RIP Rosa

Posted on Tuesday, 10/25/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Rosa Parks, 92, founding symbol of civil rights movement, dies.

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Dub Room Special DVD

Posted on Monday, 10/24/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Okay okay so Dub Room Special, the DVD, was released on October 18. Isn’t it funny that instead of zappa.com giving you the news, one needs to google up Eagle Rock Entertainment in order to find out?

Say “Yes Paul“!

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Prussian Blue

Posted on Monday, 10/24/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Cutesy thirteen-year-old twins Lamb and Lynx Gaede have one album out, another on the way, a music video, and lots of fans.
So what? Hang on:

“We’re proud of being white, we want to keep being white,” said Lynx. “We want our people to stay white … we don’t want to just be, you know, a big muddle. We just want to preserve our race.”

Yes: 13 and they know how to nasty spread racial hate. Songs like “Sacrifice” — a tribute to Nazi Rudolf Hess, Hitler’s deputy Fuhrer — praise Hess as a “man of peace who wouldn’t give up.”

Kids today…

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iBelieve

Posted on Monday, 10/24/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

“But now bring me a man who plays music. And when the man played music, the groove came upon them.” — 2 Jobs 3:15

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The Cobain Case

Posted on Monday, 10/24/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Did Kurt Cobain not commit suicide, but was he murdered instead? Some people believe the latter to be true.

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For Kansus J. Kansus, Wherever He Is

Posted on Saturday, 10/22/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This site is the home for old roadies everywhere. Come on in and read the old war stories (or post one if you have one!), catch up with the current happenings of other old roadies, and buy some sauce!

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Black Metal

Posted on Saturday, 10/22/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Black Metal: How-To?

The second precondition is that you must be from Scandinavia, and it would be even better if you were from Norway. Countries such as Poland, Romania, Lithuania and Estonia are OK too, I suppose. Anyway, I suppose you can always lie, and still become a true black metal star.

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UMRK Rehearsals

Posted on Friday, 10/21/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This week, instead of a regular live show, KUR is presenting two days of rehearsals at UMRK: January 28 and 29 1980. Twenty two tracks worth of unique material…

Update 22/10: as ever, Balint has some interesting background information to share with regard to these rehearsals.

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Ride My Face To Milano

Posted on Thursday, 10/20/05 by Balint

…to hear the Metropolis Orchestra playing FZ’s music in an event called A Zappa Halloween Night (29 ottobre).
“CLUUU-UUUCK!! CLUUU-UUUCK!!”

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Contemporary gizmos

Posted on Thursday, 10/20/05 by Dr Sharleena

Whereas the Clock of the Long Now will run with perfect accuracy for 10,000 years, the Industorious clock (sic) will probably get cramps on fingers much sooner than that. From the same author, the amaztype: an atractive interface that search and shows books, cd’s and dvd’s from any particular author (try searching for Zappa!). Here’s to see a ranking on the most popular words searched – look who’s first on the “Artist in Music” row (!!)

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Spoil Everything

Posted on Thursday, 10/20/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Watch out: spoilers ahead! Oh, the money I’ll be saving…

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Bonobo’s

Posted on Thursday, 10/20/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

I’m having a hard time deciding which one of these I find the most irritating: Bush or Bono?

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Vagina Music

Posted on Thursday, 10/20/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

You have your vagina blog and then you have your vagina music mp3’s. Free! Please don’t ask how I found this.

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Brk! Brk! Brk!

Posted on Thursday, 10/20/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

You are the the Swedish Chef. You are a talented individual, nobody understands you. Perhaps it’s because you talk funny.

swedish cook

Favorite expression: “Brk! Brk! Brk!”
Hobbies: Kokin’ der yummee-yummers
Favorite movie: “Wild Strawberries…and Creme”
Last book read: “Der Swedish Chef Kokin’ Bokin'”
Quote: “Vergoofin der flicke stoobin mit der brk-brk yubetcha!”

… and what Muppet might you be?

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Mighty McFearless

Posted on Wednesday, 10/19/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Ahmet Zappa a children’s book author? Apparently so and what’s more, his upcoming “The Monstrous Memoirs of a Mighty McFearless” has just been bought for adaptation by Disney.

The book follows a brother and sister who discover they belong to a family of legendary monster hunters and must journey to a far-off castle to rescue their father from the most fearsome monster of all. Zappa, a sometime actor and son of rocker Frank Zappa, illustrated the more than 300 monsters in the book.

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