Monthly Archives: April 2005

Dissecting TRFZB

Posted on Wednesday, 04/20/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Amazon provides a fun little thing called “Text Stats” when you’re on a book page. Here’s what it threw up for TRFZB. We learn that the book’s Flesch-Kincaid Index is 10.2, that it contains 4503 sentences, and that a whopping … Continue reading →

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It’s A WikiWiki World

Posted on Tuesday, 04/19/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Touring Can Make You Crazy is “a new website dedicated to investigate the live entertainment activities of Frank Zappa. It’s a work in progress, so new material will be added every few weeks.” As Unimuta puts it: maybe someone should … Continue reading →

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SOFA En La Radio

Posted on Sunday, 04/17/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Just a reminder: don’t forget to tune in to this year’s Zappathon hosted at wusb.fm — especially since TBN official and ETPro co-creator SOFA is scheduled to have a spot on the show! Dial-up streams: mp3 | RealAudio | Windows … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Audio/Video | 16 Comments

The Greatest Belgian

Posted on Friday, 04/15/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Holland’s done it, so have Great-Britain and Germany, and now for Belgium: the search for the greatest Belgian! My personal shortlist of worthy contenders: Django Reinhardt, Jacques Brel, Adolphe Sax, René Magritte, Victor Horta and obviously: Hergé. I swear if … Continue reading →

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Princeton Some More

Posted on Friday, 04/15/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

I have a feeling this announcement isn’t really necessary but anyway: Princeton ’73 Pt. Two is available.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots | 4 Comments

Fetchingly Clad

Posted on Thursday, 04/14/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Germaine Greer remembers Zappa: Once at the supermarket, Frank was sauntering along behind as we two women pushed our trolleys and minded our own business. He was fetchingly clad in a violent turquoise coloured cat-suit which was unzipped to below … Continue reading →

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Articles | 11 Comments

Googly Moogly Maps

Posted on Wednesday, 04/13/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Everybody and their mother is linking to Google maps these days, so who am I not to. If you’ve played around with its “satellite option”, you’ll agree that it’s an incredibly cool toy to mess around with. Then there’s those … Continue reading →

Posted in Amusing, Science, Zappa Imagery | 6 Comments

Nappy On the Radio

Posted on Wednesday, 04/13/05 by Dr Sharleena

Original music of Napoleon Murphy Brock will be broadcast next April 21 on Radio4FM from The Netherlands. The music was orchestrated by composer Tom Trapp. Very curious about this!

Posted in Music | 3 Comments

London Calling

Posted on Monday, 04/11/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Suppose for a minute, a couple of friends of yours were to visit the town of London (UK), say, somewhere around mid May. Suppose it’d be their first time there, and you were asked to give some advice as to … Continue reading →

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Dime A Dozen

Posted on Saturday, 04/09/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

EasyTree is back, only now it’s called dimeadozen.org. Eat that you scumbag lawyers! :)

Posted in Music | 2 Comments

Princeton ’73

Posted on Friday, 04/08/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Last week an early 70s show was promised — well here it is: Princeton Uni, April 27 ’73 (Pt. One). I bet you can’t hardly wait! Update: Balint posted a Petit Wazoo show from December 3 ’72, also well worth … Continue reading →

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Could But Couldn’t

Posted on Thursday, 04/07/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

Why, in the English language, does one say “I could care less”, when in fact one means “I couldn’t care less”? It’s things like this that keep me awake at night. (That, and wiki style double square brackets)

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RIP EasyTree

Posted on Wednesday, 04/06/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

EasyTree.org is history. The skinny: We’re very sorry having to tell you that we had to shut down EZT forever just a couple of minutes ago. We got a call from our provider, they had received a few letters from a … Continue reading →

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Zappathon 2005

Posted on Wednesday, 04/06/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

This just in (via SOFA): there will be another Zappathon! It’s scheduled for April 17 between noon & midnight. The details: It will be webcast at wusb.fm for those who want to tune in. It IS tied into our spring … Continue reading →

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Wiki Zen

Posted on Tuesday, 04/05/05 by Barry's Imaginary Publisher

There is Zen to be found in Zappa Wiki Jawaka.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Wiki | 4 Comments