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Jesus Christ. Okay. Leave some talent for the rest of us, goddamn. It just sounded so identical to Weird Al that I didn't even consider that it would be Bruce himself. That's phenomenal.
Also posted 15 years ago and 334 views. I'm slightly annoyed because that was great.
I knew about the singing from the reviews of the Goblin MacBeth, because there’s musical improvisations in that live theatre piece.
Bruce Horak’s family seems to all be creatives.
I recall an interview from 2022 where he talked about being the youngest of 4 very competitive boys, with older brothers who are musicians. I believe his dad was a high school drama teacher(?), and an amateur cartoonist. Mum also in a creative field.
The painting / visual arts career is what caught me off guard actually. Horak said his dad encouraged him to make his own comics as a child to write stories. Here’s a piece on his one man show ‘Assassinating Thompson’
I mean I was already impressed with his Hemmer appearance but it makes a lot more sense with that context. Dude is truly impressive.
Uhm, here’s another odd song from Bruce “Honky the Christmas Goose”