Happy Zappadan!

Zappadan 2010 is underway...

Zappadan Draws To A Close

Interviewer: "So Frank, you have long hair. Does that make you a woman?"
FZ: "You have a wooden leg. Does that make you a table?"

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

Frank Zappa was born on this day in 1940. Thus endeth another celebration of Zappadan.

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For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywhere was at a Holiday Inn buffet in Fayetteville, North Carolina, in 1973.

--FZ

I'm Feeling Rather Zappaesque Today

The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions.

-- Frank Zappa, interview, Playboy, May 2, 1993

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

-- Frank Zappa, Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985, in response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or influences their behavior in general.

Titties & Beer for Zappadan 2007!

It was the blackest night!
There was no moon in sight!
(you know the stars aint shinin
cause the skys too tight)
I heard the scary wind!
I seen some ugly trees!
There was a werewolf honkin,
long the side of me!

Im mean n Im bad, (yknow I aint no sissy)
Got a big-titty girly by the name of chrissy
Talkin about her n my bike n me...
n this ride up the mountain of mystery, (mystery)

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

Zappadan 2007

I haven't had time to check and see if anyone has begun the festival of Zappadan which runs from the day he died (December 4th) until his birthday (December 21st), but I'm ready to kick off my Zelebration.

In the fight between you and the world, back the world.

:::: postcard from maurinsky ::::

I just love fan mail! This Zappa card came in the mail today from maurinsky.



I'll have to remember to repost this next year during Zappadan!

Celebrations du Jour

Samuel L. Jackson is 58.

Jane Fonda is 69.

Frank Zappa would have been 66.



It's the end of Zappadan.
Long live Zappa.

The creation and destruction of harmonic and 'statistical' tensions is essential to the maintenance of compositional drama. Any composition (or improvisation) which remains consonant and 'regular' throughout is, for me, equivalent to watching a movie with only 'good guys' in it, or eating cottage cheese.

Alien Orifice

Another entree in the Zappadan series. Blue Gal has a hilarious graphic up at her place. (Unless you're into Zappa, none of this will be funny, so you therefore have no idea what you're missing out on.)

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.
--Frank Zappa

Click the graphic for a humorous Zappa "Family Circus."

Speaking of Blue Gal, be sure to vote here for her blog in the Weblog Awards. She's currently running 2nd in a pretty tight 3-way race (unlike mine!) so every vote counts.

Tis the Season of... ZAPPADAN!

"Yeah, I tell them to change the channel if they see some guy in a brown suit with a telephone number at the bottom of the screen asking for money. "
-- Frank Zappa, Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock", 1985, after being asked by Tipper Gore if there was anything on TV he didn't allow his kids to watch.

I'm a bit late stepping up to the plate on this but it's been a rather crazy week with my work and the Weblog Award situation threw me for an unexpected loop.

Blame this on BlueGal.

December 4 through 21 shall henceforth be known as Zappadan: the days of the year between death and birth, that ethereal time when there was no Frank, so we must celebrate him to keep his spirit safe until his birthday again.