Because He's Really Smart
If you, or someone you know has kids, then you should be intimately familiar with Blue’s Clues. Apparently, the host (one Steve Burns) was quite popular with the soccer mom crowd in his day. Now he’s decided that he’s done with all that kiddie stuff. He just wants to rock.
The thing is, he’s actually incredibly talented at the whole rock thing. See, he did one of the most intelligent things ever, and enlisted the help of the Flaming Lips. If you’re still thinking that they’re the annoying band that did that mid-90s “Vaseline” song, and not the brilliant band of the Soft Bulletin, then I feel very sorry for you. Or maybe I’m jealous, because you have something brilliant to go experience, and that’s always a good thing.
The Lips’ influence is very apparent in his work, and there’s just nothing wrong with that. I just never expected someone who could have been this generation’s Mr. Rogers to go and rock out with his bad self. Enjoy the weirdness. His website is almost this year’s Wesley page, in the surrealness factor. Steve just seems like a swell guy.
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where’s the striped shirt? it’s not steve without green stripes! i like how all of the pictures are vague and keep you guessing as to what he looks like sans short hair and a green shirt.
actually, in his FAQ he has a link to where to buy the stripey shirt, and another page (cognitive dissonance, or something) about being the blues clues guy and being a rocker. i dunno, i think the whole site has a very douglas adams-esque humor to it.
and the music is actually really good. i sent him an email, we’ll see if he responds.
did you go to the squirrel section? absolutely hilarious. amazing. wonderful.