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Surreal, funny, subversive, no dialogue, outstanding drawings. Down with Disney junk — “Les Triplettes De Belleville“ has to be the best animated movie I’ve seen in many years.

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A new Frank Zappa biography by Barry Miles has hit the shelves. Is anyone reading this?

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“Hello. My name is George Bush and I’m running for President. Please consider my accomplishments as set forth in the following resume.”

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“Once you’ve picked your cult hero, the only thing left to do is bring him up in every single music conversation. Compare every other artist unfavorably to your hero. Lament the fact that your hero has “lost it” and “will probably never get it back,” but express your opinion that his early body of work is enough to counterbalance any mediocre material he may have released later. Your hero is the only one who ever really got it right, and as long as you live you’ll never see another artist like him.”
– A Guide To Talking Rock

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Every so often I need a reminder of why I spend money on KUR. Every so often, I get the answer. Today’s answer was purchasing the Baby Snakes DVD. Two hours plus of sheer musical heaven — man I love this one (right down to the five year old Roxy DVD Yet To Come To Fruition Trailer, but I digress). Two questions though: is Roy Estrada’s hairdo real? And is that girl Angel-With-The-White-Painted-Face high on quaaludes or what?

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Ouch! Joe’s Domage is getting very harsh reviews here at KUR so far… Anyone want to chime in with their point of view? (I’ve yet to receive this release so I’ll reserve my judgement.)

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This week’s Friday Boot is a collection of live tracks from ‘66, ‘70 and ‘73 known as Time Sandwich.

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Listen to three full streaming Quaudiophiliac tracks here. (Or you could just decide to buy the damn thing!)

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Some of you may have noticed that Gilles’ site with Zappa bootleg cover artwork (among other things) had vanished in the past week. Well, it’s back on the air.

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Next Wednesday 13 the Doctor and I will be attending the annual Filmfestival of Ghent for a screening of “Monster Road” (the Bruce Bickford docu). Should you be looking for us, we’ll be the ones wearing the fake Groucho Marx eyebrow-moustache combo (widely available at various prank shops) yelling “Get lost, creep!”. Kidding.

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The Big Note has rolled out its Halloween edition — once again chock full of good stuff. Of particular interest: “Trick Or Treat”, Warren Cuccurullo and L. Shankar’s “The Blue” and TBN member MM7’s monster Halloween compilation. Oh, and also, this…

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“I wrote a ridiculous Perl program to generate text. Thing is, it developed some bugs, and has managed to create phrases and combinations of words (which actually make sense) that I didn’t even program in. I hooked it up to the Blogger API, and now it updates its own weblog with no editing on my part (I just give it a bunch of topics to talk about). Check it out, I’ve called it ‘Learn’. It sounds like a typical teenage girl.” (via Kevin Francis)

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What exactly is Google trying to tell me here?

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Well, all 6 invites are out the door and our little short story is still unfolding. While reading it, you may enjoy Part Two of this week’s Friday Boot offering.

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