Missile Attack

Much of Psychopathology consists of flat-out humor, such as a "Pain Series" that finds Hall reacting profanely to a hot coffee spill, a hammered thumb, a paper cut and a dive into a cold pool. But amid the laughs, there's also off-kilter social commentary of the sort found in "The Miracle of Childbirth," which demythologizes the moment of conception ("Face it: Your father fucked your mother, and the next time you're fucking somebody, just try to keep that in mind"). Hall also satirizes the eagerness of famous people to pipe up at times of national disaster in "JLH," an ode that recognizes pneumatic actress Jennifer Love Hewitt for her "brave and steadfast silence" after 9/11.

As for Hall, whose pad had a view of the World Trade Center, he says, "Two types of people seemed to feel they could address 9/11 right after it happened, which were people who had genuinely experienced it, and assholes who'll talk about anything. I probably fit in both categories, so for me it wasn't a problem."

On target: John S. Hall, Sasha Forte and Bradford Reed are King Missile III.

Details

With Bradford Reed and His Amazing Pencilina
9 p.m. Wednesday, March 26
Climax Lounge, 2217 Welton Street
$8-$10, 303-292-5483

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"JLH" is also significant for connecting the dots between Rudolph Giuliani and George W. Bush via the lines "A lot of people have said Giuliani did a great job with the crisis/And I guess so/And a lot of people are saying that Bush is doing a good job/And I really don't think so." Nonetheless, Hall has no interest in becoming an exclusive Bush-basher.

"There have been a lot of terrible things that have happened and that moved me that I wasn't able to make art out of," he says. "But for some reason, I was able to do it in these cases. And I'm sure there will be more terrible things I can make art out of in the future."