3 Jan
2010
3 Jan
'10
3:48 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:25:33PM -0500, Ricardus Vincente wrote:
On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 11:13 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote:
Yep, that's the one.
In Frank Zappa's autobiography, he describes
the time that Dweezil was
born in 1971, when the hospital administrator would not admit his
wife, who was in labor, until he'd finished filling out a bunch of
forms and paperwork. The forms were filled with stupid questions, and
he hurried through the process in the best interests of his wife and
child.
Where the forms demanded he list their "Religion", he wrote
"Musician". Seems perfectly good enough to me.
I suppose "Gentoo" or "Linux" would work just as well. I might have
to
list "Debian" for mine, if asked.
Others might list the Church of Emacs instead, praise St. IGNUtius.
Happy New Year, all!
-ken
Was that in The Real Frank Zappa Book?
I have to find my copy of that, because he had a REALLY GOOD rant
against people who think they like music.... as long as it sounds just
like every other song that goes BOOM... CHUCK... BOOM... CHUCK.
The whole book is basically one big REALLY GOOD rant.
To pick a nit, it was the 80's, so IIRC he wrote "BOOM...CHACK...BOOM BOOM
CHACK", otherwise known as "The (early days) R.E.M. Beat", and also used in
pop-metal tunes of the day such as Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages".
I suppose nowadays the corrollary would be "OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ" (or
"UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE" in many European languages).
I have been wanting to quote that for years.
Thanks, I always love some Zappa quotes.
-ken