We didn’t talk about sports much, though he did like a game of badminton,” says Zappa. “But I don’t think he’d be upset that I play golf. For my dad, the ultimate disgraceful pursuit would be becoming an A&R man at a record company, and the second-worst would have been a lawyer. Golf is harmless by comparison.”
Hehe - I’ve just pictured FZ playing badminton…
August 31st, 2006 at 1:12 pm »
A quote from Barry’s Imaginary Publisher:
That is indeed a mildly surreal picture when you think of it…
August 31st, 2006 at 2:16 pm »
Wasn’t there a photo from the seventies
of Frank playing ping-pong ?
I’m thinking it was in People mag.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:57 pm »
“…a firebrand six-string virtuoso whose best-known album is entitled My Guitar Wants to Kill Your Mama…”
Hmph! Guess I missed that one.
Or maybe the golfing journalist just
pulled that one out of his ass.
September 1st, 2006 at 2:58 pm »
OH…he was talking about DWEEZIL!
My bad.
Derp!
September 5th, 2006 at 7:02 pm »
The trope of the late great composer, lunging boldly forward, valiantly questing after the illusive Shuttlecock w/ his skinny little racket-thing, has truly Gormed me … that’s one Very Unusual Meme there …
& i somehow get this corollary image of him using the aforementioned racket-thing 2 play Air-Guitar, 2 …
- yow, i guess truth still out-weirds fiction, eh?