Currylingus

This post is dedicated to a diseased, badass, stoned creature named Prince Fantastik.

I was trying to find some Wesley Willis to download online ('Cut the Mullet' would be the exact tune) and came across Dan Maynes-Aminzade's Wesley Willis page. Ah, such spirit, he is fighting the good fight:

When you're listening to the radio, do you ever stop to think about how few songs are played by obese schizophrenic black musicians from the streets of Chicago? I know that I think about this all of the time. The airwaves are cluttered with alternative rock, rap, and R&B; meanwhile, the "obese schizophrenic" musical genre is severely underrepresented. That's why everyone should start calling their local radio station and requesting songs by Wesley Willis.

Who is this Wesley Willis?

Never heard of Willis before? Until recently, no one had. He lived on the streets of Chicago, homeless, selling his city landscape line drawings and playing music on his late 80's Casio keyboard from K-Mart. After saving for a while, he pulled together the money to cut a few albums, and suddenly his musical career took off. Willis was "discovered", and is now an artist under Dino Paredes and the major record label American Recordings. He has released at least 20 albums as a solo artist and with his punk rock band, the Wesley Willis Fiasco, and has over 400 songs in circulation.

Dan rode a bus for seven hours to see Willis play live in a bar above a roast beef restaurant and he has kindly posted all the deets...Complete with pictures of The Bruise:

The circular bruise on Wesley's forehead is the product of years and years of head butting. Head butting is Wesley's form of friendly greeting.

The reason Dan is a Superstar is because he designed a Wesley Willis song generator (bottom of the Willis page). Since you introduced me to Willis, this tune is all yours, Prince...about a boy and his snot rag:



"Prince Fantastik"
by Wesley Willis

You make the joyride music.
You really whoop Saddam Hussein's ass.
Prince Fantastik is very special to me.
You are the snot rag king.

PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!
PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!
PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!
PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!

You really whoop Saddam Hussein's ass.
You can really jam harder like a magicist.
About 9100 people like Prince Fantastik.
You make the joyride music.

PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!
PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!
PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!
PRINCE FANTASTIK!!!

You really whoop a llama's ass.
Prince Fantastik really whoops a camel's ass.
I like you a lot in the long run.
I like Prince Fantastik a lot.

Rock over London,
Rock on Chicago.

Mitsubishi - the word is getting around.