Monthly Archives: February 2006

How’s Your Bird?

They must be fine, with air scupltures like these!

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Pizza Alert

Ten years from now, this is how we’ll all be ordering pizza.

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Junior Exec Sway

Wally Torta, one of my favorite doodlers-with-a-weblog, takes on The Junior Exec Sway. Hilarity, as they say, ensues!

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Fastr!

Truly addictive: Fastr, a Flickr game.

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Zappa Misc

Quickie. FZ is to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award at the sixth annual Jammy Awards, The April/May issue of Relix Magazine is to feature FZ on the cover, announcing “At home with the Zappas, A trip through their fabled archives, … Continue reading

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Zappa’s Last Project (2)

Continuing the article posted last time, we made an interview with Peter Eötvös, the composer/conductor, who was the last one to work with FZ, recording Varese. Nice text – with some bicycle, some Slonimsky and the Dangerous Kitchen.

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The Years Of The Wicked

The fear of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened. — Proverbs 10:27 Premature Death of Rock Stars keeps a list of rock stars and their date/cause of death. According to their calculations, the … Continue reading

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Knebworth Valentine

Valentine’s day is rapidly approaching, gentlemen. So I was thinking: what can I possibly get my girl that will amaze everyone? Hold on people, I think I’ve come up with the answer — check out the Frank Zappa at Knebworth … Continue reading

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Nosferatu

Amazing: Google video has the entire 1922 version of Nosferatu up for viewing and downloading. Via cynical-c. Update: and here’s Ed Wood’s complete Glen or Glenda! Via robot wisdom.

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Los Angeles ’84

This week’s Friday Boot offering: Palace Theater, Los Angeles, CA, 22 july 1984 — with guest performances by George Duke, Johnny Guitar Watson, Aynsley Dunbar, Denny Walley and Bruce Fowler. Available for one week, as always…

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eBay Atheist

On eBay: Send an atheist to his local church! Everytime I come home, I pass this old Irish church. I promise to go into that church every day– for a certain number of days– for at least an hour each … Continue reading

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KUR: Your Top 100 Belgian Weblog

Hey whaddayaknow: according to Alexa, KUR caps the 74th spot in the Top 100 of Belgian weblogs! You know what that means, right? It means there’s about a 100 weblogs in this country. :) Looking at Alexa’s info page for … Continue reading

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Wild Man Download

Well I’ll be. The entire “An Evening With Wild Man Fischer” is available for (mp3) download here, where it is stated that: This 1968 legendary master piece has yet to see a re-release. Frank Zappa’s widow owns the right and … Continue reading

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Debbie Does Demography

You stick it to them Native ‘mericans, Debbie! … But the study also found that “Native” Americans have dry ear wax and body odor similar to Asians, proving they migrated here from Asia. So whom did THEY steal the land … Continue reading

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Joycean Spam

If James Joyce were alive today and sent me an email, his message would probably end up in my junk-folder. Here’s what I was looking at inthere, just now: Overcome by awe as was democracy my chair, glancing from mustard … Continue reading

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