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What these facts demonstrate about Willis's character and fan base should become clear soon.

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

But first some background. Willis might be America's most musically unsophisticated rock musician. By punching a single pre-programmed rock track on his Tecnics H-100 keyboard and then changing chords with one finger, he sets up background noise for his uniformly structured songs, of which he has written...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

The songs--well, they are indescribably bizarre. "They Threw Me Out of Church," "Birdman Kicked My Ass" and "Suck a Caribou's Ass" are highlights of Wesley Willis Greatest Hits Vol. 2, for example. The lyrics are just as tasteful. In each number, the chorus is a chanted repetition of...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Prior to last week my only contact with Willis was laughing spasmodically at these lyrics. My main goal for the night was, simply stated, to get him to say funny stuff. I had been forced to fake my way through a conversation with his publicist earlier in the week. As...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

Upon arrival, various Middle East employees directed me, apprehensively, out back to the white van in which Willis sat by himself, his girth filling much of the passenger's side. He took off his headphones and chastised an imagined "motherf----er" in the back of the van before punching himself...

Author: By Benjamin D. Mathis-lilley, | Title: Fifteen Minutes: Sucking a Caribou's Ass?: An Evening With the World's Weirdest Rock Star | 11/4/1999 | See Source »

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