Sunday, October 18, 2009

When I am not riding my bike...

or parenting or working my job/earning money or doing stuff one has to do to keep one's home from falling into totally chaos and filth or reading, this is the sort of thing I do long after I should be in bed sleeping...

Inspired by They Might Be Giants' new album, Here Comes Science, I handmade three concert t-shirts for my fellas for our concert experience this afternoon down at NYU's Skirball Center. Fun, fun, fun. We all clapped our hands, stomped our feet, jumped in the air, & sang out. These guys are clever, funny, great musicians, and rockin' entertainers. P and I and all the other parents with kids our boys' ages are MOST grateful they started writing and recording kids' music.


Inspired by Meet the Elements: ""Elephants are mostly made of four elements/ And every living thing is mostly made of four elements/ Plants, bugs, birds, fish, bacteria, & man/Are mostly carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, & oxygen."
Reflecting the lyrics F's favorite song from the album-- I am a Palentologist.


The horn parts of Electric Car are truly brilliant.










5 comments:

MamaVee said...

freaking awesome.

I want a "take a ride" shirt. We are TMBG fans here too. B and I have been fans since we were in HS. ( one john is from B's hs although a few years older) We too are so thankful they started doing kids music. I love it when my kids get all excited and ask for TMBG. Although Girlpie calls it " THERE might be giants" which is so cute.

I wish we could go to a concert.

biff said...

yOu RoCk, Mom!

Penelope said...

We are SO SO jealous. We almost went! Wish we hadn't missed it. Glad to know you were there.

Miss Sarah said...

Awww. So cute! Maybe Dexter can have their hand-me-downs?

I like TMBG too, my best friend introduced them to me in high school. When I got my hair cut last year I kept singing, "Bangs... above your eyes your hair hangs..." in my head.

S*

Andrea said...

These are amazing!...and I gotta get my hands on that CD (hmmm...good stocking stuffer idea!)