We now invite you into the robust world of Raymond and Peter and Shut Up Little Man™. The recordings found fame far beyond San Francisco. The recordings quickly gained a cult following, and were adapted into comic books, zines, a theatrical production and the independent film Shut Yer Dirty Little Mouth. A number of other volumes were issued later. Shut Up Little Man is widely considered to be a classic of the audio verite and field recording genres, and the recordings continue to inspire shock, laughter, and amazement at the raw humanity and dark comedy contained therein. The first Shut Up, Little Man compact disc was released in early 1993. You get me new keys tomorrow and you get me a new billfold and you get me uhh some money and then uhh I will have to start uhh. stolen a fuckin thing in my life Peter: You get me new keys. Doco about two roomates who record the hilarious arguments of their neighbours. Peter: Shut up little man Ray: I aint never stolen a fuckin. What starts as a clever comedy piece about the popularity of the actual recordings becomes. Find where to watch Shut Up Little Man An Audio Misadventure in New Zealand. One of the biggest sub-popular trends of the late ’80s and ’90s was found audio: ranting celebrities, prank calls, and in the case of the Shut Up Little Man series, drunken arguments. Devo's "Shut Up Little Man" and Nirvana's "Dough, Ray, and Me"), theatrical plays, and film shorts. Critic Reviews for Shut Up Little Man An Audio Misadventure.
Profiles have appeared in Spin ("This epic documentary is as disturbing as it is hilarious"), Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair ("grimly fascinating"), The LA Times, The Washington Post ("hilarious, but profoundly disturbing"), Playboy, The Wire and on Ira Glass's radio program "This American Life." Sarah Vowell, the essayist and cultural commentator, included a segment about Shut Up Little Man in her book Radio On, calling it "some of the strangest bickering I've ever heard." The recordings have inspired comic illustrations by Daniel Clowes ( Ghost World) and Ivan Brunetti ( Schizo), animation features by Kevin Peaty (principle animator of "The Lion King" and other Disney classics), numerous songs (e.g. The dialogs of Raymond and Peter have been widely championed for their poignant absurdity and stark hilarity. These infamous recordings were made by their much-menaced next door neighbors, Eddie Lee and Mitchell D. The Shut Up Little Man recordings feature the real-life comical rants, hateful harangues, drunken soliloquies, and audible fistfights of Raymond and Peter – two booze-swilling homicidal roommates in a low-rent district of San Francisco. Welcome to the official site of Shut Up Little Man™! An edited version of the first part of the documentary Im currently obsessed with, 'Shut Up Little Man' Created while I was kept awake by my own crazy ne.