Zappa.com

^^^^^ sounds excellent ^^^^^

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Its pretty funny...something light hearted for a change

tons of references to songs and musicians from the 70's and 80's, i'm waiting for the zappa references.

year zero was the year aliens heard their first earthman song, the theme to Welcome Back Kotter, they went nuts over it...never heard anything like that (aliens cant write music).




Low-level entertainment lawyer Nick Carter thinks it’s a prank, not an alien encounter, when a redheaded mullah and a curvaceous nun show up at his office. But Frampton and Carly are highly advanced (if bumbling) extraterrestrials. The entire cosmos, they tell him, has been hopelessly hooked on American pop songs ever since “Year Zero” (1977 to us), resulting in the biggest copyright violation since the Big Bang and bankrupting the whole universe. Nick has just been tapped to clean up this mess before things get ugly. Thankfully, this unlikely galaxy-hopping hero does know a thing or two about copyright law. Now, with Carly and Frampton as his guides, Nick has forty-eight hours to save humanity—while hoping to wow the hot girl who lives down the hall from him.

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It's a pretty good view of the midwest and the south so far.

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"I am made out of water. You wouldn’t know it, because I have it bound in. My friends are made out of water, too. All of them. The problem for us is that not only do we have to walk around without being absorbed by the ground but we also have to earn our livings.
Actually there’s even a greater problem. We don’t feel at home anywhere we go. Why is that?"

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Oliver Sacks - Musicophilia

I should have read this book a looooooong time ago...

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(PS. # 1 is a trailer, show begins on #2).

It's on Netflix too...

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When Giants Walked the Earth: A Biography of Led Zeppelin


Could Jimmy think of anything original?

I watched a tv thing a while ago with Jimmy Page the Egde and that White Stripes kid Jack White, they were noodling away in a kind of relaxed jam session thing and it struck me that Jimmy doesn't do relaxed, he could have just as easily have been that 25 year old playing a stadium.....classic

a snippet can be seen here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODidAgdL40Y

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Read this years ago
Gotta love that title

The French version of "The plot against America" by Philip Roth.

There's a lot of things in there that looks like what we're living with that Trump administration.
A bit part of it being the willfull blindness of American folks.

Next one will be "American pastoral", again by Philip Roth.

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For a real Democracy: abolish Electoral College

The sad demise of independent record stores and the fixing of the "pop charts "

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" Music is the only religion that delivers the goods " FZ

What if God lived on some planet in another star system...

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From chapter 4

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Did Brian's book (above), now I'm getting another side of the story. Interesting, same story, but two different people's views of it.

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Just F%*£ing awesome .

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" Music is the only religion that delivers the goods " FZ

I'm still waiting, seven days overdue at this point.....

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I always enjoy the anticipation of getting FZ related goodies in the post , but seven days is the point at which I make enquiries with the vendor or delivery Co.
Hope it turns up soon .

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What if you were thrown into a foreign society, never to see home again? What would you do, and could you survive?

Joe Colsco boarded a flight from San Francisco to Chicago to attend a national chemistry meeting. He would never set foot on Earth again.

On planet Anyar, Joe is found unconscious on a beach of a large island inhabited by humans where the level of technology is similar to Earth circa 1700. He awakes amid strangers speaking an unintelligible language and struggles to accept losing his previous life and finding a place in a society with different customs, needing a way to support himself and not knowing a single soul. His worry about finding a place is assuaged when he finds ways to apply his knowledge of chemistry - as long as he is circumspect in introducing new knowledge not too far in advance of the planet's technology and being labelled a demon.

As he adjusts, Joe finds that he has be dropped into a developing clash between the people who cared for him, and for whom he develops an affinity, and a military power from elsewhere on the planet - a power with designs on conquest. Unaware, Joseph Colsco has been poured into a crucible where time and trials will transform him in ways he could never have imagined.

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Funny, he ain't no Frank thats for sure

Read this over the summer, great read, those were some incredible times.

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Finished this one last night. Very good read. He had quite the life and the attitude to go with it. And I've found out that I have the same dislike of Wynton Marsalis that he did... (man he did not like that dude!).

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