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I was at the pet store buying food…for myself…(uh, no, although it did look pretty darned good…better than eating mac-and-cheese every night for a week…no, I spent way too much money on gourmet food for my dog…)…and I was wearing my Oingo Boingo shirt. The guy at the checkout counter says, “Hey, you like Boingo, too?” I give him what I”m guessing is a very shocked look and say, “Yes, you know who they are…” He replied, “Yeah, I do…I’ve listened to those guys since I was 10 years old! I have the original “Only a Lad” LP, with the handpainted cover. Your dog kind of looks like Zero, by the way. Did you know that Danny sang the voice of Jack?” (I took my dog with me). By this time, I’m almost hyperventilating, thinking “Dear god, there is someone in this godforsaken town who knows!” I stupidly couldn’t think of anything witty, or even semi-memorable to say, so I just merely replied “Yeah, I did know that. I didn’t think that there were many others that liked Elfman’s music. Do you like his film scores?” And to my lessening sense of surprise, we chatted about Black Beauty, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Spider-man, and what scores we want Red Dragon to sound like. We talked for about half an hour, while he cleaned up the store and then closed it. We went our seperate ways, and I’ll probably never see him again, but at least I know that there’s a guy named Dave who works at the PetArk and shares the Elfmania
At my high school last year i would always wear all my nightmare and danny tee’s not really thinking anybody would care.Everyone in my theatre classes would always ask me about my shirts and day in and day out i would tell them about how wonderful nightmare,edward scissorhands, and pee-wee where (you get the point). Well, as the year went on i basically had everybody in theatre trained…they would come up to me and say “I saw this nightmare tee at suncoast”, “I saw a batman tee here” etc…..it was so cool to see people respond to him…hopefully i created some true fans.
Erika, Yah it is hard finding people, but when you do, it’s the greatest feeling ever! That guy at the pet shop rocks!!!!
xmasgrl83
Yeah man, people like that you should keep around. So make it a habit of going in there to shop for your dog at the same time as his shift…keep the convo going a few times over the dog food, and you never know. I don’t even have to tell you about Miami — Cubans pretty much listen to whatever known stereotype you see in the films and on tv. And they ALL love Scarface. For some reason, a vulgar, ballsy, violent, disrespectful ex-criminal Cuban rafter appeals to them…The video is never in the video store! I think it’s pretty sad that they come to America seeking refuge. Their ex leader charges the immigrants as being mafia like, and here they are getting insulted about that — all the while they have Tony Montana, cocaine king of Miami, as their idol. Go figure. I’ll stick with Boingo and it’s non- politics.
There was a guy in my bowling class last Spring semester who had the same tattoo as Danny on his leg. We had got to talking about tattoos, and he showed it to me, and I was like, “Oh my God! Are you a Boingo fan?” So then we talked about Elfman and bowled together all the time. He was a pretty cool guy.
dobbs, what are you talking about, Boingo and its “non–politics?” Boingo’s music is quite frequently VERY political. This is especially obvious on their earlier albums, but it continued all the way through their “lifespan.” Songs like “Capitalism,” “Insanity,” “Wake Up (It’s 1984),” “What You See,” and several others are politically themed songs. Those are some of my favorites, by the way.
Hey — I have a story exactly like that, except not related to Elfman at all in any way possible!
One day I was on my way to the City Hall to get a new passport (‘cos I was going to England for a while) and I stopped off at Subway. I was wearing my Monty Python sneakers, my Monty Python KILLER RABBIT (Run away! Run away!) shirt, and a custom worker shirt that read on one side “Monty Python’s Flying Circus” and on the other “Lion Tamer: J. Cleese” (it had also been autographed by John Cleese at the collar.)
Well, the guy at the counter started reciting Python quotes in those deep, Terry Jones voices like…“THE MEANING OF LIFE PART FIVE…
LIVE ORGAN TRANSPLANTS!”and when I started cracking up (how can you hear the mention of live organ transplants and not crack up?) we got into a whole two hour conversation about how we didn’t like Life of Brian or Jabberwocky as much as Holy Grail and Meaning of Life, but the “Always look on the bright side of life” song was so priceless. *whistles the song and waves hands around head*
I never saw the guy again, but yeah. I should bring him my Monty Python toilet paper.Anyhoo… I have almost every Nightmare shirt, and every time I wear one, some kid walks up to me and says “Hey…I saw that movie. I used to love that movie” I sit here, ‘Greeeat.’ What are you supposed to tell them? ‘Can I have your organ? It’ll only take a minute.’ NO. I hate that.
-Em
“Oh hey, aren’t you that stupid cop on TV?” :scratches ear with the tip of gun:
-Chief Wiggumsit seems like every time I ‘present myself’ as a fan of one thing or another, the coolest of people just pop in out of the woodwork to talk to me. you know the dumb ones won’t even approach you, so you don’t even have to try and they automatically filter themselves. that, or some dork comes up to say, “yeah well, john-en vasquez sucls and he can’t draw!” but, usually those type of people don’t bother to approach and talk about you.. though they don’t know you. so you get either the best.. or the worst of the groups. wait.. did anyone understand that?
I remember going to the video store and this girl who worked there just glanced at me the way everyone else does, but when I asked her where I could find ‘modern vampires’ she totally opened up to me. we laughed about richard elfman’s lovely ‘donut cop’ performance.. {hang on… red dragon commercial is on.. damn. no music!} and she sugested I see ‘ginger snaps’ and we talked of boingo.. it was just an awesome thing.
now, in conclusion- it’s just like sex and the city: the good ones are out there, you just have to look.
lexi: oh, I just realized why everyone’s been quoting the simpsons on this site. heh.
Man, the guy at the pet store was the *only* interesting person I’ve met in Lincoln in quite a while. With me, you’ll usually end up hearing about one thing: Vladimir Nabokov, and Russian Lit. in the process. (I keep Elfman to myself, unless somebody catches me listening to a score, and says “Hey, you like Elfman?” or I”m listening to Boingo and the same thing occurs…hey, I like to keep that obsession to myself). I was completely convinced that the only mildly interesting people here were my former college profs…and even they get weirded out by me at times! Consequently, I don’t hang out with them all that often anymore – maybe once every couple of months – because they’re all deciding to go and have children. Anywho, I suppose I could go back there to see if he’s working, but I think that was just one of those “once in a lifetime” types of things. I’d prefer to keep it my recollection of it as giddy and interesting as possible, rather than potentially ruin it by pursuing further social interaction with the guy, only to find out that we have literally nothing else in common (Yeah, I’m antisocial as hell).
hey hey! (that’s almost a simpsons quote.)
I’m thinkin’…. mfadp convention thingy! yay! we shall all get various degrees of weirdedoutness until the last one standing is.. erika probably. (don’t deny it girl, I’ve read allllllll about your drooling tales!) then, we’ll stand around someone who goes on and one about a score that no one really thinks about.. say.. dead presidents? (well, actually I thought it was a cool one, just unmemorable.) and we eventually get bored and start talking about boingo. to finish the wonderful day, a group of elf-haters shall invade the convention hall and start a fist fight.. we’ll kick ass of course. yet, somehow one of them will manage to burn the place to the ground. the end of a wonderful day, minus the complaints about not knowing anyone who likes elfman cuz hey hey hey (that was a fat albert quote) you just met a couple hundred!
lexi: and i wish that I could tell you, it’ll only be a dream
That’s actually a cool idea. The Trekkies do it; why can’t we? (Hm…just a guess, but do the phrases “Lack of money, time…or lack of money” do anything for you)? Seriously, though, if something got started, that would be really hip!
I’d be the one left standing in the contest of “weirdedoutness?” Damn, that’s just depressing…
-Erika, who’s all for the convention idea…and adores Nat’s film (and must thus pay him homage in this closing…so without further ado: Thanks, Nat)!
Your very welcome Erika, but I’m actually hoping to make the whole thing. I needed an idea for a short animated subject and when I saw you idea I thought hey, that sounds cool (and easy). So I made the litter teaser trailer.
As for the convention, I don’t think it needs to be of the “normal” type. Maybe a traveling convention where someone get a van and starts heading out towards all the little “hipsters” and Elfmanites and they can stay on the Van until they are ready to go home, so then the van drives you back to your house, the whole time Boingo and Elfman scores are blaring with occasional stops for supplies and food, or motel stops (or hostels which are cheaper), and that’s just a stupid idea isn’t it, I went to sleep early last night so It’s really early right now, and I’m not thinking clearly, or maybe I’m thinking so clearly “that I just blew my own mind!” (that’s from Sienfield).
Nat who just chillin’ at 4:30 in the A.M.
I hear that the best place to find Elfman fans is in LA, because Boingo never really got the best exposure outside of California, and they mostly did concerts every Halloween there. It’s times like these when i realize living on the East coast isn’t so grand. If you wanna be a hardcore suit, or a sexed up party freak, then this here’s the place for you.
Don’t
even ask me about realtionships because as far as i’m concerned it’s all bullshit, and if you’re looking for shark and you’re in a lake…you get the idea. Even the Gothic people here are so whacked out they don’t even care. What am i talking about? Beats me…I spent last Halloween in LA last year and it was wild, and I did bump into a lot of people who lamented that there was no Oingo Boingo concert again last year.
But if your a shark, you can only be a shark, no matter what sized tank you are in. Maybe it will rub off on a few people, and who knows, maybe you will make the tank a little bit bigger.
Nat who is a Whale shark (big, but lovable)
sadness consumes me in this early morning grey. darkness assumes me thin, surly, worn and.. grey.
well, it’s too early but almost every word in each line rhymes with the words in the other line, (if morning and worn and work. try it with waffles in your mouth.
I live about an hour and a half from L.A. and find the sharks popping up when I ask.. like trained dolphins! but, they are all former BIG fans and each sentence starts with, “oh. oh yeah, i remember..” followed by my heart sinking as he or she recollects a good or even bad concert memory. then, the kids at my school… no… let’s see the oldest ones are 18 now.. 2002-18= 1984.. they were 5 in 1989.. started really listening to music in about 1993. see that? they probably don’t even own nmbc!
lexi: @!#$, I’ll hop into a van to meet a boigno fan. hey, I didn’t even try to rhyme that time! whoa!
I love road trips! I made my first trip when I was 16…yep, took off in the middle of the night in my dad’s god-awful jalopy (a 1972, or thereabouts, Ford Pinto…and this was early June of 1997…it made the trip all in once piece, though). Just me and the road…it was the best experience of my life. Went cross-country for two weeks, and up into Vancouver…fantastic, I tell ya! Had enough money for gas and a minimum of food…mostly consisting of coffee…even though I was out my entire savings and a few pounds lighter after that shindig, I still don’t regret one moment of it. I’m sort of addicted to road trips…but I have to go by myself…sort of a spiritual/self-awakening experience for me. Pick up people along the way, find the most interesting people (I’ve had great luck in Nevada)…man, I would’ve been a great beatnik
Anywho, I’ve gone on a road trip every year since I graduated from high school, but have yet to hit the East Coast…don’t know why, but I’m much more of a West Coast person…living in the Midwest (but not for long!)…how’s that for flippin’ cool? *self-deprecating grin*“Hardcore suit” or “sexed-up party freak?” We’ve got a fantastic assortment of various types of wannabe gangstas (is that even an identity anymore? I don’t know…I’m horribly out of touch with the outside world) and dull-witted prepsters…heck, even the cowboys are a dying breed here…and everybody wears the “Abercrombie and Fitch distressed clothing/I paid far too much for a faded peice of clothing that I could’ve done the same thing to myself by just overwashing it and leaving it out in the sun for a few days” look.
Well, kiddies, I’m going to watch the video of “Cats: The Musical” (I really don’t care for live musicals – film musicals, I do enjoy – but I haven’t seen it, and I figure that I should, before I die…) Catch you all later.
Hanz, the “gothic” people are whacked out because all the “gothics” these days are either wannabes or stereotypes. Because I just HAPPEN to have a closet of nothing but red and black, folks are constantly asking me “Aren’t you Gothic?” or “You don’t celebrate Chanukkah…You’re gothic!” Well , let me tell you folks…
I like convention ideas, but I can usually never make it to any of them. 1. I’m either in London or spending a 3 week period out in the woods with my friends or 2.It’s somewhere far away from orlando…
-Em
“Grammer is not a waste of time.” -Bartholomew Simpson
“And today we tune the boners! — I MEAN, the trombone section…!” -My band directorwe should ask ryan to help us put it together!
lexi: short but sweet
Yeah, the Goths are all wannabes where I live…Hot Topic, the chain store for wannabe rebels…it just don’t make any sense, do it?
you know, if I see anything i want from hot topic, in order to not fund the evil place, I just go “swipe.” of course, now that’ll become a trend so I should just avoid the store altogether, eh?
lexi: a rebel incognito
What did I say?
Maybe people have changed int he last couple of years, but I helped organize an Elfman and Boingo (mostly geared at Boingo) convention a couple of years ago and interest was really high until people found out they would not only get to attend for free but that they would have to provide their own transportation and *gasp* possibly even have to leave their own home town.
We got absolutely NO deposit money from anyone. Needless to say, it didn’t happen.
Still, I think it would be fun. Especially if you have it here in town so I don’t have to pay travel or lodging
kidding, kidding…But if anyone seriously wants to try getting this going, drop me a line. I’ll fill you in on what kinds of things, locations, etc. seemed to interest people before they realized they would actually have to reserve a spot.
My dog looks like Zero, too!
And the only person I’ve ever actually met who likes Danny is some kid my mom works with. But I imagine there’s hope; I mean maybe I’ll run into someone else who likes Danny in another couple of decades!
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