{"id":2834,"date":"2006-01-29T09:42:11","date_gmt":"2006-01-29T08:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/01\/29\/the-vortex-of-zappas-maximalism"},"modified":"2006-01-29T14:18:32","modified_gmt":"2006-01-29T13:18:32","slug":"the-vortex-of-zappas-maximalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/01\/29\/the-vortex-of-zappas-maximalism","title":{"rendered":"The Vortex Of Zappa&#8217;s Maximalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t think I could write a title like that, eh? Well actually I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a term taken from Michel Delville &#038; Andrew Norris, both living in Brussels, who have written a book on Zappa, Cpt. Beefheart and Californian freakdom entitled &#8220;Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart and the Secret History of Maximalism&#8221;. Keep your dictionaries at the ready as I present you with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saltpublishing.com\/books\/sscl\/1844710599.htm?gclid=CL2hqcWy74ICFUl5MAod20Vdsw\">a quote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The vortex of Zappa\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s maximalism is a toilet, and here we see him seizing on a creative d\u00c3\u00a9tournement of the human body: the penis becomes a heart, a conflation of two organs of love \u00e2\u20ac\u201d the literal and the symbolic are fused together in an anthropomorphic leap of imagination curiously prophetic of Van Vliet\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s later pictorial style with its Wellsian miscegenations.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love the smell of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0312141246\/102-2458324-7780941?v=glance&#038;n=283155\" title=\"Ben Watson: The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play\">Watsonian prose<\/a> in the morning!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You didn&#8217;t think I could write a title like that, eh? Well actually I didn&#8217;t. It&#8217;s a term taken from Michel Delville &#038; Andrew Norris, both living in Brussels, who have written a book on Zappa, Cpt. Beefheart and Californian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2006\/01\/29\/the-vortex-of-zappas-maximalism\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-frank-zappa","category-zappa-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2834\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}