{"id":291,"date":"2006-04-04T11:24:28","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T16:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=291"},"modified":"2006-04-04T15:35:50","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T20:35:50","slug":"could-possibly-be-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=291","title":{"rendered":"Could possibly be giants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmbg.com\/\">They Might Be Giants<\/a> are on tour.  They have this thing at their site called &#8220;Venue Songs&#8221;.  The site is making a big deal of the fact that they are writing a whole new song for each location they play.  That would be impressive for any other band, but we already knew these guys could write songs pretty much at will.  What&#8217;s amazing to me is that they have a new <em>music video<\/em> for each of those songs, and that these seem to come at the rate of about once a week.  <\/p>\n<p>I can believe that they can write songs this fast.  Heck, I&#8217;ll bet they could churn out song ideas at the rate of one every couple of minutes if they needed to.  But how do you get a new music video done in a week?  These music videos are not just them on stage, playing the song in question.  Most of them look like very well-done flash animations.  Those things take time to produce.  As much as I like TMBG, I think the real hero in this venture is whoever is churning out these videos. <\/p>\n<p>And as is usual with TMBG, you can see all the videos and hear all the songs on their site for free.  They don&#8217;t even make an effort to recoup the expense of playing it for you.  There isn&#8217;t an ad anywhere on the site. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>They Might Be Giants are on tour. They have this thing at their site called &#8220;Venue Songs&#8221;. The site is making a big deal of the fact that they are writing a whole new song for each location they play. That would be impressive for any other band, but we already knew these guys could [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nerd-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}