The Cucamonga Years

Posted on Friday, 12/03/04 by Dr Sharleena

Mentioned in a Miles’s book recent review by David Allen: “Meanwhile, local Zappa fans Derek Miley and Adam Fiorenza are still plugging away on their documentary about the “Freak Out!” musician’s early days.” “The filmmakers, both 22, are working on a documentary focusing on Zappa’s “Cucamonga years” and campaigning for the city to memorialize the rock revolutionary. (…) is a Zappa tribute too far-out for this conservative suburb? Fiorenza and Miley don’t think so, and neither does Alexander.
“The people who listened to Zappa” in their youth, says Fiorenza, “are now the people in suits.” (reg. req. — login idiot@moi.com, pass: cucamonga)

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Fluid Guilt Reducer

Posted on Friday, 12/03/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Wash away all your sins with this new communal hand soap dispenser! Perfect for your church bathroom! With an easy pump action and a tempting “do it again” aloe-enhanced Easter Lily scent, this hand cleanser reduces guilt by 98.9% or more!

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Stonybrook 84 II

Posted on Friday, 12/03/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Part two of Stonybrook, NY, Nov 3 1984 is available.
Get. While. Lasts.

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Roommate From Hell

Posted on Thursday, 12/02/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This one reads like a Stephen King short story — roommate from hell: “He set fire to our carpet with alcohol during a party. He pissed in the fridge. He shat in the fridge. He shat in the crisper drawer. He shat on the oven top, and instead of cleaning it up, turned on the burner, reasoning that carbon is easier to clean than feces.” (Be sure to read the whole thing!)

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CP III

Posted on Thursday, 12/02/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Over at The Chrome Dinette, the FZCD of the month is CP III.

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Plot? What Plot?

Posted on Wednesday, 12/01/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Be prepared to lose a couple of hours when entering badmovies.org. Wonderfully informative reviews such as “I don’t understand the plot, but there were lots of elephants” abound and each movie has its own video-sample section. Cheepnis galore!

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Samchillian

Posted on Wednesday, 12/01/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Fun with your QWERTY keyboard: “One key press can equal ‘one pitch higher’ in a scale. Suddenly a scale is just a repetition of two keys. Scale too boring? Create a microtonal flurry of notes that sounds like Hendrix and Cecil Taylor had a love child.” Have a listen. (Thanks Duncan!)

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Nope. Can’t.

Posted on Tuesday, 11/30/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

It Can’t Happen Here, as written by one Sinclair Lewis. In 1935.

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Inane Clown Posse

Posted on Tuesday, 11/30/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Here’s an idea: let’s dress up as clowns and start a religious cult. Let’s call ourselves: Juggalos. (I’m guessing all these kids end up tossing burgers at McDonalds.)

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Moore Keeps On Rockin’

Posted on Tuesday, 11/30/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

A new video for Neil Young’s Keep On Rockin’ In The Free World — directed by Michael Moore.

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Houdini Nation

Posted on Monday, 11/29/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Our pal Tommi Eisele launched his pet SF project just recently. Houdini Nation is set up to procure info on every single SF-novel the author has read. It’s neatly ordered by author, title and publisher — and I think you’ll have fun browsing the Covers section. For Zappa and Cheepnis are always a good match…

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Zappabase

Posted on Monday, 11/29/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Zappabase Online looks to be a pretty complete point of reference for all of FZ’s concerts, bands, musicians and songs. Quite handy — if not as graphically pleasing as this version. ;)

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From Whenst Thou Comest

Posted on Saturday, 11/27/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

What website did you visit just prior to hitting KUR? Inquiring minds want to know. Just copy/paste that link in the comments (or make it a fancy clickable html link, if you’re up for it). May be the Jethro Tull homepage, may be an Aria Giovanni page, may be the ABBA Appreciation League HomePage. may be a Windows XP driver page. Let’s see it! (No google/excite/yahoo/whatHaveYou portal pages please)

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The Incredibles

Posted on Saturday, 11/27/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Went to see The Incredibles today.

the incredibles

Let’s just say I owe Disney an apology. Great characters, amazing animation. I’d bitch about the somewhat underdeveloped, predictable storyline but the wife would kick my butt. Superpowers indeed! ;)

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That Other Barry

Posted on Saturday, 11/27/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

An interesting profile on Barry Miles. “We tried out different types of Benzedrine – very seriously, making notes. We were artists – none of this hedonistic bullshit!”

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