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Night Flight have posted another segment from my old British Disinformation TV series—which was on the Channel 4 network way back in 2000 and 2001—the one about “space mercenary” Rocket Boy, a quirky individual who apparently believed himself to be a superhero (half cat/half human) and who fronted a noise rock band in Los Angeles, also called Rocket Boy. He was never, ever out of character, as far as I could tell the few times I was around him. He always wore a cape, a plastic helmet and carried a kiddie toy “ray gun.”

He was kind of like a real-life version of the Martian that Bugs Bunny meets.

I am Rocket Boy, space mercenary of the universe!

I ‘stroy world and planets.

I kill people and blow up their heads.

Just a-cause you pay me the most doesn’t mean that I obey you!

I saw his band play once in a dive bar in downtown Los Angeles in the early 1990s. The “musicians” just made great/terrible noise while Rocket Boy screamed. All of the music in this piece is his own recorded material.

He also made a bizarre cameo in a porno film. It’s difficult to imagine anyone (besides him) getting off on it (and you’ll never think of cream corn the same way ever again, so be warned). I heard that he passed away a few years back.

In the clip below—one of my favorites from the series—directed by Brian Butler and shot and edited by Nimrod Erez, Rocket Boy goes head-to-head with his landlord and upstairs neighbor, Captain Art of the LAPD’s San Pedro police force. Rocket Boy lived in Art’s basement and as you’ll see, they just never got along…
 

 
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