Tuesday, June 14, 2005
Continuing the stream of thought about that recent Frank Zappa sighting in D.C. ....
1. In "How to Kill Americans", KultureDome looks at the monster's reflection. "Uncle Meat is all about our relationship to the monster. What interested Zappa was our empathic relationship to the villain. In one way or another we were, he proposes, all cut-down in some way, made to feel imperfect by parents or other authority figures. It is only natural, then, that we should sympathize with the shortfalls of the monster. The monster, so it follows, is only the mirror of our own imperfect selves."
2. "Revolution and Renaissance" in a scant 27 paragraphs attempts to encapsule and define "the 60's", devoting six paragraphs to the Beatles and one paragraph to Frank Zappa. The only resulting comment noted that the article was very long and so the commenter didn't attempt to read it.
3. Frank Zappa in Washington D.C. Madeline Albright catches a show by the Plastic People of the Universe in D.C. last May, and so, of course, did the concert reviewer, who mentions Frank Zappa.
4. More Zappa sightings promised to be coming soon, as the Zappa's Tour de Franktakes shape.
(P.S. Related only as it is rumored to have something to do with "the sixties", and I freely associate. Has anybody heard anything whatsoever about a soon-to-be-published memoir by a fella named Joe Boyd called "White Bicycles"???)
(P.P.S. No place else to stick this, so it goes right here. Stay Free Daily willingly subjects herself to propagandistic bombast brought forth in song and reports on the "Happy Listener's Guide to Mind Control". ¶ 6/14/2005 10:30:00 AM
1. In "How to Kill Americans", KultureDome looks at the monster's reflection. "Uncle Meat is all about our relationship to the monster. What interested Zappa was our empathic relationship to the villain. In one way or another we were, he proposes, all cut-down in some way, made to feel imperfect by parents or other authority figures. It is only natural, then, that we should sympathize with the shortfalls of the monster. The monster, so it follows, is only the mirror of our own imperfect selves."
2. "Revolution and Renaissance" in a scant 27 paragraphs attempts to encapsule and define "the 60's", devoting six paragraphs to the Beatles and one paragraph to Frank Zappa. The only resulting comment noted that the article was very long and so the commenter didn't attempt to read it.
3. Frank Zappa in Washington D.C. Madeline Albright catches a show by the Plastic People of the Universe in D.C. last May, and so, of course, did the concert reviewer, who mentions Frank Zappa.
4. More Zappa sightings promised to be coming soon, as the Zappa's Tour de Franktakes shape.
(P.S. Related only as it is rumored to have something to do with "the sixties", and I freely associate. Has anybody heard anything whatsoever about a soon-to-be-published memoir by a fella named Joe Boyd called "White Bicycles"???)
(P.P.S. No place else to stick this, so it goes right here. Stay Free Daily willingly subjects herself to propagandistic bombast brought forth in song and reports on the "Happy Listener's Guide to Mind Control". ¶ 6/14/2005 10:30:00 AM
