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Author Archives: Barry's Imaginary Publisher
The Senate Committee Hearing Video
Have you ever wanted to watch the entire testimony of Frank Zappa, John Denver and others on the PMRC hearings? Because since C-SPAN has opened its massive 160,000 hours archive of videos dating back to 1985, now you can. Say … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Politics, Pop Cult, YouTubery
Tagged C-SPAN, pmrc, Tipper Gore
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The Voice Of Cheese Revisited
Those of you who’ve been hanging around here long enough will remember KUR’s The Voice Of Cheese project. It ran for a couple of months back in 2007, featured some great music created by you and generally got wonderful feedback. … Continue reading
Chat Roulette Piano Improv
Ah, the wonders of Chatroulette: advertised as “instant video-chat” with complete strangers, in my experience it’s mostly a place where young desperate men log on to, erh, yank their crank for all the world to see. That and loads of … Continue reading
Posted in Bizarre, Heh Heh, Pop Cult, YouTubery
Tagged chatroulette, improvisation, piano
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FZ, Popular Music, Politics & A Cheesy Epilogue
Hot on the heels of Urbangraffito’s American Fascism post, here’s a freshly published paper by KUR reader and music academic Paul Carr, entitled “Dickie’s Such An Asshole”: Frank Zappa, Popular Music and Politics. As afficionados, many of us make the … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, In Writing, Miscellany, Music, Personal
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Return Of The Knick Knacks
Ha! There you were thinking this weblog was going down the drain. Silly you. News from Zappanale: Ike Willis and Bobby Martin will be part of the show again, Thomas is currently awaiting confirmation from Ray White. KUR reader Alex … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Music, Zappanale
Tagged leisure society, steve vaï, Ween, Zappanale
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Hedgehog
The BBC is currently broadcasting a superb documentary series about the internet and how it will change any and all of us in the future. Last night’s episode, Homo Interneticus, was all about social networks such as Facebook and how … Continue reading
Zappa, Frank – 200 Motels DVD
As mentioned in the comments by LA Guru, heeeere’s Zappa’s 200 Motels: Released on DVD for the first time, by original director Tony Palmer, is this flawed masterpiece of circa 1970 Frank Zappa craziness. Obviously shot in a very short … Continue reading
Botswana Ronnie Whips It Out
This is just plain fantastic — behold: More at Bokete7’s YouTube channel. (Via Yo Contra El Mundo)
Dweezilla!
Looks like Dweezil is branching out into new territory. From the inbox: Get ready to expand your harmonic horizons and ignite your musical creativity this summer at DWEEZILLA! DWEEZILLA is a unique five-day experience where musicians will be surrounded by … Continue reading
Zappa Timeline
Ward Shelly paints timelines. The history of avant garde, Andy Warhol, …and Frank Zappa: Big version here — even bigger version cached here at KUR. (via Kottke)
Posted in Frank Zappa, Miscellany, Visual Arts
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