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1* The only other non-sampled lyric on ''Drukqs'' (apart from a few indistinct single word phrases) comes from "Cock/ver10," where Music/{{Squarepusher}} shouts "COME ON YOU [[CountryMatters CUNT]], LET'S HAVE SOME APHEX ACID!"
2* On the lyrics sheets for the ''Come to Daddy'' EP, [[MetalScream the loud, 34-second, anguished wail]] in the opening track is simply transcribed as "[[{{Understatement}} Aargh.]]"
3* Some guy named David Rees made an album [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2pQfk-lSCs (preserved here)]] of Aphex Twin/Music/TaylorSwift mashups. [[RefugeInAudacity Because why wouldn't you.]]
4* Meta example: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CrFRAUMn2lM his Grammy win]], with Aphex Twin mispronounced, a [[ToiletHumor scatological rant]] and being referred as a [[IAmTheBand "they"]]. And the best part? [[SadTrombone He didn't even show up]].
5* The title of ''[[BrutalHonesty 26 Mixes for Cash]]'', especially considering the motivation behind the creation of the ''Pac-Man'' album.
6** However, the "for Cash" part in the title was actually due to the fact that Richard had met with all those people he remixed in person to get his pay in cash, so nobody would know his bank details or figure out where he lived.
7* In an interview, James stated that although he's never met [[VideoGame/{{Minecraft}} Markus Persson]] (who successfully claimed his ''Caustic Window'' LP in an eBay auction), his kids would love to, since he's "like God" to them.
8* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqega6a2g6A Aphex Twin buys beer]]. Sadly, it isn't actually Richard, but the person in the video looks so similar to him that we might as well call him "Richard." With "Funny Little Man" playing as almost scarily appropriate BGM, the video consists of surveillance footage taken in 2009 of "Richard" drunkenly sauntering through a vacant store, only to find massive amounts of trouble keeping his center of gravity and staying on his two feet. Eventually, "Richard" falls down and can't muster the stamina to get up, and eventually people discover him. The video ends with him stumbling towards the exit in a zombie-like manner, only to tumble backwards at the last second.
9** The best part? Richard's actually seen the video.
10--->"yeah cant believe i was caught on camera, embarrasing, had to much regretamine"
11* Look at the ''Come to Daddy'' EP cover, and you'll see that the leftmost kid (who is actually the only one without James' face) is [[CrossesTheLineTwice doing the gang sign for the Bloods]].
12* The ending of "Funny Little Man," with a Plaintalk program singing to you about [[LyricalDissonance how they want to anally copulate with you, sneak into your room, and cut your penis off so they can eat it.]]
13* The bulk of "Milkman" is a mostly odd, yet strangely cheerful song for Richard, complete with [[StepUpToTheMicrophone him gently singing]] "I wish the milkman would deliver my milk in the morning / I wish the milkman would deliver my milk when I'm yawning." That is, [[MoodWhiplash until he reaches]] [[LyricalDissonance "I would like some milk from the milkman's wife's tits..."]], where then it abruptly becomes hysterical.
14** The ending to the song also has his voice progressively getting pitch-bended more and more. The result is pretty damn funny.
15* The letter Richard wrote to ''NME'' under the pseudonym Pritchad G. Kraymes after they gave "Windowlicker" the 1999 Single of the Year award:
16-->Smart! Thank you very much for voting for my track/s. I've had a very good year as usual, although it was very intense, getting on a really big roll, writing new stuff constantly, really looking forward to isolating myself next year even more! Hope everyone has a totally boring New Year's party, overdoses on everything and chokes on their own vomit on the bathroom floor, make sure you lie face down just before you pass out!\
17Signed, Pritchad.g.kraymes.
18* The 40-second video that Richard put out on his Facebook to promote his first US show in 8 years also contained a surreal TakeThat to the 2016 American election in a fashion only Aphex Twin could pull off. The video contains clips from official debates and interviews with people's voices sped up to sound like chipmunks and everyone's face digitally folded in a manner resembling [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/da/Aphex_Twin_-_Syro_main_press_photo.jpg this press picture]] from the ''Syro'' era.
19%%* The lyrics from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUAJ8KLGqis minipops 67 [120.2] source field mix]]:
20%%-->Come see it, shake my hand\
21Why'd you breathe up this, [[TheStoner Marijuana]]?\
22Throw some DMT together, here\
23We're gonna just entertain, some
24%%* The [[LastNoteHilarity ending]] also counts as this:
25%%-->Always putting up with you, [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch]]\
26Maybe next time cunt\
27[[ClusterFBomb Next time you fucking cunt]]
28* [[http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/original/000/906/508/4e8.jpg This parody ad]] from Manga/ShortCuts featuring a fictional product fittingly named ''[[BlackComedy Creepy Richard]]'', which involves putting the latter in front of your meals and [[KubrickStare it glares at you]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice in order to make you lose appetite as an attempt to lose weight]].
29* In the announcement of ''Syro'' album, Richard declares himself as an "[[CrossesTheLineTwice influential electronic fartist]]."
30** And also as a celebration to the ''Syro'' album release, this fan-made video "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlKgw5rDObc Aphex Twin Does Omegle/Chatroulette!]]" features a prank involving [[DistractedByTheSexy seducing the victims]] [[UnsettlingGenderReveal until revealing]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice Richard's mask from the ''Windowlicker'' music video in order to scare the shit out of them]]! Bonus points for the said 1999 track being played in the background!
31* In the beginning of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzvLiwUK3R8 Field Day 2017 festival]], a FreezeFrameBonus is featured at the 4:39 mark which says "[[TakeThat fuck]] [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump trump]]" and also "[[CrossesTheLineTwice trump is dead]]."
32* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0zBDr6eLJM Phone Pranks]]"; the last (and rather hilarious) track from the Caustic Window LP features one of the audio recordings of Richard himself pranking some of his friends including Mike Paradinas AKA ยต-Ziq.

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