Month: May 2002

A misterious unreleased single with “Sharleena” and “Merely…” has appeared..! Thanks to The Zappa Patio for annoucing it on the cover to avoid hysteria. I’m completely hysteric now!! And no one would ever get to listen to it…! I have to agree, why wasn’t this on The Lost Episodes? Uh? AAAAhhh..! (hysteric shouts)

“Also not pictured but not unusual in Japan are pizzas with a potato/mayonnaise theme (often called The Idaho Special ).”
So…no tomato sauce??
Take a moment to see The Web’s First Japanese Pizza Page.

The Reverend Neve is pretty much calling it quits,or so it would appear. His FAQ section is being taken over by Peter Vanlaarhoven’s United Mutations dot com. Impressive FAQ, with an interface design that sucks big time if I may say so.

“Broadway The Hard Way”, and many other Zappa works, deserve a much wider audience. As the “right” gains wider control of America’s sociopolitical institutions, Zappa’s brand of crap detection is sorely missed.
Nice, short review of Broadway The Hard Way dating back to 1995, but still relevant, I think.

Online Frank Zappa style guitar lessons from Michael Johnson of Riffs Interactive. [ Link via The Chrome dinette ]

I like this. Sort of like MetaFilter without the noise. (Not to mention the fact that I got linked there recently ;o)

I never cared for sports. I have my reasons.

National Slogans.

Leading authors have named 17th-Century Spanish story Don Quixote as the best work of fiction ever written, ahead of works by Shakespeare, Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky.
I’m sure you disagree. Your alltime favorites? (No! No! Not Poodle Play again!)

Every Zappa-fan’s dream – to get up on stage with Frank and play his music – came true for Morgan Agren back in ’88. His recollections of those days constitute what you and me can only wish for!
[ via NPR ]

America’s fledgling Internet radio industry could be effectively killed on May 21st if the Librarian of Congress accepts the recommendations of its recent Copyright Arbitration Royalty Panel (“CARP”) concerning Internet radio royalty rates and sets impossibly-complex recordkeeping requirements.
You can write against this to your representatives (in the States) or as an international listener from this site.

Recording Artists Safety Guide To The Beach: a sad story, possible inspired in real events from the present millenium! (If you are under 18, and came here looking for Mariah Carey’s breasts, don’t click this or your parents will sue me!)

Way overdue but hey: HAPPY BIRTHDAY DR SHARLEENA!! :o)
May you erh, like live long and like prosper and stuff…

Pim Fortuyn shot (dead?). See the last paragraph of this post. I was rabidly opposed to Fortuyn’s ideas, but this is disgusting.

Update 8:30pm: Fortuyn confirmed dead.

…the fantastic RAs in The Chrome Dinette! In addition to the semipermanent collection, there’s gonna be an entire album each month (during May: Does Humor Belong in Music, which i’m enjoying right now)

On a side note, in their links section, there’s also this lovely site On Ruth! which i’ve never seen before, dedicated to the wonderful Ruth Underwood, made with real fondness. She deserves!