GWAR Show - Follow Up

I was pretty excited for the show, I was hoping/wondering if they had anything special planned 'cause it was the night before Election Day. It didn't look they did anything unusual, but the word "unusual" is very relative when speaking about a GWAR show.

I can't give a set list other than they closed with "Sick of You," but what I can do is give a pretty good recap of kills during the show. I have some pictures, but I don't anything about photography and I have a pretty basic camera so getting good shots with strobes and explosions was beyond my skill level.

The show starts with Sleazy P. Martini giving a stump speech on-screen with a timer that's counting down "Time until Death."


They show a bunch of clips of the "Steve Wilkos Show" and then bring out "Steve." Sleazy joins him on stage with several large GWAR-esque wrestling belts slung over his shoulder and explains that these are the "Frank Sinatra Belts of Total World Domination" and the holder of the belts gets to rule the world. Sleazy goes on to say that McCain and Obama have no belts and Steve [wait for it] has no head! First decapitation of the show.

The belts are the center piece of most of the rest of the "interludes" for the rest of the show that take the form of wrestling matches. Here's the quick and dirty on who bit the dust tonight and how.

Kills:

1. Steve Wilkos - decapitated
2. Baby - Impaled on Oderus' shoulder spikes
3. John McCain - Chased and then beaten with the skull of a VC by Bonesnapper
4 & 5 Obama & Hillary - Killed in a match with Bonesnapper & Oderus Urungus, Hillary is cut in half
6 & 7 The Reaganator & Dead Rosslyn Carter- 12 foot high robot run through with a sword, re-killing Dead Rosslyn Carter who introduced the Reagantor and is in his chest cavity.
8. Hippie - Head shot by Sleazy P. Martini
9. Artist - Face peeled off by Bonesnapper
10. Dog - During the encore

Wounded:

1. Techno Destructo
2. Bozo Destructo

Here's a pic of the Reaganator, I'll see if I can get this fixed up later.

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GWAR in Fargo

A couple of weeks ago I noticed that GWAR was going to be playing in Fargo tonight. Originally I hadn't though much of it because when I first noticed the date of the show, we had planned to be in Montana today. But due to a change of plans we're not leaving for Montana until tomorrow night which means I am available to see GWAR tonight.

Having already seen GWAR 3 or 4 other times, I was actually thinking about not going to the show. But then when I started thinking about it, I realized that it's the night before a Presidential election that has been going on for almost two years. Add the fact that GWAR is mad political (in a funny and satirical way, not the annoying way like Sean Penn) and I'm in Fargo and the decision got a whole lot easier.

It's not like GWAR is known for subtlety in their shows. I've seen the Pope decapitated, Mike Tyson get his hands chopped off and then devoured by a dinosaur, and the list goes on. I have to wonder what bits of comedy gold GWAR is going to mine from the permanent campaign. Will they have McCain in a tiger cage being tormented by Karl Rove, Obama dressed as a suicide bomber, or perhaps something Palin related? The possibilities are almost endless.

The thing that sucks is that I don't have anyone to go to the show with here in Fargo. I'm gonna call Slayer (MSUM rugger) to see if he's down, but I'll probably end up going by myself. I'll take the camera tonight and hopefully I'll get a couple of good shots of something funny.

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