ART WE LIKE: They Might Be Giants

Now, Dan and I don't have kids, and I don't know anybody who thinks that's a bad thing, but a friend of ours with a kid gave us a copy of the HERE COME THE ABCs CD/DVD release from They Might Be Giants, and I have to tell you, these guys have more than earned their place in our library, largely because of this song:



Unfortunately, this is just a video somebody made on YouTube, but you can appreciate the genius of the song. The real video TMBG made and put on their DVD includes a bear sitting at the mixing board during a live in-studio performance of the song, and then the bear comes out to sing duet in the "George Washington's head" segment.

Here's the best part: This is for kids!!! HERE COME THE ABCs is the second of three children's albums TMBG has released to date, and Dan and I are pretty sure that a lack of exposure to Surrealism is one of the root causes for all the trouble people seem to be having with kids these days. Let it be so no longer. If you have children, you should pull a CLOCKWORK ORANGE on them and make them watch these videos.

Of course, TMBG has been on our radar for a long time. We've been fans pretty much since they did this:



Vince out.