Because I’m a stand-up dude, I check almost every profile of everyone who follows me on twitter. Not saying I like everything I see, it’s just a nice thing to do. And so, when I got the in-box indication that @landoftalk had decided to subscribe to the perpetual asinine stumblings of @mikehayes19, I dutifully perused their profile page on Twitter. I found out they were a band (who or what else posts a link to a MySpace page anywhere, anymore), fantastic for them I suppose. Still, I probably would not have checked out the tunes if not for this fantastic twitter bio:
Fronted by the daughter of North America’s first female alligator wrestler. Backed by Montreal’s skinniest drummer and fattest bass player.
The daughter of North America’s first female alligator wrestler is 27-year old Ontario-native Elizabeth Powell. Her mom hung it up – presumably, before she got did like Chubbs – in favor of becoming a psycho-geriatric consultant (kids, don’t let anyone tell you that you can’t follow your dreams). Here’s Powell on her mom:
“She just had this placating technique with alligators that turned into a bit of a sideshow,” explains Powell. “She just tickled its belly and it went to sleep. It wasn’t like she was in the ring in a bikini, wrestling it to the floor!” ( The Independent )
Placating? Tickling an alligator to sleep seems downright puttying.
In terms of the music, you might think it sucks, but I think they’re great. Check out Land of Talk here: http://www.myspace.com/landoftalk
