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Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” pays homage to 1955’s “Night of the Hunter” starring Robert Mitcham as the preacher with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his knuckles as a means of delivering a sermon. The sermon is reenacted in Lee’s 1989 film using LOVE/HATE knuckle rings. Just five months before its release, They Might Be Giants appeared on a magazine cover wearing similar knuckle rings. I have not read the corresponding article and was wondering if this was also a nod to NotH? It seems likely since you are known to be a fan of the 1955 film, Mono Puff covered a song from it and the face of Pearl appears in the Why Does The Sun Shine? EP was also your live backdrop.

JF: YES!

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From the TMBG collection: A two page setlist from the TLA in Philadelphia on November 24, 2000. Their regular spotlight guy was unavailable so They used the house technician and provided this setlist with notes and extra details including who sings what and an approximation of solo location within each song.

My favorite note is for Fingertips: Don't try to follow

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From the TMBG collection: Shirts. Lots and lots of shirts. At least thirty more since I took this photo. They keep making new ones, what can I do? Well over a hundred at this point. Do I have a problem? No, this is just my thing leave me alone

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I have an alternate universe The Else record signed by the band!

Me after accidentally stepping into the Malicious Portal and ending up in an alternate universe: Dang...what music will I possibly listen to now?

John Liminal, John Fansblood, Marty Heller, Dan Killer and Danny Warfare:

#danish wenkup

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My top five temporal recursion films:

Groundhog Day

Edge of Tomorrow

Run Lola Run

Palm Springs

Boss Level

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From the TMBG collection: My 18" x 12" photo collage by Jeremy Wolff is a recreation of one of his two John & John pieces that was featured on an official postcard in the 90's, pictured below for comparison 🙌

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I love that writer/director/TMBG fan Peyton Reed chose Ana Ng as the backing music to the ultimate nerd party in 2008's "Yes Man", but it always bothered me that you can only just barely hear it. I fixed that. Also, Rhys Darby! <3

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It's World Book Day so here are some of my most recent reads 📘

I'm always reading a new novel every two or three weeks. Mostly science fiction, fantasy, horror, thriller and suspense. Lately been on a John Scalzi kick. Really great stuff. ❤️

#world book day #john scalzi #mark greaney #dean koontz #patrick rothfuss #terry brooks #clive cussler #tom clancy #christopher paolini #stephen king #m.r. carey

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reblogs > likes. Id in alt text and below the "see more". little bonus thing also below the "see more"

Another one.... i'm kinda obsessed w drawing them sorry..!!

[ID: a digital painting of john linnell and john flansburgh in front of a white heart shape over a dark grey square. linnell is looking up at the camera and smiling. he's wearing a white long-sleeved shirt and holding flowers. he has rings on his hand that spell out "LOVE". flansburgh is facing towards linnell and frowning. he's wearing a black long sleeved shirt with white accents on the neckline and pockets. he's holding a gray paper cut out of a gun. he has rings on his hand that spell out "HATE". between the two of them in the middle of the heart is text that reads "Our town: Love it or else". at the bottom of the heart there is a cartoony drawing of the two of them. flansburgh is looking at linnell with an exaggeratedly angry expression and one fist up like he's going to punch him. linnell is smiling widely and holding flowers in front of him. End ID]

Bonus: transparent png of the two cartoony versions of them cuz i thought it was super cute

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From the TMBG collection: A sign that was posted on the stage barricade at the 2004 Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival in Prospect Park

Dan Miller adds, "Right on!"

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Happy Earth Day. Science Is Real! 🌎

#they might be giants #tmbg #earth day #science is real

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If you know, you know

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From the TMBG collection: Some of my many #1 foam fingers including specially marked editions worn at my 100th, 150th, 200th and 250th shows☝️

#they might be giants #tmbg #foam fingers #tmbg number one #tmbg collection

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From the TMBG collection: Ana Ng music video prop face off with John F. Kennedy Memorial Drinking Glass vs Touring: The Famous Automobile Card Game 🙌

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From the TMBG collection: When I posted my record collection, the one that was missing is my original issue Don't Let's Start 12" EP that is framed on my wall, displaying the back of the album.

The frame also holds four of my milestone ticket stubs: Show #100, Show #200, Birthday Show (#236) and Show #250 on the 25th anniversary of #1 🙌

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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