Monthly Archives: December 2005

Zappanale TV

Did you already hear about it? This Zappanale TV shows some video recordings – another band each month. For now: Bogus Pomp. Sounding good – again. (Although the drums are a bit too noisy, but anyway, it’s not a CD…).

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Frankzappa.at

Zapped Again? Ja! – Weil ich denke, es wird Zeit für eine umfassende deutschsprachige Site über das Leben und Schaffen von Frank Zappa. In the German language, which is the way he talks whenever it’s Heavy Business.

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La Venganza de Chunga

Played by the Gotan Project again, this time live. Wow. Video: Queremos Paz.

Posted in Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Audio/Video | 1 Comment

Bogus Pomp Is Good

Of all the Zappa cover bands Bogus Pomp is the one that is really close to my heart. Great music, fine solos, elaborated orchestration, and sometimes Napoleon Murphy Brock, as dessert. Here are some recordings from 2004 (Thanks to Jerry … Continue reading

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Heavypedia?

…or at least a bit heavier: Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that allows anyone to contribute articles, is tightening its rules for submitting entries following the disclosure that it ran a piece falsely implicating a man in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia … Continue reading

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Todo Bien

Buenos dias! I’m typing this from a hideously configurated PC somewhere in hot-n-humid Buenos Aires, having had some 4 hours of sleep since Wednesday, so I’ll keep it brief — forgive me for añy typos that may occur. As promised … Continue reading

Posted in Frank Zappa, Friday Boots | 3 Comments

Dumb All Over

„My dear grandson Bwana-Linth, I hereby express my will: thou shalst be the one to post the link of this really fine blog called Dumb All Over. Barry, thy Grandfather” That’s how it happened. Seems to be a new page … Continue reading

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The Busy Gail Zappa

Another fortunate working experience occurred the other night when I drove Gail Zappa to the airport. On the next ride a question would be fine about the release of Trance Fusion, perhaps…

Posted in Frank Zappa, Zappa Misc | 8 Comments

Hasta La Vista!

Ladies, gents, dear faithful KUR readers: by tomorrow Dr Sharleena and I will be off to the wonderful summer heat of Argentina for about a month. Obviously neither of us will have much time to update this weblog during that … Continue reading

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Erotic Bible?

Jimmy Swaggart would be glad to see… (The official page seems to be unavailable at the moment now came back to life ).

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Arf, She Said

This is The End: I love Junichiro Tanizaki’s The Makioka Sisters but, even allowing for cultural differences, it has to have the most peculiar final sentence in all literature: “Yukiko’s diarrhoea persisted through the twenty-sixth, and was a problem on … Continue reading

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Virtual Acid Trip

The perfect link for a slow Monday morning: acidtrip.com. “Acidtrip contains more shit than you can shake a dick at!” Warning: don’t click if you have a history of epileptic seizures…

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You There With The Sombrero!

Visits to this site by geographic location (thank you Google): Check out my annotated version at Flickr — and feel free to post a comment there (or here!).

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Bouncing Balls

You hate ads? So do I. But you’ll love this one. See the movie in low quality, in high quality, and then read about it some more. Oh yes: and see some pictures, of course.

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Singalong Song

The way I see it, Barry…

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