Kansas City ’80

Posted on Friday, 05/12/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

On April 13 1980 Zappa played the Soldiers & Sailors Memorial in Kansas City, MO. And it just so happens to be this (and next) week’s Friday Boot. Happy listening!

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Fun With GoogleTrends

Posted on Thursday, 05/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

The geeks at Google have released a new toy: Google Trends. It allows you to look up the popularity of searchterms over the years, but the real fun lies in the fact that you can compare searchterm popularity of different phrases using comma’s. Here’s a couple:
– yin vs. yang
– the vs. and
– pro vs. con
– and my personal favorite: weapons of mass distruction vs. enron. :)

Posted in Amusing, Geek, In The News | 3 Comments

Don, Moon ‘n Dweez

Posted on Thursday, 05/11/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Remember Don Johnson’s mid 80s musical masterpiece “Heartbeat”? Not only is this review of said audio-visual marvel quite a funny read — it also reveals that both Dweezil and Moon Zappa appear in the video, as guitarist and chorus singer respectively (with pictures!). Maybe it had something to do with FZ’s appearance on Miami Vice, who knows.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Pop Cult | 7 Comments

Let’s Scratch

Posted on Wednesday, 05/10/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Just another time-waster that’s pointless yet oddly addictive in its own peculiar way: ScratchPad. You’ll have to go there to see what it does.

Posted in Amusing, Randamonium | 1 Comment

Yes Indeed: OMG WTF

Posted on Wednesday, 05/10/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

And so it has come to this: ladies & gentlemen, I give you myspace.com/killuglyradio. OMG WTF!!11 LOL

Posted in Randamonium, Silly | 7 Comments

51. MTV

Posted on Tuesday, 05/09/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

38. Sting
22. Lists that reduce rock to a series of lists
7. Finding God

50 Worst Things Ever To Happen To Music.

Posted in Music, Pop Cult | 11 Comments

A Whole Lotta Stairway

Posted on Tuesday, 05/09/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher
Posted in Music, Pop Cult | 3 Comments

Did A Vehicle…

Posted on Monday, 05/08/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Says Gary McKinnon, who was arrested after being accused of hacking into Nasa and the US military computer networks:

Old-age pensioners can’t pay their fuel bills, countries are invaded to award oil contracts to the West, and meanwhile secretive parts of the secret government are sitting on suppressed technology for free energy.

Tinfoil Helmet Alert? Time may tell… (via)

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What The Hack?

Posted on Monday, 05/08/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Balint’s zappa.hu is back online. Congratulations on a fast recovery, Marosi! Too bad about some of the stuff being wiped out forever though…

Posted in Frank Zappa, Site News | 4 Comments

Zappa on Myspace

Posted on Monday, 05/08/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Frank Zappa on Myspace (Thanks Pablo!). I wonder what the ZFT did to obtain this profile, as I’m sure some zappahead had already claimed it previously. Cease and desist letter anyone? :)

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Zappa Café, Budapest

Posted on Sunday, 05/07/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

There is something about Eastern Europe and Zappa. Scott of ineedmorecowbell.com sent in pictures of a place called “The Zappa Café”, taken in Budapest, Hungary:

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Imagery | 22 Comments

Monster Road Out On DVD

Posted on Saturday, 05/06/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

For those of you who didn’t get to see it in your local theatre: Monster Road, the award-winning Bruce Bickford documentary, is out on DVD. The film offers a fascinating look into the life and spirit of a true American excentric and his absolute dedication to the one thing he lives for: clay animation. Much like Zappa’s, Bickford’s work lives in a self-shaped universe where reality, logic and social convention are bent and skewed into something entirely unique. As far apart as both their worlds may be, it’s no coincidence that Zappa took a keen, perhaps even anthropological interest into Bickford, as documented in Baby Snakes and Dub Room Special. Though they are opposites in many ways, one trait brings them together: deviation from the norm.
Get the DVD — you won’t regret it. Long live deviation from the norm!

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Toronto ’69 (2)

Posted on Friday, 05/05/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Mornin’! It’s time for Toronto May ’69, Late Show, with thanks as always to Our Man In France.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots | 13 Comments

Hidden X-Masages

Posted on Thursday, 05/04/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Joyeux Joel — wherein the intrepid Evaristo discovers part of a hitherto unheard orchestral composition lurking beneath the mix of two Joe’s X-Masage tracks.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video | 4 Comments

Like, Uptalk?

Posted on Thursday, 05/04/06 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Are you an uptalker? You know? Like when everything you say sounds like an interrogatory statement?

I had no idea that a change in the “intonation contour” of a sentence, as linguists put it, could be as contagious as the common cold. But before long I noticed a Jekyll-and-Hyde transformation in my own speech. I first heard it when I myself was leaving a message. “This is Jim Gorman? I’m doing an article on Klingon? The language? From ‘Star Trek’?”

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