"No performance artist in the state can approach W.O.R.M.’s precision or delivery–the man who looks, acts and smells like the devil, scaling the Brigham Young monument on Main Street in freezing weather..."
"No performance artist in the state can approach W.O.R.M.’s precision or delivery–the man who looks, acts and smells like the devil, scaling the Brigham Young monument on Main Street in freezing weather..."

Ecce Homo


December 4, 1989

Music

If you’ve been around SLC for any period of time, you’ve no doubt heard about (or even witnessed) the brilliant, crazed exploits of W.O.R.M.

No performance artist in the state can approach W.O.R.M.’s precision or delivery–the man who looks, acts and smells like the devil, scaling the Brigham Young monument on Main Street in freezing weather, donning nothing but his short-shorts. Rumors abound about him painting strange messages in the Federal building with pig’s blood or cutting off his own penis in a crowded family cafe. Who knows? But one thing is certain, W.O.R.M. is the foundation of the most transcendental religious movement this State has ever beheld (called Word Order of Righteous Mankind).

He’s laying low now, assuredly plotting his next move. Last time I saw him he was draped in a three-piece tweed outfit; gone were the two tufts of hair on his bald head, which he traditionally fashioned into horns; gone was his flaming red cape. Perhaps he was trying to impress a Utah judge, but in any case, he is still with us: on his forehead he’d crudely tattooed the word ‘dog’. He said it’s there because “When I look in the mirror now, I know who I really am!”

Here Worm bares his testimony. Read it; ponder it and curse the universe.

Text by Dick Butt Kiss

But this lost mind, which is a separate entity from the spirit of God, wants body, even if it is just a lower estate than that of mankind. So this is the logical explanation for the instinct of animals and insects. These animals and insects have human minds in them. The spirit of the devil is of the mind war, slavery and hate. Those who hurt members of the human family either mentally or physically. These minds that are separated from the spirit of God want to pay for their crimes in this lower state, to a degree of their guilt. Remember in the Bible when the spirit of the mind of the Devil went into the swine. In summary, these are the beliefs of W.O.R.M. Those whose spirit of the mind is separated from the spirit of the God of the heart can go into bodies of lower estates of the animal world to pay for all their crimes against the family of mankind until all debts against life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are paid for in full and the mind and spirit of God are reunited. That’s the reason I tattooed dog, pig and worm on my face, to be a constant reminder that if I don’t pay for my crimes in this world, I will live in the next world as a dog, worm and pig. I tattooed all my crimes on my back, and some day my spirit of the mind will be reunited with the spirit of God in Heaven.

So everyone keep faith and remember, “If there ain’t justing in this world there will be in the next world in the lower estate of animals”. 

Check out more of SLUG’s 1989 Archives:
fIREHOSE: Best of the Shows 1989 
Victims Willing: A Band You Can Trust