Category: Pop Cult
Pieces of Songs
“From the openings strains of Heart’s “Barracuda” to the end of The Doors’ “The End”, sometimes there are pieces of songs that are cooler than the song itself.” Okay but… Lionel Ritchie?! Your own favorite “piece of a song”?
Medium Cool
Tonight, at 23:50 GMT, BBC2 is broadcasting Medium Cool (’69), a movie which may ring a bell with FZ-fans as it features quite a few Zappa songs (Oh No, Are You Hung Up, Who Needs The Peace Corps, to name but a few). Patrick Neve had this to say about it: “Admittedly, the plot thins as the action kicks in, but this is the best blurring of genres I’ve ever seen. Add to all of this a soundtrack with heavy doses of Mothers music. I seem to remember a scene with some people getting the shit kicked out of them in the street and you hear Zappa’s ‘I will love the police and they kick the shit out of me in the street…'”
Howl!
America, you’re silly. I think you’re chronologically 12.
Psychosis, America you’ll choke on your own Exxon mine.
America I miss Abbie Hoffman. Thomas Merton and Dorothy Day. Peter Maurin and Mitch Schneider.
—America – a tribute to Allen Ginsberg
Fine Arf
Ha. I want one of these! Found at Fine Arf which has an impressive collection of Dog Breed Charms (and where, rather temptingly, you can “Click for Enlargement!”).
The Music Nerd Test
With 38.64734% i rank as a healthy Major Music Nerd. Take the test if you were so much older then, and younger than that now…
Miguel Milanos
The 100 Worst Porn Movie Titles, too funny: “Willie Wanker and The Fudge Packing Factory”, “All Anal On the Western Front” and “Beyond The Valley of The Ultra Milkmaids”, among other linguistic gems. (Kudos to the person who can tell me what the entry title has to do with this entry, by the way.)
Is this anoter clue for the Conceptual Continuity or what?
Each nation its own beer must have. If your doesn’t, don’t be sad… At leats every nation has its soul (although some people just don’t care). Now that UE went a little larger, you can expand your horizons, and learn something about Finland and Zappa’s relation to Lucy in the sky with diamonds. Well, as you know, some nations also has a Zappa’s statue. It is right there, at the end of Vilnius’ Kalinausko street (click on the thumbnaileye. At the picture on the wall, you can see the “corcovado”, the most well known symbol of my city, Rio de Janeiro). Anyway, since we started with beer, we can’t forget the tities, specially if the girls in question are better than the Beatles! Cheers!
One of the brain police…
Now this could be a risky occupation, i jest ye not. For after avowing to being one of the brain police, the future held as an acquaintance the infamous charles manson, and thus far 35 years in prison for murder. A musician before his association with famous folk though, he has still found opportunities to subsequently pursue this, especially since requesting transfer from californias state prison system. I quite like this tranquil tune from the selection you can sample. Well, i guess it beats being a rock.
Courtney Cuckoo
Meanwhile, in a parallel universe far far away: “I have a magic pussy,” she announces. “If you fuck me, you become a king. I’m a kingmaker.”
Mixology
“Just look at these people. Maybe they are all screwing their dentists and nannies and getting the clap and living in a spiritual void–they’re still floating on an ocean of booze and glamour.”
Like, Afoot
Like, OMG: “Two decades after the song Valley Girl popularized it, a fresh effort is afoot to stamp out this linguistic quirk. The generation that grew up saying like is hitting adulthood and the work force. As a result, it is in the lexicon of investment bankers, doctors and even teachers, where it can sound especially jarring.” Heck, they’re even making musicals about it now.
Radio Days
No time to have a listen just now, but I will definitely be checking out radiolovers which offers vintage radio shows in mp3 format, for free. Abbott & Costello! Boris Karloff! Buck Rogers!
DIY Tron
Jay Maynard wanted a Tron costume, so he made one himself. But really, would you trust this running around inside your computer?
Subservient Chicken
Tell it what to do and Subservient Chicken will do it for you!