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Peter Haskett shows Bill O'Reilly how it's done

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I had a nice long telephone conversation last night with my friend Eddie Lee Sausage, and it reminded me that it's been awhile since I posted anything about the greatest audio verite recordings of all time, Shut Up, Little Man. For those of you who are newcomers to this blog, let me urge you to go right now to Eddie's webpage, which chronicles the misadventures of Peter Haskett and Raymond Huffman, possibly the funniest drunken maniacs that ever lived.

Usually when people have been dead as long as Pete and Ray, there isn't a whole lot of news about them, but not in the case of these boys. Mr. Sausage told me the following bits of uplifting information:

1) A new T-shirt by comics artist Richard McMurray is just about ready to hit the market via the website, and Eddie promises it will be the best yet. (A pretty enticing claim, considering that one of the earlier shirts was done by none other than Daniel "Ghost World" Clowes.)

2) The webpage itself will be getting a makeover, with more rare photos including (finally) a good one of Tony Newton, the psycho Nam vet who often roomed with P&R.

3) While I can't give specific names, the latest movie option on SULM involves some of the best and most innovative people working in film and video today-- believe me, you'd know their work and be as impressed as I was. Considering the sorry-looking piece of shit that was produced a couple years ago, an unauthorized mess called Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth, the possibility of this new picture is refreshing news indeed.

Finally, in the next few months, Eddie will be discontinuing the cassettes he's sold over the years and replacing them with CDs made directly from the master tapes, all with new covers by the great Mike Flinn (see comic panel above). While still not for audiophiles, the improvement in the sound quality is substantial. I know: modesty almost forbids my mentioning that the remastering and editing of the tapes was done by yours truly. Here's a short sample from the first tape, which is also the hissiest and dingiest-sounding of the bunch, but Peter's screeching still comes across loud and clear.

Posted by Steve Monaco at January 14, 2005 6:26 AM

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