I Hate The Media (Free subscription) | yesterday
Going Rogue, Sarah Palin's book, is the biggest thing in years to hit America's bookstores across the country. Except in the liberal and tolerant land of San Francisco.
Blue Hampshire (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Samizdat is Czech for self-published. Back in the bad old days of communism, many books were banned because the "state" feared they may give people ideas that didn't fit in with the status quo. In Czechoslovakia, this caused people to type forbidden books out by hand, then mimeograph them so people could read them. That is how my husband read "1984", for example. Someone translated...
Rene's Apple (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read. Frank Zappa (quoted in the Chicago Tribune, Jan. 18, 1978) I'd extend that to nearly all writing about music of any kind-it's nearly always abysmal. For instance-a day or two ago I read a review of Norah Jones' most recent CD in a Philadelphia free "newspaper", in which the new CD is favorably...
The Konformist Blog (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
http://royalflushmagazine.com/2009/10/13/zappa_meets_kirby/ World’s Finest – Royal Flush 6 Exclusive! Step inside the Fourth World as we relive that one magical day when… FRANK ZAPPA met JACK KIRBY ! by Jeff Newelt • Illustration by Rick Veitch • Photos by Michael James Zuccaro Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 I’ve always been a sucker for the big teamup: Superman / Shazam....
Daisy's Dead Air (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
At left: Mr Cyril is now 7 months old! Like everyone else in the USA, I am presently bustling, rustling, hustling... and trying to dig out from under mounds of email (as well as real-life junk mail), Mr Daisy's comics and kitty detritus, to prepare for the holiday week coming up. How is everything with you? I have decided to run for County Council, as I mentioned here . I figure it can't hurt. I know...
Some Came Running (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Greil Marcus on Frank Zappa: "Is there any facet of American culture Frank Zappa hasn't pissed on? If so, write and tell him what it is, and he'll get a beer out of the refrigerator and unzip." Forgive Marcus the...
Life in a day (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Art is making something out of nothing and then selling it. Frank Zappa
Alternet (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Reagan was inspirational, but to claim he defeated Communism is a disservice to the millions of Eastern Europeans who struggled against great odds for their freedom.
Art reviw Alex Stalenbertg (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Jeroen van Paassen left a comment for Paul Berkholst
Andymatic (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
From Reddit: Rock journalism is people who can’t write interviewing people who can’t talk for people who can’t read. via The Quotations Page
Hidden Track (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Warren Haynes has never hid his appreciation of the music of Deep Purple, so he must’ve been as happy as a kid in a candy store last night when he sat-in with the English rockers at the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam. According to a report from our friends at Here Comes The Flood, Haynes added his unique brand of sizzling guitar to the Black Night encore . Haynes had formed a friendship with...
Corruptive News (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Frank Zappa invents filesharing business model � in 1989 | Music | guardian.co.ukShare This
JazzHQ (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Downbeat: The Great Jazz Interviews: A 75th Anniversary Anthology. Edited and Compiled By Frank Alkyer. In July of 1934 the first issue of DownBeat magazine hit newsstands in Chicago. For the next seven-plus decades and counting the publication has been synonymous with jazz. DownBeat has chronicled every facet of jazz; every trend; every new and emerging sound. They have charted the birth and rise...
Esquire.com (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
Because your sister can listen to all the Jonas Brothers she wants, but you've got some iPod showing off to do. Yes, you can include U2 this year.
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 16/11/2009
It's got to be love, hasn't it? Why else would someone bother to transcribe 200 of {{Frank Zappa = 11600}}'s tunes? For what other reason would someone dedicate himself for over 15 years to presenting his arrangements of Zappa's music in the setting of a 17-piece jazz big band, and at a loss to boot...
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