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    Thumbs up happy birthday FZ

    "A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians."

    -frank vincent zappa
    (12/21/40–12/4/93)
    to all my friends, it's not the end
    the earth has not swallowed me yet

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    Hear, hear!
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    R.I.P.

    "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." - FZ



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    frank zappa was a mother of invention

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    Tinsel Town Rebellion

    From Madam Wong's to Starwood
    To the Whiskey on the Strip
    You can hear the crashing, blasting strum
    Of bands that come to be real hip
    And get a record contract
    From a talent scout some day
    They'll sell their ass, their cocks and balls
    They'll take the check 'n walk away
    If they're lucky they'll get famous
    For a week or two perhaps
    They'll buy some ugly clothes to wear
    And hope the business don't collapse
    Before some stupid magazine
    Decides they're really good
    They're a Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
    From downtown Hollywood

    Tinsel Town Rebellion,
    Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
    It's a little bitty Tinsel Town Rebellion
    A Tinsel Town Rebellion Band

    They used to play all kinds of stuff
    And some of it was nice
    Some of it was musical
    But then they took some guy's advice
    To get a record deal, he said,
    They would have to be more punk
    Forget their chops and play real dumb
    Or else they would be sunk
    So off they go to S.I.R. to learn some stupid riffs
    And practice all their poses
    In between their powder sniffs

    Chop a line now, snort it up now

    And when they think they've got it
    They launch a new career
    Who gives a fuck if what they play
    Is somewhat insincere

    Tinsel Town Rebellion,
    Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
    A Tinsel Town Rebellion,
    A Tinsel Town Rebellion Band
    Did you know that in Tinsel Town the people down there
    Think that substance is a bore
    And if your New Wave group looks good
    They'll hurry on back for more
    Of leather groups and plastic groups
    And groups that look real queer
    The Tinsel Town aficionados
    Come to see and not to hear
    But then again this system works
    As perfect as a dream
    It works for all of those record company pricks
    Who come to skim the cream
    From the cesspools of excitement
    Where Jim Morrison once stood
    It's the Tinsel Town Rebellion
    From downtown Hollywood

    It's everybody happy?
    Oh, never mind!
    No problem
    to all my friends, it's not the end
    the earth has not swallowed me yet

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    what's there to live for?
    who needs the peace corps?
    think I'll just drop out
    I'll go to frisco buy a wig
    And sleep on owsley's floor
    I'll stay a week and get the crabs
    And take a bus back home

    I'm hippy and I'm trippy
    I'm a gypsy on my own!
    I'm really just a phony
    (but forgive me cause I'm stoned)

    Happy birthday, sir.

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    Such karmic perfection to be born on the solstice.

    Happy Birthday Frankie

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    Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system.
    Forget about the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts.
    Some of you like Pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read.
    Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute.



    The '60s was really stupid ... It was a type of merchandising, Americans had this hideous weakness, they had this desire to be OK, fun guys and gals, and they haven't come to terms with the reality of the situation: we were not created equal.
    Some people can do carpentry, some people can do mathematics, some people are brain surgeons and some people are winos and that's the way it is, and we're not all the same.
    This concept of one world-ism, everything blended and smoothed out to this mediocre norm that everybody downgrades themselves to be is stupid. The '60s was merchandised to the public at large...
    My pet theory about the '60s is that there is a sinister plot behind it...
    The lessons learnt in the '60s about merchandising stupidity to the American public on a large scale have been used over and over again since that time.
    . . .

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    bump.

    Oh, and Captain Beefheart died 3 days ago.

    RIP
    . . .

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    Happy birthday Frank!!!!

    "Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that is the basic building block of the universe."

    "The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way, and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theatre."

    "No one looks good with brown lipstick on."

    "If you want to get laid, go to college, if you want to get an education, go to the library."

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    back when I was in college a friend of mine painted an 8 foot high portrait of FZ on his apt wall. Gorgeous work too.

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    "The essence of Christianity is told to us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden was on the Tree of Knowledge. The subtext is, All the suffering you have is because you wanted to find out what was going on. You could be in the Garden of Eden if you had just kept your fucking mouth shut and hadn't asked any questions."

    "My best advice to anyone who wants to raise a happy, mentally healthy child is: Keep him or her as far away from a church as you can."



    Frank Zappa is one of my personal heroes, RIP.
    All I know is that I don't know nothin'... and that's fine.

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    cheers Frank!

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    2 days late, but happy birthday nonetheless
    . . .

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    There is no such thing as a dirty word. There is no word, nor any sound, that you can make with your mouth that is so powerful that it will condemn you to the lake of fire at the time when you hear it. ‘Dirty words’ is a fantasy manufactured by religious fanatics and government organizations to keep people stupid. Any word that gets the point across is a good word. If you wanna tell somebody to ‘get fucked,’ that’s the best way to tell him.”
    . . .

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    Happy Birfday Frank where ever you are.
    watch out for snakes

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    You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.
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    watch out for snakes

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    watch out for snakes

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    Happy birthday
    Hard to believe he died in 1993. RIP.
    . . .

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    “If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on television telling you how to do your shit, then you deserve it.”

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    "It isn't necessary to imagine a world ending in fire and ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."

    RIP, Frank.

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