477. "Birdhouse In Your Soul" They Might Be Giants

"Birdhouse In Your Soul"
They Might Be Giants
Flood
1990

I think a lot about how the internet has changed our lives, specifically that we now have every piece of information in recorded history at our fingertips.
When this song first came out, I prided myself on the references that I understood. "Killing Jason off and countless screaming Argonauts is funny because it's like Jason from 'Friday the 13th' but also the Jason of Greek myth, and his mighty ship the Argo! No, I don't want to join the AV Club, those guys are a bunch of nerds."
But one reference stuck in my craw: "My story's infinite, like the Longines Symphonette, it doesn't rest."
What the hell was the Longines Symphonette? The 1978 World Book encyclopedia we had in our house was no help.
I had to use my powers of deductive reasoning: The Longines Symphonette was an orchestra that had been playing music without interruption since the dawn of time.
And I lived with that assumption for fifteen years. I could not understand why such a remarkable achievement was covered so lightly.
Well along comes Wikipedia, and I was thrilled to discover that I was right! Oh, wait, no, apparently it was just some radio show.
Stupid correct information. How cool would an immortal orchestra have been?