Monthly Archives: July 2006

Grunt People Revisited

Rare Captain Beefheart vs The Grunt People movie poster discovered! Read all about it!

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Who’s On First

This one’s for Dr Sharleena!

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Passaic ’72

This week, Gilles presents you with a delightful Petit Wazoo show: Capitol Theatre, Passaic, NJ, 31 october 1972. Available as always until next Friday.

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BlunderPop

I’ll be keeping an eye on this one: BlunderPop: This blog is dedicated to the horror or real-life Spinal Tap that a music festival can become. It doesn’t matter whether you’re an artist, an organiser, a volunteer or a visitor. … Continue reading

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Ricky Gervais Explains The Bible

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Tide Turning

Yes it’s a cheap shot, and yes, it’s too funny: the George Bush Quotes Library. Couple of gems: Rarely is the question asked, ‘Is our children learning’? You never know what your history is going to be like until long … Continue reading

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Hörrrski Börrr!

Who doesn’t love the Muppets’ Swedish Chef?

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Nonmusicians

Using a Nelson Riddle orchestral arrangement of “You Make Me Feel So Young” […], Wolpert had a professional singer perform the melody. Then she used a digital multi-effect processor to create two bitonal versions of the accompaniment: one a full … Continue reading

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She’s Five Years Old

Forgot all about this here blog’s 5th anniversary which was last July 12. No sparkling collage from Dr Sharl this time, I’m afraid. Beer anyone? :)

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Another Very Important List

The Guardian: 50 albums that changed music. I was reading down this suppressing a yawn when suddenly: 19 Mary J Blige Without this … no R&B/soul divide, which means no TLC, Beyonce, or Ashanti, to name just three. Um… so … Continue reading

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Cucamonga

Frank Zappa, around ’65 ’66. This is a drawing I made of FZ featuring Roy Estrada, Don Preston, Jimmy Carl Black and the other usual suspects.

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Seattle ’81 (2)

Apologies for the minor delay in putting up this week’s Friday Boot but today is, after all, Belgium‘s national holiday! Not that this brings me in a festive mood or anything, it’s just one of those days where I can … Continue reading

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Hungry Freaks, Daddy!

Time for some tasty surrealism. Watch all three parts of Jan Svankmajer’s stop-motion film Food on YouTube: Breakfast Lunch Dinner (Via WFMU where QT-versions of the clips are available)

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Wake Up Call

Was FZ right when in ’86 he predicted that “we are moving toward a fascist theocracy”? Wake up and smell the fascism. (via svn)

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Cosmik Wiki Jawaka

Service announcement for those slaving over at Zappa Wiki Jawaka: I have it from a trusted source that the wiki’s url will be listed at the beginning of the next revision of Greg Russo’s book Cosmik Debris, which is due … Continue reading

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