So yesterday, Squirrel and I made our trek to Greenville to see They Might be Giants on stage. Boy, it was so worth it.
We left Atlanta around 4 ish, and had a rather uneventful journey northward, passing a trucker stop that had a $10 20oz. rib-eye steak, and Cafe Risque who had speacial trucker discounts. These amused me to no end. Most of the trip up was spent talking, texting, or singing till we were hoarse. it was great fun.
Once we got to the handlebar, we got one of the last parking spots near the front (score!) and made our way over to a little italian place that served us really bad tasting food. Having our fill of that establishment, we returned to the handlebar to enjoy the free wifi, and to get ourselves a round of drinks. once our internet needs were satisfied, we went ahead and ventured into the main stage area to discover that some of TMBG’s guitars were simply sitting over at the side, completely unguarded. Squirrel blocked my attempts to walk over and steal touch them, and we then proceeded to wait for the show to start.
The show began with the band Oppenheimer, an Irish band who you should absolutely check out. The lead singer/drummer (who looks a bit like moby) was quite amusing as he continually checked to make sure he wasn’t talking too fast. The music was great, and I would have stayed around after the show to get their CD, but alas, we had to leave. But that comes later in the story.
After Oppenheimer, there was a bit of time for me to go run and get another beer, which involved me going to the bar, getting told i need a wrist band, then getting a wristband (which were advertisements for a law firm that deals with DUI cases… BRILLIANT!), then going back to the bar, missing out on the tossing of the big TMBG foam fingers, and finally getting my beer. Christ.
Once i returned to my spot with squirrel (right next to the stage right confetti cannon), we waited impatiently for TMBG to come on. They started off with “The Mesopotamians” from their new Album “The Else” which you should also totally go out and buy right now so stop reading this for a bit and come back once you have the album.
The show continued on, with lots of energy and lights. I was close enough to John Flansburgh that i was able to get this fantastic picture of him kicking:
The show continued on for 2 hours, and had 2 fake endings. I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of older material they performed, considering this tour is to promote their new album which you have bought already because i told you to earlier. right?
After the show was over, Marty Beller came out, and gave his drumsticks to some adoring fans (squirrel wanted them, but we were off by like thiiiis much) and the techies handed out the set lists (of which squirrel got one and i will try to post the list here later). I was also able to score squirrel a pick from Flansburgh or Dan Miller (it could have been either) to squirrel’s delight.
We then piled back into the car, and took off, only briefly stopping for a pit stop at a gas station (where i got me some CHEERWINE!) and continued back to Atlanta, in a rather uneventful trip, fighting sleep and waiting for our hearing to return.
All in all, a very good evening of fun.
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