clowntown daily dispatch (acey’s bejeweled baguette): currently screaming about fanfiction

they didn’t have my favorite flavor of bang at the store...truly this is the greatest tragedy that could ever possibly befall me

 

thankfully the cotton candy bang is...actually surprisingly decent? not a FAVORITE, but it’s nice.

(sour heads is the best flavor though. mmmmm, sour candy. <3)

 

hello my name is acey and i have strong opinions on energy drinks

 

OH MY GOD THE NEW TMBG VIDEO IS SO GOOD

(video cws: blood, murder (also applicable to the lyrics), decay)

 

So do I! They suck.

 

a Foolish Coward from when i was a teenager on last.fm: tmbg is a silly novelty band with no REAL skill
me, an intellectual: actually, they have a lot of emotional depth and are very talented

 

NOW LISTEN HERE...

(jk to each their own)

 

ACTUALLY ON A TANGENT, it always bothers me when people act like actual comedic music is Inherently Dumb And Bad, which is something i saw a lot on the last.fm boards.

take weird al, for instance. the guy's hilarious, and the biggest reason he's up there is to make you laugh, but he's also one of the most genuinely brilliant musicians in the biz, in every capacity from composition to performance. and i'm glad every decent human being who's ever heard his music loves him for his humor, but i feel like he doesn't get enough love as a musician.

or ninja sex party! really silly sex humor band that does songs about ninjas and orgies...and they're exceedingly skilled musicians. ninja brian is an amazing multi-instrumentalist, and danny's voice is just...mindblowingly brilliant. (i think the under the covers albums do a pretty good job of showing just how brilliant they are, incidentally.)

tl;dr music being funny does not mean it's bad music.

(also tmbg isn't even a comedy band despite getting lumped in with actual comedy bands/artists CONSTANTLY there. they have some funny songs and they're very witty, but they have even more songs that are weirdly philosophical or even deeply emotional so fuck you.)

 

incidentally, here are some good weird al and nsp songs to tickle your funny bone and be awesome. enjoy!
(style parody of tmbg!)
(seasonally appropriate!)
(one of his funniest parodies imo, it's...it doesn't go in the direction you'd expect it to, is all i'll say)
(cw for the video: eye trauma, blood, murder, drugs, also nsfw lyrics)
(very nsfw lyrics)

 

my facebook is wonderful sometimes

 

tmbg fans stan icons

 

i cannot recall if i shared this in this thread or my vent but it bears sharing again regardless

robin goldwasser and john flansburgh are my celebrity otp tbh, they've been happily married for 22 years and they're so fucking adorable

 

sometimes i mix up kintsugi reactions with facebook reactions and briefly get confused

 

MY TMBG SANTEE LOVED HIS GIFT AND MY SANTA GOT ME A LOVELY SU SKETCHBOOK

AND GRID GOT ME THE LINCOLN REMASTER ON VINYL

AAAAAAAAAH :D

 

Spoiler: wead

 

today's song: canajoharie!

 

another thought about this video: i love the art style so much. it actually kinda reminds me of like...the little golden book kinda art style? something you'd see in a children's picture book. BUT it's juxtaposed with incredibly dark themes and blood and murder and shit, and the juxtaposition works.

(also the black widow lady is hot)

 

literally my only gripe about the mrs. bluebeard video (and it's a very minor gripe that doesn't detract from my love of the video) is that it doesn't quite follow the story of the song (which is the story of bluebeard told from the pov of one of the wives he killed)--and that's honestly only a gripe i have because i super love the song's meaning.

it's a similar story, though, and it's kinda neat how the title kinda has two different meanings: "one of bluebeard's wives" for the song, and "essentially bluebeard if he were a lady" for the video? not sure if that part was intentional, but i think it's p cool.

 

i have 16186 songs on my phone apparently

 

winner but also how do you find anything acey omg