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One weekend with Ike Willis at the Zappanale festival in Bad Doberan, Germany (2003):

This is the trailer for an upcoming documentary which looks to be pretty cool.

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Well hi there! I’ve been out of the loop a couple of days as you may have noticed. Finally brought the iMac to an Apple reseller for repair and got it back with a shiny, new, empty hard disk. No data recovered. At all. As we speak, Dr Sharleena is mumbling all sorts of intricate Spanish expletives at the thing which would truly make for a wonderful Friday Boot. So while I try to convince her of the fact that with the new hard disk, the iMac has been given a new soul and can therefor be trusted again, here’s some tidbits from the inbox:

• Pastor Ted Haggard: “I threw the drugs away and never had sex with the man!” (more, some more)
• It’s… Aqua Teens vs Frunobulax!
• Stratoblogster: a blog about… Strats!
• A Photoshop Plugin that enables you to load and save wave audio! (via Tommi)
• Johnny Cash does Elvis! LOL (sic)
• Sister Rosetta Tharpe sings: “Didn’t It Rain?“

Off to buy my second external backup hard disk in two weeks now!

Update: In a moving group-hug session, Dr Sharleena has forgiven the iMac for its wrongdoings.

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To our American friends: vote early, vote often, next Tuesday.

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Sure he does.

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This week’s Friday Boot: Palladium, NYC, 28 December 1976 — all twenty tracks. It even has a version of “Cruising For Burgers”!

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Press release: Howard Kaylan to offer up rare and one of a kind memorabilia in an auction which will feature over 4 decades of historical artifacts direct from his personal collection.

Among the many notable pieces being offered are rare artifacts that were saved from the 1971 Montreux Jazz Festival fire, original movie scripts from Zappa’s “200 Motels” and “Billy the Mountain”, Marc Bolan (T.Rex) stage worn shoes, original handwritten lyrics, rare photos and slides, recordings and an amazing collection of vinyl, acetates and test pressings.

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Alright, now this is slightly surreal…

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