Looking for the perfect acoustics to record your next music CD? Or do you just want to fully enjoy the sounds of your body's own music after a meal of bean burritos? Either way, a ship's head (its toilet, for landlubbers) may be your best choice -- as was discovered recently by music producer Lenny Douthett. It seems Douthett, who has worked with the likes of Snoop Dogg and other artists, when looking for a sound booth with qualities that would lend a new vibrancy to his clients' recordings, found that he needn't look further than the crapper aboard his forty foot boat.

The story doesn't report how Douthett came across his moment of enlightenment, but we can postulate that he was likely engaged in purging his bowels or his bladder, or perhaps just letting loose a toot of flatulence, when he noted how perfectly the sounds resonated in the phone-booth-sized water closet. So now, rather than perform on the poopdeck, Douthett's customers head for another part of the boat where poop plays a prominent role for their musical works to be captured at their acoustic best.

In Douthett's studio, vocalists don a headset, sit on the toilet, and belt out their songs or rap routines as Douthett captures it all with his high-tech recording equipment. This arrangement could be a godsend for musicians or singers who get those pre-performance jitters that normally send them scurrying to the bathroom with a load of stage fright-induced diarrhea. With a head that doubles as a sound studio, they can empty themselves from one end of their body while letting beautiful music flow from the other.