Category Archives: In Writing

The Results Are In…

Posted on April 1, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

We will be emailing all seven winners shortly requesting their snail mail addy. Congrats to those who won, apologies to those who didn’t get picked… Regardless: thanks all for participating. It’s been a fun ride!

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The Tom Waits Book Has Materialized

Posted on March 18, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

You’ll remember my going on and on about the Tom Waits book Sharl and I illustrated. Ah, well a couple of days ago we finally got our copy: The front- and back-cover with some of the postcards. Some more postcards. … Continue reading →

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On/Off

Posted on February 21, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A mix of things that you may or may not already know… New ZPZ tourdates are announced. Gail and Dweez talk about an upcoming Ruben & The Jets release (mp3 link), akin to, or so it seems, the MOFO project. … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Continuity, Anyone?

Posted on February 14, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A while ago, I was sent a link to a course on the music of Frank Zappa, given between 2001 and 2007 by one Jason Klein of the University of North Texas. Browsing around, I stumbled across this PDF (caution: … Continue reading →

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Tom Waits: Musik & Mythos

Posted on January 22, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

It took our pal Tommi Brem and his associate Daniel Knapp two years to translate Jay S. Jacob’s Tom Waits biography, “Wild Years: the Music and Myth of Tom Waits”, into German — Tommi at one point likened it to … Continue reading →

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On Twitter

Posted on January 5, 2009 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

As you all know I’m a… …recent father of a newborn child [who] behaves like an old man. — bernard Whatever. Just wanted to announce I’ve had a Twitter account for some time now, where I post tweets: tiny messages … Continue reading →

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Zappa Autographs

Posted on December 15, 2008 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Says SOFA in a thread that kind of morphed into a discussion on FZ autographs: TBN had a nice page of sigs, at one point in time (hint). Now, I know a hint when I see one and yes, TBN … Continue reading →

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Persona Non Grata: Adrian Belew Weighs In

Posted on November 13, 2008 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

With regard to this, here’s what Adrian Belew has to say: I told dweezil I would try my best to insure he would not see andre. but I put it off and put it off and I want to make … Continue reading →

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GZ: “No matter what I do/release you hate it.”

Posted on October 6, 2008 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Last Saturday, in a topic related to Joe’s Menage, Gail Zappa posted the following in this zappa.com forum thread: Ok. So the simple truth is that I have been trying to figure out how to respond to the meanies that … Continue reading →

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Interview With Jimmy Carl Black

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A few months back Just a week ago, Andrew Greenaway did an interview with Jimmy Carl Black. Despite health problems, Jimmy’s in good spirits, performing with The Muffin Men and recording with various other artists across Europe. Just one project … Continue reading →

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