Dear diary,
Today I purchased a DVD-player at the rediculous price of € 55! Imagine my excitement when I got home and had it play some groovy Sade! I think later this evening, I may well be putting on some Norah Jones — call me eccentric! Life’s treating me well, dear diary. Catch up with you soon.
Yours,
Barry
— more clever graphics at the Iraq war poster exhibition.
It’s about time for something extremely silly on KUR, don’t you think? Of course you do! Well have we got an exclusive for you: presenting the world’s first Zappa Personality Test — to be taken extremely seriously…
Will Eisner, “father of the modern graphic novel,” passed away today at the age of 87.
“Some would argue that ‘Comedy is inversely proportional to its proximity to me.’ To put it more simply, her Alzheimer’s is funny, yours isn’t. Thus, C = (Tr + Ti)/Px.”
Rediscovered in ’04:
The Beatles – Revolver
Donald Fagen – Kamakiriad
Steely Dan – Everything Must Go
JJ Cale – Naturally
Elliott Smith – XO
Dr John – Duke Elegant
Warren Zevon – Life ‘ll Kill Ya
FZ – Uncle Meat
Joni Mitchell – Travelogue
Yourself?
Back in the good old days (Clinton was still president!) I put together an online Zappa quiz with the aid of the ever helpful SOFA. Due to my terminal redesignitis it had long since disappeared from these pages. Until now…
Introducing The Quiz Of Your Dreams — so you think you know yer Zappa eh?
What better way to kick off the last day of the year than with some Roxy-era music! Have a good one…
Everything you always wanted to know about “The World’s Greatest Sinner” (see also), but were afraid to ask.
This week’s Friday Boot, as you will note, turned out extra-big: 24 tracks (thanks Gilles!). Wichita State University, April 11 1980 — enjoy, and have a Merry Christmas!
Some good reads in this Zappa appreciation thread. Noteworthy quote from one DonkeyRhubarb: “Has anyone thought about what it is that is exactly wrong with being pretentious? I’m pretentious all the time, I enjoy it. I have a good job, a stable relationship, a loving family and lots of friends. So what if I sit in the pub disscusing the artistic merits of Don van Vliet every now and then. And I wear a beret, a full length brown leather jacket and smoke Giantes.”
I have another 4 gmail invites waiting to be sent out. In good procrastinator fashion, the first 4 respondants who comment with what they consider a good way to announce that one has 4 gmail accounts waiting to be sent out, will –erh– get the gmail accounts.
Update: I now have 10 of these to give away. Get them off my hands, please!
Now, who is Mathilda..?! (off to watch “Keeping Up Appearances” on BBC1. Ah, sweet holidays…:^)
“NOTE WE COLLECT FRAMES AND THE ONE THAT THIS ART WAS IN CAME FROM AN OLD gERMAN CASTLE -ITS VALUE HAS BEEN APPRAISED AT THREE THOPUSAND DOLLARS SO IT IS NOT INCLUDED –ALSO WE GUARANTEE TWO HUNDERED PERCENT CHEERFULLY -MONEY BACK RETURNED IF THIS IS PROVEN TO BE A COPY”.
