The Psychedelic Furs: The Butler Did It
Mark Dery, Winner, November 1986
THERE'S A scene in David Cronenburg's The Fly where a baboon gets zapped, beamed from Point A to Point B, and reassembled as simian upsidedown cake a scene that is as good a definition as any for "psychedelic fur."
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