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[robby]

" The concept of the rock-guitar solo in the eighty's has pretty much been reduced to: Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you get a big ovation while the the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around!"

-- The Real Frank Zappa Book.

I'm going over to my brother's for an official Thanksgiving dinner, but I just bought my second huge turkey of the Season at Safeway. You can't beat the price: a 23lb turkey for $7.88. The first one I roasted in the traditional way on November 11, for aa big party. This second one may be non-traditional, maybe BBQ'd with Jamaican spices or something.

Yesterday, I was negotiating on-line with some local guy who's selling a non-functional Apple Lisa 2 computer, but he seems to feel it's more valuable than I do.
I have a working Lisa2 already in my blossoming vintage computer collection, and know more about them than he does, and he's a noob.

Comments

[fuzzilla.livejournal.com]

That is a pretty fucking awesome quote.

[robby.livejournal.com]

I can just see the guitar poseur in one of those effete hair bands sactimoniously playing "weedly weedly wee" though a haze of smoke.

Re: Laurence makes like a superfly in showing his knowledge of popular music

[alzeddheimers.livejournal.com]

Zappa better be goOd for a quote or two, because when it comes to music he ripped off Captain Beefheart's ViBe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Beefheart)

Re:Showing your knowledge of modern music?

[robby.livejournal.com]

Some of Zappa's later avante-garde compositions will be remembered and performed long after we are gone.

trudging across the tundra, mile after mile

[ccjohn.livejournal.com]

Look here, bruthah
Who you jivin' with that kozmik debris?

Re: trudging across the tundra, mile after mile

[robby.livejournal.com]

Everybody seems to focus on the outrageous lyrics, but Frank Zappa spent years composing and recording music that is becoming highly regarded.