Busy and Zappadan
Sorry for the light blogging – I’ve been busy at the day job stuff along with struggling with some kind of low grade deal that while it didn’t make me sick enough to skip work made the days a long drag and left me no oomph or whatever it is that propels these words on the page.
We have a gig tomorrow at Otto’s again – this will be the Dudes and Miss Trafalgar’s first look at the shrunken head - so come on down and start the celebration of the end holidays early – or Zappadan which started December 4th (the day Frank died) and ends December 21st (Frank’s Birthday).
It’ll be fun.
Apropos almost of this I was listening to the Yellow Shark again this was one of Zappa’s later recordings released (about a year before he died). This is really one of the few ‘classical’ albums by Zappa that works – throughout his life he always had problems getting classically trained musicians to play his material the way he thought it should sound. (He has extremely caustic things to say about the brass section of the London Symphony orchestra in his ‘as told to book’). But with the Ensemble Modern he finally found a group that were not only fabulous classical musicians but on the same wave length as he was and were willing to pretty much try anything. The result was the yellow shark.
I recently saw a u-tube of one of the performances “Food Gathering in Post Industrial America” and while it was obvious frank was delighted to be doing this – there was a sadness about the clip – one you knew he didn’t live much longer and two there was a sense of perhaps not sadness but melancholy about Frank – that it had taken so long for him to find the right group to play his classical compositions and he didn’t have much of a future left.
Not quite sure I really want to think all the way through on what that means okay?
Meantime – turns out several democratic congressmen (including the current speaker of the house) were given a tour of the CIA’s torture chamber or some such back in oh 2003 or so – this report coming out after the story that the CIA destroyed some tapes that showed the torture, sorry interrogation of a suspect.
Apparently instead of calling the Hague in Belgium and asking for charges to be filed they nodded and went on with their day – no word on if they got a gift bag after they were done.
I was talking with someone this weekend about this and he was talking about putting wires to some bastard who has killed a bunch of us and what not – the crux being why the hell would be care if they water boarded a high Alqueda thug – and my thought was if we did get a high ranking alquedia thug we wouldn’t torture him, he would be gold dust and handled a lot differently. Some low ranking underling – that’s the one that gets the wires – because they don’t care if they damage him.
Anyway I am profoundly disgusted with the High ups in the Democratic Party today – W is a nut case surrounded by nutcases but he wouldn’t be any where if he didn’t have his freaking enablers on the blue side of the seats.
Ug.
Adding to my ennui Mitt Romney made a speech that while presented as a version of JFK’s 1960 speech on religion (which argued for strong separation of church and state) was actually aimed at the GOP church right and was trying to send the message that he hated the same people they did and would be as autocratic and as intolerant as the next gop right winger. I’m not sure it helped.
Rudy G now has yet more problems – this time about money. More later.
Again more later I have tons to do.
Peace Love Zappadan
We have a gig tomorrow at Otto’s again – this will be the Dudes and Miss Trafalgar’s first look at the shrunken head - so come on down and start the celebration of the end holidays early – or Zappadan which started December 4th (the day Frank died) and ends December 21st (Frank’s Birthday).
It’ll be fun.
Apropos almost of this I was listening to the Yellow Shark again this was one of Zappa’s later recordings released (about a year before he died). This is really one of the few ‘classical’ albums by Zappa that works – throughout his life he always had problems getting classically trained musicians to play his material the way he thought it should sound. (He has extremely caustic things to say about the brass section of the London Symphony orchestra in his ‘as told to book’). But with the Ensemble Modern he finally found a group that were not only fabulous classical musicians but on the same wave length as he was and were willing to pretty much try anything. The result was the yellow shark.
I recently saw a u-tube of one of the performances “Food Gathering in Post Industrial America” and while it was obvious frank was delighted to be doing this – there was a sadness about the clip – one you knew he didn’t live much longer and two there was a sense of perhaps not sadness but melancholy about Frank – that it had taken so long for him to find the right group to play his classical compositions and he didn’t have much of a future left.
Not quite sure I really want to think all the way through on what that means okay?
Meantime – turns out several democratic congressmen (including the current speaker of the house) were given a tour of the CIA’s torture chamber or some such back in oh 2003 or so – this report coming out after the story that the CIA destroyed some tapes that showed the torture, sorry interrogation of a suspect.
Apparently instead of calling the Hague in Belgium and asking for charges to be filed they nodded and went on with their day – no word on if they got a gift bag after they were done.
I was talking with someone this weekend about this and he was talking about putting wires to some bastard who has killed a bunch of us and what not – the crux being why the hell would be care if they water boarded a high Alqueda thug – and my thought was if we did get a high ranking alquedia thug we wouldn’t torture him, he would be gold dust and handled a lot differently. Some low ranking underling – that’s the one that gets the wires – because they don’t care if they damage him.
Anyway I am profoundly disgusted with the High ups in the Democratic Party today – W is a nut case surrounded by nutcases but he wouldn’t be any where if he didn’t have his freaking enablers on the blue side of the seats.
Ug.
Adding to my ennui Mitt Romney made a speech that while presented as a version of JFK’s 1960 speech on religion (which argued for strong separation of church and state) was actually aimed at the GOP church right and was trying to send the message that he hated the same people they did and would be as autocratic and as intolerant as the next gop right winger. I’m not sure it helped.
Rudy G now has yet more problems – this time about money. More later.
Again more later I have tons to do.
Peace Love Zappadan
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