The event was emceed by Moon Zappa, who approached the stage while Kanye West’s “Gold Digger” was playing and proceeded to get down in an embarrassing-mom kind of way. We laughed at her rather than with her, but her lack of pretense was endearing.
Gail Zappa was there, too.
Norah Vincent spent 18 months disguised as a man, mingling with the opposite sex. And then wrote a book about it. A funny read, I’m sure:
One night Jim was talking about his plans for a ski trip. He wanted to find a location that had good skiing, but he also wanted some lively nightlife. “I’d like to find a place that has a good titty bar,” he said. Bob chimed in, “Yeah. Count me in on that. I’m definitely up for that.”
Zappa Wiki Jawaka has been getting an increasing amount of spam to deal with. Although I’m not very active on the wiki right now (shame on me), I am however subscribed to the Recent Changes RSS feed and have witnessed one after the other clean up from editors after yet another spamming idiot had wreaked havoc on a page. To (hopefully) put an end to this, I’ve installed MediaWiki’s SpamBlacklist extension. We’ll see if it helps…
Lovely bit of nostalgia: pictures of the ’57 and ’58 Antelope High yearbooks, and some background information:
Many of us girls were forbidden by our parents to attend the “wild†Blackouts dances, but of course we went anyway. The dances were great fun – the lights were low, the r&b music loud, rhythmic, & wonderful, the dancing nonstop, and no chaperones! The local police always cruised by Frank Zappa’s dances. After all, he was the town Bad Boy. Our own James Dean.
Care for a game of Catholic-opoly? Or maybe Mormon-opoly‘s more your thing. Hey, they’re having an Easter Sale!
I wonder what real-estate you can buy. Mount Sinai? The Vatican?
If you’re wondering what Dr Sharl and I have been up to lately, wonder no more — introducing: weirdocards dot com! Sure, it’s an eCards service, but one with a twist. Our cards tackle such elusive topics as androgynous gnomes, Outcast Smurfs, Cheese, Slime, Liberated Girls, noses and much more.
Feel free to give the site a whirl, click around, send some cards and let us know what you think. Oh, and did I mention there’s some Zappa there too? :)
With a hat tip to our pal of British persuasion Magic Fingers, KUR obtained scans of the original PMRC documents as they were sent out by Frank Zappa during (and following) the PMRC hearings back in ’85.
Most of the documents were sent out as a package or kit to give guidance and background information to anyone who wanted to support FZ’s anti-PMRC position on a local level (phone your representative, help get this stopped). The text of FZ’s statement to Congress and the “It’s Not Over Yet, Folks” were then sent out at a later date obviously after the hearings.
While some of the letters were already available in text form at the wiki, these are the originals — warts, mid 80s typewriter fonts ‘n all.
Oh the irony: Warner Music is set to buy “indie” label RykoDisc.
Hey, it’s Friday! So why not depress you with an article about the coming Apocalypse! No need to thank me.
This week’s Friday Boot: Felt Forum NYC, 31 october 1975, featuring pretty much the line-up to be heard on FZ:OZ. Enjoy!
Sterbus — KUR forum member, Hot Poop commentator and Certified Italian, enquires:
Hi bARRY, sorry if I’m disturbing you… but I would like to have zappa fans listen and give a free opinion on my music!
Well hey… take it away, you wacky Lazio Roman you!
I don’t think I’ll ever become one — after 30+ years of existence, 8 am is still godawful early in my book. Which is why my jaw drops when I read Cory Doctorow:
(…) by the time I get to work, I’ve already gotten my blogging done, worked on my novel, cleared out my inbox, done some physiotherapy exercises, Tai Chi and yoga, eaten a healthy breakfast and gone for a walk.
Amazing!
Idiot Morons Forever: a pay-per-view TV “seance” is set to contact the spirit of late Beatle John Lennon.
The programme, on US digital channel In Demand, will feature psychics travelling to sites of significance to the former Beatle, including the Dakota building in New York where he was shot dead in 1980. They will then assemble around a seance table, with infra-red cameras to capture any “presence” in the room.
Yoko Ono’s spokesman Elliot Mintz sums it up nicely: “A pay-per-view seance was never his style.”
Pin-ups for atheists. And who do we see featured there?
