The guys who run the Fox Network must know more about good television then we do; I mean, they're in charge of a whole network!

Yeah-- and they get to hear what the actual viewers are saying, so they must take that into account. Probably all the fans of that guy-- what's his name, John Peedon or something like that-- said it was a waste of time, and he should go back to writing that daft show about lesbian vampires. And they'd listen to the fans, of course. Those people who spend all day watching TV and posting messages about it on the, the, thingy, you know, the connected computers.

Yeah, they post stuff on the like, the uh, what's it called, those phone computers.

Oh yeah, he writes that other show w/ the lesbian vampire slayer vampire lady. And then there was that one where the guy's an angel but then he has hair gel instead of wings. Those shows are silly though, I only watch realistic shows like ER. And reality TV shows, because, like, they're called "reality" so they must be, y'know, real.

I said:

I don't know how Shakespeare knew, several hundred years before it happened, about the biggest band to come out of Idaho.

Una said:

Okay, as an Idaho native, why the heck have I not heard of this? *prepares self to be ridiculed*

Um, because my friends and I made it up? Ricks College was a very....er....insular community. We had to break out in some way, and my friend Marla (clearly someone who watched a lot of Monty Python) invented this band, and we'd go to the dj's at the various "discos" around Rexburg and request GBiB songs. Also, we did the same thing at the record stores. Yes, we were that bored, why do you ask? I think the genesis of the movement was the time we escaped our apartment complex after curfew, met some guys who were in a band currently playing in Idaho Falls, broke into the waterslide park (this was the dead of winter, and the water had frozen in the tubes), played on the slides, then snuck into the apartment where these guys were staying (actually hiding in the closet when the landlady, disturbed by the giggling I can only assume, came by to look askance at the young men). Anyway, the band leader (or whomever he was) had a roll of socks stuck into his spandex pants. It was just too funny to leave alone, and the only reason we were in the apartment, since we all had to get a good look and laugh our asses off. While he sat proudly displaying himself on the couch (we had established a ten foot safety zone).

So, we made up ticket stubs, posters, album covers, and t-shirts, all of which we would display prominently. Since Marla is now a Born Again Mormon (she was on a mission at the same time Gandalfe and I were living in sin - she hasn't spoken to me since, and I've tried letters, phone calls, and visiting her when we're in Oregon), Gandalfe and I have continued carrying the banner. He requests GBiB at our very favourite Goth Club, and I spread the news.

I even have another friend (coincidentally gay) who's reserved gayboysinbondage.com or .net or .whatever.

I try never to let a good obsession go to waste. Marmot.

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reequeen, that is hysterical and certainly not the kind of band name that COULDN'T exist (Gaye Bikers on Acid being a real band name and all).

Did you know the Monty Python connection?

That is indeed high-larious! I didn't know you were allowed to do stuff like that at Ricks. Oh, excuse me, BYU-Idaho. (snicker)

Signed, grew up a Gentile in Mormon-land.

I might have watched that show about lightning bugs, but we don't have 'em in Idaho, so why would they live in outer space? Those FOX execs are smart cookies.

Yeah, they post stuff on the like, the uh, what's it called, those phone computers.

Yes, you know what I mean. That newfangled stuff. I can't be doing with it.

Oh yeah, he writes that other show w/ the lesbian vampire slayer vampire lady. And then there was that one where the guy's an angel but then he has hair gel instead of wings. Those shows are silly though, I only watch realistic shows like ER. And reality TV shows, because, like, they're called "reality" so they must be, y'know, real.

They're a waste of time if you ask me; who wants to hear a story with magic in (and that hair gel must be magic, it wouldn't stay up like that with anything normal), for heaven's sake? There's no fun in something that isn't real. I like the proper television. A good soap opera, where everyone talks like real people, and they have family arguments just like mine, that's what I want. Or reality television, like you say. It's so interesting, to know how people would act if they were really shut in a house alone or abandoned on an island. And I don't believe this people say about it being 'set up'. The programming people say it's reality, so that must be true.

(this is so much fun, we're wandering off topic again... never mind)

Frankenbuddha - to my undying shame, I didn't know the Python connection, and I'm a fairly rabid Python fan. ....shame, shame, shame....

However, the GBiB opening band was the Fembots, which I'm pretty sure predated Austin Powers. Unless someone knows of something of Fembots from before 1984? In which case, more shame.

Una - yes, the whole BYU-Idaho thing is good for a cackle. Ugh. I think the original Ricks building burning down the night before it was due to be demolished was interesting. ;-D

I didn't know you were allowed to do stuff like that at Ricks.

I don't know about allowed. *smirk* Ricks is where I learned to drink (I was 18 for several months before the national law made the drinking age 21), smoke, and, um.....other stuff. Probably a bad idea to send me from a small town to the big city. All I can say is that my roommates were....influences on me.

Love that Firefly. Man is it cool.

Frankenbuddha - to my undying shame, I didn't know the Python connection, and I'm a fairly rabid Python fan. ....shame, shame, shame....

Well, look at it this way, if you've never seen it before, that means there's a new episode of Monty Python out there for you. I'd call that a win.

Ahem. Yeah, how 'bout that Firefly.

However, the GBiB opening band was the Fembots, which I'm pretty sure predated Austin Powers. Unless someone knows of something of Fembots from before 1984? In which case, more shame.

Fembots were the creation of an evil scientist in an episode of The Six Million Dollar Man. I was so happy when Austin Powers used the term.

Damn. And I watched a lot of the Six Million Dollar Man, more shame....shame, shame, shame....

*ahem* Long term memory loss due to premature menopause. *ahem*

But, yay - unearthed Python!