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Ie, what is the incredibly strangest rekkid you have ever heard. Mine is: "For Your Entertainment..." by Rusty Goffe. Basically, this dwarf who has been a big extra in fillims, plays a big band rekkid of covras and three songs "full of meaning" inc. his own composition "Ten Feet Tall", featd. on some doc. about midgets. It is inc. depressing. Obv. meaning good. Ie, Rusty Goffe = the Adelaide busker-wombman who wheezatrons Abba tunes (Dancing Queen?).

It's signed too. Or so unbearably depressing.

― ^david_h(owie), Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

He was in Star Wars, and Willy Wonka, and League of Gentlemen.

Joke: What d’you call a pint-sized Ned Ragget? Rusty Goth!

Ha, Biography Note: “Works as a weatherman for Live TV (cable channel in UK)”.

[If there're any good ones, would it be possible to arrange swaps?]

― ^david_h(owie), Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

what

― bc, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Search & Destroy the weirdest music in the world. For example, one word, which someone can expand if they know what I mean: Heino!

― ^david_h(owie), Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I have an LP of Orson Welles telling the story of the American Presidency in King James Bible-style language.

― Clarke B., Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Thinking Fellers Union Local 282, not that strange in the big scheme of it all, but definetely search them.

Sisterhood of Convoluted Thinkers, hmmm, have some odd moments.

Amon Duul II?

― jel --, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shooby taylor, the human horn, retired postal worker and quite utterly the strangest thing i have ever heard. his entire ouevre is available online and just sounds like someone with tourettes trying to scat. badly. why did we need scatman john when we have shooby?

― commonswings, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this is true!!! rusty goffe lives on my estate. (paulsgrove portsmouth)

― del a robbo, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Could you get his autograph for me? Please, I would be much enamoured. "To David, Simon, Nicholas Leigh, Sam, and Jode... Love, Rusty..." plus anything he cares to put on it... please... ?

― david h, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

If you can, e-mail me at 0006335hYOU'[email protected] [delete the YOU'REABIGCUNT bit].

― david h, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I never knew you as a human. "Rusty, and other dwarf actors you might have seen, must be a tough lot. They are mothers and fathers to their children, wives and husbands to their spouses, taxpayers, citizens, human beings. They come from down the street and not from Oompah Loompah Island as many still believe.

Yet we have never seen them portrayed as anything but freaks (or at the best, something other than human). To make a living in entertainment as a dwarf, he or she must be prepared to surrender all outward vestiges of human dignity and play what the larger world will allow; deviant, clown, fairy, or homicidal leprechaun. What will be their mark, their immortality?

Rusty plays a mean King Lear but must stunt double for the Olsen twins, or allow a drunken college boy to toss him, in order to pay the bills. You might think this would destroy a man's idea of himself and his community. Strangely, just the opposite seems to be true. Rusty and most other dwarf entertainers are very well grounded and pragmatic people, without malice or judgment. Being treated as they have been, it's a testament to their spirit that they treat others so generously.

In contrast to the positive experience he had on the set of Willy Wonka, Rusty tells of the indignities suffered by the cast of Willow. The nearly 400 little people on the set were hustled about like animals, spoken to as if they were children at one moment, and as if they were sexual deviants the next. This is life for a little person. They see the worst of us, yet bear with uncommon grace our thoughtlessness."

― david h, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my finest moment.

― ^david_h(owie), Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

This is not the absolute strangest thing I have ever heard, but I'd love to know whether anyone knows what it is. In about 1991 - though music gets to NZ later - , I stole a tape from a bargain bin outside a record store. There were lots of remaindered copies. There were about 8 songs on each side, and each of them consisted of new agey lounge music (from memory) with a particular animal chirping or grunting or whatever over the top. On the cover was, from memory, a beach scene with a pretty woman throwing a beach ball, or sitting under an umbrella or something. There were a lot of copies of this tape, so someone must have thought it would be popular. Maybe not all the songs had the animal noises, and I'm just extrapolating.

Anyone know what it was?

― maryann, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it's by the beach boys

― mark s, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

jeff golblum at the fly

― Karl J Kretzschmar, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

shub niggrath- this prog/noise band that is connected to the whole RIO family tree somehow. malevolent, entirely evil material...i wish black metal sounded like this.

oh and anything in vocalese.

― mike bott, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Goldenthroats.

― Dave Beckhouse, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Alvaro The Chilean With The Singing Nose - "Drinking My Own Sperm". I heard it on community radio when I was fourteen and it scarred me for life. Actually, the song itself is kind of funky given that it's lyrically true to its title.

― Fidelli, Thursday, 11 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Actually, Mount Vernon and Far Away by Brian Wilson is hella strange.

― jel --, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

What I want to know is where the fuck can I get some Klaus Beyer? I've been able to find everything but.

― Dean Air, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Gus Van Zant- I've only seen two release on self titled and "18 Songs About Golf" He's trying to be the man but he'll never hold a candle to.. Jandek- I can't believe no ones mentioned him yet. Try "Telegraph Melts".You Painted Your Teeth is classic.When is the documentary comming out?? I can't wait!!

The Supreme Dicks-start with "The Emotional Plague". My personal favorite songs are Cúchulain (Blackbirds Loom) and Showered. If you like this album you'll want them all

― brg30, Friday, 12 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

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