CMJ New Music Monthly
In My Room
October 2003 (Issue Number 117)
Page 11
By: Tom Mallon
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The Blue's Clues guy's alternate
uses for the Thinking Chair
Who:
Steve
Burns
Where:
His apartment in Brooklyn
Why:
Steve Burns skidooed from Blue's Clues to take up
residence with the Flaming Lips on his debut, Songs For Dustmites
([PIAS] America). Why he chose to sing to dustmites instead of the
"dust rhinos" he lives with is anybody's guess.
SMELLY PLACES OF
QUIET REFLECTION
One of the most
notable objects in my apartment is the original Blue's Clues
Thinking Chair. It's an enormous piece of furniture, it looks like
a cartoon, and it's extremely useful in times of thought. It is
also extremely useful in times of overflowing dirty laundry. It is
equally useful as a drum, a place for thought, and a receptacle for
dirty laundry ... [Blue's Clues] gave it to me for my 25th
birthday.
DUST DEVILS
I have a giant blue
shag rug, and there are dust rhinos, big blue tumbleweeds, all over my
apartment. Giant blue dustballs. I have to remove them with
a chair and a whip. I have to drive them back under the Thinking
Chair, from whence they came.
RAGING BULL
My family has a "Tackiest Christmas
Gift" contest, and I'm the hands-down champion. Sometimes the
gifts are so bad that I have to take them with me. The best one
has been a disturbingly large bullfighting bull. It's as big as a
good size cat. And it sits there, as a totem of virility in my
bedroom, because it's extremely well-hung -- it is terrible to behold.
As a former Kid's show host, I find it necessary to keep virility totems
around. As many as possible.
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