People! A little louder clapping with a little less feeling!

[vovat]

QUOTE OF THE DAY: "I'm not saying I'm Leonardo da Vinci. I'm probably closer to Leonardo DiCaprio, in musical terms." --Andy Partridge

So, after months of intending to move my web page but not quite getting around to it, I finally went ahead and did it. Take a look at it, okay? It's very bare-bones, and pretty much exactly like it looked on the last two servers, but I know I'm totally inept at the graphic design, so I'm not even bothering to try. The colors are the ones I chose back when I first made a web page ten years ago, and I've gotten too attached to them to change them now. Let me know if there are any obvious problems, or anything I can do to make it better. Also, if there are any sites you think I need to link to on the links page, or anything there that doesn't work, let me know. The "Friends' and Acquaintances' Pages" section is really skimpy at this point. Back when I was in college, I knew so many people with personal web pages. Now, not only have I lost touch with most of those people, but their old pages no longer seem to exist. What with the LiveJournal and the blogs and the MySpace and the Facebook and whatnot, it seems like people are less inclined to have their own personal web pages. And that's fine, but if any of you DO still have web pages, feel free to let me know about them.

And now, some thoughts on the most recent They Might Be Giants podcast. There was some cool stuff this time around, although I'd already heard most of it. It started out with some non-"Taste The Fame" songs from the Home Movies episode in which the Johns guest starred. Also included is "Too+3 R One," TMBG's boy band pastiche, and one of the best tracks from their Battle of the Bands project (which they really should revive). "Your Mom's Alright" is definitely the better of the two known collaborations with Mike Doughty, yet it's "Mr. Xcitement" that made the album. Well, in this county, anyway. The European label took a lot of liberties with the tracklist, and while I can't really fault them for wanting to replace "Mr. Xcitement," they also cut out "Wicked Little Critta," which is pretty much unforgiveable. Moving on, I'm not that enamored with "Agent Double-O Soul," but John Flansburgh sounds like he's having a lot of fun with it, and that's the important thing, isn't it? His partner on the song is Jeb Parrish, formerly of the band Gravel Pit, which was the first opening act I ever saw for TMBG, back in 1997. Oh, well. XTC's "My Brown Guitar" is also here, and it came as a pleasant surprise. As for the schoolchildren singing "Particle Man," well, the fact that it exists is crazy enough to merit a few listens, but it gets irritating pretty quickly. And that's that, I suppose.

Comments

I've gotten too attached to them to change them now.

[bec-87rb.livejournal.com]

And I love the neon backgrounds! My eyes are still jigglin'. XD

Re: I've gotten too attached to them to change them now.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I can't even remember whether I actually picked out those colors, or they were just the result of random hexadecimal codes.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

You could link to my List of all the Books I Ever Read if you're desperate for new friend-and-aquaintences-pages. I even updated it recently after forgetting to update it for half a year or so!

I remember the show with the Gravel Pit opening. If I recall, they were the worst band I have ever seen in concert ever. (At least I think it was them. The name sounds about right, and it was some opening act I saw at the HUB).

[vovat.livejournal.com]

You could link to my List of all the Books I Ever Read if you're desperate for new friend-and-aquaintences-pages.

Would you prefer if I linked to the book list, or to your front page? Does the front page even include a link to the book one?

Yeah, you were at the same show I was, so I'm sure you saw the Gravel Pit. About all I remember about them was that they were really loud, and that the lead singer (presumably Jeb) had maracas and said that college campuses are usually "a bunch of fucking stiffs."

I'm not sure what the worst band I've ever seen live was. The weirdest was definitely Afroman opening for TMBG, but at least that was memorable, which is more than I can say about some of the other openers I've seen. I get the impression that a lot of the lousy openers are local acts chosen by the concert promoters, though, while I think the Gravel Pit was a band that the Johns purposely chose to tour with them. But then, making great music yourself doesn't mean that your tastes in other music are impeccable.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

The main page of my website-- I mean, ye olde index.html, is actually just my own personal links page that I can set as my homepage and then, ta da-- a portable bookmarks reference page-- not really interesting to the outside person.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Oh, and there isn't a link to the book page on it, because I've been too lazy to fix that, even though that (the fact that there isn't a link there) has annoyed me myself.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Oh, okay. I went ahead and linked to your list of books.

[l8erngr8er.livejournal.com]

I like your website. Sometimes, simpler is better and that's true most of the time with homemade websites. The minute you start making the page play music, uploading ALL of the pictures that you have onto one page, adding java to ALL of the pictures so that it looks like it's snowing in everyone one of them, and embedding everything else that you possibly can onto your page, then you have a problem (and believe me, plenty of people do...including me, at one point.)

In case you were wondering, the same rules apply for MySpace.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I like your website.

Thanks.

Sometimes, simpler is better and that's true most of the time with homemade websites.

Yeah, I know. I've come across so many pages that take hours to load, or are practically impossible to read. I might actually have to write a separate post about some of the annoying things people do when making web pages.