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Brandon Willis
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From: Richmond, VA, USA
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 10-21-2004 12:51 PM

Does anyone listen to Wesley Willis?

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Carl Martin
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From: Oakland, CA, USA
Registered: Feb 2002

posted 10-22-2004 03:28 AM

i have his greatest hits, volume 2 (i think). haven't listened to it for a while. maybe i will tonight. it's a little, hmm, repetitive. wheaties. the breakfast of champions.

carl

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Nate Lehrke
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From: Denver, CO
Registered: Oct 2002

posted 10-22-2004 03:36 AM

I love Wesley! Fell into his music trap a few years ago. Love his "music"!

"Wesley Willis is 6 foot 5, weighs between 300 and 350 pounds, and likes to greet people with a headbutt. Shortly after he made his first album, he was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia, and he now claims to have "schizophrenia demons" in his head that take him off of his "harmony joy rides" to put him on "torture hell rides"."

Was sad when he died last year though.

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Brandon Willis
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From: Richmond, VA, USA
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 10-22-2004 01:54 PM

The greatest hits vol. 3 CD is great! It's got an enhanced CD-ROM with videos and fliers and all kinds of shit. It's got a video of him going into Taco John's corporate office and telling the receptionist that he's a rock star. It's definitely a recommended purchase.

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Leo Enticknap
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From: Loma Linda, CA
Registered: Jul 2000

posted 10-22-2004 03:25 PM

Any relation?

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Brandon Willis
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From: Richmond, VA, USA
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 10-23-2004 01:54 PM

Unfortunately, I'm not related to him in any way.

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Philip Wittlief
Film Handler

Posts: 57
From: Chicago, IL
Registered: May 2003

posted 10-23-2004 02:14 PM

I went bowling with him the first(and possibly only) time he ever bowled in his life. Well I wasn't on the same lane with him but we all went to a 24 hour bowling alley after a show with him. His manager bought him one of those bowling balls that's clear with a skull inside.

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Robert L. Fischer
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From: Montreal, Quebec
Registered: May 2004

posted 10-24-2004 02:03 AM

Heinz: America's Favorite Ketchup.

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Brandon Willis
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Posts: 216
From: Richmond, VA, USA
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 10-24-2004 12:48 PM

We have a CD player in the office at work. I've been listening to his albums non-stop for about 2 weeks. A couple of people that I work with have heard of him, but it's always funny to play his music when someone who's never heard of him is in the office. I always get comments like "I can't take much more of this music" and stuff like that. The other day, I had "Suck my Dog's Dick" playing when the armored car courier came in. The look on his face was priceless.

Rock over London, Rock on Chicago. Regal Entertainment Group. It's more than a movie.

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Jason Black
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From: Myrtle Beach, SC, USA
Registered: Nov 2000

posted 10-24-2004 01:57 PM

Brandon,

Far be it from me to tell you what you shoudl or should not listen to, but for your employer's sake, and quite possibly your own.. you may want to think about what you play in an office environment these days.

Really, with song titles like the one you named, you should seriously reconsider your listening preferences at work or the puzzled look on your own face while being named in a lawsuit will be 'priceless'.

We all have to face it, while we don't like it, the whole practice of being "PC" has taken an all new meaning in today's world. [Frown]

I'm going to try and find some of this cat's work online today...

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Jason Miller
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From: Little Rock, AR,
Registered: Mar 2004

posted 10-24-2004 06:34 PM

It was usually because of music choices like that that made music against the rules in many projection booths.

personally.. I liked listening to Oldies.. or 80s hair bands.. nothing like building a print up while Poison belted out "your mama dont dance"

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Brandon Willis
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From: Richmond, VA, USA
Registered: Apr 2004

posted 10-25-2004 12:13 AM

Like I said, a couple of people that I work with have heard his music, but if anyone objects to it, I turn it off right away. We do this with any music we play in the office. The guy who said he couldn't take much more of it was entirely in a humorous tone.

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