GODDAMMIT

by Ken Layne

2:33 am February 5, 2009

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psilage February 5, 2009 at 2:39 am: i dig that goddamn rock n roll
that kinda stuff that don’t save souls
… stay sick!
MarieDeGournay February 5, 2009 at 2:46 am: Thank you.
S.Luggo February 5, 2009 at 2:47 am: Less cowbell.
Poliscide February 5, 2009 at 2:50 am: Whenever I don’t understand something I just say something like “ah, your ironic symbolism is very compelling. I completely get it”. Calling something ‘drole’ works well too, especially when you think that something is intended to be amusing in nature, but it’s not obvious whether you’re actually supposed to laugh or not. So, yes, I completely get this. Very drole.
Atheist Nun February 5, 2009 at 2:59 am: No Lux = Sux
shortsshortsshorts February 5, 2009 at 3:00 am: When something beautiful and vintage becomes a commercial/promotional fuck-fest tune, all must blame the Rock-A-Teens. And blame your best goddamn friends from “Kill Bill,” WHICH WAS SO HIP AND STUFF. Also.
agitpropster February 5, 2009 at 3:21 am: [re=236517]Poliscide[/re]: I believe that’s spelled “D-R-O-L-L,” unless you are taking the piss. Lux Interior was (is) a one weird fuck…he collects Ed Gein memorabilia and John Wayne Gacy paintings. All that was forgiven when he penned “Human Fly”: “I cry 96 tears ’cause I got 96 eyes.”

Buzz. Buzz Buuzzzzzzzzzzzz,.
Cathangover February 5, 2009 at 4:06 am: Let’s hope the teachings of Christ were true, and Mr. Interior is now sitting on the right hand of a bikini girl with a machine gun.
hobospacejungle February 5, 2009 at 5:34 am: God or somebody rest his soul. If we have souls. And I’m kind of hoping we do. Not so I can see jesus when I die, but so I can see all the pets I’ve had. I’ll bet churches would get 100% attendance if they promised that.

I had never heard of this person until today. I was not very cool as a young person. Punk music frightened me. I am glad The Cramps gave people pleasure. They seem like they would’ve scared the crap out of me. But then I almost cried out of fear at my first show, Judas Priest, and couldn’t pee on my first day of high school. I’m all better now, though.
sezme February 5, 2009 at 5:36 am: So strange – I was just watching this self-same video just, what, 5 days ago at work with a friend, chortling uproariously about how much ass these guys kicked. Ever since I saw Urgh! A Music War back in the 80s, I’ve wondered how he got his pants to stay up. RIP
gurukalehuru February 5, 2009 at 6:20 am: Hey, all you damn kids get offa my stage – hennggh. Also.
BobLoblawLawBlog February 5, 2009 at 6:21 am: True story: I woke up this morning at 3 a.m. with a nauseous tummy and “Bop Pills” stuck in my head. I went out to find something stupid to read on the internets and saw this shit. I think Lux visited me and told me to go saddle up a buzz buzz.

So tonight I drink. But with a purpose.

Can we go ahead and crown him the king of album titles on his headstone? “Songs the Lord Taught Me” and “Bad Music for Bad People” are the best fucking titles I’ve ever heard, bar none.
Poliscide February 5, 2009 at 6:37 am: [re=236525]agitpropster[/re]: I actually meant ‘drôle’, which is the correct french spelling, but neglected to add le petit chapeau (accent circumflex). Well, actually, that’s a lie. I misspelled it on purpose for fear of inciting French-Panic on the wall.

Seriously, though…Ed Gein memorabilia? I feel there has to be a joke we could make about that, but I don’t want to draw things out too much. Let’s just say the punch line is Joan Rivers asking him who he’s wearing.
kizmets_adjutant February 5, 2009 at 7:13 am: I feel so sad that this guy I never cared about is dead.
plowman February 5, 2009 at 8:23 am: Dead is dead is dead.
Toomush Infermashun February 5, 2009 at 9:19 am: True story: Lux was actually an alias of the young Dick Cheney….
Harvey Birdman February 5, 2009 at 9:24 am: [re=236517]Poliscide[/re]: http://www.avclub.com/articles/lux-interior-of-the-cramps-rip,23430/
Crazybroad February 5, 2009 at 9:24 am: I’m glad I still have all my Cramps records (LPs, dammit!)… gonna rock out tonight in tribute. R.I.P.
Capt. Renault February 5, 2009 at 9:27 am: Life is short, filled with stuff.

Godspeed, Lux.
MisterLoki February 5, 2009 at 9:28 am: Rest in Peace, Punkrockabilly Man. Oh and he was 60? Jesus Christ, I am getting old.
wide right February 5, 2009 at 9:30 am: life is short, and filled with stuff.
Fear of a Black Reagan February 5, 2009 at 9:32 am: Fuck the fuck yeah@!
Fear of a Black Reagan February 5, 2009 at 9:33 am: This YouTube is dope as shit too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx7A3UYKXj4

I think it will be our new national anthem now, under the failed communist Obama administration.
psilage February 5, 2009 at 9:35 am: i get it, it’s like 2001. With his last conscious moment, LUX caused this video to play on Wonkette. Just like HAL and Dave with the briefing video.
bitchincamaro February 5, 2009 at 9:46 am: At least we still have Iggy.
Homo Motors February 5, 2009 at 9:48 am: So… for the under-30 crowd:
Cramps Singer Lux Interior Dead At 62.
Mr Blifil February 5, 2009 at 9:58 am: I always wanted to love the Cramps, but the goddamn mid-tempos always ended up bumming me out.
Mr Blifil February 5, 2009 at 10:07 am: [re=236543]Poliscide[/re]: Since you are obsessed with Ed Gein and this memorial is dedicated to the eighties, here’s a link to the Fibonaccis tribute to Ed Gein, from roughly 1982. Fibonaccies were active in LA at the time Lux was performing in the video above. The Stranglers toured California a fair amount as I recollect. I have to believe he knew of the song and probably dug it.

http://www.fibonaccis.com/index.php/music/fibs/old_mean_ed_gein/
El Pinche February 5, 2009 at 10:12 am: thank Allah we still have Miley Cyrus and Jonas Brothers.
Capitol Hillbilly February 5, 2009 at 10:18 am: He posed the age-old question, Can your pussy do the dog? Hopefully now he will find the answer.
thefrontpage February 5, 2009 at 10:21 am: From MTV:

Lux Interior, lead singer of influential garage-punk act the Cramps, died Wednesday morning (February 4) due to an existing heart condition, according to a statement from the band’s publicist. He was 62.

Born Erick Lee Purkhiser, Interior started the Cramps in 1972 with guitarist Poison Ivy (born Kristy Wallace, later his wife) — whom, as legend has it, he picked up as a hitchhiker in California. By 1975, they had moved to New York, where they became an integral part of the burgeoning punk scene surrounding CBGBs.

Here’s the link to the story:

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1604336/20090204/story.jhtml
thefrontpage February 5, 2009 at 10:28 am: It should also be noted that Steve Blickenstaff, an artist in Frederick, Md., drew the famous drawing for the cover of the Cramps’ “Bad Music For Bad People” in the early 1980s.
stew February 5, 2009 at 10:47 am: Do you understand
The garbage man!
viviangrrrl February 5, 2009 at 10:48 am: [re=236534]hobospacejungle[/re]: “God or somebody rest his soul. If we have souls. And I’m kind of hoping we do. Not so I can see jesus when I die, but so I can see all the pets I’ve had. I’ll bet churches would get 100% attendance if they promised that.”

Is it okay if I quote you?

oh, and, I’m glad you’re all better now. I never peed in highschool, but that was because I was afraid of public bathrooms until a year ago. I still can’t pee if I know someone can hear me.
AllHat February 5, 2009 at 10:55 am: I was unaware of how utterly bereft of ass that man was. Seriously. How the hell did those “pants” stay on throughout that performance ?
MarSF February 5, 2009 at 11:27 am: This is a sad fucking story.
frumious_bandersnatch February 5, 2009 at 11:29 am: You ain’t no punk you punk. But Lux was. Alas, I never got a chance to blow that guy.
LeslieBee February 5, 2009 at 11:33 am: The microphone fellatio, the ridiculous pleather lady-man bikini pants, the repulsed and repulsive sneer on Poison Ivy’s face–for me it all evanesced into a hilarity/nausea cocktail combo. But thanks anyway, all you Wonketteer Lady Editor Bitches. I’ll be giggling puke into my mouth all day.
Red Zeppelin February 5, 2009 at 11:58 am: Won’t those PUMAs ever leave us in peace? I don’t give a shit about their damn cramps!
SayItWithWookies February 5, 2009 at 12:09 pm: Ah, the Cramps — so much more interesting than the usual shit. I didn’t think about it last night, but I have at least one Cramps album on vinyl I should dig up and play. I still remember hearing The Human Fly for the first time at a party in High School and what a jolt it was to realize there was a whole dimension of rock that was meaner, rawer and more ridiculous than what I was used to.
dougbob February 5, 2009 at 12:17 pm: long live rock and roll! now where is my walker?
Datsun510 February 5, 2009 at 12:22 pm: [re=236534]hobospacejungle[/re]: Wow. You are me, and thousands upon thousands of other 80′s and 90′s teens. We were so scared, but we are all better now. Mostly.
Pat Pending February 5, 2009 at 12:49 pm: “You better duck, when I show up, the goo-goo muck…”

waaah!
WheresMyJetpack? February 5, 2009 at 2:16 pm: But with all the lead singer positions already filled in Rock and Roll Heaven, Lux found himself 3rd understudy to BGV Male #4.
ServiceJervixJuice February 5, 2009 at 2:38 pm: Huge Fucking Drag.
Crankenstank February 5, 2009 at 4:04 pm: How pathetic that I learn news like this via Wonkette. I’m so fucking old.
Robobot February 5, 2009 at 8:58 pm: [re=237139]Crankenstank[/re]: Oh God dammit, same. What a way to get the news. I was so happy to see some Cramps on Wonkette, then I clicked on the comments and got a huge sad-on when I realized why Ken linked to them.
hamletta February 6, 2009 at 1:33 am: Aw, man, Weasel must be so sad.

I have to write to my friend Regina now. She loved the Cramps.

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