#The butthole surfers

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Gibby Haynes of the Butthole Surfers

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More sketchbook stuff

It's a drawing exercise I made up where I pause a music video and draw the singer.

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4:23 AM EDT September 24, 2023:

The Butthole Surfers - "Gary Floyd" From the album   Psychic ... Powerless ... Another Man's Sac (December 1984)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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Pick 1 album and discuss.

If you don’t recognize any of these, listen to at least 2 first. I will add music 🎶 links in the comments.

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Episode 109

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#TheBeatles #Tool #PinkFloyd #TheButtholeSurfers

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-The Butthole Surfers :: Pepper

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Epic (also their version of the song is known as "Sweat Loaf")

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Chris: This Scary Movie has nothing to do with the franchise and is about a Halloween carnival with problems, what got my attention a lot was the uncredited background music by the Butthole Surfers, not a great film in any way but I liked it, Watch: On Subscription Service.

Richie: It was silly, fun, cheesy but in a good way, 80’s horror, Watch: On Subscription Service.

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Submit To Me (1985) Richard Kern

Lydia Lunch

🎥 Submit To Me (1986)

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Sugar, Spices, and Empathetic Vices - a song interpretation essay by Judacious Mars

(Warning: addiction, depressing topics, letting people go)

So I linked the song in case someone coming across this post had no idea what I was talking about, but Pepper, right? Usually with songs like this theres no definite meaning so obviously take this with a grain of salt, but what if its about empathy?

Some people have theorized that its about drugs and sex, which honestly could be true, but the way its worded in the lyrics just SCREAMS empathy to me. Maybe it’s just because I’ve had similar experiences that the song talks about, but I thought about it a little more as I belted out the lyrics in my car, and concluded that maybe it is!

If it truly is about drugs/addiction, then I think the wording is from the pov of someone who holds someone close that has addiction problems, and is struggling with the idea of “I shouldn’t feel bad for them but I do.”

“They were drinking from a fountain that was pouring like an avalanche coming down the mountain.”

Catchy, classic, beautiful. Could mean how easy it is to get drugs and to get hooked (it isnt super easy but addiction is an epidemic for a reason)

But what if the fountain means the person’s forever flowing faucet of empathy? “They were all in love with dying” could be an apathetic response that may sound like “Why the f*ck would you do that? Do you have a death wish?” in real life. I say apathetic loosely because even if we yell at them its only because we care, not because we hate them.

Sometimes when you’re as empathetic as I am and it starts to take its toll on you, you have to let people go. I’m 100% sure we’ve all been there. We’ve all had a situation where we had to let someone go. No one stays with all of the same people their entire life. They meet new ones, they lose old ones. Its the way of life, just like death. Which is why I think the chorus absolutely represents that feeling of “I hate to let you go but I had to do it.”

“I don’t mind the sun sometimes, the images it shows.”

Think of the last time you had to let someone go. Do the memories you had with that person still creep up in your mind? Does it only take one simple event to happen for your eyes to well up with tears as you painfully remember what they were like before you had to let them go? Sometimes when I close my eyes and feel the sun beam on my face I think about my ex and how we celebrated their birthday by sword fighting in my backyard. It doesn’t make me cry anymore, but it still stings sometimes.

“I can taste you on my lips and smell you on my clothes.”

Another lyric representing how hard it is to have memories of a person you lost. You can take the person out of your life but it takes much longer to get them out of your brain and heart for good. You may have items left over from when you still had an established relationship with that person, whether it be family, friends, lovers, you name it. Sweaters, jewelry, some gag gift they got you for your birthday, whatever it may be. Even if you don’t, there was probably an interaction or a ritual you had that involved that person. Something that when you think of it makes you go “I wish we could go back.” But that’s the thing, you can’t. So now they’re out of your life and you’re left behind, still thinking about the times they were there with you.

“Cinnamon and sugary and softly spoken lies”

Have you ever begged a person to be better? Sat with them for long periods of time pleading with them to be better people? Maybe you just found out they stole money from you or a mutual friend to buy more addiction enablers. Whatever it may be. Usually if the person wants you to stay, whether it be for nefarious reasons or for sincere reasons, the sentence you usually wanna hear is “I’ll get better.”

The sad part is, that’s not always the end of it. It’s not the magic wand that makes all the hurt and pain go away. Sometimes people lie. That doesn’t always make them bad people. Sometimes your brain won’t allow you to think they’re bad people, and that’s okay. Cause really they aren’t, they are just people plagued with a bad illness. But even though sometimes we know they’re lying, the idea of them acknowledging they have a problem and promising to get better, it’s a sweet idea. You just hope they’ll follow through.

“You never know just how you look through other people’s eyes.”

Everyone has their side to every story. Most of the time, no two sides are the same. You see a person who very much needs help, who desperately needs to get their life together. But other judgmental people may see a person who keeps giving, and a bad person who keeps taking. Neither side is correct or incorrect. As it is with every other story. I think this lyric represents the pov of someone who all in all knows other people may see their constant forgiveness as a weakness, but they know they can’t satisfy everyone in their life, and thats why they struggle with empathy.

Feeling sorry for an addiction victim is not a bad thing. Putting yourself in their shoes, giving second chances, it’s not a bad thing to do at all. The only question you should ask yourself after you realize they have no intentions of changing, is “How much can I handle before it really takes it’s toll on me?”

I ask myself this question once every three months. Every three months is usually how frequent big things in my life change, like social relationships and career choices. Some people change at slower frequencies, some people even faster. Change is constant. But it feels different for everyone.

I conclude this essay by theorizing that the storytelling of the different people dying is the pov of the empathetic person describing what’s happening with their affected person and their friends. Maybe these were mutual friends, and this person watched all of them die because of the horrific epidemic that is addiction. They don’t want to see the person theyre talking about leave or die. Maybe the person theyre talking about already died, or is dead to them.

Those are my thoughts. I love this song so much, it’s helping me a lot through my own hardships in my life. I hope this brings comfort or at least understanding about where I come from.

Thank you for reading if you got this far. I appreciate it so much!

- JM

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A young Trent Reznor with Paul Leary, guitarist of ‘Butthole Surfers’,

Lollapolooza, 1991

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9:49 AM EDT June 23, 2024:

The Butthole Surfers - "Gary Floyd" From the album   Psychic ... Powerless ... Another Man's Sac (December 1984)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

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FIRST ACTUAL BRIAN DRAWING ? it’s insane that i took this long to actually draw him

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