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Flashback:
1989, my buddy Holmes and I went up to Virginia to
skate and stayed with one of his artsy buddies Charlie.
Charlie had a LP by a local band called GWAR that
had the members dressed up as H.P. Lovecraftian style
creatures on the cover and the most vulgar lyrics
next to the Mentors that I had ever heard. I was instantly
hooked and brought a copy of a copy back to school
and tormented my peers until they learned to also
appreciate GWAR. With songs like "I'm in love with
a dead dog", "Americanized", and "You ain't shit";
in which GWAR happily sung about killing people, necro-bestiality,
copious drug use, and of course, ruling this toilet
earth. The next album 'Scumdogs of the universe' followed
in 1990, finessing the GWAR sound and making it a
must-have metal record for any serious hessian. Now,
10 years later, I finally got a chance to meet lead
scumdog Odorous Urungus before a show, and with the
help of raw meat, virgin blood, and alcohol - cornered
him and got to see what was on his mind before it
got splayed out on stage later on. |
Bobcat:
Right-o, this is Bobcat on August first sitting here
next to Lord Odorous Urungus at SubZero ready to slaughter
the bartender because service is sooo slow. How do
you feel about this, Odorous?
Odorous:
About what? What I'm doing in my life? Why I'm here?
B: Yeah, how about Seattle?
O: I love Seattle, I was out golfing today earlier,
noticed a bunch of blood-soaked freaks outside the
club and they're going to shove 3-400 more people
then they are legally supposed to in that fuckin place
tonight. I felt when they hit that capacity, they
should sell tickets only to little people, ya know,
small people. But, you know, as usual its going to
be a fucking unrelenting harvest of entrails and death...
tonight.
B: Ok, you are saying that little people and big people
are difference in the aspect of the souls you are
looking for?
O:
uh... no, I'm talking about more then that, it's like
a money thing. You see when you sell more tickets
to the small people, you can fit more people in the
club. I don't want to discriminate against our fans
over 5'8", but I'll have to charge more.
B: Right, that explains why you like to play at all-ages
shows....
O: Yes, we're trying to attract more babies.
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B: I guess
teenage children and below are more clean?
O: Souls
are much, much more sweeter.
B: Ok,
why don't you tell our readers what GWAR has in store
for Seattle tonight?
O: Ah,
yes, well basically It's just a giant bloodfest. I
get up there, I'm obviously intoxicated. I've got
a sword. I'm clad in armor. There's a bunch of guys
behind me playing really LOUD music, uh, and people
get up one after another and try to kick my ass -
and basically I beat the shit out of them. Somewhere
along the line, Slymenstra Hymen get addicted to crack
and Techo Destructo tries to claim her as his bride.
He summons the evil penguins and we have a vicious
penguin war in which I am forced to, once again, kick
ass!
B: Kick
Ass!
O: I beat
the shit out of them, stomp them - then I have my
way with Jon Benet Ramsey, and then it time for the
encore.
B: For
the audience participation part, you just kill them
one at time?
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O:
Yeah, the audience, they come and they participate by
giving me their money, then we kill them promptly. We
grind them to pulp in the meat grinder... actually,
only the women, yeah, only the women get the meat grinder
while their dorky boyfriends watches them in the pit.
Bartender:
These ones are alot stronger. Be careful.
O: Jesus
Fuckin CHRIST!!!!
Eric Fiscus:
Ask Odorous about the Death Threats.... (Something
I've never heard of, well...)
B: Oh yeah,
how about those death threats?
O: (pleased
with his beverage) Sure, i've done everybody. (puzzled
look) Why?, have I missed someone? (Everyone look
at Clapper)
B: Yeah,
Jason Clapper (Odorous looks at the little muppet
called Clapper...)
O: Kill,
kill, kill, kill, kill. (turns to me) I don't want
to discriminate against people by not wanting to kill
them.
B: Do you
have a rough account on how many you've slaughtered
so far?
O: Incalculateable.
It's impossible to even understand. Actually, there
are those who say I've never killed anyone and I'm
just a big rubber Demi-god with delusions of grandeur
- but I killed those people. Ground them into GWAR
dogfood.
B: Where
could we purchase such brand of dogfood?
O: Actually
we're having trouble getting it into K-mart. People
don't want to stock it, cause it's rancid and causes
disease. Um, that was one of the biggest selling points
of it.
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B: So,
now you're going to kill everyone and take off into
space finally, right?
O: Yeah,
we say that every year, and it NEVER WORKS. Ya know,
we are limited by the fact we've only got hand weapons.
B: Hand
Weapons? You guys killed the dinosaurs with just hand
weapons...
O: If we
had machine guns, A-bomb's, or poison gas, it'd be
different.
B: Have
you thought of using skateboards to do the job?
O: I've
beat the shit out of people with skateboards, but
still my favorite weapon is my 2 handed broad sword.
I do have a one handed, you know swatting sword...
that is so I can fight and sing at the same time,
but yeah, I've got also a battle axe, a spiked glove,
and a big hammer.
B: What's
with the testicles dangling at the hilt of the sword?
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O: Well,
it goes like this: the dick is to the gun as is the
sword to my cuttlefish (The cuttlefish of Cthulu,
his codpiece)
B: So the
Cuttlefish is still doing fine...
O: Oh
yeah, its fine but my sword, "LICK", is in a constant
erection. (get it, Lick the sword..)
B: Anything
else you'd like to say to our Sleestak readers?
O: I'd
like to invite any surviving Sleestaks to come down
to the show, and not necessarily be killed, but do
a number with us.
B: Final
question... we have a menace to society called the
Gaids monster. How can we defeat such a creature?
O: Well..
he's the richest M.F. on the planet... unfortunately.....
B: He is???!!
Not the Bill Gates monster... the Gaids...
O: Oh,
a different one? Lure him into a bar.... does he drink?
Eric: yeah.
O: and
he never has money right?
B: Clapper?
Clapper: like usually for one drink (look who's
talking.. -ed) O: OK, say it's like your birthday
and pretend your pathetic and don't have and friends.
B: I guess
I don't have to pretend about the latter.
O: Then
drink, drink, drink, get him all sloshed. Then get
one of those Rohypnals (those Mexican Qualude rape
drug things), and take him down to the train track
and lay him out like they did to El Duce (moment of
silence, please.) Boom, he's dead. Or you can just
shoot him...
B: That's
too easy
O: Well,
have him and your friends over and have a blanket
party..
B: A what?
O: A blanket
party - throw a blanket on him and beat the shit out
of 'em. He couldn't see a thing!
Odorous
continues to go on about his sword. Guess it'd be
nice to have a broadsword that shoots blood too.
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