{"id":3822,"date":"2008-01-08T17:38:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-08T16:38:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/01\/08\/on-being-a-zappa-completist"},"modified":"2008-01-08T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-08T16:38:42","slug":"on-being-a-zappa-completist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/01\/08\/on-being-a-zappa-completist","title":{"rendered":"On Being A Zappa Completist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve bought the entire &#8220;official&#8221; catalogue (and in the case of some of us more silver-tinged freaks, more than once, and in many different formats: vinyl, cassette, compact disc), what do you do now? Just sit back and listen and leave it at that? Or do go on to <a href=\"http:\/\/lukpac.org\/~handmade\/patio\/vinylvscds\/complete.html\">collect every different variation and remix<\/a> of those albums available to the rabid Zappaphile, <a href=\"http:\/\/lukpac.org\/~handmade\/patio\/vinylvscds\/index.html\">comparing each and every CD release to its vinyl era counterpart<\/a>? Do you collect every available bootleg and field recording (a much easier task now with the advent of the internet than during the era of &#8220;tape trading&#8221; and snail mail &#8211; those Zappa completists are a very tenacious bunch, indeed). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ilxor.com\/ILX\/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&#038;threadid=39566\">Where does one draw the line? Is there a line?<\/a> At what point did this simple enjoyable pastime become an obsession of epic proportions? When did this freak I see in the mirror suddenly become a completist? Tell me, Doctor Barry, is there any hope for me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you&#8217;ve bought the entire &#8220;official&#8221; catalogue (and in the case of some of us more silver-tinged freaks, more than once, and in many different formats: vinyl, cassette, compact disc), what do you do now? Just sit back and listen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/2008\/01\/08\/on-being-a-zappa-completist\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,11,16],"tags":[286,287,75],"class_list":["post-3822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-frank-zappa","category-personal","category-zappa-misc","tag-completists","tag-obsession","tag-zappa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killuglyradio.com\/hot-poop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}