Hi everyone, Charles here. Well, it's been a full year since I put up this trailer, and still no documentary. "What's going on Charles?" Well...
I started this project on June 21, 2022, just because I wanted to do a little retrospective on my YouTube channel on an album I liked as a kid - actually quite a few of them. I thought it would be quickly released within a year's time. Little did I know that the direction this project went was vastly different than just a little video review. This became a full-fledged documentary, and through this project I met the person who became my research partner Tex, and I made so many great connections with so many people who were directly involved with They Might Be Giants' career. Artists and fans alike. A lot of people are very passionate about this album, whether they worked on it or they grew up with it, and I wish to share that passion with this documentary.
The list of people who are directly involved with this project has greatly expanded since June 8, 2023, when I posted this trailer; you can also expect to see Devery Doleman, Sean Greathead, Matt Owens talking about "Letter Shapes" and "I C U", and this documentary will reunite the 5-person team of Asterisk LLC by the time of summer 2004: Richard O'Connor and Brian O'Connell, Alexandra Reshanov, Karen Isaacs (nee Squillaro), Winnie Tom. There will also be a section in this documentary where people who grew up with Here Come The ABCs share their childhood memories.
For those that have been patiently waiting, ALBUMS OF ALL TIME episode 1 is coming. Due to the depth and breadth of research that has been conducted for this project, as well as the scope of this project being way larger than I ever foresaw it to be, this documentary is not coming out in 2023. (After all, 2023 is over!) So in 2024, I've really started buckling down, for what will hopefully be a release in 2025. I'm doing a lot of the video editing work myself at the moment.
Please keep in mind that I'm working on other projects as well. This is on the top of the priority list, and it is surely in the pipeline. Thank you all for your continued interest, I am truly flattered that a lot of people are looking forward to my project. I will see an end to it.
TL;DR: This might be coming out in 2025.
"We've done a lot of research on the ABCs, and we're ready to share that information with 3-year-olds everywhere." - John Flansburgh, to the Associated Press, March 2005.