"My name is Rockette Morton, and I've come to make a toast."
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""I remember that evening as we sat in the dressing room that there were some toys in a closet and Mark and I, giddy from lack of sleep and tired of the film crew filming our every action, began playing with these toys just to be off the wall. Actually, I think they were probably stage props for a play - a rubber knife and some helmets and masks. Mark had the rubber knife he was shaking into the lens of the camera with a ridiculously ominous face that actually appeared as a very comical image in the film. I thought it was hilarious and was on the floor laughing."

"Upon Mark Boston’s entrance into the group, the name Rockette Morton was given to him. Mark was very interested in flatulence and faithfully practiced his role on a daily basis. Don would carry matches around to light at needed moments, and it became a sacred ceremony. There was a section in the rear (no pun intended) of Salvador Dali’s Diary of a Genius that was entitled The Art Of Farting. Since Dali was popular with the band at the time, this added to the sanctity of gaseous emissions being envisioned by the group as some kind of nebulous epiphany, a sign from beyond. Once, Don told Mark something to the extent of “You’ve got enough propulsion there to send you to the moon.” So, Rockette, a name from the list, seemed to be the appropriate moniker for Mark Boston. Hence, on Trout Mask Replica, his flatulent noises followed by "Rockette Morton takes off into the wind.""