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Mon, May 11, 2009
This is probably the first and last Bobblehead you’ll ever see on ToyCyte. A company called Aggronautix went and made, of all the anti-bobble things, a GG Allin Throbblehead. And if DKE is game to distribute it with the rest of the lot of “art toys” (and Dov himself assimilated one into his personal collection), I’m down to write about it.
This ghoulish effigy is a striking representation of GG ALLIN circa 1991. The figure, limited to 2000 numbered units, stands at 7 inches tall and is made of a lightweight polyresin. Displayed in a tri-windowed box, here GG is accurately sculpted right down to the tattoos, blood, and filth.
The likeness is pretty dead-on, wouldn’t you say? You can only hope that GG (born Jesus Christ Allin) would appreciate the transgressive irony of being made into a pop culture desktop ornament. Aggronautix also made a Tesco Vee of the Meatmen Throbblehead. They should soon be available for about twenty bucks wherever you buy your toys. Note to Aggronautix if you’re reading: Make a Genesis P-Orridge Throbblehead!
Jeremy Brautman - who has written 1965 posts on ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected.
Jeremy Brautman joined ToyCyte in 2008 and has been writing about toy culture ever since. You can currently find him contributing to a variety of blogs, artkiving doodles at Doodlesplatter.com and cataloging artistic ephemera at ARTkivers.com.
May 11th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Throbbing Gristle rules! GG Allin not so much, unless you’re into bad music and scat I guess.
May 11th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
does it shit and eat it’s own feces?
May 11th, 2009 at 5:20 pm
I like G.G. and Genesis. You Throbbing Gristle people, any other kind of music is cheese and crackers to you.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:12 am
I love punk rock music in general, I was just commenting on his Throbbing Gristle reference. There’s jsut so much better stuff out there than GG Allin, more substance less image like: the Germs, Minor Threat, Adolescents, Bad Brains, Dead Boys, Negative Approach, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Mission of Burma, Gang of Four, my god a million bands better than GG Allin not to mention he spewed racism and hate, just an overall sack of shit if you ask me, and yes I did see him live in the early 90’s and he sucked in his prime too.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:40 am
Alright, well I guess I spoke too soon – you’re not punk illiterate. You may accordingly shove my foot in my mouth. And by no means am I sympathetic with GG on a lot of his penchants, but it would seem that for a bobblehead, such a cartoonish character would be appropriate. I really can’t envision a Darby Crash bobblehead. That would just be sacrilige.
GG was indeed a sack of shit and lived to offend, but that’s why seeing him in such a commercialized and innocuous form is ammusing. Same would be true with Genesis (who also did some freestyle scatting on stage, and I’m not talking Bing Crosby.)
May 12th, 2009 at 11:05 am
I love that we can talk about Genesis P-Orridge and Darby Crash on a toy site.
May 12th, 2009 at 12:26 pm
We’re on a toy site? I nearly forgot.
While we’re on this Genesis tangent, I feel obliged to pass this amazing interview along. If you have an hour-ish to blow, I can think of few better ways.
http://www.metalkult.com/videos/genesis/
May 12th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Oh, very cool. Thanks Kate. I will check that out later for sure. I was just leafing through a music mag (currently on stands, name escapes me) that has a multi-page interview with Genesis mostly on the subject of Pandrogeny. But he got in a good little dig at how these days people think NIN is “industrial” and Modest Mouse is “psychedelic.”
May 13th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
bite it you scum!