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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
Stanford ’80 (1)
Hey guys, feliz navidad! Sorry for the lack of updates. I promise regular programming shall resume in 10 days or so… Friday morning I managed to put up the latest boot but was unable to post the message here (obscure … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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NYC 31/10/74 (2)
Today is the first day I overslept in a South-American country. With that interesting fact out of the way, here is, as promised, part two of NYC 31/10/74. Oh, and we’ll be leaving for Brazil tomorrow, so don’t expect much … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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Todo Bien
Buenos dias! I’m typing this from a hideously configurated PC somewhere in hot-n-humid Buenos Aires, having had some 4 hours of sleep since Wednesday, so I’ll keep it brief — forgive me for añy typos that may occur. As promised … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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Hasta La Vista!
Ladies, gents, dear faithful KUR readers: by tomorrow Dr Sharleena and I will be off to the wonderful summer heat of Argentina for about a month. Obviously neither of us will have much time to update this weblog during that … Continue reading
Posted in Personal, Site News
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Arf, She Said
This is The End: I love Junichiro Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters but, even allowing for cultural differences, it has to have the most peculiar final sentence in all literature: “Yukiko’s diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on … Continue reading
Virtual Acid Trip
The perfect link for a slow Monday morning: acidtrip.com. “Acidtrip contains more shit than you can shake a dick at!” Warning: don’t click if you have a history of epileptic seizures…
You There With The Sombrero!
Visits to this site by geographic location (thank you Google): Check out my annotated version at Flickr — and feel free to post a comment there (or here!).
Posted in Randamonium
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Stuttgart ’88 (2)
Then comes The Big One. First of all, I must say that I’ve found listening to every version of “Stairway To Heaven” to be the most tedious part of this whole reviewing task. There’s simply nothing very interesting about most … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots
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Sebkha-Chott
Had any of you ever heard of this french band? Neither had I. What tickled my curiosity was a description by someone on the french Zappa-list (you can blame me for the translation to English): They’re somewhere inbetween Zappa, Mr … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
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Two Fifty
How many movies of IMDb‘s top 250 have you seen? twofifty.org allows you to create and track your list. As for me:
Posted in Film
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Teen Repellant
Aah the endless possibilities of disturbing air molecules: The device, called the Mosquito (“It’s small and annoying,” Mr. Stapleton said), emits a high-frequency pulsing sound that, he says, can be heard by most people younger than 20 and almost no … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre
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Air Guitar
Be very, very afraid: Aspiring rock gods can at last create their own guitar solos – without ever having to pick up a real instrument, thanks to a group of Finnish computer science students. The Virtual Air Guitar project, developed … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Pop Cult
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Pandora
Pandora is a fun little project that creates a radiostation for you based on the artist/song you initially gave it. I typed in Frank Zappa upon which it started to play what it thinks is Zappa-related music and informed me … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video
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