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The kid from the ‘Balloon Boy’ hoax made a metal video. And, surprise! (not really) it’s awful

Heene Boyz Finger it Out album cover
The Fingered it Out album cover
 
Or should I say kids, because young Falcon Heene (the boy who never was flying over Colorado in a balloon back in 2009) has put together a metal band with his brothers Ryo and Bradford called Heene Boyz. As you might have already guessed, the young lads are being managed by the man very same man who orchestrated the whole balloon fiasco (with the help of his wife Mayumi), their father Richard Heene.

Falcon Heene, now eleven is the trio’s vocalist and brothers Ryo (age thirteen on drums), and Bradford (age fifteen on guitar) are currently trying to bill themselves as the “youngest metal band in the world,” a distinction that the Heene Boyz technically share with Brooklyn middle-schoolers Unlocking the Truth who are all now between the ages of twelve and thirteen, as well as Japanese band Baby Metal who are all about fourteen now. But I digress.
 
Balloon Boy Hoax headline
 
Their big song is called “Balloon Boy No Hoax.” A title that sounds exactly like it was written by an eleven-year-old whose name will always be synonymous with “Balloon Boy.” Remarkably, as the snappy title implies, the lyrics to the song attempt to denounce the fact that “Balloongate 2009” was a hoax in the first place. The boys even take a lyrical swipe at journalist Wolf Blitzer (“Who the hell is Wolf?”). Blitzer was the lucky journo who got to interview the family during a night when he was guest-hosting for Larry King on October 15th, 2009, the same day the hoax went down. When Blitzer asked Richard Heene to clarify what his son was doing hiding in the attic of the family’s garage, he obliged and asked Falcon (who was only six at the time) to respond. The kindergartner answered “You guys said we did this for the show.” (At that point, Richard Heene put on his best dog and pony show in an attempt to deflect Blitzer’s repeated requests to get Falcon to repeat the massive VERBAL BOMB he had just dropped. Heene got all defensive and the rest is history. Both parents spent a short time in jail and Richard Heene’s probation period ended last year.
 
Heene Boyz Balloon Boy No Hoax video
 
So without further adieu, here’s “Balloon Boy No Hoax” from the album Fingered it Out. And yeah, they made a video for the title track and it’s even worse than the song.

Yeah Mr. Heene, your kids are going to turn out just fine.
 

 
 
Via Metal Sucks

Posted by Cherrybomb
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10.22.2014
05:28 pm
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From the man who brought you the homicidal automobile tire: ‘Wrong’
09.20.2012
05:48 pm
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“My wife likes Rubber.” As soon as it came out of my mouth I knew how weird that phrase sounded. I was referring to the movie not her fetish for latex. The movie Rubber came up today in discussion with a friend of mine at Fantastic Fest about festival films we were jazzed to see. The new film from Quentin Depieux, the director of Rubber, was high on our list.

I had seen a teaser earlier this year for Dupieux’s latest project, at that time called Wrong Cops, which featured Marilyn Manson in the role of a homeless transsexual. The film quickly disappeared from the Internet and I wonder if it wasn’t just an elaborate hoax engineered to fuck with people’s heads. It would be in keeping with Dupieux’s style.

Depieux’s debut flick was an offbeat film about an automobile tire with homicidal tendencies. What seemed like a one-joke premise turned out to be a pretty tight little thriller directed by someone who seemed to be channeling 70s B-movies - the ones where automobiles and trucks come to life - through a warped post-modern, surrealist lens.

Depieux’s latest concoction Wrong (no “Cops”) looks like another winner (advance word is very good) and for those of you in Austin this weekend it will playing at Fantastic Fest on Sunday. It’s also been picked up for distribution by Austin’s very own Drafthouse Films, which has been on a tear recently releasing several outstanding titles including Klown, The Ambassador and the upcoming Wake In Fright.

From the folks at Fantastic Fest:

Visionary filmmaker Quentin Depieux’s first feature Rubber might have been a bit of a commercial bust in mainstream America, but among the oddballs who make up Fantastic Fest, it is the stuff of legend.  Wrong further celebrates Quentin’s unique brand of absurdism with a heavy flourish of incredible visual style. To me, Wrong is so very right.

Wrong features one of my favorite actors, Steve Little, Kenny Powers’ hapless sidekick in Eastbound and Down.

By the way, the poster for Wrong was created by one of DM’s favorite graphic artists, Jay Shaw.
 

Posted by Marc Campbell
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09.20.2012
05:48 pm
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