Y'know, I love ya, ya little f*cker
I enjoyed Mr. Flansburgh's Albany WAMC interview of April 16, 2008.
http://giantsonline.blogspot.com/2008/04/flansburgh-on-egg-upcoming-radio-show.html
Joe, the interviewer, mentions that Penn & Teller and The Smothers Brothers went through "couples" counseling to deal with the issues that come up in having a show biz duo, because the relationship is close and intense, and then he asks: How do the two of you maintain that relationship?
Mr. Flansburgh goes on at length, with innumerable instances of "like," "y'know," "and," "um," "uh," and "just," and gives the usual answer about how he and Mr. Linnell had what they disliked in rock music well ironed out in high school, which made for more harmony when they formed their own act. Then he goes on to say, and I quote him with the extraneous place-holder words removed:
"Lots of bands form out of newspaper ads or just out of convenience. We really had years and years of experience together and like, y'know, private experience, going to school together and having huge family things happen while we were friends, so we just knew each other very very well, and yet we weren't brothers.
I think the other tradition in rock music or popular music or among entertainers is that you have brother acts, and that has all that same intensity of shared experience but you're locked into all the sybling rivalry. All that stuff can be very hard to get around, so we kind of enjoy the best of both worlds. We have the intimacy of all the shared experience, but we aren't actually like, kin."
In other words, his feelings about Mr, Linnell are approximately, "I LOVE YOU, MAN." Hee hee. Like a brother, without all the baloney - sweet!
http://giantsonline.blogspot.com/2008/04/flansburgh-on-egg-upcoming-radio-show.html
Joe, the interviewer, mentions that Penn & Teller and The Smothers Brothers went through "couples" counseling to deal with the issues that come up in having a show biz duo, because the relationship is close and intense, and then he asks: How do the two of you maintain that relationship?
Mr. Flansburgh goes on at length, with innumerable instances of "like," "y'know," "and," "um," "uh," and "just," and gives the usual answer about how he and Mr. Linnell had what they disliked in rock music well ironed out in high school, which made for more harmony when they formed their own act. Then he goes on to say, and I quote him with the extraneous place-holder words removed:
"Lots of bands form out of newspaper ads or just out of convenience. We really had years and years of experience together and like, y'know, private experience, going to school together and having huge family things happen while we were friends, so we just knew each other very very well, and yet we weren't brothers.
I think the other tradition in rock music or popular music or among entertainers is that you have brother acts, and that has all that same intensity of shared experience but you're locked into all the sybling rivalry. All that stuff can be very hard to get around, so we kind of enjoy the best of both worlds. We have the intimacy of all the shared experience, but we aren't actually like, kin."
In other words, his feelings about Mr, Linnell are approximately, "I LOVE YOU, MAN." Hee hee. Like a brother, without all the baloney - sweet!