Okay, I been meaning to make this post for like two weeks now.  Sorry 
I've been so inactive in news for a while.  I even saw a guy request 
exactly this on alt.tasteless last week.  I will also cross-post to 
alt.music.nin because it is probably of interest to that crowd, too.
  On Saturday, October 1, I attended the Nine Inch Nails concert at San 
Jose State University.  The band that opened for them was called Marilyn 
Manson.  Not especially tasteless, but the lead singer did make several 
references to sex with Jr. High School girls (yum!), as well as stripping 
down to reveal the fact that he was wearing a black rubber penis which he 
slapped and wiggled as he screeched.
  Nine Inch Nails was a good show, but what I'm here to tell you about is 
the show that came just before them.  It was called the "Jim Rose Circus" 
and was sort of a mini-sideshow.  It began rather boring.  An anorexic 
looking girl used a cucumber to demonstrate her amazing talent... for 
walking up a ladder made of swords.  (The cucumber was to demonstrate how 
sharp they were... damn!)  Other stunts included people lying on various 
sharp blades or spikes and having objects smashed off their chest... 
yawn... Things started getting good when the announcer had the girl throw 
darts into his bare back.  I didn't really pay attention, though, until 
they presented The Amazing... Mister Lifto!
  Mister Lifto had some rather boring piercings that he did some rather 
unboring things with.  He started with his ears.  He hung bricks on 
chains, attached them to his earrings and swung them around.  He then 
took out a home abortion k^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H coathanger and put it 
through his pierced septum.  He then took off his heavy leather jacket 
and hung it on the coathanger.  He was looking a bit like pinocchio at 
this point.  The one that really made me wince was the two cement blocks 
he put a length of heavy chain through and attached to his tiny nipple 
rings.  When he stood up, his nipples stretched to also most the length 
of a finger.  Ouch.  You could hear the skin straining like the corny 
rubber-band-stretching sound from old warner brothers cartoons.
  The contortionist was probably nearly as tasteless as Mr. Lifto.  
However, I think you had to actually see the contortionist's joints 
aiming the wrong way as he twisted his entire body through an unstrung 
tennis racket from head to toe, to actually appreciate the 
stomach-churning effect of such a painful display.
  The next freak was bald and tattooed from head to toe like a human 
jigsaw-puzzle.  The announcer assured us that, as bad as he may look, 
this thing has impeccable hygiene.  "In fact", says Jim Rose, "every day
he takes red hot showers!"  To demonstrate this fact, our announcer 
friend and human dart-board, produces a large piece of aluminum or other 
hot-burning metal and holds a powered grinder, like we all used in 
metalshop as kids, up to the chunk of metal.  Our tattooed pal then stood 
in the resulting shower of sparks, allowing the metal filings to bounce 
off his bare back.  Not feeling he'd impressed us enough, he put an unlit 
cigarette into his mouth and stuck his face directly into the sparks.  He 
pulled his face back out to reveal that the cigarette was now lit.  (Jim, 
the announcer, grabbed it away and put it out on his tongue.)
  Our hygiene-enthusiast buddy then gave Mr. Lifto a run for his money by 
doing a lifting feat of his own.  He showed us two large weights which 
were attached to very small chains.  The chains ended in a larger, flat 
piece of metal.  The human jigsaw-puzzle pulled his lower eyelids outward 
and inserted the piece of metal into the pocket created by pulling his 
eyelids.  The weights were now hanging by chains which ran into his eyes 
and were held secure by the piece of metal in his eye socket.  He then 
did some sort of sinus wiggling action which pushed the metal back out of 
his eyes and the weights fell to the floor.
  Next on the agenda was eating broken glass.  Jim, the announcer, placed 
a glass bottle in a plastic bag and stomped on it.  He then pulled the 
largest shards out and threw the rest to the audience.  The tattooed, 
bald, shower-taking dude slowly chewed up each chunk of broken glass.  He, 
of course held the microphone to his mouth so we could hear each 
sickening crunch.  He then washed it down with a glass of water.  The 
announcer yelled out.  "Now come back tomorrow night folks, when the REAL 
show begins!  He's going to shit a chandelier!  Talk about a ring of 
fire, can you people imagine this guys anus?"
  The announcer ate some razor blades and string.  He then vomited them 
back up, with the string now threaded through the slit in each razor blade.
  The next notable act was a man who balanced a running lawnmower on his 
chin.  The handle sat on the man's chin, with the rest of the lawnmower 
sticking up in the air, upside down.  The girl then juggled heads of 
lettuce into the running lawnmower to make coleslaw!  Not very tasteless, 
but it sure looked like fun.
  For the grand finale, they dragged poor Mr. Lifto back out and taped 
100 firecrackers down his chest and tummy and ignited them.
  I don't think I've done justice in attempting to redescribe the sheer 
tastelessness of this whole ordeal.  I guess you had to be there.