So just got back from TMBG's UCSB's family concert. Still rocking even when their songs are about ABC's and 1 2 3's. I was able to get my sister to come with me at the youth price but the most audience there today was children. UCSB was really pushing for the FAMILY people. It seemed like more of the fans that were there lost their geeky fan-isms once they had kids, but still loved the band enough to get take their kids to it. There were people sitting in front of us who didn't seem to get it, like who they are and where just there cause it looked the wives were more into it....Oh Flansburgh even called a shotout to the "shy-dads" and that summed up the rest of the crowd that was there, outside the fans and the kids.

I think the kids really dig these guys. I hardly saw some Meltdowns, and some kids seemed to fall asleep. The show was 70 minets so I think it was just A LOT to take in for some of the littler ones, and there were babies in there. TMBG's songs are way more sophisticated then say the Wiggles, and they did most of the songs from No!, which IMO was more alternative then the other albums...but that's the one thing that I really regret with TMBG doing this kid show stuff. I mean sure it's a FAMILY show, but I don't want people to label them as a Kid's Band. I blame Disney for pushing this idea on the audience to think about the band this way, the band came out with playing "Hot Dog", which might be the only song I hate of theirs. I gotta give credit to UCSB though, they're certainly the better place to hold these concerts, then the Ventura Theater that I was at last time. They treat the audience better and it attracts the right people for TMBG.

And I wanted to bring up my TMBG club ...I'm a little sad that I haven't updated that in a while, but life is so crazy that I can't really dedicate too much time into it. Plus I was reminded about people who Ship the two Johns together. That's a thing that needs to stop. I'm all for 34ing cartoons and fictional characters, but shipping two actors or performers like the Myth Busters, the Beatles, the Harry Potter actors, and anyone else you might have the hots for or just have the urge to draw some sick artwork. But these are REAL people and they have real lives. Cartoons are not real and they cannot put restraining orders on you.

Plus I'm waiting for DA to do their Club thing...which they STILL havn't cleared up WHEN and HOW they're going to deal with that. When ever they get that new feature together, I'm gonna go through and clean up the gallery. Get rid of some of the crazy journals, the dead members, and encourage people to go strait to the TMBG website for news. I think the club would benefit to either having a stamp for people to post around...still need to figure out what DA wants to do with clubs. BUT I won't clear out the deviations, I think that they need to go back to the DA artists who drew them. Seems more appropriate. If it's still technically my club I need to just make some executive decisions on it and clean it up.

Anyway, had fun and was totally cool, even though I was surrounded by kids.

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