Butthole Surfers- Classic or dud?

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Please vote for Melkbelly. Not breaking new ground but really well done.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:56 (six years ago) link

I sent this to a work-provided psychotherapist I wasn't happen with:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vhh-XF01Ats

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:58 (six years ago) link

I think Body Music is seriously underrated. Really, come on people.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 05:59 (six years ago) link

Granted, I didn't like it until a year or two later. But 2011 was the year I started getting electronic dance music somewhat (thanks largely to Tim F's praise for Tropical 2).

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:00 (six years ago) link

She was very insistent that I knew who Billy Crystal was but I didn't know who the fuck Billy Crystal was. OK? I was forced to go to bed early, and then when I could stay up late I didn't watch SNL.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:01 (six years ago) link

So much of my getting in trouble these past couple years has just been about DEVIANT COMMUNICATION.

Well, okay, hopefully the worse that can happen is that I will have to agree to go to a psychotherapist. Fuck those people. Total fucking power relationship and they don't want to deal with someone who dares to question the Guru, I mean, shrink. Fuck those people. 99% of them suck ass many days of the week. The funny thing is, the studies basically prove that. But it's basically an impossible job.

And yet everyone is so confident: GET PROFESSIONAL HELP! Oh, okay. It's so easy.

(She was helping me with the fucking tui na. Why does that have to end? Fine, I would be more than willing to go elsewhere for emotional support, but she's the one who talked emotions.

Oh, men don't want to express their emotions during bleeding. She actually talked about that. The same. . . . one who now tells me I am NO LONGER MY PATIENT after I expressed overly intense emotions.

I'm the man who expresses my emotions and then I get a fucking welfare visit. Like, I am the most unmacho man around so don't tell me about how I might be uncomfortable expressing my emotions.)

Well fuck that.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:08 (six years ago) link

I don't fucking care. This is just ILX. Seriously. Whatever. Enemies? Great! Enjoy the show!

At least I am not an anus unraveller. My professor for Systems of Psychotherapy used to like to talk about anus-unravellers. The students described him as irrational-non-emotive. Honors/graduate seminar. It was a fun class because there was this big muscular behaviorist guy who used to go at it at with this somewhat chubby Jungian girl who wore an army jacket. She was very Jungian. He was very behaviorist.

The instructor was some sort of Heideggerian existentialist who had a soft spot for Albert Ellis.

Total insanity.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:12 (six years ago) link

I. Do. Not. Care.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:13 (six years ago) link

And Aluna can go to the White House and worship Obama, but I still love her. Sorry, but this transcends dopey politics.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link

She made a song for ME. That's enough.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:14 (six years ago) link

NO! DO NOT LOG IN TO YOUR WORK EMAIL!

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link

Have some more to drink.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:16 (six years ago) link

Those "heys" kind of Siouxsie-esque.

I hear it as "with a theory in our heads."

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:17 (six years ago) link

You alright man

kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:21 (six years ago) link

Past their prime but not bad for past their prime:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_MzjyC7lA

I also lost my hair stylist this weekend, but she was kind of rude and pompous anyway.

*

Man, I hope this works out.

But shit, this is Albuquerque. Hold a family at gunpoint and be let out the same week.

Why should I be locked up just for being a little crazy over the weekend and engaging in DEVIANT COMMUNICATION. (That's actually just my term but echoes of discussions about linguistics classes.)

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:23 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rE_MzjyC7lA

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:24 (six years ago) link

Mostly alright. I will be alright as long as the authorities don't fuck with me.

They should really worry more about drug addicts breaking into people's homes and attacking them with wooden crosses:

ok what the fuck happened to that story? Censored? Maybe they gave out more info. than they should have.

This kind of stuff tends to happen in my neighborhood but not necessarily my block.

Somewhat of a tradition to post long drunken series of posts.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:29 (six years ago) link

Man I'm so much better than people who do drink and drugs hahahahahaha.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:33 (six years ago) link

I'm still on my first mixed drink. Just zero tolerance at this point and the elevation probably doesn't help.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:34 (six years ago) link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9ZqUWJZKyI

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:38 (six years ago) link

Baz Ghawanmeh
5 years ago
Great song.. can do without the Hilary duff pics though

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:39 (six years ago) link

Not the Azar Habib song I was looking for but okay.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:40 (six years ago) link

I'm fucking between San Mateo and San Pedro (east-west) and Zuni and Central (north-south). Now go map where crazy things happen. Not far from there, I assure you.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:46 (six years ago) link

Here's the Azar Habib song. Ridiculous drug:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ih9ky99hoU

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:47 (six years ago) link

Really, WTF is going here?

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:49 (six years ago) link

Definitely a Best Song.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:51 (six years ago) link

The jump-cut at the beginning for one thing.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:55 (six years ago) link

samklasvegas
samklasvegas
4 years ago
I want to love you where ever you are ... You are my candle lights in my holidays . Awesome!!

Exactly.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:56 (six years ago) link

lock thread

so far off from the topic of butthole surfers and moved to a place of free association

if this is a veiled cry for help, i hope you can be alright man

kolakube (Ross), Tuesday, 9 January 2018 06:58 (six years ago) link

Oh, for pete's sake. No veiled cry for help. Thanks for your concern. Moving elsewhere.

If you don't think Azar Habib's songs are a little bit coterminous with the aesthetic of the Butthole Surfers, you haven't got ears.

Plus it's a Butthole Surfers thread.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:02 (six years ago) link

The Butthole Surfers thread is too chaotic! Shut it down!

Really.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:27 (six years ago) link

I am so not me OMG. I mean, NORMALLY, not now.

_Rudipherous_, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:28 (six years ago) link

<3 you rudipherous

bamcquern, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 07:36 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

You have not lived until you've read Kramer's in-depth story of the Butthole Surfers and Norway (in toto). Third of the three questions here:

https://believermag.com/logger/three-questions-for-kramer/

“He has told me that he has all ten of your records.”

“We only have two. Believe me.”

“Well, then maybe he is now dreaming. The Swedes are big dreamers."

Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 15:51 (three years ago) link

Fucking hell.

Kate (rushomancy), Tuesday, 4 August 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link

A great read, thanks Ned!

"Of the ten or so times in my nearly sixty years that I have witnessed my life flashing before my eyes, Gibby was right there for eight or nine of them."

Maresn3st, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 19:27 (three years ago) link

Incredible. There needs to be a book.

All 3 answers were just fantastic. I have had to revise my near life long idea of what Daevid Allen was really like.

But that Stavanger gig, OMG!

Thanks for the link.

stirmonster, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 20:27 (three years ago) link

Whoa. Why is this thread purple. Is this a flashback.

Branwell with an N, Tuesday, 4 August 2020 20:28 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

As good a time as any to note that there's a Kickstarter for a documentary happening -- already reached its goal and seven days to go, seems like it'll be good fare based on the people behind it:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/theholetruth/the-butthole-surfers-movie/

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 00:34 (two years ago) link

i have everything by them!

xzanfar, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 02:11 (two years ago) link

Thank you! xp

StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 04:59 (two years ago) link

and also thanks for linking those three questions to Kramer! what a story teller.

StanM, Wednesday, 29 December 2021 06:16 (two years ago) link

just something from 2017 I didn't know: https://superiorshit.blogspot.com/2017/06/how-artwork-fo-butthole-surfers-ended.html

StanM, Sunday, 2 January 2022 19:51 (two years ago) link

on Kickstarter--Pledge $250 or more
"What Does Regret Mean?" Book
Get a special edition Melodic Virtue/Aaron Tanner's Butthole Surfers coffee table book, "What Does Regret Mean?" - the first 100 donors who will pledge $300 or more for this reward will receive a book signed by Gibby Haynes, Paul Leary, and King Coffey!

curmudgeon, Sunday, 2 January 2022 19:58 (two years ago) link

five months pass...

Anyone hear Leary's new album yet?

Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link

Born Stupid? Yeah, I thought it was surprisingly enjoyable.

StanM, Wednesday, 8 June 2022 23:15 (one year ago) link

six months pass...

Just leaving this here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj38l9n98aE

MaresNest, Friday, 6 January 2023 18:45 (one year ago) link

there are several clips with Gibby Haynes with The Paul Green Rock Academy on YT, from last Summer. All quite hectic.

StanM, Friday, 6 January 2023 19:46 (one year ago) link

four months pass...

crucial chunks of the Butthole Surfers catalog are now available via Matador on digital services ; LP reissues coming down the road (please look both ways). Stream / download : https://t.co/6uSVENanQq
more detail : https://t.co/mhmcRvgwwB@buttholesurfers pic.twitter.com/XeKtLQz9Ld

— Matador Records (@matadorrecords) May 24, 2023

city worker, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 15:01 (eleven months ago) link


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