Becuse I've got a mad amount of extra stuff laying around that has to do with Soul Coughing, and because you rabid fans out there devour every nubbin I provide, I present you with The Stuff Which Did Not Fit Elsewhere. Enjoy! El Oso Sings! Somebody at WB made this clever little self-contained program, to promote the new Rolling single. You can download it for Mac or PC, and should do so... now. The Origins of El Oso This photo, given to me by Mark DeGliAntoni, is of a restaurant in San Francisco and he says was part of the inspiration for the cover of El Oso. Soul Coughing Windows Theme The kind and talented Shawn McGivern has come up with this desktop Theme for windows machines. Seeing as I'm not running that sort of machine, I can't test it out, but Shawn assures me it's it combines fun and functionality. The 3.9 megs of joy can be downloaded here. Soul Coughing's Secret Recipe, taken from a 1994 Warner Brother promotional Christmas booklet... Powerful Crackers and Cheese Blend Ingredients: A fair amount of crackers A sizeable chunk of cheese Proceed to your local grocer. Select a fine cheese, preferably a non-sweaty sort of cheese. Select a distinctive, non-crumbly cracker, preferably with salt added. Pay your local grocer and thank him for the crackers, you cheese, whatever beverageyou may have purchased, perhaps the cigarettes or newspaper you may also have purchased. Go to you own hom. Select a knife, prefeably a steak kife of similarly cruel pieve of domestic cutlery. Slice said cheese, preferably down the whole of thehunk, at a thickness not ot exceed four millimeters. Balance cheese delicately upon the cracker. Season to taste. Rinse. Repeat. The Coughmobile Photo of the car of Anne Marie Kwasnik, super Soul Coughing fan and all-around nice gal. After hearing too many 15-year old rabid fans squeal with glee over it, she has taken to telling people "It's German for 'Go F*** Yourself'." Soul Coughing Screen Saver This is the creation of Donald Lessau and XBeat. It's a lovely little screen saver for download. Unfortunatly, it's only for PCs so what follows is the complicated list of instructions that is needed for any PC program. (0) PC 386 CPU or better, Windows 3.1 upwards (Win95/NT inclusive), a mouse is a very good idea, a color monitor would be quite nice, too, 256 color works fine, SVGA High-color (16 bit) or Truecolor (24 bit) for ultimate fun. (1) Download file Vroom.zip has 419 KB (2) After Un-zipping and running INSTALL.EXE the following files are copied to your machine: - Win-Dir: VROOM.SCR 1120 KB (the screen saver) - WinSys-Dir: CMDIALOG.VBX 19 KB (run time library) (3) VBRUN300.DLL (390 KB) is required but NOT included (most everybody has it anyway)! (4) Features: - generally it's one of them floating and bouncing things, but PRETTY! - You can choose among various S.Coughing images (incl. devil, f'coz) - Adjust speed, angles, combinations ... - Password-protection - it's FREE! Randy's Vegas Top 10 Anybody who knows Soul Coughing knows of the great Randy Kaye, close friend of the band who works at Warner Brothers. His recent trip to Vegas inspired him to come up with the following list. Enjoy! the street are paved with gold. record 2 million elvis impersonators arrived in hot air balloons shaped like pink cadillacs! heard the cardigans in every casino. ate all the lox on the caesar's palace buffet. bought crack at the opening of new york new york. felt-up 10 lovely showgirls. had animalistic sex with, and later ended up marrying siegfried AND roy! won 1.7 million dollars at circus circus. no one knew who the hell soul coughing were. wade jesus has a nasty rep. in vegas. A Couple Of White Boys I'll let you look at this picture of myself and Doughty on one condition: that you fully realize what a bad photo it is. You have to understand; I don't normally look that weird. But Doughty doesn't look so hot either, so I don't feel so bad. But it's not a representational sample, I warn you. Got it? Okay. Dancing Salimanders A fellow named JasonM4320@aol.com made up this little film, in which a computer animated newt (the lizard, not the weasel) dances to Bhudda Rhubarb Butter. If you like it, he simply asks that you tell him so. Gus's Superlist Mega-cool tour manager Gus Brandt sends along this list of the Top 35 Greatest Stories Ever Told 1. Cobb 2. Catwalk 3. Billy Jack 4. Breakfast Club 5. Tommy Boy 6. Valley Girl 7. Barfly 8. The Professional 9. Last American Virgin 10. Heathers 11. Weird Science 12. Sixteen Candles 13. Three O'clock High 14. Teen Wolf 2 15. Bad News Bears 16. Star Wars: Wookie Christmas Special 17. Dolemite 18. Tougher Than Leather 19. Billy Madison 20. Goodfellas 21. Last Boy Scout 22. Don't Tell Mom The Babysitter's Dead 23. Joanie Loves Chachi Final Episode 24. Return of Billy Jack 25. From Dusk Til Dawn 26. Cool Hand Luke 27. Hiding Out 28. Satisfaction 29. Forrest Gump 30. Warm Summer Fun 31. The Karys 32. Hollywood Knights 33. Ferris Bueller's Day Off 34. Last Seduction 35. Fletch
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