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JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Sorry if this has been posted already, but who the hell is this???

He's one of you, isn't he!!? Laughing

Is he a teacher??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5mbIlhXg2s

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EdInstead · Joined: 20 Jul 2006

I saw them filiming that in Itaewon several months ago.

Wondered when I'd see something about it.

So now I know who you are, guru. Laughing

indytrucks · Joined: 09 Apr 2003 Location: The Shelf

Don't these guys have anything better to do with their time? Is this what classifies these days as 'performance art'?

What a pile of rubbish.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

Ha! you found me!

It's freaky shirtless Homer Simpson with a goatee. (Homer, is that you? Are you a shock performance artist? Is that your non-teaching job you keep talking about?)

Hey Watermelon Man. I assume you or someone you know reads Dave's. I guess I have to admire your courage, but real courage is to bring your half-naked shock-tactic street-antics to... just about every neighbhourhood I've ever lived in the West. I fear we'd be counting how many teeth you had left at the end of each performance. And the only police involved would be those you run to for protection.

Yes, I'm sure the conservative Korean ajosshi mindset can be a real downer. But let's face it, Korea's the tamest audience you'll ever find. However, it must be said Itaewon after dark is nothing, you're a pebble on the beach in that walking lunatic asylum. So why not demonstrate real dedication to your art, why not come out to this year's big August 15th Anti-Yankee National Pride Day (formerly "Liberation Day") in Jongno and strut your whacky, whacky stuff for the crowds.

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

bump.

this is the first time I've ever bumped any thread, AFAIK.

Surely people have SOME opinion on this .... this.... thing.

Snowmeow · Joined: 03 Oct 2005 Location: pc room

Well if I was a Korean in the area while this video was being taken, I'd definitely be a little angry with Watermelon man. It's understandable, he was making a helluva lot of noise and people don't go to the park to be howled at by a lunatic. They may have thought he was on drugs and in this country that is definitely a police matter, no?

Bulsajo · Joined: 16 Jan 2003

Well at least I know what a watermelon sounds like now. All the watermelons I've ever encountered in my life have been mute, even when cut up and devoured.

Gopher · Joined: 04 Jun 2005

Herbie Hancock "Watermelon Man," very cool standard with a trumpet melody.

Don't know if that is the origin of the phrase, or whether Hancock wrote the tune. But that is what "Watermelon Man" means to me.

pegpig · Joined: 10 May 2005

That Korean who tried to hit him in the head with the melon should have done a much better job. What a nut. Performance art my ass. I can't believe some people had rated this 5 stars.

cubanlord · Joined: 08 Jul 2005 Location: In Japan!

OH SSHIT! I think that's flotsam! Laughing

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

What in the hell is he trying to do? Koreans already know we're all crazy. What a bag of nuts.

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

Roch · Joined: 24 Apr 2003 Location: Seoul

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

It looks exactly like Flotsam!!!! OMG!! Right down to the green and black paint Flotsam wears everyday.

(hehehe Wink

)

I don't think Watermelon Man is very good. He didn't speak to me. More like a prank than performance art.

joyfulgirl · Joined: 05 Jan 2006

his name is frank. i met him once, he seemed like a nice guy. incredibly soft spoken and sweet. he was walking around a bar i was in, doing another performance, with chains being pulled, not watermelons on his head.