Okay, so these may or may not be funny depending on your sense of humor or lack of sleep. I’m always on the lookout for Athens jokes so here’s a few I collected via Twitter.
Local High Schooler Discovers New Athens Band!
How does Dark Meat, Supercluster, and Dead Confederate all get on the same bus?
They “Pylon”
What’s Athens favorite comedy troupe?
Monty “Pylon”
Knock Knock.
Who’s there?
Wendy
Wendy who?
Wendy world, is a monster, bad to swallow you whole..
Where does Of Montreal keep their money?
“Out Back!”
Brief history about that one, the “Let’s Go Outback Tonight” commercial features music by of Montreal. They caught hell for doing that but I’m pretty sure it helped fund the next record so I’m cool with it. You can check out the video right here. Directed by the Buddy System’s Lauren & Craig.
BEST. INTERVIEW. EVER.
here's some more…
Q: How many members of Dark Meat does it take to change a light bulb?
A: Fifteen, apparently.
or…
Q: Why did Allison Weiss cross the road?
A: To promote her banal & uninteresting music!
or…
i guess that's all i've got.
wait, one more.
Q: What does an Athens music fan say about someone's music when they don't like it.
A: They're really nice.
Michael Stipe
Despite the hype
We still want to smoke
your big brown pipe