Butthole Surfers: The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt

It still feels surreal to say I wrote this movie with Tom Stern. Not just because it’s a movie about my favorite band, that I got to write with one of my favorite directors, but because who writes a documentary? You’d be surprised at the amount of narrative work and literal…

Simon

Gibby Haynes left the theater just as the movie caught up to his (alleged) musical collaboration with one Kid Rock. Only realized he had come back when he yelled “IT WAS BARBECUE SAUCE” from the back row when Paul Leary said he showed up at his place and started eating…

Nicole Veneto

I think we made a helluva film!

Tom Stern

Early on we wanted to call it “the counting crows movie” and then people would come see it thinking they were gonna get the story behind mr jones and then NOPE. SORRY. You’re getting the locust abortion technician story instead!  Actually there may still be time to do…

Simon

Freak Scene. (Wasn’t expecting to cry at the end of a Butthole Surfers doc. A new essential if you have any affection for punk, psych or just incisive music profiles.) [Source: Beyond Fest Chicago Screening]

Jacob Knight

I think I just became a Butthole Surfers fan? A Buttholehead? A Buttholer?

Cassie Butterfield

saw gibby haynes on my way out of the theater and when some guy shoved in front of me to ask him for an autograph gibby took the guy’s marker out of his hand and started huffing it

drew

And let the festivities begin! It’s the opening screening of Beyond Chicago — history in the making — featuring a post-film Q&A with Director Tom Stern, Singer and Co-Founder Gibby Haynes, and Guitarist and Co-Founder Paul Leary.  Anyone as excited as me??

Music Box Theatre

I don't know how Paul Leary put up with that for so long. I'm glad he's married to a lovely cat lady now.

Gregory Chevette