Name: The Butthole Surfers (King Coffey, Paul Leary, Gibby Haynes).

Residence: Austin, Texas.

Recent accomplishments: Releasing The Hole Truth...and Nothing Butt!, a compilation of live and demo recordings spanning the punks' long career.

Favorite summertime activities:
Coffey: Sitting in adark room and watching Sale of the century on TV ("You can physically feel you IQ take a dive as you watch it"). Inner tubing. Studying prehistoric artifacts at the Texas Memorial Museum (2400 Trinity St.). Camping at Enchanted Rock State Park. Watching the bats take off from the Congress Avenue Bridge at dusk ("They leave in masses. It looks like big clouds of smoke"). Going to gun shows and fantasizing about a massive firefight breaking out ("You realize, 'Wow, there's a lot of sickos here with guns.' Like a car wreck, I'm drawn to it").
Leary: Playing pool at Clicks (2121 E. Oltorf St.) Launching Estes rockets. Hanging in the yard with his wife and dog. Barbecuing. Fishing off Port Aransas, on the Gulf ("Just get on a boat with a bunch of other yucks. It's really stupid"). Taking off all his clothes ("Lake Travis is the big naked place. There are plenty of old fat men jacking off").
Haynes: Sleeping all day and driving all night ("I drive in a big circle over to the East Side and scream at street people and then be shocked because they know my name")

Favorite bars:
Coffey: Emo's (for live music); the Carousel Lounge, 1110 E. 52nd St. ("It features this guy Jay Clark, who's blind and plays the Wurlitzer. He's been there since the 1950s. It's like walking into a David Lynch film").
Leary: Waterloo Brewing Company, 401 Guadalupe St. (Austin's oldest brew pub); the Dog and Duck Pub, 406 W. 17th St. (international beers on tap).
Haynes: The Continenetal Club; the Cedar Door. 910 W. First St. ("The best margaritas in town - and they've got dancing trees").

Where to eat: El Azteca, 2600 E. Seventh St. (good mexican food, weird Tes-Mex artifacts); Chez Nous, 510 Neches St. ("A nice little French place," says Leary); Satay, 3202 W. Anderson Lane (good Thai Food).

General comments:
Coffey: "Slacker is almost a documentary. In Austin, you have to put yourself into a mind-set of the art of doing nothing."
Leary: "Austin's a really cool place. It gets hot as shit, but there's nice lakes, and you can always take your clothes off."
Haynes: "The only good thing about summer is, all the fucking college pricks aren't around."