Hollywood actor, plagiariser and pariah, Shia LaBeouf, today made the bizarre claim that he was in fact UK dubstep producer Burial in spite of the fact that, famously anonymous Burial, very publicly revealed himself to the world some weeks ago.
The actor, who has attracted controversy recently for a series of blatant plagiarisms of other people’s work, has been plagiarising quotes from famous people in a seeming bid to make his naive oversight of failing to correctly credit the work of Daniel Clowes on LaBeouf’s directorial debut Howard Cantour, appear like a planned performance art piece.
This week LaBeouf, who’s Christian name is girly and whose real surname is Beef, made the audacious claim that he, and not William Bevan is Burial.
“Hi this is Shia,” read LeBeouf from a prepared statement at his ‘art’ exhibition ‘#IAMSORRY’, “I just want to say thank you to anyone out there who liked my burial tunes & supported me over the years.”
“I want to tell my Mum my Dad my brothers and my sister that I love them to bits. Big shout out to the UK & everywhere else. Cheers & respect to everyone and anyone…be safe & take care.”
One attendee at the exhibition claimed that Shia, who was sat crying with a wet bag reading #IAMSORRY over his “fat” head, responded to a selection of mean yet accurate tweets written about the actor by repeating the phrase “I’m Burial, those tweets are untrue” and “I invented dubstep.”
Another visitor indicated that Shia showed her some extracts of Allen Ginsberg’s Howl “which he claimed to have written himself” before insisting that he also “showed Michael Jackson how to moonwalk”, despite the fact that Michael Jackson first performed the moonwalk three years before Shia was born.
Other reports indicate that Shia hired a skywriting company to emblazon the messages “Shia is Burial” and “I’m Sorry William Bevan” across the Los Angeles sky.
LaBeouf then released a snippet of a track, which has been variously described as “eerily reminiscent” and “exactly the same” as Burial’s breakout track, Archangel, which he claims he wrote for his new album as Burial.
At the time of writing the real Burial is yet to comment on the matter. More on this as we have it.
