YOUR QUESTION

05/18/2020 Eric

Hey Trevor
1) what does OU818 stand for?
2) who had the idea for the 'tractor in my balls shirt'
3) Crispin Glover. Misunderstood genius or total whackjob? Or a little of both
4) Buzz Osbourne. Misunderstood genius or total whackjob? Or a little of both
5) was Eureka in the mid 80s as bad as it seemed?

MY ANSWER

1) The first four letters are a homophonous device where each character represents a word creating the phrase, “Oh, you ate one…” Van Halen had an album called OU812 utilizing the last character to represent the word “too”. This seems to be a pedestrian joke about eating something whose identity is not disclosed nor does it appear to have any relevance to the contents of the record. You may also notice that VH’s OU812 is chronologically sandwiched between their 5150 and F.U.C.K albums in what might be called their semiotic period. This was also their 8th studio album and the 2nd one with Hagar. And y’all know that 8 dived by 2 is 4, which is half of 8. The “8” that Mr. Bungle substituted probably stood for the number 8. The rest of the math is clearly explained in the intro to that demo.
2) Someone in the band, who had heard someone else in the band say the phrase.
3) Can’t say I know the guy so my opinion would solely be based on whatever is available to the general public. I do appreciate much of his art
4) I mean, look at the guy.
5) Having been a curmudgeon most of my life I would say it’s worse now, thanks to the meth. But yeah, it was pretty bad. Must be a million similar small, impoverished, towns across this free nation that are devoid of substantial culture and prone to boredom and violence.