Zappa Of The Month Club

Posted on Monday, 07/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

LA Times: “Not Just In It For the Money” (subscr. req.). A notable quote: “The details are still being worked out, but Gail Zappa, Frank’s widow, says that the concept is pretty simple. Fans will pay an annual fee (probably around $100) and receive a set number of new releases each year (probably five), some of which will not be available elsewhere. Subscribers will have some level of choice as to what titles they receive from an ever-expanding catalog, and will also likely get bonus material and other special merchandise.”

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Chicken…

Posted on Monday, 07/12/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Three years of Hot Poop (you might wanna click the above graphic for full view)! Kill Ugly Radio’s Staff couldn’t be more excited, and we hope you feel the same. While we uncork the Dom Perignon, here are some of Hot Poop’s greatest highlights we deemed worthy of unearthing from the dark grey depths that are the archives. For them to grow to be highlights dear reader, more than once had to do with your invaluable input. So whip out the proverbial chicken and rub the circular motion, as we present you with some Vintage Hot Poop:

1. KUR’s old guestbook

2. Covering Zappa

3. Naked Magician!

4. Meanwhile, lemme tell you Ive found a solution to, you know, that little problem Ive had with Under-Ease Underwear.

5. A blind psychic claims he can read peoples futures by feeling their naked buttocks

6. from Memory Hole to “spit or swallow”

7. precision processor!

8. No War.

9. Birth of the kegelmaster

10. Danish blue

11. OMG WTF

12. City of Tiny Polls

13. isep kontol gua!

14. I agree with Path Metheny

15. the Crapper Poll

16. the Why Are You Here Poll

17. Defrosting The Fridge

18. Measuring The Chicken

19. Calloo and Callay

20. Joe’s Chicken

21. Search Results: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6

22. Collages: YellowMudShark and Sofa, Webmaster and General Publisher of TheBigNote.com | the original HotPoop Headquarters collage| Barry’s Forehead l moonbug collage | Friday Boot

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The World’s Biggest Bootlegger

Posted on Saturday, 07/10/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

“We simply cannot overestimate the scale of his operation. He probably lived a far better lifestyle than some of those he ripped off. In the international bootlegging fraternity he is a legend, a mini-god.”

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The Phone

Posted on Friday, 07/09/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

The phone can transport you to places, but you’ll need to know the numbers.

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Cash in the Basement!

Posted on Friday, 07/09/04 by Dr Sharleena

This is what the Joes Garage Sale is about (if the link doesn’t work, it’s in zappa.com, What’s New? section). More on the link provided by SuzyCreamcheese -thanks!

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Do NOT try this with latex gloves

Posted on Friday, 07/09/04 by Dr Sharleena

The Lighter Side of Trach Life.

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Silencio!

Posted on Tuesday, 07/06/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Anyone seen David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive? I have a couple of days ago, and now I’m needing to peruse this site in order to get what the hell it was all about.

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Alice

Posted on Saturday, 07/03/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Alice? Who the f* is Alice?

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I Coulda Been Somebody

Posted on Saturday, 07/03/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Marlon Brando is no more. Zeldman: “No actor since has possessed such talent and no actor ever threw so much talent away.”

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Photoshopping Dubya

Posted on Friday, 07/02/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

“I’m building a piece of art and I need every embarassing photo of Bush you can find.” Some more here.

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Here Boy

Posted on Friday, 07/02/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Dogtoy or Marital aid: “You successfully identified 10 out of 14 items. You may be trusted with my dog.”

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Anything, Anytime

Posted on Friday, 07/02/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Billboard has a look at the “Zappa Vault Series”: Indeed, Gail Zappa estimates there are 40 albums’ worth of material that could see the light of day, including complete live concerts. “But ‘Joe’s Corsage’ the series will be separate,” she says. “It could be anything, anytime, for no reason at all. We already know what the next one is. I hope it will be available before the summer is out.”

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UMRK Redux

Posted on Friday, 07/02/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Here we go again: the UMRK rehearsals are back up.

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A Hole

Posted on Thursday, 07/01/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

“About 2 years ago I decided to dig a hole in my back yard.
Why?
Why not.“

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Another Brick

Posted on Thursday, 07/01/04 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

wherein Barry introduces “The Thursday Superfluous Classic Movie Review” while risking to get lynched by a mob of angry PinkFloydians.
We watched Pink Floyd’s The Wall on DVD last weekend. I’d seen the film before but that was in the middle of the late grey 80’s so my memories of it were vague. Before hitting the play-button, I was told to forget about all my preconceptions of PF (pompous millionaire “prog” rock!), or of Bob Geldhof (look! it’s the guy from Live Aid!) for that matter. This of course in fact prompted me to compare them to what I saw and heard. Truth be told, I’m not a big fan of the music score — too much strings, too much- well too much everything — but some of the guitar stuff is great. The movie? Visually an impressive gem (the animations!), the story gripping (Bob’s acting limited to smashing tv-sets, lying in swimmingpools while sporting a look of deep depression), but very self-centered and presented with entirely too much bombast for my taste. These people can probably tell me why I’m wrong.

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