Macaulay Culkin’s Pizza-Themed Velvet Underground Covers Band Is Now The Subject Of A 15-Minute Documentary
This is a pretty good way to waste 15 minutes.
Earlier this week, the internet once again asked itself the question it periodically returns to: “Hmm… I wonder what Macaulay Culkin’s doing today?”
The perhaps not-so-surprising answer? The guy’s joined a Velvet Underground-influenced covers band, that replaces Lou Reed’s signature stories of sex, drugs, prostitution, drugs, sex, loneliness and other depravity with… pizza references. Among the Pizza Underground’s setlist are excellent reworkings of Velvets hits, including ‘I’m Waiting For Delivery Man’, ‘All The Pizza Parties’, ‘Papa John Says’, ‘Cheese Days’ and ‘Take A Bite Of The Wild Slice’.
While the week’s discovery brought with it a much-streamed demo, we were deprived any exciting visual evidence of Macaulay in his dirty blonde, kazoo-blowin’ glory. Thankfully, that’s been rectified. Overnight, someone uploaded to YouTube a short film documenting the band’s debut gig at Brooklyn’s Union Pool last month. If dirty Brooklyn hipsters dripping irony is a thing you don’t hate, this video is for you.
Well done, Mac; you’re back up to second on the ‘Culkin Cool List’ that I just made up (Rory’s haircut is forever #1, of course).