Camille Paglia reviews Miles’ latest biography on Frank Zappa: “Miles calls Zappa a ‘cold nihilist’ who felt no real emotions for anyone. Along with ‘cynicism and misanthropy,’ he detects Catholic guilt and ‘deep-seated problems with women.’ Zappa was ‘stuck in a 50′s time warp’ — yet the bold feminist Germaine Greer was a Zappa fan.”
(NY Times, registration required, bugmenot to the rescue)
KUR is re-instating its long lost tradition of Reader Polls. Check the Polls box right underneath the “Recent Chatter” box and umm, check a box why don’t you.
Freshly installed at Casa Barry: OS X Broadband Optimizer. Now I can burn up my bandwidth twice as fast!
Gilles has put up a new Friday Boot: Stonybrook, NY, Nov 3 1984 (early show, see also), Pt. One. Haven’t had a chance to give it a listen yet, because erh, well…
Guitar is The Frank Zappa CD Of The Month (this month) at the gently Chrome Dinette. John also sez he has a couple Gmail invitations left -if it’s not too late… Go get them, Fido!
RykoDisc churns out yet another Frank Zappa Best Of. Couldn’t find this at amazon.com or rykodisc, had to search amazon.de for it — go figure…
The Big Note’s November edition! Expect, among other goodies, the usual musical splendor and last but not least: TBN’s archived version of the original Hustler Thing-Fish pictorial!
Zappa Patio is back – provisionally. Quote: “We’re working on getting the site functional at the moment. If you know of a stable place we can host the Zappa Patio, or if you can offer your expertise re. web design as we struggle to match Bossk’s brilliance, drop us a line”. Hmmm, whaddayathink?…
It was on 21st of october – a show was held beginning with the tv-show We Don’t Mess Around from ’78, and then Cosmik Debris played. So here you’ll find some words about the night, some pictures, and – on the bottom – some small videos (uhhh, unfortunately without sound… ehh…). Later there might be some mp3s, too. Hopefully.
What a nice piece of discography I found. Did you know this one? Shows tons of releases (including many bootlegs) with a few words to each of them – and (YES!) this is what I like. You will find a few words on the Joe’s series and the freshly published QuAUDIOPHILIAc, too.
I do not solemnly swear………
I’m still looking for reasons. ( admittedly not 59,054,087 of them.)
I do solemnly swear to not mention GWB in the next 24 hours. Instead let’s have some music because, you know, music is THE BEST!
…then you still might want to get a job. This guy is ready for “photo-sessions, modelling, appearance in tv-shows, ads, promo works, erotic movies (!!!), erotic shows”. Take a look at his pictures. Hm?…
Whoopeee! Four more years, or so it seems. America, it’s wunderbar. Ain’t this boogie a mess…