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From the TMBG collection: It's my Steve Keene Pink Album cover painting. Keene is a Brooklyn artist well known for his extensive series of album cover interpretations and his "assembly-line Picasso" approach to mass production of his work. His technique is to cover the walls with 12" plywood canvases and paint many copies of the same work simultaneously.

Keene has stated, "I want buying my paintings to be like buying a CD: it’s cheap, it's art and it changes your life, but the object has no status. Musicians create something for the moment, something with no boundaries and that kind of expansiveness is what I want to come across in my work."

About twenty years ago I came across Keene himself selling some of his work on eBay, and I was lucky enough to acquire the one TMBG painting that he was offering 🙌

I presented it to the Johns for autographs at a 2005 in-store signing

*Inset obligatory “Why Did You Grow A Beard?” quote here*

Yeah…this really was a textbook example of a first world problem, in that it wasn’t a problem at all, asshats!

Hey you gotta cut us some slack, and by us I mean we who attended this 2014 show featuring the first public appearance of the elusive Linnell beard. It was a quite a shock that required a reasonable adjustment period. Subsequent beard appearances were justifiably celebrated 🙌

Experimental Music!

The first brief clip of some Flansburgh comments is from NYC’s Mercury Lounge on 11/6/97. I think this was the first time that I ever smelled pot at a TMBG show.

The second clip is from 3/13/99 in Providence, RI. in which Flansy relates a funny story about the history of pot smoking at their shows. He seems to make reference to those previous comments.

I was not in attendance for story time, but I did post a recording on my TMBG fan page. TMBG downloaded the MP3 from my site and later included it as part of “TMBG Unlimited”.

A reenactment of my reaction to Jack Black on "Last Man On Earth"

THE STICK 🔥🔥 STICK MENTION

I want somebody that looks at me the way that Special Agent Dale Cooper looks at the tiny green Flood guy floating in his coffee 🙌

PURPLE TOUPEE ALL IN MY BRAIN

"Luckily for TMBG, their pre-planned synchronized bow was coincidently timed with the nearby nuclear explosion, curbing exposure and thus allowing the band to escape the worst of its effects"