I do love confluence.
Some of you know that I'm a big fan of "Wait Wait, Don't Tell Me," an NPR news quiz show based in Chicago. (OP people: if I'm in town over the summer, let's go to a taping.) Since I have a roommate that likes to sleep in on Saturdays, I rarely catch it when it's aired, but I'll check it out online later. I was stunned to see this post on Jezebel informing me that Carl Kassel is on Facebook; I was even more stunned when I checked out Peter Sagal's blog this week and found out that Back In The Day, he was in an OK GO video.
In Sagal's words, "Back in 1999 or so, a local band here in Chicago called OKGO was invited to appear on a public access cable show called Chic-A-Go-Go, in which local bands lip-synched their songs while pretending to play their instruments. OKGO said to hell with that, and choreographed a dance number. But who should pretend to play the instruments? The then-girlfriend of Damian Kulash, lead singer and guiding light of band, worked at our show, and Damian had become close to a lot of people at Chicago Public Radio. Thus, in this video, they are backed by the Chicago Public Radio All-Stars: me on bass, Gretchen Helfrich on lead guitar, Jerome McDonnell on keyboards, and yes, Ira Glass on drums."
Really, just check out the video, which is pretty awesome, as you'd expect OKGO to be.
In Sagal's words, "Back in 1999 or so, a local band here in Chicago called OKGO was invited to appear on a public access cable show called Chic-A-Go-Go, in which local bands lip-synched their songs while pretending to play their instruments. OKGO said to hell with that, and choreographed a dance number. But who should pretend to play the instruments? The then-girlfriend of Damian Kulash, lead singer and guiding light of band, worked at our show, and Damian had become close to a lot of people at Chicago Public Radio. Thus, in this video, they are backed by the Chicago Public Radio All-Stars: me on bass, Gretchen Helfrich on lead guitar, Jerome McDonnell on keyboards, and yes, Ira Glass on drums."
Really, just check out the video, which is pretty awesome, as you'd expect OKGO to be.