SOUNDTRACK: GWAR on The Joan Rivers Show (1991).
Because this story is pretty, nay, really gross, I wanted to find a suitably gross song to attach to it. I considered Cannibal Corpse and Carcass, but I found that most of the lyrics were too hard to understand. And then I hit upon Gwar.
I was trying to pick my favorite Gwar song (actually I only know their first two albums), and then YouTube pointed me to this absurd interview.
I always enjoyed the premise of Gwar, and I think that Scumdogs is a wonderfully hilarious album. This interview (around the time of the release of Scumdogs) is really funny. They actually make Joan Rivers speechless, and they play their act wonderfully straight. I’d never watched a second of Joan’s show, and won’t watch any more than this clip, but seeing Oderus Urungus and Beefcake the Mighty on a talk show is pretty awesome.
Check it out here. Sadly, there is no song played live.
[READ: November 5, 2010] “Guts”
My coworker suggested I read this story. And I know from past experience that if he suggests something it will be slightly, shall we say, askew. When a fellow coworker who had also read it overheard the suggestion she groaned in a way that confirmed my suspicions.
I’m not exactly sure what’s going on in Haunted. My coworker said it was a short story collection and yet the book clearly says Haunted: A Novel. I browsed the back and I get the sense that the book is a whole bunch of people writing /telling stories, but I didn’t investigate too thoroughly (I will likely read the whole book one of these days just to find out).
So, anyway, yeah, “Guts” is pretty disturbing. It begins with a guy telling stories about the creepy/weird things people do to get off. More specifically it talks about the injuries people sustain while trying to get off. (more…)
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