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Monthly Archives: February 2008
U-Turn In Preparation
Update March 10 2008: Have a look here, why don’t you! Want to be notified by email when the new KUR launches? Enter your mail address and hit that “Keep Me Posted” button: Google certified no spam, no worries. Not … Continue reading
I Ain’t Gonna Work On Maggie’s Farm No More
Once upon a time, in a decade far far away, I became fascinated with the music of this weird character called Frank Zappa. Then along came the internet, and it didn’t take long before I had my own little homepage … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, It Can Happen Here?, Site News
Tagged cease & desist, kur, new beginnings, the end, zft
112 Comments
Baby Your Face Is Mutated
The Tubes are a San Francisco-based theatre rock band founded in the early 1970s and known for their live performances which combined lewd quasi-pornography and wild satires of media, showbiz excess, consumerism and politics. Influenced by the Mothers of Invention … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Music, Zappa Misc
Tagged audio/visual, Captain Beefheart, covers, live acts, Mothers of Invention, The Tubes
29 Comments
First Church of Zuppuology
R. Gayle Shiester: Welcome to the First Church of Zuppuology! Don’t you be Tarot-fied We are here to help you fill the cultural vacuum Don’t you be Tarot-fied Just pay your dues to the estate of the founder FRONK ZUPPU!!! … Continue reading
San ValentÃn A Medida
You there with the emerging Hallmark Valentine Nausea and the Spanish accent: you might just want to send one of these. Not your thing? How about these? Hey, Dr Sharl and I had loads of fun making them. Pardon the … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Comics, Randamonium, Visual Arts
Tagged ecards, hallmark, valentine, weirdo cards
3 Comments
Throttling The Mother
In today’s Guardian Online Arts edition: Throttling the Mother of Invention, wherein columnist Owen Adams writes about GZ’s “lengthy campaign against those who ride on his [FZ’s – ed.] memory”: Her recent ire was directed against a laughably bad fans’ … Continue reading
Posted in Frank Zappa, It Can Happen Here?
Tagged cease & desist, play the music, tribute bands, zft
37 Comments
A Compulsive Commenter Speaks
A descent into the bizarre kingdom of the comments window. Based on actual facts. Here comes the train! MOOOOO
Posted in Amusing, Bizarre, Randamonium, Silly
Tagged audience participation, Freaks, i'm your biggest fan, Video
9 Comments
Links For 07-02-2008
Flickr: CD Cover Meme The point Why Scratching Relieves An Itch – “The reduced brain activity occurred in the anterior cingulate cortex, an area associated with aversion to unpleasant sensory experiences, and the posterior cingulate cortex, which is associated with … Continue reading
Posted in Delicious Links, Frank Zappa
41 Comments
Italy Passes Law Allowing P2P Music?
The Italian parliament passed a new copyright law in both houses that would allow citizens to share noncommercial and degraded music over the internet freely. That’s going to hurt – but some say it happened totally unknowingly – we’ll see … Continue reading
Year of the Freak: February (the weesa)
In honor of that special individual who has stuck by the freak through the long years of freakdom — be it a friend, a girlfriend, boyfriend, spouse, mate, ex-wife or ex-husband (hey, you can’t expect everyone to stick around: twenty … Continue reading
Posted in Amusing, Frank Zappa, Personal, Zappa Audio/Video
Tagged Audio, freak's spouses, Freaks, gratitude, year of the freak, Zappa
11 Comments
FZShows v. 7.1
Under the highly competent maintainance of Oscar Bianco, the document has undergone some Massive Improve’lence, and FZShows v. 7.1 is now to be found [in a new place, under zappateers]. Make sure to update your links and bookmarks! FZShows v. … Continue reading
Gunpoint
Outrageous: we’ve received a video showing what we presume to be a young webmaster held hostage and forced to confess at gunpoint. Gunshots could be heard on the tape and it’s clear that the prisoner has been denied basic human … Continue reading