On Tuesday, July 14, Tom & I drove to Time-Warner Cable TV, Staten Island studios to tape two episodes of a TV show called The Global Look, hosted by one Henry Bentsen.
For the first show, we performed My So-Called Democracy, and This Is Why Life Sucks. For the second, we performed Alive, and On & Off.
Click the following linx to see our performances of My So-Called Democracy, and This Is Why Life Sucks; here is the shows’ MySpace page.
And here is my interview with the host, Henry, in which I talk about my songwriting influences, including:
- the They Might Be Giants documentary Gigantic,
- the man in Iraq who lived in a wall for 21 years to escape Saddam Hussein (What Did I Miss?)
- how the NY Times (Judith Miller, Mat Cooper, et al) lied us into a horrible war with their year-long propaganda spree;
then issued a massive mea-culpa one year later, after it was too late (Miller kept her job).
Henry liked us so much, he’s having us back on Tuesday, October 6; by then, the show will air in Manhattan.
Yeah baby!
STM at TW TV Studios, July 14, 2009
STM at TW TV Studios, July 14, 2009, in front of our new banner