg and the password is thespinesurfs. Dig.

Kendra McCormick no longer lives in this dorm.
Kendra McCormick. Now she's all out on her own.
Now she is free. Kendra is free!
Kendra McCormick no longer lives in this dorm.

DIRECT LINK TO THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PODCAST:
This is the direct link to subscribe and should work from a Mac OR a PC as long as you have the free iTunes program installed: [link]

If you don't have iTunes software installed, go to [link] to download the latest version now for free.

If you have never podcasted before, you might want to check out your iTunes or similar MP3 application (MAC or PC) and click on the "Podcasts" button. Under "advanced" select "subscribe to podcast" and paste the below link in the field.

[link]

Or if your browser is set up for rss feeds, you should be able to simply click on the below link to just view and play the mp3 file through your browser or default rss reader.

[link]

Welcome to the TMBG club
Now, you may be asking, "Who are these guys?" Straight from Brooklyn, New York, THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS is one of the greatest bands to survive the 1980s. They have been around for over years now and are still going strong. When They started, it was just two guys; John Linnell and John Flansburgh. As the story goes, they met in junior high in Lincoln, Massachussetts and became friends in high school. Their debut album, They Might Be Giants was released in 1986 and at the time, it was just them, their instruments, and a drum machine. Their most notable and popular rythm section to this day was the Band of Dans; Danny Weinkauf (bass) and Dan Miller (lead guitar). Sadly, Dan Hickey left this year and was replaced by Marty Beller of their new side-project, TMBG's Other Thing. Their most resecent achivements include winning a grammy for their song "Boss of Me" for the TV show "Malcom in the Middle" in 2002, and in the same year became the subject of a documentary movie called "Gigantic: A Tale of Two Johns." For the people who want to know, the name They Might Be Giants is said to have been derived from a movie from 1970 starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, and is of no greater significance.

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Contests and Events // Dev Chat Room
4/9/06: Sadly people the club e-mail has just got caught up in some huge spam device, 5 junks e-mails a day that are not getting caught by the spam filter. So I have created a new club e-mail that hopefully won't fall like the other one. If you'd rather join or comment without using notes the e-mail will except it. Thanks!
New Member *tehmandy

\Band News/
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To contact Dial-A-Song from your phone, like done by so many other people, call 718-387-6962.

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3/14/06: THANKS
Thanks from TMBG to all the human beings floating above Blogtown for linking up the TMBG podcast. Please help TMBG realize the dream of 1 million subscribers! Forward this email or just send your non-techy friends this link!
[link]

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS ANNOUNCE APRIL / MAY "BEARDO 2006" TOUR
Cities so far include DC, Baltimore, Asheville, Charleston, Atlanta, Savannah, Nashville, St. Louis, Knoxville, Philly and Albany – full info at the bottom of this email.

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS PODCAST 5A UP TODAY!
Includes the new tracks: (She Was A) Hotel Detective in the Future, P.S.O.K. (Paul Stanley of Kiss), and Flansburgh singing a new composition It Never Fails written by composers Greenberg & Goldwasser of People Are Wrong!

FLANSBURGH IN PEOPLE ARE WRONG! MARCH 19
PAW returns to a one-night-only reunion of People Are Wrong! at Joe’s Pub. Tickets for the second show remain. Get 'em at [link]erformanceID=1841 or telecharge.com. The Joe's Pub box office is at 425 Lafayette St., NYC.

Ladies and gentlemen-
A few words from John "56k modem" Flansburgh, guitarist of They Might Be Giants:
APRIL TOUR
"Will we be doing new songs? Yes. Songs you've never heard? Yes. Old songs we'd forgotten how to play 'TIL NOW? Yes yes yes. Will Marty "On the Drums" Beller punch the air before we go on stage? Can't promise. Will Dan and Danny unleash their monstrous rock powers on your unsuspecting town? Only if they deem it necessary...

NEW ALBUM COMING LATER
They Might Be Giants are proud to announce we are working on a number of tracks with legendary producers the Dust Bros. (Beck, Beastie Boys, Hanson) and on the entire project with longtime pal/producer/engineer Pat Dillett (Mary J. Blige, David Byrne, "The Spine"). While we are hard at work on the effort, there is no current release date and it will probably take a while to make it perfect.

FREE TMBG SUMMER LIVE PODCAST JUBILEE
The band is doing a full free concert July 1st to celebrate our first 6 months of They Might Be Giants' podcast. The show will take place at the strangely awesome Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. Everyone from Boston to NYC should know this is event is "closer than you think" in the words of [link]. The hotel/casino is, in the words of someone who read that Hunter Thompson book, "a mind trip taking you deep into the future of the past." The venue itself, the Wolf's Den, is pretty darn fancy (especially for those of you who see us at other CT haunts) with a very big stage and state-of-the-art sound. It is fully seated without a bad view in the house, with awesome standing room on the perimeter of the venue. Seating is strictly first-come first-served seating, but you are expected to drink and tip well (it is a casino, everybody). We invite everyone within the reach of this email correspondence to get a room and make a weekend of it. Even if you don't gamble, the place is a shrine to eccentric casino architecture. To prepare yourself, may I suggest Learning From Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form [link] If you do partake in the gambling, beware Marty Beller. He does not lose.
Shameless promosion Tag!
To get to the big show, may we suggest renting a car the TMBG way at [link]. Cheap and cheerful they are!
Plans are to record this event and podcast it later. We plan on special guests, presenting some very special material (both brand-new and brand-old) for the event, and putting some of our horn-playing friends to work.

4 REALZ [link]
The fine folks at the home office of TMBG have taken the reins of the They Might Be Giants myspace space, and posted some new stuff there. We want to sincerely thank the street team for starting it all up at myspace and doing such a fine job with it up 'til now. With all our other content-providing duties already keeping us quite busy, hopefully keeping myspace fresh will not overwhelm us!
Hope to see all of you on the tour!"
John F.

NEW FREE MP3s AVAILABLE RIGHT NOW AND NOT LATER
At [link]
"(She Was A) Hotel Detective in the Future" is up at tmbg.com/freeTunes.html. The username is tmbg and the password is thespinesurfs.
At [link]
"P.S.O.K" (secretly titled: Paul Stanley of Kiss") is available for your downloading pleasure at theymightbegiants.com. The track features Jeremy Chatzky, featured bassist on Bruce Springsteen’s upcoming "Seeger Sessions" album, on fuzz bass.

RANDOM NOTES -This is interesting [link]
This is interesting yet jaw-droppingly obscene. Totally not for kids or prudes!
[link]

TMBG.COM SITE NOW TAKES PAYPAL
The store at tmbg.com now takes PayPal along with all major credit cards. Keep our bandwidth and buses rolling when you support TMBG’s ecommerce site. Brand new t-shirt designs include 30's Drunk Guy and "Visit Amish Country". Plus there's DVDs of Venue Songs and Here Come the ABCs. To visit TMBG’s secure ecommerce site directly click on this link: [link]

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