Archive for February 2012

From the inbox yesterday:

From: Diane <dmvnana1216@aol.com>
Subject: Girl Scouts

Wow! You all can do what ever you want to but I have to agree with the Girl Scouts. I wouldn't even want my children playing with your child. I feel as though I need to pray for your child. There is only one way that is thru Jesus. There is no other way you and your children will be in that dark place before and after death. The devil is real and so is Jesus. I'm sorry your lost to the devil. I want to get off of this awful web site. It makes me sad to think your childfen will grow up to be sick too. God be with you and your family! Find Jesus and save your family!

Diane

I enjoy Will Farrel and dick jokes as much as the next guy, but I’m also the kind of guy who’s always on the lookout for comedy that has the balls to be unique. The Marvellous Unspeaking Troupe of Entertaining Scouldrels are an example of such comedy, relying on such silent film-era staples as prat falls, sight gags, and slapstick to entertain. And you don’t need to visit Chicago, New York, or Los Angeles to get on board their band wagon. The M.U.T.E.S. are quietly honing their craft right here in Wisconsin. And yes, that shitty pun was completely intended.

There’s a dream like quality to watching a M.U.T.E.S. sketch: Beautiful women and bungling men adorned in the onyx and alabaster of the silver screen struggling with absurdity while the Brechtian punk cabaret songs of the Dresden Dolls fill the theatre. I recently contacted one of the troupe’s founding members Alice Wilson, otherwise known on stage as the beguiling Vine Pewter. I wasn’t very surprised when Alice informed me the idea to form the M.U.T.E.S. came to her in a dream. Since that fateful night the troupe has performed at such Brew City big deals as the Milwaukee Film Festival, the Milwaukee Comedy Festival, and Pridefest.

Hobbes Caltous - Lead Vocals, Samples
Tim Beyer - Guitar, backing vocals, Synth
Thor Nielsen - Drums
Ben Wachal - Bass, backing vocals

Location: Milwaukee, WI

Facebook: Candy Machine Guns

Twitter: twitter.com/CMGband

Website: www.candymachineguns.com

Bio

Last Year, a band of epic proportions came to be. In the midst of nothingness and despair- also known as Wisconsin- four people came from parts aspread, and united to form the greatest band the world has ever seen- CANDY MACHINE GUNS! They had grown tired of driving roads that went nowhere, fighting battles with no winners or losers.

Armed with enough grit to get the job done, the full- on aural assault that is their sound, and the most intense ambition you’ve ever seen in a band bio, they quickly set afoot to conquer the world. But first came the important task of writing and recording music, for the army that was soon to be, to march to.

After digging holes in the snow that is Wisconsin, and building and building the band from the ground up, they went about the task of writing their first album, Here We Come, which, in three words, maps out the band’s battle plan.

To say that this band is unstoppable would be to say that Wisconsin is cold. You’d get laughed at and smacked on the head for being Captain Obvious. It still wouldn’t stop you from being one hundred per cent RIGHT!

Together, with their groundbreaking music and their roof rumbling stage show, they will bring the word of the Midwest to the masses.

Tell the world, because CANDY MACHINE GUNS means it: HERE WE COME.

Apparently 620 WTMJ conservative talk radio thinks we're evil, but as it turns out, we're not sacrificing goats on alters made of Girl Scouts. As a matter of fact, you can hear more negativity in ten minutes of talk radio than you'll find on this entire site. Here is the boring reality of it, which is far less sinister than the skeletons in most people's closets:

Many of us here in Wisconsin have grown up on the stories of Ed Gein, the first time in modern history that humanity was forced to acknowledge the dark depths we were capable of. The incidents that inspired some of the most shocking and terrifying films ever made were our bedtime stories. Many of us still have friends, family or neighbors whose lives were somehow directly or indirectly affected by Ed Gein.

We have been raised on a profound example of what desperate loneliness and extreme religious bigotry are capable of doing to the fragile human psyche.

Folklorist Robert E. Gard wrote in his book Wisconsin Lore that our state has more ghosts per square mile than any other state in the union. Many of the great minds involved in Wisconsin's alternative art and culture have been uniquely shaped by these and many of the other bizarre tales of UFOs, strange creatures and backwoods madmen.

Wisconsin is responsible for two of the world's most deranged killers and cannibals, driven by repression, intolerance and the sheltered inability to communicate or relate to others. Beer and football are acceptable but art and pursuit of enlightenment are not.

Wisconsin Sickness does not represent an obsession with evil, but is instead a study - an exploration of the collective unconscious through art, film, music and other forms of expression.

How many of these artists have killed people? Considering Nate's Satanic obsession with Wisconsin's porn stores, he probably has a dead hooker or two in his closet, but we're all decent people coming together to support each other.

Who is really doing more harm?

Nothing good has ever come from living sheltered lives suppressing what is basic human instinct on the grounds that someone might not understand, or expecting others to be ashamed of their different perspectives and free thinking.

You can live inside your box if you want to.

The box is a cage - I'll take my chances in the wilderness.

I want to thank all of you, from all over, who are supporting Stacy and spreading the word about the ridiculous injustice plaguing Wisconsin Sickness right now.

Also, thanks to the JJO Morning Show, the Milwaukee A.V. Club, Ron Purtee and everyone else for sharing the story. If you hear this on the radio, see it on TV or another website, please let us know.

Email: info@wisconsinsickness.com or post a link on the official Facebook page.

Is Wisconsin Sickness satanic and evil? Discuss right here.