‘Entering Texas’: This demented Butthole Surfers video could permanently barbecue your brain
Dangerous Minds has a nice little homage to The Butthole Surfers, arguably the weirdest most crazy act ever signed by a major label. It includes their 10+ minute “music” video “Entering Texas.”
One particularly hilarious but not often seen expression of the band’s demented lysergic ethos was “Entering Texas” (a/k/a “The Bar-B-Que Movie”), which surfaced in 1988 on a VHS oddity called Impact Video Magazine. If you can track it down (and afford the punitive, if not downright larcenous prices decent copies can fetch), there’s much to recommend it. Directed and compiled by Alex Winter (“Bill” of Bill & Ted’s Yadda Yadda Yadda fame), it includes segments on Jane’s Addiction, Public Enemy and Bill Hicks, but “Entering Texas” is the tape’s high point. Starring the Surfers as an unhinged Texas Chainsaw Massacre-ish clan that’s enticed an unwitting family to join them for a barbecue… well, just watch it.
Video NSFW and not safe for all tastes.
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