------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOUR DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Winter '84: "Meat the Bacon Sandwiches" DEC 17: TriMeraCorp Bank DEC 19: Snake Falls, Idaho, State Community College DEC 23: Corner of 3rd and Long Ave. "Christmas Eve Eve Street Jam" DEC 25: Littleview Community Winter Wonderland "Rock-N-Jolly" Concert DEC 28: Benefit Concert for People Who Get "Birthday/Christmas" Presents Because Their Parents Had No Foresight and/or Protection DEC 31/ JAN 01: Dick Clark's Lame-O New Year's Fuckin' Eve JAN 05: TriMeraCorp Bank Encore Summer '88: "Buy Our New Album" JUN 17: People Against Other People March on Washington JUN 18: Other People Against Those People Yesterday March on Washington JUN 20: Different People and the Other People Who Love Them March on Washington JUN 23: People Who Are Just Fine with Other People but Really Like to March on Washington March on Washington JUN 25: Hollywood Squares Commercial Breaks JUL 03: Josh and Susan's Picnic JUL 05: The Gas 'n' Go on 5th Street JUL 09: Procrastinators Anonymous Belated Fourth of July Celebration [Postponed Indefinitely] Fall '94: "Put Down That Ticketmaster Rep" OCT 29: West Overton, IL - Bob's Deli [CANCELLED] OCT 30: West Overton, IL - K-Mart Parking Lot [SOLD OUT] OCT 31: Littleview Community Haunted House "Spook-N-Roll" Concert NOV 02: Benefit Concert for the Bruce Memorial Foundation -- whereabouts unknown NOV 04: Slimy Falls, Wisconsin "Cicada Days" NOV 09: Lakewood Middle School Car Wash [CANCELLED] NOV 12: Billy Hufnagel's 8th Birthday Party NOV 19: The Public Hanging of Martin Guerre NOV 22: Phil's Phabulous Phrankfurters Grand Re-Opening NOV 30: 40,000 feet somewhere over Senegal DEC 03: The mystery date [STILL ON -- or is it?] Watch for the immediate release of a live triple CD entitled "Put Down That Shameless Cash-In" and the official concert video "Put Down That Betacam Before We Call Security"!!!!! --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LYRICS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Album: Put Down That Ping-Pong Paddle Song: What Thing? What thing? I don't see a thing here What thing? Might you be referring to that stuff there? Obviously, that's more than a thing, It looks like stuff to me Moron What thing?? What thing?? WHAT THING???? MORON!!!! Song: You're Silly I know you and I think you are Something that rhymes with Billy And when someone mops the vomit out of this here car I'm really gonna let YOU HAVE IT I thought I recognized that ugly face It belongs to the aforementioned you And when someone helps me stand still in one place I'm really gonna let YOU HAVE IT You're silly!!! You're silly!!! You're silly!!! You're silly!!! And I'm drunk... (repeat) I've seen you 'round here before And I've got one thing to say And when someone picks my drunk ass up off the floor I'm really gonna let YOU HAVE IT Song: Put Down That Ping-Pong Paddle Put down that Oreo Put down those Pick-up Sticks Put down that orange yo-yo Put down that ugly chick Put down that ping-pong paddle Put down that ping-pong paddle Put down that ping-pong paddle Put down that... Put IT DOWN!!!! Put down that larval ooze Put down those Fruedian slips Put down those those blue suede shoes Put down that bag of chips Put down that ping-pong paddle Put down that ping-pong paddle Put down that ping-pong paddle Put down that... Put IT DOWN!!!! Put down that dodecahedron Put down that bowl of mud Put down that road map, you heathen Put down those suds Put it down, down now Put it down, down now Put it down, how now Put it down, brown cow Song: That Capybara Smells Like Vomit Load up on bacon, bring your friends It's fun to sculpt Spam into rear-ends She's overboard, she's overboard She's overboard, or did I mention that? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? HELLO?? HELLO?? HELLLLLLOOOOOO!!!???!! HELLO?!?!????!! HEY!!!! With the lights out, I stubbed my toe Here we are now, give us Jell-O I feel stupid, but you are though Here we are now, give us Jell-O An albino, a mullato A pinata, two burittos (to go!) I'm worst at what I do worst I don't care if you said it first Our little group sucks like hell 'Cuz we don't try to rhyme too good Mello Yello, Mello Yello Jello, Jello, Jello, Jello Hello? Hello? Hello? Hello? BLAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! With the lights out, I stubbed my toe How now brown cow, Mello Yello I feel stupid, can't play cello How now brown cow, where's Otello? A fat wino, a chilito Manicotti, Danny DeVito (Hey!) And I forgot my name again I guess I'll ask one of my friends I found it hard, it was soft when I lost it Oh well, who really gives a shit? Hello, hello, oh screw it, you get it by now!!! With the lights out, I tripped and fell down the stairs Here we are now, give us gummi bears I feel stupid, give me gummi bears Here we are now, yeah, I still want those gummi bears HEY!!!! Album: Squishy Can Song: Squishy Can Squishy can tie his own shoes Squishy can make sugar cookies Squishy can buy his own booze Squishy can find his own bookies Yeah, Squishy can But he don't want to right now Right now he's a little bit busy Right now he's making himself dizzy Yeah, Squishy can But he don't want to right now Right now he's tied up at the moment Right now he'd rather be driving a Buick Squishy can find his socks in the dryer Squishy can make up his own mind Squishy can play around with fire Squishy can make himself go blind Yeah, Squishy can But he doesn't quite feel up to it Right now he's sick with the plague Right now he smells like bad eggs Yeah, Squishy can But he doesn't quite feel up to it Right now he's dead in his grave Right now he's trying to eat Yeah, Squishy can Yeah, Squishy can Yeah, Squishy can Yeah, Squishy can Song: DOODY DOODY DOODY Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody Doody!!! Song: Talking in Front of My Back Oh...been a victim of slanderous attack All the while they were talking in front of my back Oh...I wouldn't mind If they were behind (my back) But I find that it's really rather rude When you're talking... When you're talking... In front of my back Oh...been a victim of bacon-induced heart attack All the rumors floated right in front of my back Oh...I wouldn't care If they were not there (my back) But, you see, my back can hear you When you're talking... When you're talking... In front of it Oh...been a victim when the bus got hit from the back All the while they were talking in front of my back Oh...it wouldn't be so bad If you weren't a dumbass But I think that you are when you are When you're talking... When you're talking... Period Jason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than smashed all to pieces and shoved up my butt. "And bacon." -- Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"
Album: The Bacon Sandwiches Boxed Set Song: Playin' with the Bacon Sandwiches Bay...con...Sandweechez... Bay...con...Sandweechez... Spatch plays with Laura, Laura plays with Kaj, Kaj plays with Jason, Jason is stupid again, Jesper plays with Sandy? Sandy sleeps with Bruce? Bruce makes a sandwich, Vehement puts bacon in it, Ray plays with Henrik, Henrik plays with Noah, Noah plays with DAVE.RHODES, DAVE.RHODES.PLAYS.WITH.HIMSELF, Eating our prunes, We shit out the tunes for the B-Side, Handing out spoons, We eat our macaroons with a porter, Hey, it's not stout! If soy can't kill, capybaras will, In Bacon Sandwiches and a Beer, Stupidity without peer, Bacon Sandwiches and a Beer, Stupidity without peer, Bay...con...Sandweechez... Bay...con...Sandweechez... Spatch has a Red Stripe, Vehement, Blackened VooDoo, They both have bars to drink them at, Except at BYU, Throwing up in bathrooms, Laying silly dames, Turning on the CAPS LOCK, TYPING OUT RUDE FLAMES, Writing volumes, We inhale the fumes from the sock drawer, Hacking up songs, We do a few bongs with a pale ale, Hey, it's not stout! If soy can't kill, capybaras will, In Bacon Sandwiches and a Beer, Stupidity without peer, Bacon Sandwiches and a Beer, Stupidity without peer, Bay...con...Sandweechez... Bay...con...Sandweechez... Album: The Bacon Sandwiches Rip Off Various Artists Song: Sandwich of Bacon There's a lady I know Who puts ketchup on toast And she's eating a sandwich of bacon She's got rings in her nose And it hurts when she blows But masochism is what she came for Ooooh--oo--oo Ooooh--oo--oo And she's eating a sandwich of bacon There's a sign on the wall "Sign up now for softball" But she can't play 'cause her nose is bleeding In the creek by the road There's a songbird who sings But he just doesn't sing them with feeling Oooooh...make me supper Oooooh...make me supper There's a feeling I get When I stand on my head And cross my eyes and stare at a strobe light In my thoughts I have seen Someone kill Charlie Sheen With a stapler they bought down at Shop-Rite Oooooh...make me supper Oooooh...make me supper And it's there on the spoon It's been there since last June And it'll be there at least 'til next season And a new day will dawn I'll put my toupee on Eat a Pop-Tart and go commit treason Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh If there's a muskrat in your bedroom, leave him alone there He's just looking for his baked beans Yes, there are toothpicks for customers if they want one But you've got to ask for them by name And they make me supper Ooooooh-whoa-oooh Your head is hummin', I think you should go to Sunoco Your wipers seem to be stickin' First lady can you hear the wind blow through ol' Bill's skull? Your daughter died for everyone's sins Ooooooh-ooooooh And there's some wine in the commode I blame it all on Mister Toad In walks the guy from the Late Show He lets the bathtub overflow And Rick Dees is completely stoned And if you whistle at the guard He'll give you rice and sacks of lard And then he'll ask to mow your yard If, that is, it ain't too hard Song: Where the Sheets Have no Stains I want to rest I want to sleep I want to smash in the walls Put holes in the floor I want to bust beds, Set them aflame Where the sheets have no stains I want to watch Showtime every day Get a burger delivered on a silver tray I want to sleep on bed not built for pain Where the sheets have no stains Where the sheets have no stains Where the sheets have no stains A real bulding To burn down to hell, burn down hotels And when I shower There's no hair on the soap (Belongs to who-knows-who) The bathroom's aflood And the bed's turned to rust We beat in the TV and walls Till it's all dust It's not the same The room looks the same We need to find a place Where the sheets have no stains Where the sheets have no stains Where the sheets have no stains A real bulding To burn down to hell, burn down hotels And when I shower There's no hair on the soap (Belongs to who-knows-who) Song: The End Of The Meal As We Know It Oh shit It starts with the Bis-Quick And now I'm sick To my stomach Gastric juices start to cascade I'm in a lot of pain Better save yourself Someone show me to the bathroom Where the hell's the bathroom? Shouldn't have had that last beet Too much to eat Now it's hit my bladder Full effect of the lager Brother said he's buyin' So I couldn't refuse So every dish I'm tryin' Now my stomach's confused Now my lunch is comin' In a hurry with a fury Creepin' up my neck Gotta find a toilet Or a trashcan or a bucket Really any kind of Container Uh oh, overflow Too little, too late Better move, save yourself Move yourself Move your fat feet Get yourself away from me 'Less you wanna be swimmin' In my dinner all night There's fish and chicken All the fixins, clams left and right It is not a pretty sight It's the end of the meal as we know it It's the end of the meal as we know it It's the end of the meal as we know it I feel like dyin' Sick as fuck, a food shower A little duck and clam chowder Throatburn returns Guess the meeting's adjourned Maybe it was under-warmed I'm reuturnin' this burger And also this here lemonade They'll just put it right back on the plate Have my salad, have my cola Head down, head down Here's my sip of orange Crush Uh-oh this means Old beer, shed a tear Gatorade and something clear Spillin' in, ploppin' in droppin' in, FLUSH! For the end I'm wishing, as my stomach's turning French toast, French fries It's the end of the meal as we know it It's the end of the meal as we know it It's the end of the meal as we know it I feel like dyin' Here comes more, my tongue's a slide For everything I dared to bite Fermented cider, aged wine BACON SANDWICH A chef's salad Something that may not be dead Birthday party cheesecake Jellybeans, boom! Fish and chicken, all the fixins Not a pretty sight It's the end of the meal as we know it It's the end of the meal as we know it It's the end of the meal as we know it I feel like dyin' Song: Mr. Jones (Actually, The Bacon Sandwiches did this first...) Na-na-na-na-na-na-na Uh--what? Yeah I was down a the new Burger King Starin' at this yellow french fry Mr. Jones strikes against conservation With a black-haired flamingo breeder You know, she dances while his spays Fido She's suddenly beautiful Well, we all want something suddenly Man, I wish I was something So come dance this morning drown in the pudding Fa-la-la-la-la-la yeah Cut up Maria. Put her pieces in some Tupperware Pass me some bacon, Mr. Jones Believe in Cheez Help me believe in melodies Cause I want to be someone who gets helped Mr. Jones and me tell each other fairy tales He screws up on his parts though "They're looking at you. Ah, no, no. No wait -- yeah they are." Playin' with the Lite-Brite Stealin' cheap car stereos When everybody loves, you can never get any sleep I will paint my picture Paint myself in blue, red, blue and red All the available colors are very very varied, oh Well you know Paul is my favorite Beatle I had gin and tonic yesterday If I knew Picasso I would ask him why he thinks that he can paint Mr. Jones and me look into the future Stare at the three-headed women "She's looking at you And him and him and that capybara too" Standing at the Shop-Rite I bought myself a candy bar When everybody loves me, I will have a lot of people lovin' me I want to be a lion No scratch that, I'd rather be a donkey We all want to be big big stars, yeah but there's just not enough cool hats Believe in me Cause I don't believe in believing And I believe someone who believes Yeah Mr. Jones and me stumbling through the barrio Yeah we look at each other and wonder "What's a barrio? Man, you really got me there." I want be Bob Denver Mr. Jones wishes he was a big plate of potato salad When everybody loves you, Bob, that's just about as funny as Toucan Sam Mr. Jones and me starin' at the radio When I look at the television I want to see Greg Brady starin' right back at me We all want to wear big ties, but don't know where and we don't know Frank But when everybody loves me, I'm gonna make 'em buy me some big ties Mr. Jones and me We're gonna wear big ties Song: Bacon Through As one band member put it, "It had to happen." You know the day destroys the Drac Night divides all day Tried a bun Tried a side Bacon through to the other side Bacon through to the other side Bacon through to the other side, yeah We chased capybaras here Dug our gravesites there But can you still recall Broken toasters? Bacon through to the other side Bacon through to the other side Yeah! C'mon yeah! Everybody loves my bacon Everybody loves my BRUCE He get He get He get He get fried I found a bloodstream in your arms Crusties in your eyes Squirrels that chase us Die die die Bacon through to the other side Bacon through to the other side Bacon through, owww! Oh, yeah! Made obscene Beak to beak Pay to play Power to flour The fate is cake Peas and Sprite Bacon through to the other side Bacon through to the other side Bacon through Bacon through Bacon through Bacon through Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah Jason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than smashed all to pieces and shoved up my butt. "And bacon." -- Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"
Album: This? Special Edition Single Song: This? [Recorded LIVE] There must, There must be, There must be something, There must be something else, There cannot be just this, Something you will not miss. It's impossible, Incredible, Stupendously STUPID! THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOMETHING ELSE!!! But it does not look that way, What do you say? I cannot see that this should be all, This empty wall. That this is really... ...IT???... It's impossible, Incredible, Stupendously STUPID! THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOMETHING ELSE!!! I feel so very unclean, As if an Capybara I've seen Nothing is remotely witty, Except perhaps this little ditty. Must be on Alt.Stupidity... Must be on Alt... Must be... ...and bacon. (Song ends in spectacular fireworks as someone pukes into a speaker) Album: Heckzapoppin' Song: I Don't Think This Microphone Is Working I don't think this microphone is working It's turned on but I think I think I think it's broken It's definitely on but I think I think I think it's BROKEN No, this microphone is certainly flawed There's no way that it could possibly be working If it is then my name is Judy Which, by the way, it's not so I guess that means That means That means I don't think this microphone is working I've been fiddling with it for some time It's turned on but I think I think I think it's broken It's on it's on but I think I think I think I think I don't think it's working Song: Big, Fat-Assed, Floating Cupcake Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, Hovering in front of my face, Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, I wonder how good you taste, Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, That my mother baked, Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, Oh, for goodness sake! Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, What was in my drink? Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, Making it hard to think. Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, Capybara running wild, Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, Taking bacon from a child. Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, How to end this song? Big, fat-assed, floating cupcake, Time to hit the Gong! ...fat-assed, floating cupcake... *******GONG!!!!!!******** ...fat-assed, floating cupcake... *******GONG!!!!!!******** ...fat-assed, floating cupcake... *******GONG!!!!!!******** ...fat-assed, floating cupcake... *******GONG!!!!!!******** *******GONG!!!!!!******** *******GONG!!!!!!******** *******GONG!!!!!!******** Song: Heckzapoppin' Just before the middle of the night Almost just around the corner And then to your immediate right You'll find him waiting (waiting) In the lukewarm flames Just around the puddle of fire Next to Elvis and Jesse James You'll find him waiting (or something) Almost an eternity But not quite It's not as bad as it gets But almost... Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Or something... You've loaned him your soul And you'll never get it back Well, not for a week or so At any rate, you're stuck here (sorta) Almost an eternity But just a tad shy It's not as bad as it gets But almost... Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Heckzepoppin' (Almost-Satan voice: HaHaHaHaHaHa... You're mine now, for a little while..) Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' Heckzapoppin' ***POP*** Album: Demo for Demonstrating Song: Up Your Butt and Around the Corner Where's Dan Quayle? Where's your mom? Where's everybody? ... where's Tom? Up your butt, it's not hard to mention Up your butt, it's not hard to clean Up your butt and around the corner Take a right - and there's your spleen Where's my keys? Where's my car? Where's my suction Garfield? Where's the bar? Where's my Slinky? Where's Spike Lee? Where's Rush Limbaugh? Where he oughtta be! Up your butt, there's no need to worry Up your butt, there's no need to preen Up your butt and around the corner Take a right, there's your spleen Song: Qwik-N-Ez Grammar-Meter Flamage Guide Recorded LIVE at the Newport. Listen to the wisdom of Alt.Stupidity: -1 for stupid or misspelt username, -5 for poorly-attributed quoting, -5 for beginning of sentence not capitalized, -5 for two words puttogether (Chorus) Use the Qwik-N-Ez Flamage Guide, Do not let your grammar slide, or Spatch will flame your hide... On Alt.Stupidity...rules the really witty and if you're offended, TOUGH TITTY! Dum-De-Dum... -10 for apostrophes werent used, -10 for two sentences not spaced properly, -10 for a comma was used wrong, -20 for run-on sentences are used you will get penalized if you use them!, -20 for pathetic attempt at argument / rhetoric, (Chorus) -25 for not capitalizing the I in Internet, -25 for referring to a "newsgroup" as a forum, BBS, area, room, -25 for making lame "Information Superhighway" metaphor, -25 for poster begins follow-up with obscenity, -25 for excessive use of smileys, (Chorus) -25 for flaming someone whose smiley has/doesn't have a nose, -25 for excessive use of obscenity, -30 for so much obscenity it'd make a drill sergeant blush, -30 for attempt to disguise obscenity with ASCII, -50 for misspelt obscenity, (Chorus) -50 for posing a question but not using a question mark, -50 for excessive use of exclamation points!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, -50 for poorly-attempted forge, -75 for referring to the Internet as "The Information Superhighway", -75 for confusing the USENET with the Internet, (Chorus) -75 for SHOUTING THE ENTIRE POST, -100 for quoting a long article only to add one line at the end, -100 for any time the lines of the poster's .sig is greater than the post, -100 for writing a follow-up with no quotes and no context, -100 for referring to the Internet as "The Infobahn", (Chorus) -100 for flamebait so obvious even Andrew Beckwith wouldn't bite, -100 for asking "I know this question is in the FAQ..." -X for general cluelessness, And remember, this song is not to nitpick on slip-ups, But to thrash the flagrant violators. Endfile, Endfile, Endfiiiillleeeee. (Song ends in chaos as the audience attacks the band...) Jason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than smashed all to pieces and shoved up my butt. "And bacon." -- Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"
Album: The Bacon Sandwiches Watch Too Much TV Song: (I've Got Those) Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues, I got them Hill Street Blues Put yourself in a policeman's shoes When you're watching Hill Street, please don't snooze There's just so much to see, it's a sure bet you'll lose Catch the criminals, gather clues Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues When it's done I won't have Hill Street Blues If pre-empted I will blow a fuse Now it's time to watch those Hill Street Blues Hill Street Blues. Album: A Bacon Sandwiches End Of Daylight Savings Time Song: Fall Back It's two o'clock In the morning, child All down the block Folks are running wild They've got to turn back their clocks It's the end... Of Daylight Savings Time... It's two o'clock Actually, now it's only one Got an hour back One more hour of fun So what do you want to do? It's the end... The end... Of Daylight Savings Time... Spoken: I knew a man. A stupid man. A long time ago. He would turn his clock back at two, until it read one. And then an hour later, he'd do the same thing again. Trapped in a time warp of his own creation. He died with his finger on the minute hand. It was 1:37. It's the end... The end... The end... The end... (cuckoo solo) The.......... End.......... Album: Cum On Bite the Bacon Sandwiches Song: I LONGEST KNOWN PALINDROME KNOWN LONGEST I Some day this thread will die and we'll be real happ-y. Spatch leans down and says "Do you think we're that lucky? "It sure is a bitch, Oh here it comes!" I LONGEST KNOWN (uh) PALINDROME KNOWN LONGE-E-EST I! And we are just bacon munching on bacon on a piggy's backside. We don't deserve this (nausea) I LONGEST KNOWN (uh) (nausea) PALINDROME KNOWN (nausea) LONGE-E-EST I! (nausea) See the flamage proof thread hanging 'round this newsfroup? See the regular(?) posts with the random sigs, Kaj? Now if I had to decide, 'Tween us and the I LONGEST KNOWN (uh) PALINDROME KNOWN LONG-E-EST I Well, I would choose bacon'n capybaras, 'Cause I practic'ly died Last time that I tried (nausea) I LONGEST KNOWN (uh) PALINDROME KNOWN LONG-E-EST I! (nausea) "Spatch, we are pissed, though" we said "'Cause just a thread (this one) must die, now." "Die, must one?" "This thread-a just cause." said we, though pissed, are we Spatch? See your brain on this thread? Now is it frying? (Egad a B.S. is Mom's! Is bad age?) See cascades making shapes like capybaras? (Egad a B.S. is Mom's! Is bad age?) Mom, yer mom, rey, mom! I LONGEST KNOWN (uh) PALINDROME KNOWN (nausea) LONGE-E-EST I! "No palindromes, no! Let's talk about grammar, or even grampa!" Nafziger sighed. I LONGEST KNOWN (ay!) (nausea) PALINDROKE KNO(N (nausea) LONGE-E-EST I! (nausea) No palindrome, no! (nausea) Song: toaster it warmed my pop-tarts for me, it warmed my bagels for me it burnt my rye bread but i, i didn't get mad or nothing help me i broke apart my toaster help me i've got no jam to spread help me the only that thing that worked for me what am i to do with this bread? i just can't cook it in the microwave it'll still be cold on the inside i just can't cook it in the microwave my whole damn breakfast is flawed you know that toaster was God you can have my can opener you can have the pain that it brings you can have my wok and my fridge you can have my other things help me take my damn freezer help me dinette set i can sell help me it browned it perfect made toast like no-damn-body else i just can't cook it in the microwave it'll still be cold on the inside i just can't cook it in the microwave my whole damn breakfast is flawed you know that toaster was God top it with butter, top it with cheese within my stomach, certain to please the warm jelly of its pop-tarts melted my cold and darkened heart Song: Stick (Your Head) In A (Buck)et Of B(a)c(o)n When the assholes are all around you, And life is getting you down, Stick your head in a bucket of Bacon, And swish it all around! When your money's all been spent And the wife has just thrown you out Stick your head in a bucket of bacon, And swish it all about! When you're lying drunk in the road Gettin' trampled by a Clydesdale horse Stick your head in a bucket of bacon, And swish it back and forth! Oh... I saw the light You know it set me right I said, brother, I found salvaaaaaaaa-SHUN I stuck my head in a bucket of bacon Song: 100 Bastards Gone One-hundred bastards gone Driven out of town One-hundred bastards gone With seventy clowns Oh, they left behind A couple of mimes One-hundred bastards gone Oh, those mimes are here Drinking all my beer One-hundred bastards gone If you've never seen a mime drunk Well consider yourself lucky, punk One-hundred bastards gone Oh, it's silence like you've never heard And all of their gestures are slurred ONE HUNDRED BASTARDS GONE ONE HUNDRED BASTARDS GONE ONE HUNDRED BASTARDS GONE AIIIEEEEEEEEEEYYYEAH!!!!! Song: Say, Mr. Pigeon Say, Mr Pigeon, is that your bike? Is that your bike? Is that your bike? Say, Mr Pigeon, is that your bike? Cause it's rolling down that hill! Mean Mr. Pigeon wakes up with a single piece of paper He's not too nice All day long he sits by the park bench Waiting for rice But every time he puts down his bike Mr Pigeon really gets sore Cause the kickstand always flops and the bike doesn't stop Til it's smashed into a car Hey, Mr Pigeon, is that your bike? Is that your bike? Is that your bike? Hey, Mr Pigeon, is that your bike? Cause it's rolling down that hill! (guitar solo) (song ends as a large bike crashes into the studio and takes out several recording technicians) Song: Squishy Dream One Squishy Can came to me in a dream He said, "If you wanna do the stoopid thing you gotta be stoopid" And I said "Squishy Can, man, do you get stoopid often?" He just laffs and sez "Boy I'M ALWAYS STOOPID!!!". And then he gets on top of the Squishymobile And does the Squishy Jig. All the cops that had gathered at that point were pointless I went flat And tried to do the same Squishy just laffed and laffed I was cornfuzed Was I not Stoopid? Was I beeing 2 smart 4 the Squish man? I says "Show me the way to be, Squishy Can Man!" So he says "First, you have to take out your brain Then, stuff in the bacon, Capybara, And pledge allegiance to the Spatch" So, "OK" I says, And I take out my Brain Song: Spatula's Theme It's a untensil It's not a pencil Handy for flipping things A Spatula Tonight! Something we all use, Something you can't lose, Something for greasy spoons A Spatula Tonight! Made out of wood, Or stainless steel, You all can use it, For ev'ry me-al. Something that coo-ooks Nothing from boo-ooks, Something to flip pancakes all right, Eggbeaters tomorrow, Spatula Tonight! --------------------- ----Outtakes---- --------------------- "The Calamari Song" (Working Title) There was this rabbit Who I used to see every day. But then the squid came And I yelled, "HEY!!!" (hey!) But they took that rabbit away. Oh so much to my dismay. So I got them. And we made Calimari! (chorus) CAAALimarI! STOOOOpid Squid! Yellow Hankerchief Yellow Hankerchief And the Squid came back the very next day. and sat. (chorus) Lots of wild and eratic vocals as the entire band explods. Enter the horses. Jason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than smashed all to pieces and shoved up my butt. "And bacon." -- Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"
--------------------------------------------------------------------------- BAND INTERVIEWS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Interview with Steve "Vehement Sack" and Spatch, on NYC Live at Four A.M. Host: Leslie something-or-other L: Okay -- first off let me just ask you-- VS: Y'know, man, it's nice to see the band get the recognition it deserves, y'know man? After all the hard work we put into "What Thing?" and "DOODY DOODY DOODY", I mean, we sold, what...over 2 million... S: 3. VS: ...yeah, 3 million... S: No. Just 3. VS: ...yeah, like, we never knew they would be such mega-hits, y'know, man? Hey! What's say we sing one Spatch-o... S: No, I really d... VS: ...oh, c'mon...I'll start, Ok? Ok, now, "DOODY DOODY DOODY..." S: ...uhh.. VS: ..C'Mon.."DOO..." S: "...DOODY DOODY....DOODY" VS: OK, yeah! "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! S: "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! VS: Alright! "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! S: "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! VS: "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! S: "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! VS: "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! S: "DOODY DOODY DOODY"! VS: OK! Big finish now... VS&S: "DOODY!" VS: Right on Spatch! S: I think I going to vomit... Interview with Jason, Spatch, Kaj, and Vehement Steve in Lame Band Magazine LBM: What makes the Bacon Sandwiches so-- VS: I think you should be interviewing Duran Duran instead. S: Hey! Duran Duran's not that bad!! I mean, not as bad as us. K: Which Duran do you like better? S: Oh, the first one, for sure. VS: I like the first one too. J: The second one. K: I like them both the same. They need each other. For, like, support or whatever. J: I think you're drunk, Kaj. VS: We're all drunk. J: See? S: So, were you going to ask us a question or what? LBM: Uh... who writes the songs? S: Which songs? VS: The songs that make the whole world sing? J: Yeah, what songs do you mean? K: Duran Duran? LBM: Yours. Who writes the Bacon Sadwiches' songs? J: Uh.... S: Um.... K: Er.... VS: [belch] J&S: [three minutes of laughing] LBM: No, seriously, who writes 'em? S: Well, we all write words on little slips of paper, and then we put them in this giant fedora, and then Laura draws out a bunch of them. And there's the song. So, I guess Laura writes them. LBM: Where is Laura by the way? J: Interview's over. K: We've gotta go. S: You'll be sorry, mag-boy. VS: Are you gonna eat those fries? Interview with Laura Z by CruDdyMusIcTeleVisIoN CMTV: So, how exactly did the Bacon Sandwiches come about? L: It was all my idea. CMTV: Yes...? L: Yes. CMTV: O...Kay. Tell us about the new video. L: It was all my idea. CMTV: Okay, okay. Why doesn't Spatch use his real name? L: It was all my idea. CMTV: We'll be right back after this CMTV "Free Your Spleen" Ad. The Bacon Sandwiches on the Whack Flapjack show. Other guests: Child star Macaulay Culkin, and dissatisfied columnist Standwick Mushmeyer. Basically after the interviews the BS came out and sang "Doody Doody Doody", after which the following exchange occurred: KAJ: Thank you. Thank you. [ applause dies down ] WHACK: So, when are you going to do your song? STEVE: That was our song. LAURA: It was my idea. WHACK: That was no song. That was just all five SPATCH: - three, sir - WHACK: - seven of you shouting "Doody doody doody" at random intervals. LAURA: It was my idea. KAJ: Well, you see, Whack, that's the general idea of the song. LAURA: Mine. KAJ: Yeah, Laura's. We felt that by shouting "doody doody doody" at random intervals, rather than, say, whispering it, we could achieve an effect that somehow is like the new capybarian style of music. SPATCH (to STANDWICK MUSHMEYER): Hi there. STANDWICK: Uh, hi. WHACK: The capybarian style? LAURA: It was my idea. JASON: No it wasn't, it was Matthew MacIntyre's idea. WHACK: Wasn't he on the New Kids on the Block? SPATCH: You mispronounced "Joe McCarthy". Hope this helps. STEVE: Basically the capybarian style of music is somewhat like house, building, Mentos and industropoop all rolled into one. You get your rabid Luddite fans, you get your devout rasta followers and you also get the tonedeaf all enjoying the work. WHACK: So you're doing this to gain new fans, are you? SPATCH: You mispronounced "selling out." Hope this helps. KAJ: No, Spatch, wait, we're not selling out. To sell out we'd have to latch onto a popular music form. SPATCH: Oh. WHACK: So, I hear it's customary for one of you guys to get smashed before interviews. LAURA: It was my idea, but only if it's soy milk. WHACK: Riight. So, which one of you is it this time? JASON: Can't you tell? WHACK: Uh, no. JASON: We thought it'd be inherently obvious. WHACK: You all got me unless Blandford comes out with the Whack-Y Breathalyzer test! KAJ: BREATHALYZER?! OH SHIT!!! [ runs out of the studio screaming ] SPATCH (to STANDWICK): So, what's in your mug? STANDWICK (stiffly): Water. You? SPATCH: TRUE YETI. WHACK: I think I know who's drunk. JASON: Wrong! WHACK: But I haven't guessed yet! JASON: You'd still be wrong. None of us is drunk. STEVE: Yet. LAURA: Bruce is. WHACK: Bruce? STEVE: Sandy?! WHACK: Who's Bruce? JASON: He's not here. SPATCH: Hey, can Florence Henderson bring out a Brady Bunch board game for me, too? [ STANDWICK drinks out of SPATCH's cup, his eyes roll in the back of his head ] WHACK: No. Who's Bruce? STEVE: Bruce is our Auxiliary Band Member. He's currently dead right now but he's recuperating and should be back for our Spring 96 tour of Mesopotamia. LAURA: It was my idea. VOICE FROM AUDIENCE: We want Macaulay Culkin! STEVE: Shut up! WHACK: Well, what's next for the Bacon Sandwiches? SPATCH: Well, we're currently negotiating the rights to do a rock opera based on the book "How to make Millions of Dollars, Tax-Free, While Simultaneously Finding Your Ideal Mate and Achieving Perfect Health". JASON: It's very visionary, very surreal. LAURA: It was my idea. SPATCH: And after that we're off to sunny Nepal to shoot our latest video "Phil". WHACK: I think you're lying. [ STANDWICK takes another swig out of SPATCH'S cup, grimaces, and finishes it. ] STEVE: Hey, man, we don't question your work. JASON: Actually, I do. What were you thinking when you filmed "Disco Avenger?" WHACK (nervously): Hey, now, everybody's got their bad career moves... JASON: Yeah, but a crimefighter who fights crimes in a big white polyester leisure suit with the Big Ugly Medallions of Truth? Come on! WHACK: I needed the money. It was either that or star in another disaster epic with Shelley Winters. SPATCH: I think I saw that one. You were real convincing as the Furniture Magnate whose carelessness destroys an entire city. WHACK: That wasn't me, that was Leslie Nielsen! STEVE: It's all right, we forgive you. Not. STANDWICK (very drunkenly swaggers right up to WHACK): I don't fergive you, Mishter Flapjack... I can't shtand you! Do you unmember me? WHACK: With breath like that, it's a wonder I haven't. STANDWICK: Do you remember a game show sheveral yearz back called "Was It Red?" I wash on it and I LOST! WHACK: That's "Is It Red?" and I can see why you lost. STANDWICK: You publicly humiliated me! You called me all shorts of names and taunted me jusht because I wouldn't play along with your sick, perverted fantashies! WHACK: Hey, now, answering questions correctly isn't quite "playing along with my sick, perverted fantasies." STEVE: It is if the question was "Will you make hot mango love to me while we listen to Debby Boone?" WHACK: Stay out of this, vehement sackboy. SHTANDWICK: I've been waiting all these yearsh sho that I could exact my revenge... and now I CAN! HAHAHAHAH! [ points his finger at WHACK ] You're my hostage now or else I'll let you have it! [ jabs finger menacingly ] WHACK: Uh, that's not a gun, that's your finger. STANDWICK (breaking down and weeping): Oh, what'sh the use? I can't even brandish a weapon correctly. I'm jusht a pathetic peon of the journalistic society we live in today. JASON: Oh, come on, sir, you're not that pathetic. I mean, look at Spatch. 6 years in the music business and he's still doing backup vocals for Ace of Base. SPATCH: HEY!!! STANDWICK: I guess you're right. I'm not all that bad. It's just that every time I try to gain the public eye I end up looking like a total, utter, stupid, smegging SCHNOOK! [ STOCKDALE the CLOWN runs in all of a sudden, holding three keylime pies, and bashes them in STANDWICK's face. He then sprays STANDWICK with seltzer, rum and coke, and bacon, while singing the aria to La Boheme. Afterwards he picks up STANDWICK and throws him down a prop laundry chute marked "TO HELL" and then stands as if waiting for something. ] WHACK: He said "schnook", not "book". STOCKDALE: Oh, I guess I had my hearing aid turned off for a moment there. STEVE: Wha?! LAURA: That wasn't my idea. WHACK: Well, we'll be right back with the Bacon Sandwiches and our special guest Macaula - [ KAJ re-enters holding MACAULAY CULKIN'S head on a pike, MACAULAY'S face is frozen in his famed "oh no!" expression. ] KAJ: Sorry, I slipped while backstage... [ pandemonium ensues as the crowd mobs the stage and firehoses are deployed. ] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- THE FABLED "THREE FULL MINUTES..." SESSION TRANSCRIPT ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Featuring Jason, Spatch, and various Engineers. Plus, guest vocalist Carnie Wilson. E: It's about time you showed up, Carnie, maybe we can get started now. C: Hey, bite me, okay. S: All right, let's do it. The song we're recording is called "Love Stew" and I wrote it with you in mind. I'd like to thank you once again for doing this song with us. J: Okay, okay, can we do this? C: Hey, you guys want some root beer? J: Sure. S: Yeah, cool. Thanks. E: Er... guys? J: Oh, shut up, like anyone's gonna buy this record anyway. E: No, I just wondered if we could get some root beer, too. S: NO!!! C: [belch] S: [laugh] J: [laugh, belch, laugh] S: [belch, laugh, belch, laugh] C: [major belch, cackle] S: [laughing mixed with belching] J: [uncontrollable laughing, belch] [three full minutes of laughing and belching] S: Hey! That was a lot better than "Love Stew"!! J: Yeah, no kidding [belch]. C: Er... I gotta go [belch, cackle] S: [belch, laugh] E: Okay, we're out of tape. S: That's a keeper! [more belching and laughing] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- THE STORY OF "Bruce" ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Just mention the name to any Bacon Sandwiches fan (if you can find one) and you'll no doubt be choked within strands of your life. This is how most BS fans respond to contact with other human beings. You should see the concerts. But "Bruce" means something extra-special to them (more than even a free burrito, as hard as this may be to believe). And it should mean something special to you. "Bruce" was written in 1981, when founding Sandwiches Spatch and Jason were in a band called Dentyl Wreckyrd. One night, after a few too many, Spatch wrote "Bruce," the subject of which has been hotly debated, and asked Jason to join him for a quick demo to see how it sounded. Well, it sounded good (to four drunken ears, anyway). The two didn't want to play the tape for Oxn Dihard, the lead singer of Wreckyrd, for fear they would be booted from the band, a habit that stemmed from Oxn's ego, which was only rivaled by his hair in terms of immensity. So they kept "Bruce" to them- selves for now. Three months later, Wreckyrd broke up. "Bruce" resurfaced again in 1988, after the Bacon Sandwiches had just completed their summer tour in support of the Squishy Can album. Spatch came upon the tape in his personal vault while he was looking for peanut butter. He decided it was time to record it with a real band, and the Bacon Sand- wiches were the next best thing. After hundreds of mixing sessions, Spatch was still unhappy with the sound of the track, and nixed it from the line- up of the This? single. "Bruce" was worked on constantly, but Spatch could not be pleased. It failed to make it onto Heckzapoppin' as well. Until earlier this year, the thought of "Bruce" ever gracing a shiny disc was completely dismissed. But, in late February, Spatch called Jason at three in the morning (for which he has not yet been forgiven) and told him to get his punk ass to the studio pronto. Once there, the pair re-recorded the song just as they had done the original. "This was the way it was meant to be", Spatch said before he passed out. A video for "Bruce" was also shot using Spatch's Betacam. You should see Jason's cute jammies. But the big question is: Will fans ever hear this masterpiece, often lauded as "the greatest rock song ever written" (mostly by those who wrote it)? Rumor has it that it may appear on the Sandwiches upcoming album, Cum On Bite the Bacon Sandwiches. But, so far, the album has had several delays and probably will not be finished before the tour ends. Some have said the Sandwiches will perform "Bruce" as the closing number for the Put Down... tour, but most of these people are noted sacks of shit (though not vehement ones, curiously). Are Jason and Spatch the next Lennon/McCartney. Or are they closer to Lenin/ McCarthy? No one knows, and more importantly, no one cares. Jason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than smashed all to pieces and shoved up my butt. "And bacon." -- Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"
---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALBUM REVIEWS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Review of the Bacon Sandwiches' cover album ("The Bacon Sandwiches Watch Too Much TV") in Rolling Stone magazine (RS 687.3) By David Fricke (/words/ are italicized and _words_ are underlined) _CHANNEL SURFIN' WITH THE SANDWICHES_ "The Bacon Sandwiches Watch Too Much TV" I have never considered myself much of a television addict until I received a copy of THE BACON SANDWICHES' latest release of cover tunes, _The Bacon Sandwiches Watch Too Much TV_ along with a blank check and a Post-It note reading "LISTEN TO ME". From the first track (a cover of /Three's Company/) to the last, the Sandwiches show the world once again that musical success is not judged on talent and ability. I sat, enthralled, in front of my sound system, trying to figure out if the Sandwiches had actually taken that technological step forward and recorded in stereo this time (no dice) as all the familiar sights and smells of my favorite television shows came rushing back at me. However, I soon realized that none of my TV faves were on this album (with the exception of /Green Acres/). To complete the Couch Potato feel this album seems to suggest, I sat down with my remote CD shuffler in my right hand and a can of Rolling Rock in the other and lemme tell you, 33 never tasted better than during a listen to this album. The /Three's Company/ opening riff demonstrates that KAJ GRONER's exceptional ability at plugging in an electric guitar. Next, JASON NAFZIGER and SPATCH show off their talents as they turn the theme to /Scooby-Doo/ (retitled "Scooby Snack Mix") into a techno tour-de-something. The entire band then swings into high as everybody participates (as guest stars?) in the theme to the /Love Boat/ (who's the wise guy screaming out "Dick Van Patten! Angie Dickinson! Waylon Jennings and Madam!" during the opening measures?) but the song really needs more than just loud synthesized strings. However, things mellow out next with a superb a capella rendering of the /Hill Street Blues/ song with new lyrics added by some band member. However, after this VCR's worth of television delights, we take a radical departure and get the theme to "Shaft". I guess several Sandwiches had watched it on Late-night TV. (I hear it was all Laura's idea.) STEVE HECKMAN kicks out the jams as he lends his /control-alto-delbasso/ voice for the lead vocals while guest artist MATTHEW MACINTYRE wails away on lead capybara. We are next treated to a live recording of /Josie & The Pussycats/, recorded at "Lollapallooza XVIII" where JASON and KAJ got too excited and crowd-surfed over the security guards while LAURA, dressed in her pussycat outfit, led those who weren't enthralled by the cheesy America Online demos to sing along. (A special encore, half-heard on this track but mostly drowned out by screaming executives features the other theme /Josie and the Pussycats in Outer Space/.) After a sad attempt at the /Quantum Leap/ theme (which features several band members trying to sing the lead instrument part) newcomer NOAH "FLAPJACK" SMITH does an incredible pots-and-pans solo before launching into the rawest, dirtiest, grungiest version of /My Mother, The Car/ you will ever hear outside of a Neil Young concert. Next, a lilting duet between LAURA and JASON as those lovable Douglas newlyweds on /Green Acres/. However, LAURA sounds more like Zsa Zsa than Eva on this track, and JASON sounds more like Prince Albert rather than Eddie Albert. Oh well. Finally we find ourselves at the end of our broadcast day. After KAJ's gospel lead for /Maude/ (with SPATCH and friends randomly screaming "AND THEN THERE'S MAUDE!!!" at various intervals) the band gets down and funky for the /Sanford and Son/ and finally, they do an homage (I guess it's supposed to be positive) to the show /Mystery Science Theater 3000/. However, in this one they sound more like Frank Black than TV's Frank. I found myself wanting to listen to more even though I was oddly repulsed, but I couldn't because I had to write this review. (And there were no more songs either.) All in all, though, the Sandwiches come through with another piece of audio salvo. Although the band draws lots to see who plays what instrument for each recording session, they pass themselves off as a second-rate Dead Milkmen (or, if we're really being generous, a first-rate Captain And Tennille) and the overall effect is, well, if you can't watch the shows the next best thing is getting a mediocre band to play the tunes for you. But why didn't they do /Batman/?? Rating: -501251,12501351025,125012505 - meaning "OK I guess" Review of the Bacon Sandwiches' Heczapoppin' in Entertainment Weekly's "Worst Albums In The History Of Everything" issue. By David Browne Dreckzapoppin' : New York's Bacon Sandwiches continue to do what they do best -- that is, do everything poorly. When asked to pick one of the worst albums ever, I immediately ran to the collection of Bacon Sandwiches CDs I keep in my wastebasket. I picked this one randomly, since everything the band has released is lousy. Even at their best, the band is at their worst. And the five-song Heckzapoppin' is even worse than that. The songs here are reminiscent of the gurgling of a newborn infant, only with less insight. Basically we get songs about faulty equipment ("I Don't Think This Microphone is Working"), drug-induced hallucinations ("Big, Fat-Assed, Floating Cupcake"), and ... well ... "Heckzpoppin'." We're also put through a remix of "Put Down That Ping-Pong Paddle" and a 45- minute "blooper reel" that is beyond human description. To say that Heckzapoppin' is crap is to insult fecal matter. Do yourself a favor and spend the money on an actual bacon sandwich; it's got to be better for your health than this garbage (my apologies to junk.) F- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Misc. Announcements (Take off your shoe!) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bacon Sandwiches Merchandise and stuff: * The Bacon Sandwiches Concert Action Playset -- with crappy plastic figures that look nothing like the band, and Rock'em Sock'em mosh pit!!!! * Bac-O-Flakes Cereal Crunchy flakes of bacon and marshmallows shaped like marshmallows. No known nutritional value. Stays crunchy in True Yeti. Free live capybara in specially marked boxes! Two capybaras in un-specially marked boxes! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Foreword to "From Obscurity to Slightly Less Obscurity: An Unneccessary Odyssey: Of Breakfast Meat and Me: A Catatlogue of Bodily Noises: A Lot of B.S.: The Bacon Sandwiches Story ...and Bacon" by Standwick Mushmeyer -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All right Gentle Readers, here's another book. Let me say right off the bat that I didn't want to write this book, but I had to toss off one more book to fulfill my contractual obligations with Chavez-D'Allesio press before I moved on to a real publishing house. I was originally going to ghost write the autobiography of Norton Chia, the inventor of the Chia Pet. The book was going to be called, or at least so his dictation suggested, "I'm. . .uh. . . Norton Chia, You will Respect me!" The writing was going all right until he began telling me about the time he was seduced by Tom Bosley. Justifiably skeptical I called Mr. Bosley for verification. He not only categorically denied ever meeting Mr. Chia, but he presented proof that he was on the set of "Happy Days" during the weekend in question and not in a seedy bar in Tasmania a Mr. Chia suggests. The whole book was beginning to smack of libel, so I jumped ship; besides, I don't like to work with sickos. Anyway, I grabbed to next project available, thinking I could write it in a few weeks. It turned out to be this repulsive debacle you hold in your hands. Unfortunately, writing the story of the incessantly stupid band The Bacon Sandwiches didn't get me very far from sickos, but at least I needn't worry about libel since nobody really cares what Jason, Steve, Spatch, Laura, Ray, Kaj, Jesper and Noah think. I wanted to call the book "The Bacon Sandwiches The Story of a Band that Can Bite Me," but Peter Chavez-D'Allesio wouldn't let me. He can bite me too. Interestingly enough, and as loathsome as I find admitting it, The Bacon Sandwiches (or B.S., as I like to call them) have a lot to do with success I have enjoyed over the past several months, which is why I'm leaving Chavez-D'Allesio Press, which is why I had to write this book. To quote Thornton Wilder, "that's what you call a vicious circle." The irony is just sickening. I am speaking, of course of the infamous episode of The Whack Flapjack Show from last spring. I was appearing on the show, against my better judgment, to promote my book "I Hate Burritos" (now available in paperback from Chavez-D'Allesio Press). Also appearing that night were child star Macaulay Culkin and the Bacon Sandwiches as the alleged musical guest. Culkin was late, so I went on first and Mr. Flapjack, that paragon of the inanity of American culture in the 90's, decided that, since a "literary guest" is always "boring" he would spice up the interview by having a clown come out and taunt me at seemingly random intervals. So I was understandably angry by the time B.S. came out to sing "DOODY DOODY DOODY" as the first stop on their 1994 "Comeback Tour." After screaming "Doody!" into their microphones for an inexorably long time, the band came over to engage in inane chatter with Mr. Flapjack. Their washboard player, Spatch, who some people say looks like me wouldn't leave me alone. I was now ready to drown my troubles in drink, so I took a sip of Spatch's mug which was full of some concoction called TRUE YETI. I can't remember anything after that, except that I woke up in a dumpster on the OBS lot outside the set of Lifecall The Series. After watching videotapes I learned that I had threatened to shoot Mr. Flapjack with my finger to revenge his treatment of me when I appeared on a game show he used to host called Is it Red? The Clown pushed me down a laundry shoot and general pandemonium broke out. When Culkin finally arrived (he had trouble finding the lot and everyone whom he asked for directions had never heard of OBS), he was "accidentally" decapitated by Kaj Groner, lead moaner of B.S. The final result was oddly, and rather twistedly, positive for most of the parties involved. Mr. Flapjack's ratings soared, due to the Ed-Ame's-Tomahawk-like-nature of the incident. My books have been selling like hotcakes since then and I've been booked on every major talk show in the nation, including, unfortunately, Mr. Flapjack's show, once a month through 1997. This isn't how I wanted to become famous, but I guess it will do for now. Young Mr. Culkin received a great deal of sympathy for his situation and became the first person ever to receive the now-common head-reattachment surgery. As I write this, his latest film, Home Alone 5 Lost up your Butt, is number one at the box office. The only people to come off badly from the incident were the Bacon Sandwiches themselves. Though they did not face criminal charges (harming the star of a John Hughes movie is only a misdemeanor in most states), B.S. received a great deal of negative press as "The band that hurt Kevin," and the release of their latest album was delayed once again. I know that no press is bad press as long as they spell your name right, but more than half of the articles written on the subject referred to the group as either "The Doody Heads" or "Spatch and the Spatchulettes." None the less, the group remembers the evening fondly and their pots and pans player, who didn't appear on the show, has taken to calling himself "Flapjack." Anyway, here's my book on The Bacon Sandwiches. If you enjoy it, you're not somebody I'd like to meet. Standwick Mushmeyer 11/2/94 Jason. -------------------------------------------------------------------- I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than smashed all to pieces and shoved up my butt. "And bacon." -- Jack Nicholson in "Wolf"
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