Another jem found at jam.zappafan.net: Frank Zappa at the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearings, way back in ‘86. This man truly died a decade too soon. I would’ve loved to see him trash the current Bush administration.
I shaved down yesterday’s Friday Show on Howard 100 (Sirius Radio) to this 6.81 MB file. In it, the show’s moderators replay a Stern show from 1984 where Frank came in and talked about some important stuff. I don’t know if you can post it or not…I hope so. Excuse the quality.
On April 13 1980 Zappa played the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial in Kansas City, MO. And it just so happens to be this (and next) week’s Friday Boot. Happy listening!
The geeks at Google have released a new toy: Google Trends. It allows you to look up the popularity of searchterms over the years, but the real fun lies in the fact that you can compare searchterm popularity of different phrases using comma’s. Here’s a couple:
- yin vs. yang
- the vs. and
- pro vs. con
- and my personal favorite: weapons of mass distruction vs. enron.
Remember Don Johnson’s mid 80s musical masterpiece “Heartbeat”? Not only is this review of said audio-visual marvel quite a funny read — it also reveals that both Dweezil and Moon Zappa appear in the video, as guitarist and chorus singer respectively (with pictures!). Maybe it had something to do with FZ’s appearance on Miami Vice, who knows.
Says Gary McKinnon, who was arrested after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks:
Old-age pensioners can’t pay their fuel bills, countries are invaded to award oil contracts to the West, and meanwhile secretive parts of the secret government are sitting on suppressed technology for free energy.
Frank Zappa on Myspace(Thanks Pablo!). I wonder what the ZFT did to obtain this profile, as I’m sure some zappahead had already claimed it previously. Cease and desist letter anyone?
There is something about Eastern Europe and Zappa. Scott of ineedmorecowbell.com sent in pictures of a place called “The Zappa Café”, taken in Budapest, Hungary:
For those of you who didn’t get to see it in your local theatre: Monster Road, the award-winning Bruce Bickford documentary, is out on DVD. The film offers a fascinating look into the life and spirit of a true American excentric and his absolute dedication to the one thing he lives for: clay animation. Much like Zappa’s, Bickford’s work lives in a self-shaped universe where reality, logic and social convention are bent and skewed into something entirely unique. As far apart as both their worlds may be, it’s no coincidence that Zappa took a keen, perhaps even anthropological interest into Bickford, as documented in Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special. Though they are opposites in many ways, one trait brings them together: deviation from the norm. Get the DVD — you won’t regret it. Long live deviation from the norm!
