FOX News can not get enough of Glen Beck or GWAR!

It turns out that tonight at 3AM(or technically tomorrow very early in the morning) GWAR frontman and soapbox-er, Oderus Urungus is set to make his lucky number thirteenth appearance on Fox News' Red Eye.  Oderus and gang have a new album, Bloody Put Of Horror, slated to come out November 9th so presumably GWAR will be wondering around town hitting more than just Red Eye for press.

You can check out Oderus' first ever Red Eye interview here:

GWAR (huuuuh!), what are they good for? Absolutely something.

GWAR may brutally attack and murder faux celebrities during their stage shows, but one thing they are seriously against is dogfighting.  Good for them!! Who knew these jokesters had such kind souls?

Help GWAR pay for their crack habit!

This looks interesting.  Apparently GWAR is hosting a "Crack-a-thon" at the MF Gallery in Gowanus, Brooklyn.  Its basically a few nights of GWAR interviewing other sorta-famous-ish people (Jamey Jasta, Andrew WK...), showing off their visual arts, and partying it up in Brooklyn.  Tickets are available here.

A full schedule of events is as follows:

SHOW 1: FRIDAY APRIL 16TH, 7PM-7:45PM
Troma leader Lloyd Kaufman and mutant super-hero The Toxic Avenger

SHOW 2: FRIDAY APRIL 16TH, 8PM-8:45PM
Hatebreed/ Kingdom of Sorrow lead singer Jamey Jasta

SHOW 3: FRIDAY APRIL 16TH, 9PM-9:45PM
East Village militant super-woman Our Lady of PMS, accompanying G.L.O.B. wrestlers T.B.A.

SHOW 4: FRIDAY APRIL 16TH, 10PM-10:45PM
World renowned NYC illustrator Tara Mcpherson

SHOW 5: FRIDAY APRIL 16TH, 11PM-11:45PM
Medical Marijuana activist and werewolf Adam Green, Sexpert and Troll-Museum curator Reverend Jen

SHOW 6: SATURDAY APRIL 17TH, 7PM-7:45PM
Satanic Cyborg Mecronus of metal mutants Dethrace, their creator and mad-scientist Necropatheos

SHOW 7: SATURDAY APRIL 17TH, 8PM-8:45PM
Video director "to the stars", Dave Brodsky (GWAR, Municipal Waste), Sword-Swallower (the steel kind) Riley Schillaci

SHOW 8: SATURDAY APRIL17TH, 9PM-9:45PM
Legendary punk-rocker and lead singer of Murphy's Law, Jimmy Gestapo, legendary NYC artist/illustrator Joe Simko

SHOW 9: SATURDAY APRIL 17TH, 10PM-10:45PM
Kembra Pfahler of the Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black

SHOW 10: SATURDAY APRIL 17TH, 11PM-11:45PM
MF Gallery owners Martina Secondo and Frank Russo, rock and rock wildman Andrew WK

GWAR are not after your money

It was so close to being a friday the 13th, but damnit, is a Saturday the 13th instead.   To celebrate the horror of it all, I'll discuss last week's nerd fest at the Fangoria Convention.  It was a fun time of horror movie thingamahbobs, but in the the end these type of things are really just a great way to blow through your money and have very little to show for it.  Tobe Hopper was 40 bucks for a photo with him.  That is just nuts.  I am very proud to say that GWAR represented the rock/metal/puppetry world well by taking photos with fans for free.  If you were so inclined to buy something, then it was only 5 bucks for a signed poster, a group photo shot and a pair off GWAR shot glasses.  

Tthe extremely talented musicians of GWAR

Speaking of GWAR, they were actually nominated for a Grammy. HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA, yup. In 1993 for the video for 'Phallus In Wonderland'.... and then again, a second time for Best Metal Performance in 1996 for the song 'S.F.W.' off the movie of the same name. And you thought the Grammys werent serious.

GWAR (and randomly Journey) @ Bamboozle Festival, The Meadowlands, East Rutherford, NJ, 5/2/09

Somehow it seemed like a good idea to work handing out free candy as a slave for Wonka candies at the Bamboozle Festival this year. Even crazier than that, somehow GWAR managed to secure a headlining spot on said festival on one of the larger stages. And crazier even still, somehow the surprise guest for the festival turned out to be Journey (or so I thought). It was a very strange day yesterday....

Imagine the scene at Bamboozle Festival: the mainstage headliners are Fall Out Boy, and other bands include Newfound Glory and Disney cutie, Demi Lovato. The crowd is massive, shops at Hot Topic, and has an average age of 14. I planned my pathetic work schedule around catching GWAR's set, since that was all I was interested in, but was then surprised to hear "Any Way You Want It" blasting from mainstage. I asked my fellow Wonka-slaves what was going on and was informed the 'surprise guest' was journey. That was more surprising than a wet fart. I ran over to the stage in time to catch their last song (they played a monstrous 4 songs total), which of course was 'Don't Stop Believing'. It's Journey, so it's fun, and everyone loves it. I later learned it actually wasn't Journey. It was some Long Island cover band named Evolution who had me and everyone else fooled.

Back to GWAR. It was what it was. They were at their GWAR-y best with an introduction filled with "fucks" and jabs at Fall Out Boy for being pussies. What's not to like? Obama, along with everyone famous ever, was decapitated and gutted making for plenty of opportunities for the pre-pubescent crowd to get covered in fake blood and green shit. Everyone in attendance seemed shocked by what they were seeing, so I am sure GWAR was loving the crowd.