Showing posts with label Jim's Big Ego. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Jim's Big Ego. Show all posts

Friday, November 14, 2014

Thinking 'Bout Me

One of the first bands that I listened to, and got Alan into, was a group called Jim's Big Ego. I had heard them at NACA (the same place we booked Retta), and the mix of self-deprecating humor and wit just struck me as cool.

They have never been a huge mainstream hit, but NPR kind of adopted them for a while. Alan and I loved some of their sillier songs. This was the first song...



Alan and I had matching Jim's Big Ego tee-shirts. Alan's was a medium, and he still had it all these years later. He could still fit into those shirts from when he was 9. I found it in his dresser last week. Another example:



Despite our very different styles, there was a surprising large segment of the Venn diagram in the middle -- the stuff we both liked. Of course, the classical, the cartoons, the jazz, the dorky stuff, but also this stuff -- the random, goofy stuff that managed to be both happy-go-lucky and dark.