“Fuck/Marry/Kill: 90s Alt. Rock Edition” is the hardest game since Contra.
Pitchfork is reporting that Dennis Flemion, percussionist and co-founder of influential weirdo rock act The Frogs, is dead. And you know they were influential because the news forced Pitchfork’s editors to break their strict policy of only publishing stories about Frank Ocean. Because eventually you’re gonna love that guy whether you want to or not, America.
Dennis Flemion of cult heroes the Frogs is missing and presumed dead, Matador Records’ Matablog has announced. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that the 57-year-old resident of West Allis, Wisconsin went missing after going for a swim on a lake in Racine County on Saturday. (Thanks to Joseph Kyle for the tip.)
Alright, well, it turns out he *was* dead, but keep in mind the Pitchfork article was posted before that was confirmed, and I maintain that they were jumping to conclusions there. Odd disappearances seem totally in keeping with Flemion’s entire lifestyle. The fact that a guy in a Bee Gees wig and blackface who wrote songs about golden showers went out one night and didn’t come back for a few days is about as much of an unsurprising non-story as my stealing batteries from the display tv remotes at Best Buy; It’s just something that’s gonna happen and generally the smartest thing to do is just let it take its natural course. A guy like Flemion could’ve been busy planting unicorn seeds or building a rocket ship powered by homoeroticism to fly to the planet Zlig14, a magical world of abandoned inhibitions where anything goes. Those things can take up whole months of your time if you’re not careful. Believe me.
By the way, if you’d like to purchase my new children’s book, “Let’s All Go to Planet Zlig14: A Child’s First Homoerotic Space Adventure,” then there’s something fucking wrong with you, man.
Source: Pitchfork (who are totally denying that they ever liked Lana Del Ray. We’ve got six months’ worth of articles to the contrary, motherfuckers!)