Outer Cinema

“Butthole Surfers are my measure of how out there it can get. (Basically, if it’s not as weird as the Butthole Surfers, it isn’t that weird.) They were Edge City, loaded with a potential for total gonzo. Those nights when they lit firecrackers onstage, and the simmering of total chaos became kinetic energy of total chaos, things would happen. They’d set their equipment on fire. The naked dancer who sometimes toured with them shit onstage. In Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of 1980s indie and underground music, Our Band Could Be Your Life, there is a description of Haynes filling a wiffle bat full of urine and swinging it over the crowd, blessing them. Butthole Surfers fans will not find this strange. When King Coffey was asked in 1984 if they tried to be deliberately outrageous, he said with tongue not necessarily in cheek, ‘I think the word is literally outrageous; we’re a reflection of a deliberately outrageous society.’”
- David Kunian, Oxford American

We’re ONE WEEK away from our screening of BUTTHOLE SURFERS: THE HOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUTT at the Esquire Theatre!! Wednesday, October 14th! Live performances by @tweensband and @b.t.disabatino before the film! Tickets in the link in our bio or at the Esquire box office! Don’t miss out!

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