2 posts tagged “mad scientist rock”
I don't know why, but here's the entirety of the Power Slaughter EP. As I recall, the concept is this: "A bunch of 14 year old boys decided it would be really awesome to start a grunge band where they pretended to be a mad scientist and his henchmen." As I recall, the execution of this piece was supposed to include making copies of the disc an sneaking it onto the stacks of used CD stores in NYC.
And in a tangetially related note, this is the best refernce I could find to the Swank Art group that Devin and the Pirates/Powerslaughter were in back in those halcyon college days:
Jeremy D. Impson (jdimpson@acm.spam.org) wrote:
>
> In Syracuse circa 1997 or 1998, my more talented friends created a
> performance art group that they called "Swank Art". They put on a
> performance in or around the SU quad on Friday afternoons in the
> Spring and Fall. In one performance, they resolved the question of which
> was more powerful, Good or Evil, by having hosting a wrestling match.
> Good won, you'll be happy to know.
I keep thinking that performance art is the wave of the future.
And I want to get in on the ground floor of performance art while
it's still hip and new and everybody loves it. But most of my
ideas require extra people (either as performers or as bodyguards.)
Does anyone living in the Boston area want to help me found
Kibo's Evil Performance Art Group? KEPAG could really do great
things in terms of freaking out the tourist twits who think
Quincy Market is a major tourist destination and not just a
shopping mall with an unusually high proportion of tacky souvenirs.
> SU would often host tours for prospective students, and you could always
> identify the tour guide by the orange and blue striped polo shirt they
> were forced to wear. So another performance had them seripticiously
> joiningg the tour in groups of one and two. They'd play cool for a few
> minutes, then start casually swatting at some sort of insect flying around
> their heads. The swatting would slowly build up, until they'd scream
> "BEEES!!!" and run off across the quad, swatting and screaming.
Yes! I heartily endorse this art!
We could ruin the Chocolate Tour. I haven't done that in a while.
> Another peformance had them dressing up in trenchcoats and sunglasses,
> with one of their number equipped with a boombox and a tape of the Mission
> Impossible theme. They'd line up against a wall, turn on the tape, then
> do all that spy stuff of creeping against the wall, or doing dive rolls,
> or what have you. They did it in the student center, and probably other
> places, before doing it at the library, where security stopped them and
> had a long discussion with them before letting them go. Today, they'd
> probably get arrested.
Why is it that whenever people go to jail for their performance art,
you never hear about them performing freaky performance art in jail
to screw with the guards? I'd think that would be the proper punchline.
> My favorite was "Art Machine", which was a great big painted box they set
> up on the quad. About four of them were in the box with a bunch of art
> supplies and an accordian. People were encouraged to put paper in one
> side, and art would come out the other.
It's always an accordion. Performance art seems to require one.
We could set up the perfect performance art orchestra consisting
of an accordion, a harmonica, a kazoo, and some plastic buckets
being pounded on with a lead-filled Cabbage Patch doll. But I
can't figure out what outfit to wear -- The Great Morgani and
Thoth already took all the best choices.
I'm thinking white three-hole ski masks with propeller beanies over them.
Also, the accordion should be shaped like a giant foam-rubber chicken liver.
> [...]
>
> I miss those guys.
So come here and let's annoy tourists. Seriously, I'm bursting with
ideas for how to annoy people for hours at a time. You won't believe
the stamina I have when it comes to being annoying in public.
WE MUST BRING BACK SALVADOR DALI'S IDEALS OF ANNOYANCE.
-- K.
Seriously, I so want to
do this. Let's damage some
tourists' preconceived ideas
about normal human behavior.
The Internet doesn't work
for this, it has to be done
where the Normals hang out,
like in front of Au Bon Pain.
Free associating this morning is better than thinking about implementing accounting software as a web application.
