Beyond Disturbing: Fat Mike of NOFX as "Cokie the Clown" at SXSW (like...unreal)

http://www.pinpointmusic.com/cokie-the-clown-sxsw-2010-fat-mike/

i don't know what to say....

Wow. About the only thing I can say is that I'm very surprised that Fat Mike had that level of performance art in him.

And I say that as a former NOFX fan.

wau

the making the audience drink his piss thing has to be real though, given the video evidence...fucked up.

i'm not like even laughing, i'm just exhaling wordlessly at this pt

Oh exactly, I'm not claiming its clever... just very, very unexpected from someone that is usually a pretty jovial kind of dude.

god damn

see now this is why we have to be careful about overusing and cheapening the O_O emoticon

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the writer def seemed to take it as not that much of a put on or a joke though...unless it's totally a tony clifton thing

wow!

Struck me as fairly Tony Clifton-y... the guy writing pretty much comes off as a mark for something like this

also he passed the rest to the crowd who reflexively devoured them like Pavlov’s dogs

the more i think about it, i'm leaning:

1/2 tony clifton made up stories & fake piss

1/2 fat mike has seen and done some dark shit

tldr, bullet points plz

Is fat mike liable if he used real pee?

i lol'd

whiney

fat mike comes out onstage dressed as a clown

drinks a bunch of "tequila"

hands out shots to audience

plays some acoustic songs

tells stories about witnessing (and not stopping) a gang rape, killing his mother who had a terminal disease, fucked up father stories, roommate killing himself, etc etc

hooks a video camera up to the big screen that shows him, pre-show pissing in the 1/3 full tequila bottle then serving the piss/tequila to the audience in the form of the aforementioned shots

What about confessing to killing his mom?!

i dont think he really mad people drink his piss if it was a video tbh

It's unappetizing but is there an actual law against tricking people into drinking your pee?

well obama is taking away most of our god given freedoms, so probably

i think there is, yes

at least i assume there is -- it's illegal to trick people into consuming a laxative. i don't really see how there's much of a difference

also this week there was this story

The Real World: New Orleans is currently in production. This week the police had to be called when a cast member "fell ill" after using a toothbrush that his housemate had urinated on. Really.

Urine-Soaked Toothbrush Brings Police to the New Real World HouseThis is either true or the grossest PR stunt that we have ever heard of for the long-running show. The Times-Picayune uncovered the story where resident Ryan Leslie was treated for a viral infection in his throat from using a toothbrush that castmate Charles Roberson used to clean the toilet bowl and then peed all over. Apparently the two had gotten into a fight in which Roberson called Leslie a "faggot" before he loosened his bladder on Leslie's Sonicare. No one knew about it, though, and Leslie kept using the brush until he started experiencing symptoms and went to the hospital. This is like Puck from The Real World: San Francisco putting his finger in the peanut butter jar to the millionth degree.

There's no word on what caused the fight. Or if it was a real dispute or something staged by producers. (Robertson wasn't arrested or charged.) But it's bad news for MTV which usually tries to keep these incidents, castmembers' last names, and the address of the house a secret.

With this police report, which is below, they've failed at all three.

from gawker

this sort of thing happens in the real world.

What precisely there is stopping them from putting "Human Shit-Covered Toothbrush Brings Police to the New Real World House" seeing as that would surely be a bajillion times more likely to cause a viral infection in such an uplifting situation

So much for the whole 'it's naturally sterile' line.

What precisely there is stopping them from putting

*is there

just a stab but the viral infection is probably from the toilet bowl cleaning moreso than from piss...

tldr, bullet points plz

with respect dude I don't think anybody posting to ilx gets to claim anything is "tldr"

see now this is why we have to be careful about overusing and cheapening the O_O emoticon

― First and Last and Safeways ™ (jjjusten), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 9:49 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^ tl,dr

I'm glad he didn't serve brownies...

when people stop being polite... and start getting real

don't order the tequila here:
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/archives/2010/03/thistle_hill_th.php

i dont think he really mad people drink his piss if it was a video tbh

...you think 35 people in the crowd were holograms?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hpm60pN1XQ

this isn't David Fucking Copperfield, guys. He filmed himself pissing into a bottle and then gave people drinks from a different one. For fucks sake.

As Mike finished his last song, he announced that he had a video that he had prepared especially for this evening. The mood in the building was completely fucked at this point. Upon instruction, his videographer hooked up the same camera he had been recording on the entire time to a 20-something inch TV that was positioned stage left. His camera man rewound through the entire footage to reveal a scene that occurred kitty-corner to the artist entrance of this venue. There, Mike was with his clearly visible naked dick filling a bottle of Patron Anejo, that started about 5/8 full to mask the taste, with piss. Without cutting away, the camera tracked with Mike, in full Cokie the Clown garb, as he corked the bottle, walked into the venue, and served it to the very crowd that now looked on in amazement. As the scene unfolded, some of the crowd cheered but most of us were too disturbed for emotion.

why is it so hard to believe that he actually did this?

what is wrong with some people? not just him; really I'm more bothered by this:

As the scene unfolded, some of the crowd cheered

what is wrong with some people?

why is it so hard to believe that a political punk icon, record label owner and television star risked his reputation, freedom, money and upcoming restaurant in park slope by tricking thirty teenagers into gargling with his acrid piss?

can you confirm that it was indeed acrid?

Link to full video download, for those curious: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TG349NFR

^ hoping for a rickroll

Haha. Tough luck, it's real.

never gonna give you up
never gonna let you down
but you just gargled with...
my acrid piss! (da-da! da-da!)

We're no strangers to love
You drank my piss, and so did I....

It's a piss themed restaurant that I'm...
thinking of...
You wouldn't get this from...
any other guy

I just want to tell you
that I'm reeling
from this cocktail
I've got in my hand

would 35 people actually not be able to taste the difference between tequila and piss?

It says it was five parts tequila to three parts piss so... it seems feasible to me that they couldn't

oh didn't catch that - makes more sense

As far as ways to make a point about the amount of piss you have to swallow to get your free drinks at SXSW, I rather prefer dude from Fucked Up's blog post: http://lookingforgold.blogspot.com/2010/03/sxsw-why.html

yeah that is great shit

^p/dn

i can't believe i just read that whole thing. i really gotta go get some work done. here's what i learned: sometimes something can be a good thing and sometimes something can be a bad thing and sometimes something can be a little good and a little bad!

piss doesn't have much of a taste and actually really isn't that dangerous to drink iirc

"I had three gallons yesterday!"

Tell that to this guy: http://gawker.com/5497593/urine+soaked-toothbrush-brings-police-to-the-new-real-world-house

The Real World: New Orleans is currently in production. This week the police had to be called when a cast member "fell ill" after using a toothbrush that his housemate had urinated on.

just a stab but the viral infection is probably from the toilet bowl cleaning moreso than from piss...

― ✌.✰|ʘ‿ʘ|✰.✌ (Steve Shasta)

I was once (supposedly) conned into drinking pee when I was younger. never found out to this day whether it was a ruse or it really happened but i've been peeing funny ever since like his pee is living inside me....

hmmmm

Fwiw, whiney was otm itt, cos Fat Mike revealed the pee thing was a joke on his site and showed him switching out bottles.

Also he's banned from Emos for life...

Nah, I read somewhere that they lifted the ban after a few weeks.

How big is the opening of a bottle of Patron Anejo?