29 Jun
2004
29 Jun
'04
10:45 a.m.
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 09:19:10AM -0300, luis jure wrote:
el Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:14:30 -0700
Jos Laake <jos(a)radiks.net> escribi?:
Not that the OT needs to go on any longer, but monk is one of my all
time favorite composers and performers. :-D If I were to start studying
music again I think I would start with monk.
-Eric Rz.
I believe it's a reference from the Frank
Zappa song "Apostrophe", no?
From the album of the same name.
I belive the line goes:
"The crux of the biscuit is the Apostrophe." - FZ
right. "it should
be easy to see..."
What it means? I have no idea. Random silliness
from the Master
is my guess. ;-)
i don't see it as random. i'm not a native speaker of
english, but i think i
can follow how zappa developed a funny variant of the idioms that use the
word"crux" (meaning of course "decisive point", and not
"cross"), mainly
"the crux of the matter", but also "the crux of the
problem/conflict", "the
crux of the discussion/debate", etc.
it's very probable that zappa himself invented the expression (can anyone
trace it to a predating source?), perhaps melding "crux of the matter" and
"crust of the biscuit".
it appeared first in the song "stink foot", which was included in the album
"apostrophe" from 1974. zappa also used the expression in conversation, i
remember reading interviews where he used this peculiar idiom.
excuse the OT, but the artists and groups usually mentioned on this list are
completely unknown to me, for once i wanted to talk a musician i _do_ know.
er... not very probable an OT about duke ellington or thelonious monk, is
it?