Thursday, January 29, 2009

Either/Or: #1

The subject of todays post, and indeed the man who sparked the entire idea for Either/Or is Ulrich Haarbürste; a man who appears to be someones alter ego, but I'm having a hard time figuring out to whom he's sprung from.  Apparently, he's fooled some newspapers and zines into believing that he's a real person, but I refuse to believe anyone, even a lousy kraut would have a last name that would translate roughly to hairbrush.

None the less, Haarbürste's simple website knocks you for a loop within the first two  sentences of content;
Hello and welcome to my homepage. My name is Ulrich Haarbürste, and I like to write stories about Roy Orbison being wrapped in cling-film.
His stories are dream-like encounters between Haarbürste, his pet terrapin named Jetta, and Roy Orbison and an inordinate amount of cling-wrap that, through a set of means ranging from moderately irrational to ragingly psychotic, finds itself applied en mass to Orbison's body.

Every character Haarbürste writes about reminds me of Mike Myers' Sprockets persona, Dieter, only they are exceptionally emotionless and rational.

The long and short is that you can only truly get a handle on this phenomena by reading a couple of the stories. Of course, I'd recommend all of them, but it's really not necessary.

So I'm forced to leave it up to you.  Is the man behind Ulrich Haarbürste a genius, or batshit insane?

4 comments:

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    I'm sure AOL stole the idea from you guys, too! Better get on that shit.

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  2. I also like how you contradict yourself and say you don't look at our blog.... but your commenting on our blog. You stupid cunt.

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  3. Cool it on the cunt stuff, dude.

    And Roy Orbison wrapped in cling-film is amazing. Totally made my day.

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  4. Ok. I'm sorry. You're right. I meant stupid vagina.

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