underpants with punctuality issues...

Haha, get it? Underpants with punctuality issues = Late Bloomers. Yes, that was cheesy, but as they say in Monty Python's Flying Circus, "But it's my only line!" 

Anyway, thanks to the recent deal between HBO and Amazon, Prime subscribers have access to past, original HBO content including Flight of the Conchords (FOTC for short), starring Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement as the 2-man, Kiwi novelty band of the same name. 

Back when the show initially aired on HBO from 2007 through 2009, I not only did not have an HBO subscription, I was pregnant from September 2007 to May 2008, then from May 2008 until the end of FOTC's run on HBO in 2009, I had my hands full with an adorable yet colicky, mischief-seeking baby so I was oblivious to many pop culture phenomena of the time. (As a semi-related aside, Jemaine got married to his wife, Miranda and their son, Sophocles was born in 2008, and in 2009, Bret married Hannah and their daughter, Vita was born. I haven't seen it explicitly explained as the reason for not doing a third season of the show, but the fact that their families were growing must have had something to do with it.)

Fast-forward Selecta (if you're thinking, "WTF? Selecta?!" refer to FOTC song "Boom") to a few months ago, my husband recently convinced me I should watch this show that I knew almost nothing about except for that Kristen Schaal had a recurring role in it. Anyway, I watched FOTC, loved it and became increasingly more ticked off that I had discovered their awesomeness, to use a lame sports metaphor, "so late in the game". So I re-purposed this old blog of mine, and decided to share random Bret &/or Jemaine related stuff, both pertaining to FOTC and their non-FOTC individual projects i.e. "Muppets Most Wanted" and "What We Do In The Shadows". 

While both Jemaine and Bret have had plenty of solo success, I personally am hoping that there will be new FOTC songs and possibly more tours in the future...

(still upset that I missed them last year when they were headliners of the 2013 Oddball Comedy Festival but I digress...)

In other 2-person novelty band news, I'm looking forward to watching the Garfunkel and Oates TV show which will be premiering Thursday, August 7th on IFC. Garfunkel and Oates have been described via Nerdist as a "weirder, dirtier Flight of the Conchords, without the folk influence."