america’s “crank prophet” puts the pere ubu into ubu roi.
Andrew Hultkrans has a wonderful review of Pere Ubu henchman David Thomas‘s latest mad work of punk-theater, Bring Me the Head of Ubu Roi.
Favorite line:
Thinner than in the old days, though still physically imposing, he resembled Rush Limbaugh as a homeless flasher.
There is so much going on in that comparison I don’t know where to start! But forget about starting, I’m glad to follow Hultrans as he follows Thomas, even if they might be taking us off a cliff. Such pratfalls and swan dives have always been there when listening in to David Thomas’s brilliant, disturbing rants and Pere Ubu’s careening mutant-rock.