Of course, "damage" is a relative thing: wendy's booking Funky Winkerbeans (AKA Punky Thrasherbalts) now, is there most nights (though on the wrong side of the bar, with a different jacket on but by her hair you shall know her!) But things really aren't the same - they can't be, and not just because you can't step in the same piece of water twice. The Cobalt still functions as a venue, but I'm not sure who goes there since wendythirteen got the boot, I have no interest in it - not sure the people who took it over or the landlords who nudged wendy out understand or care what's been damaged. Pardon the cliche, but - you really can't go home again. It was a great place, even if it smelled pretty rank, and though I was still somewhat more of an outside observer than an actual participant on the scene, it felt more like home than any other bar I've been to. I enjoyed going to the Cobalt enough to transform my experiences into a comic strip ( part one, part two), about the night a drunk punkette enthusiastically recommended I check out the Golers (whom I still haven't seen perform, but whose CDs I greatly enjoy). We met there for the first time during a Eugene Chadbourne show with Robots on Fire we attended several Fake Jazz Wednesdays, checked out the Rebel Spell, the Furies, Chi's version of SNFU, the Subhumans, the Sorrow and the Pity, and others. The Skinny was functional, I lived in Vancouver, and it felt like we were doing something meaningful to support the scene by going there and documenting whatever interested us. Not to be used without permission! Thanks, Femke - I owe it all to you!įemke and I used to attend the Cobalt regularly, at one point. It suddenly comes to life and chops his head off.All photos by Femke van Delft (except Titan's Eve album art and promo shot!). Off with His Head!: One MTV bumper has him chopping a dead chicken's head off.Minimalist Cast: Lupo is the only character.Line Boil: Lines boiling as befits a cartoon hand-drawn in an old-timey style.Iris Out: Subverted when Lupo's severed head squeezes its way through the iris and continues to scream obscenities and insults throughout the credits.I'll Kill You!: Lupo shouts this as a piece of meat falls to the ground from his cutting board.High-Pressure Blood: Lupo's hand spouts blood like a garden hose from the thumb, not to mention all the blood everywhere when he starts falling apart.He has a weird shaped bald head and horrendous teeth. Funny Foreigner: Part of the humor, as Lupo is obviously an Italian immigrant and speaks fractured English. Flipping the Bird: Lupo does this at one of the ribs as it bounces away.Fingore: Once Lupo chops his finger off, all hell breaks loose.Deranged Animation: A butcher falls apart, ending with his severed head lying on the floor, pushing itself up by the tongue, and screaming insults.Buy or Get Lost: There's a handmade sign in the shop that reads "THIS NO LIBARY, BUY OR GET OUT".The Butcher: A very, very ill-tempered one.Bloody Hilarious: It's pretty funny when Lupo is running around holding a hand that is gushing blood from a severed thumb, while screaming "Goddamn, I gonna die!".Relieved, he goes back to sleep, as a giant Converse shoe creeps up from the dark. All Just a Dream: A Converse shoe commercial has him waking up from a nightmare of a living Converse shoe about to saw him in half with a chainsaw. In November of 2020, it was announced that a Lupo the Butcher series was in-development for Netflix, but was ultimately canceled in 2022 due to creative differences. Lupo runs around screaming and cursing for a while as blood splashes everywhere, until his body literally falls apart.Īppropriately, Lupo the Butcher was produced by Marv Newland of Bambi Meets Godzilla fame.Ĭlips of the short were later used in the Canadian independent feature film Terminal City Ricochet, in which a screening of the film is raided by the titular town's Culture Police. Lupo is already yelling insults and obscenities when he accidentally chops off his thumb with the meat cleaver. He was angrily muttering at the start of the film, but his bad mood worsens when the ribs he's chopping fall on the floor. Lupo, an Italian-Canadian butcher puts a large rack of ribs on a table and starts chopping. Lupo the Butcher is a three-minute 1987 animated film created by Danny Antonucci, the same gentleman who did Ed, Edd n Eddy. Sonnamabitch! Piece-a-shit job, I quit! Fuckin' I dunno.
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