The Story of Flatulina™'s Fabulous Holiday Spectacular...
(as seen on Comedy Central)

Flatulina™'s Fabulous Holiday Spectacular is the brainchild of a brilliant and talented musician who chooses to remain anonymous. The webmaster was fortunate to catch up with this mastermind and ask a few questions.

Why not put your real name on the project?
Well "Flatulina" seems so much more fitting. Plus, I don't want this to be the only thing I'm known for in my musical career. Weird Al Yankovic is an accomplished musician, but relatively few people want to hear his legit music. As long is this is from a character, then I can always put the character aside and do my other music which is not the least bit funny or flatulent.

Why fart music?
Farts are the first idea of humor many people have. Many children in their innocence giggle at flatulence like nothing else. Many adults too, even though they don't want to admit it. There is nothing morally wrong with a fart. Everyone farts. They do! I simply wanted to create a product for that niche market.

Isn't there enough fart music out there?
Many "fart themed humor" products out there are tacky, gross, and tasteless. Flatulina™'s Fabulous Holiday Spectacular is of a whole different caliber. The musical tracks are orchestral, mainly with farts and "singing fish" as the special touches which create my unique sound. Plus since I am a professional musician with a professional recording set up, it really is a much better production quality than the other fart music out there that I've heard.

How did you pick the songs for this project?
I mainly used public domain, non-sacred Christmas music. I avoided using any of the Christmas songs about Jesus, that would not be right. All of the songs on this CD have nothing to do with the Messiah, only your basic superficial Christmas music, or the great works from the "Nutcracker Suite" by Tchaikovski. I really developed an appreciation for his composing as I did this project.

Is there an artist out there who inspires you?
Tons of people. I think Dame Edna is hilarious. I appreciate people who have been successful in marketing funny music like Adam Sandler, Weird Al Yankovic, Dr. Demento, Bob Rivers, and of course we must give credit to Spinal Tap. Those songs were brilliantly done.

How is Flatulina™'s personality different from yours?
Flatulina™ and I are quite different in many ways. She has chronic hypergastrosplosia, I am hypoglycemic. She is the daughter of imaginary rock idol, Nigel Tufnel, and an albino circus clown named Bubbles Boutier from a one night fling. My parents are married and not nearly that interesting... well not that famous, but they are pretty quirky or let's face it, they wouldn't have had a child who would do a fart music CD. Flatulina™ comes from a place of being "fabulous". Through Flatulina™, I am learning to be more fabulous.

Why did you also do the video?
The video was actually not a part of the original vision for this project, but I'm so glad it happened. In the process of working on the music, some gear issues arose and I was unable to access my fart sounds for several months. I ended up using that time to film and edit the video. I'm very happy with how it turned out because there is nothing on there that is inappropriate for little kids to see. No bad language, no sexual content, no raunchy humor. She's just rather gassy. That's all.

What was your inspiration for the video?
Being a musician, as most musicians are, I'm a huge fan of the movie "This is Spinal Tap" and the whole mock documentary genre of movies. So I wanted to do a behind the scenes spoof on Flatulina™ as an artist and of her friends talking about how fabulous she is. In the video, the conversation has nothing to do with farts. There are no fart jokes in the dialogue. It is simply Flatulina™ living her life, and passing gas the entire time.

Why didn't you talk about farts?
I thought it would be funnier and more intelligent to let the farts just happen and have the content be about recording the fish choir, Flatulina™'s accomplishments, her fabulous life. The way I got around it was to make it so that Flatulina™ hates the word "fart" and to her THAT is "the f word". She kicks a record label exec out of the studio for saying "farting". She's very sensitive that way.

Was this a difficult project?
Absolutely, way more difficult than I anticipated. Many things went wrong. Many people flaked out on me. Many people made mistakes and cost me a lot of time in getting my product finished. I personally had many problems with my gear and lost access to my fart sounds for 5 months. In getting the enhanced content encoded, I used a company called Open Door Productions, and they really messed things up. When I got my master back, after the duplicating plant had started my order, I found that the entire enhanced content for Elvis Costello's CD was also on mine. After talking to an attorney I concluded that there was no way I could legally sell those CD's with someone else's copyrighted content on it. So I had to have them fix it, and they really took their sweet time. It completely screwed me up for the holiday season of 2002. So anyone out there, don't use Open Door Productions! They are bad bad bad. [But I'm not bitter...]

Do your parents know you did this?
Yes.

How do they feel about it?
They think it's funny. They are actually in the crowd of people on the CD cover. My nieces think it is really fun and always are asking to see the Flatulina™ video. They like it because the enhanced content is easy enough to navigate for a young child, and there is nothing on there that is for adults only.

Is there another Flatulina project in the future?
I've got it all in my head, but I also have other ventures which I'm equally as excited about, and on those, I will be putting my REAL name.