If you know anything about the media, or anything about your grandparents, it’s that CBS’s weekend morning shows are their programming du jour. They feature soft, comfortable, feel-good segments that reassure septuagenarians that the United States isn’t really crumbling before our (lying!) eyes. After all, what a pain in the tookas it’d be for that sweet, nice and clearly incapable-of-contributing-to-the-mess-we’re-all-in-now cohort to be deprived of all the tranquility they’ve stashed away for the end of their lives.
With all that in mind (and yeah, admittedly, it’s a lot), it was tantalizingly, worlds-colliding-ly bizarre to see Mike Patton – yeah, the Faith No More frontman whose infamous video juxtaposed him contorting like MC Hammer while an asphyxiating fish flopped and failed to its death – perform on CBS Saturday Morning to promote his new AVVT/PTTN project. This is the same Mike Patton who, as legend has it, gave himself an enema onstage at a San Francisco gig in 1991 and “shared” it with the crowd.” The same Mike Patton who supposedly drank his own urine at a different show two years later.
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