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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
FZ & Ponty, Valbonne ’70
Rhymin’ Title Man’s what I am. Via The Idiot, here’s a full download “in glorious mono” of Zappa and J.-L. Ponty live at the Festival de Valbonne, France, July 25th 1970. The pair were supposed to play together at the … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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Zappa On The Mike Douglas Show
Frank Zappa on The Mike Douglas Show, November 1976! When Frank comes on, you can see him think “oh great, I’m gonna have to shake hands with these bozo’s”, heheh. (YouTube link. Via, of all places, a comment on my … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video
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Peanuts
As a US citizen, what could you possibly do for your country now that your president has proven himself to be an unbelievably inadequate, lying, disastrously shortsighted hand puppet for corporate America? Why, censure Jimmy Carter! Yeah! That’s the ticket.
Posted in Politics, Silly
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Another Day, Another Device
So you’re a typist doing your job and then — suddenly: gas attack! Good thing, you ponder, I’m wearing one of these! (via)
Posted in Silly
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Whatever Happened to Punky Meadows?
Well, why don’t you read for yourself: Today, he wears perfectly creased form-fitting jeans and an unbuttoned-to-below-the-sternum silk shirt; the look is no less immaculate than the one the now-52-year-old sported before he came back to the D.C. area almost … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Pop Cult, Zappa Misc
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Yum! Cultural Stereotype Fest!
Ooh La La! The French have been voted the world’s most unfriendly nation by a landslide in a new British poll published. They were also voted the most boring and most ungenerous. The Germans have no to reason to celebrate … Continue reading
Posted in In The News, Silly
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Cal’s Specials
Got a couple hundred bucks to spend? Cal Schenkel has some new artwork for sale at “special prices”…
Posted in Frank Zappa, Visual Arts
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Forums Back(ed) Up!
Phew. I managed to restore the forum to a back-up from May 19 (CET). At first glance, all previously deleted threads are back. Depending on the exact time at which the actual back-up took place, any posts made after it … Continue reading
Posted in Site News
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Shit Happens, The Forum Edition
Last Friday night, one motherf@#!ing idiot thought it would be a good idea to spam the KUR forums. This asshat took the time to register and went on to post over 170 messages promoting some rancid pornsite. By the time … Continue reading
Posted in Site News
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The Relix Zappa Special
I dunno how it is where you’re at but outhere, it’s been raining cats and dogs all day week. What better circumstances to scan Relix Magazine’s April/May Zappa special, eh? So here it is: Zappa In Relix Magazine.
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles
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Touring Can Make You Blog
Well duh, this hadn’t crossed my radar until Bob Again mentioned it: the official ZPZ Tour Blog. They really should have enabled comments though…
Posted in Zappa Plays Zappa
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Amsterdam Pics
Nice set of pictures of ZPZ in Amsterdam, from a couple of days ago. If anyone else has put their ZPZ photos online, hesitate not and drop me a note. Edit: this one’s even nicer! (See comments)
Posted in Zappa Plays Zappa
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Zappa In Humo
This week’s Humo Magazine has an article on the Zappa’s featuring interviews with Dweezil, Ahmet and Gail. I may be putting up a translated version later. For now though, here’s their intro, which I found rather amusing: On 15 November … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles
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Run Da Vinci, Run!
Woops! Life’s a box of chocolates indeed: Several whistles instead of applause were all that greeted the end of Ron Howard’s 125-million-dollar film, and worse than that, the 2,000-strong audience even burst out laughing at the movie’s key moment.
Posted in Film, Pop Cult
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