ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- The media -- of which this site is a dutiful member -- like pigeonholing. Doesn't matter how many books Steve Martin writes, he'll always be the "wild and crazy guy." Doesn't matter that Mike Nesmith is in his 50s and has long since established a successful career in multimedia production, he'll always be that wool-hatted guy in the Monkees.

So go ahead and find a category for the band They Might Be Giants -- nerd rock, oddball, a novelty act, whatever. Bring it on, says TMBG's John Flansburgh.

"Anybody in any band immediately feels pigeonholed (by the media)," says the bespectacled half of the veteran duo that founded the group, sitting in the lounge of an Atlanta theater. "I've grown ... comfortable with the idea of being pigeonholed.".

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