Nope, no one is getting water boarded or tortured or anything, but they are getting a haircut at the annual WFMU record fair. For those of you who are not familiar with WFMU, they are a radio station broadcasting from New Jersey which advertise themselves with the following slogan:

Where Downtown Art Skronk and Appalachian Meat Murder Ballads Acquire Brill Building Panache.

I don’t know what this means either, but it sounds pretty fun. Any who, they have an annual record fair that features performance art haircuts of the type featured above and below:

And of course there are the attendees, who never fail to be at least somewhat interesting:

Not to mention the kinds of things they sell at this place:

Or the gentle ways in which they try to sell it:

But the best part of this fest are the various performers they get. They run the gamut from very, very weird to very, very, very, very weird. Let’s take this for example:

You see the red behind him? Take a moment to think over what you think it might be. Give up?

Its. someone’s. colon. From a Colonoscopy. I don’t know whether to laugh, cry or throw up, but apparently these people thought this was a great background to perform in front of and who am I to judge?

At this same place, there was this weird little pastiche of old movies that included Julie Andrews singing in the Austrian hills while napalm went off in the background. I did not photograph that. I was too busy trying really hard not to laugh at it.