The Music of The Sound of Young America

I love The Sound of Young America. I love it so much that I'm a donating member of MaximumFun.org, and that means that I get to download the special radio edition of the podcast each week. Between the segments you get to hear some just perfect beats by Dan Wally. I haven't been able to find any information about Dan, but he is good. I ripped a couple of his beats out of TSOYA for my own purposes to use as ringtones, and I figured the rest of the world might like them too.


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The Sound of Young America features a lot more music that what you hear here and plenty of great interviews from the inimitable Jesse Thorn.

They Might Be Giants at The Vogue

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They Might Be Giants at The Louisville Waterfront

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They Might Be Giants at The Southgate House

This past week my good friend Tom and I went on a whilrwind tour of the midwest to see They Might Be Giants live and in concert. Our first stop was the Southgate House in Cincinnati or more accurately, since the best parts of Cincinnati are in Kentucky, in Newport. We got our picture taken with the band before hand and got our CDs autographed. This show was the best of the three we saw. The energy was massive and the band really fed off it. This was my first time ever seeing They Might Be Giants and I'm so happy that it was such an incredible show.
                     

Tom's Corn Maze!

 

The gang heads to Tom's Corn Maze in Germantown, Ohio. My team won! Afterward there was a glow in the dark pumpkin launch! So much fun it looks like we're going to another corn maze next week. This time the largest in Indiana.

The Hall of Geeks

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Crainiac Part 2

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Browns @ Colts 9-18-11

Thanks to my great and generous Uncle John I was able to go to the Colts game this past Sunday against the Browns. It was a terrible game that any other year would have been a walkthrough but we lost and that's terrible. Still, I had a lot of fun. It was my first game at Lucas Oil as a fan. You may remember my brief time working as a photographer there that ranks as one of the worst jobs I've ever had. If this season gets worse I may get to go again. If I only get to go when the Colts are terrible, then I'll just have to live with that.