Wiki Little Critta

[vovat]

Man, why has the Internet gotten so boring recently? I mean, it's entertaining at times, but only when other people post interesting things. But the Internet is supposed to be something I can use to entertain myself without help from others, isn't it?

Anyway, in my boredom, I've been looking over the entries for individual songs at the They Might Be Giants Wiki, and I've noticed two recurring themes:

1. People can come up with really bizarre interpretations for the simplest songs. I mean, just look at all the argument over "Birdhouse in Your Soul" and "Doctor Worm," each of which I think can be pretty well interpreted in a single sentence.
2. The song ratings are very generous. Ratings are done on a scale of one to ten, yet even the lowest song on there has an average rating of 5.41. I can't really take issue with this sort of rating, though, as I do the same thing. I mean, I probably like the vast majority of what TMBG has turned out, and a song I like should get at least a 5, right? I'm not going to do some bell curve thing and give really low ratings to songs I don't like as much, and I guess other wiki participants feel the same way. I still find it oddly entertaining, however, that the song they did for a Play-Doh commercial has an average rating of 8.

One cool thing I found on there was an unreleased Venue Song. I wonder how many others of those there are. I seem to recall hearing that there was one for Irving Plaza.

And here's the result of a quiz that I got from annarama:

What American accent do you have? Your Result: The Midland   "You have a Midland accent" is just another way of saying "you don't have an accent." You probably are from the Midland (Pennsylvania, southern Ohio, southern Indiana, southern Illinois, and Missouri) but then for all we know you could be from Florida or Charleston or one of those big southern cities like Atlanta or Dallas. You have a good voice for TV and radio.
The South
Philadelphia
The Northeast
The Inland North
The West
Boston
North Central
What American accent do you have? Quiz Created on GoToQuiz

Comments

[leolapyre.livejournal.com]

I seem to recall hearing that there was one for Irving Plaza.


That is correct :) I went to that show and downloaded it afterwards. Compared to some of the other venue song, the Irving Plaza one wasn't too good.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

I guess that's why they didn't bother including it on the album. I still wouldn't mind hearing it, though.

[obsessical.livejournal.com]

Well that Play-Doh song was pretty bitchin'.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

True, but I don't know if I'd rank it THAT highly.

It is amusing how TMBG has apparently become the go-to band for songs in commercials. But then, they do tend to write stuff that's short and catchy, which is exactly what an advertising jingle should be.

[rockinlibrarian.livejournal.com]

Here's something I almost posted on that could keep you and others looking for new and exciting ways to waste time on the 'Net making up new memes for days: Entertainment Weekly's recently posted lists galore of 1000 best pop culture things of the past 25 years. Several author blogs I stalk who have works in the book list posted about it yesterday, and reading the lists I couldn't help thinking "This is totally one of those lists somebody is going to make one of those "Bold the ones you like/Don't like/have seen-read-heard/haven't even heard of" memes out of, except it's like 25 of those memes in one." Also, I can't seem to find anything on this site that explains how they even came up with these lists in the first place, and they really ought to, since some of it is definitely debatable. Anyway, if you're still bored, there you go. I might just go ahead and make some meme out of some of it if I can't find anything else to do in the next couple days, but I doubt that's likely.

[vovat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link. Maybe if you don't make it into a meme, I will. I'm not sure exactly how it would work for, say, the memoir shockers, though.