Finally, a new and unique way to waste your precious time on the internet.
Today's internet time waste: the various
videos,
spinoffs,
Facebook pages and
Wikipedia entries of the
Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players.
These guys are just a tiny bit harder to blog about then the motley bullshit I've been posting lately. They're a family of musicians (husband, wife, daughter) who mostly write songs about boxes of slides they pick up at garage sales and such like, then play along with the slideshow.
Now, in my big, secret list of personal time wasters from which I'm getting my big, public amalgamation of
time wasters for you, I just have this link to the video for the Trachtenburg Family song
"Mountain Trip to Old Japan" (it's even a bit higher quality than the embed below.)
Where did I find this thing? Who knows?
Now, I'd say this is a pretty representative video, but of course I started poking around. Predictable, as a kinda cute, kinda indie established mid-level act, the TFSP have a wide and diverse internet presence.
So then the question becomes, just how much do you want to know about this family? I mean, daughter Rachel has been an active musician since she was six years old. Of COURSE you're going to be able to find video of her ragging on Bloomberg in a public hearing. I'm not linking to it, though, because we are here to waste your time - not to watch other people waste theirs.
Then the issue is, what do I link to? I say, let's keep things simple.
Let's Go On Tour With Kate (i.e. Nash) is my favorite TFSP song so far, so here ya go:
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