Word: vaux
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most influential bands?'" After listing all of the random celebrities hosting the show, including the guy who played Elaine's leather-jacket-wearing boyfriend for an episode of "Seinfeld," Martha Sokoloff, and "some California-looking guy from Baywatch" (a later e-mail revealed it was David Chokachi, who reminds Vaux of Chuck E. Cheese), Vaux nails home his point. "Two of the guys picked Led Zeppelin. Marla picked Hole...
...Explaining his high school obsession with Zep, Vaux continues "I got my hands on this book--'The Hammer of the Gods'--it was utterly shocking, the things they did at their parties and in their hotel rooms. Now that stuff is cliched, but as a high schooler it was very satisfying...
...Each member of the band has a carnivorous nickname. Ribeye is a lawyer for the House of Representatives. Cubesteak is a physics professor at George Mason University, focusing on chaos theory. Buttersteak is an insanely wealthy computer programmer. Bert Vaux is Buttsteak...
...everyone else uses. We were all worried that he wouldn't be able to do it once he got the braces off, but he could." He performs with music-minus-one, which involves whistling over classical recordings with the solo instrument removed. "He whistled at my wedding this summer," Vaux reveals. But because of some problem with the sound system, he had to whistle a Bach piece a cappella. "He did it just right, but without the accompaniment, it's hard to follow...It just left everyone very confused...
...neighborhood they're rendered even more sinister because they're represented as being goody-goody." In the rock opera, they're cutting the crap, and doing it straight-take sinister. An evil triumvirate consisting of the Purple Panda, King Friday, and Eichmann the Mole end up killing everyone else. Vaux adds, "What better musical form to create utter evil but 12-tone...