Remember this? Time, these gals figured, for some good old google bombing!
Category: In The News
Chef!
Isaac Hayes to quit South Park:
“There is a place in this world for satire, but there is a time when satire ends and intolerance and bigotry towards religious beliefs of others begins,” the 63-year-old soul singer and outspoken Scientologist said.
RIP Martin Lickert
Martin Lickert, the guy who played/replaced Jeff Simmons in Zappa’s 200 Motels, has died.
Jeff Simmons, the Mothers’ bass player, had left the group and Zappa was unable to find anyone to play him. In exasperation, he told his entourage the next person to walk into the room would have the part. In walked Lickert, who had gone to buy cigarettes for his boss, Ringo. He was hired, and performed adequately, but became a better barrister than he was a bass player’s stand-in.
Coat Hang Wire
Welcome to the stone age, South Dakota! Here’s your new logo. (via)
Meet The Press
TV interviews gone awry (including of course Zappa on Crossfire). I’d read about Tom Cruise’s looney bin performance on Oprah but hadn’t seen the actual footage until now — what can I say, the guy frightens me.
You Go Girl!
Willie Nelson released a gay-themed cowboy-song yesterday entitled “Cowboys Are Frequently, Secretly (Fond of Each Other)”. What is it with closet cowboys these days? Massive outings from the prairie! As Roger Bourland puts it: “Wow Willy! You go girl!”
Two Million Gig
So there’s this bunch of old men who call themselves “The Rolling Stones”, and they’re doing this cozy little gig in Rio de Janeiro next Saturday. Two million people expected to attend! Let’s just hope they haven’t enlisted the Hell’s Angels to handle security.
Googling Tiananmen
This would be funny if it wasn’t so sad:
images.google.com/images?q=tiananmen
versus
images.google.cn/images?q=tiananmen
Darwin’s Nightmare
Just saw the documentary called Darwin’s Nightmare – including russian pilots, drugs, disappearing species, secret weapon-transports, strarvation, and… Unbelieveable…
Don’t Be Evil?
Don’t Be Evil my ass, Google: you’re starting to scare me:
Online search engine leader Google Inc. has agreed to censor its results in China, adhering to the country’s free-speech restrictions in return for better access in the Internet’s fastest growing market.
This is so fucked up, I wouldn’t know where to begin.
Hempstead ’73
With the sad news of soul giant Wilson Pickett’s demise, here is Hempstead NY, Nov 6 1973 — from an era which arguably saw Zappa’s most soulful line-up…
Music Biz Lament
Rolling Stone reports on a very bad year for the music industry. Overall, consumers bought 48 million fewer albums than in 2004, marking a disastrous twenty-one percent slide from the industry’s peak in 2000, according to Nielsen SoundScan. “It was arguably the worst year in the music business’s history,” says Steve Bartels, Island Records president. (Gee, I wonder why…)
Impeaches En Regalia
The Impeachment Project: “If you feel George W. Bush should be impeached, paint a sign that says ‘Impeach.’ and post it in a public place.” Read the blog for more guerilla marketing. Related: Al Gore’s speech in Washington yesterday and this dead-on article from The Nation.
Could it be?
RIP Alex St Clair
Some rather sad news for Cpt. Beefheart fans: Alex St Clair passed away last January 5th. St Clair – real name Alex Snouffer – was one of the original guitarists with the group and helped shape their sound from their inception in 1964 via their deranged cover of Bo Diddley’s “Diddy Wah Diddy” single released in 1966 and on to the groundbreaking Safe As Milk.
Hunka Hunka
Careful when playing that favorite Zappa-tune over and over again in your loved one’s presence — especially if (s)he happens to be Australian.