Le Petomane

[Troy]

For music and audio lovers everywhere.

This story is real. I read a book about him recently.

http://easyweb.easynet.co.uk/~lofty/pujol.htm

I understand a bio-pic starring Johnny Depp is in the works . . .

[jack70]

I read about him too, about 20 years ago in the book "Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women", a great compendium of similarly forgotten cultural superstars of yesterday. The chapter on him there is full of photos and is really well written by Ricky Jay. Here's the Amazon blurb on Jay:

A cult classic and a work of remarkable scholarship restored to print.

Ricky Jay is one of the world's great sleight-of-hand artists. He is also a most unusual and talented scholar, specializing in the bizarre, exotic, and fantastic side of the human species. The youngest magician to have appeared on television, Jay has become well known for his astonishing stage show as well as for his cameos in such movies as Glengarry Glen Ross and, most recently, Boogie Nights.

Jay's unparalleled collection of books, posters, photographs, programs, broadsides, and, most important, data about unjustifiably forgotten entertainers all over the world made this unique book possible. An investigation into the inspired world of sideshows, circuses, and singularly talented performers, Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women is history of the most unusual--and irresistible--sort.

Personal reviews here:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS...384906-1115919

short bio here...
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_1...WS/nak1013.htm

and here:
http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a1_394

One wonders how many millions he'd comand in todays world.

BTW, "Re:search" was a great zine-like mag of obscure bizare music & sh_t.

[Troy]

No, the book was a British publication. Skinny little paperback from the 70s. It was borrowed, so I can't tell you anymore about it.

YEah, I own several RE:Search books. My favorites are the 2 "Incredibly Strange Music" titles. Go figure. Great stuff.

[dean_martin]

No, the book was a British publication. Skinny little paperback from the 70s. It was borrowed, so I can't tell you anymore about it.

YEah, I own several RE:Search books. My favorites are the 2 "Incredibly Strange Music" titles. Go figure. Great stuff.

They're great reference materials for the weird. I often refer to the "Incredibly Strange Films" vol. and used the "Incredibly Strange Music" vols. to build a lounge/exotica/bachelor pad collection.

[dean_martin]

Oh my gosh! Wasn't Le Petomane the name of the governor played by Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles?

[Troy]

Oh my gosh! Wasn't Le Petomane the name of the governor played by Mel Brooks in Blazing Saddles?

Yeah! LOL

I love it when you get a joke decades later.

[Troy]

and used the "Incredibly Strange Music" vols. to build a lounge/exotica/bachelor pad collection.

Yeah, I was well on my way with it already and it helped to flesh it out in a few areas.

[Dave_G]

If it's "weird" then Troy loves it!

Dave

[Troy]

If it's "weird" then Troy loves it!

Dave

I'm so predictably unpredictable.

[Dusty Chalk]

With this subject, I do believe we've hit bottom.

Pun intended.

Sorry.