"Grand Wazoo" - Blogging from A-Z Challenge!

'G' and we're getting serious!

 

 "The Grand Wazoo!" (okay, it's only 'G' if you take 'the' off, but hey...)
Zappa's albums, wow, there aren't that many I can't listen to all the way through ('Just another Band from LA' is one I haven't actually been able to get into...) but "Grand Wazoo" is an album I can listen to on a loop for the rest of my life! For me, there's just something about it! I'd love a movie to go with it.
Here it is in all it's entirety...(sorry, there's no loop on youtube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIO5uIq2TTI

"Filthy Habits" by Zappa - Blogging from A-Z Challenge

We're up to 'F' already!!

I was gonna go with 'Find her Finer', but then I'd have to explain a few things...
No, I went with perhaps my favourite Zappa instrumental "Filthy Habits"....oh, maybe we are doing 'Find her Finer'...
I used to play 'Filthy Habits' up REAL LOUD and get a little drunk, a little angry. It brings to my mind the dirty stuff that gets in the way of truth and honesty. Perhaps I should listen to it next time I write...
Here's "Filthy Habits" from the album 'Sleep Dirt'...fantastic!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVHchhvhND0

April 6th - Hungarian Elections!

Oh yes, it's an Eastern European country playing at Democracy today! As Winston Churchill once said "Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others." Some parties are also worse than others, the Conservatives or Liberals base their policies on money - say no more.
So, here's a censored version of my little rhyme again, to stop those Special POlice from knocking on my door when that man wins another 4 years in office. Yes, not much of it left, is there? The verse or Hungary?

 

Weekend Quickie 30 - Who will take the Challenge?

Wrote up my latest Weekend Quickie in the style of a relay. I wonder who will move the story on?
See it here and the stories before and after on TIW website, or mine here...-)

A yellow scorpion scurried across the bonnet of the pink Mazda2, embarrassed as I was to find itself within 100 miles of its presence. Trust me to borrow my wife's car on a day like this. I'd seen the shiny topped bearded man in glasses smoking in his convertible at the 2 mile mark into Tijuana on Highway 2 a moment ago and I parked in the nearest layby. Was that the dead body of Carlos I'd seen in the back seat? Adjusting the fluffy pink framed rearview mirror, I saw the car some way back at the junction. It sat there like some big beige monster ready to change my life. But for good or bad? I knew what Carlos had been up to and how he felt such a bigshot since getting connected, and I knew what he'd carried out of the trailer this morning. I'd warned him but now it was all too late. Should I do something? If I were in my Ford truck, there'd be a shotgun under the seat. In this car, the most lethal thing I'd find would be haircurlers. What now? A Toyota Tundra drove by with speed back towards the vehicle.

Evelyn, a Modified Dog - Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014

Yep, it`s `E` in my personal journey into my Zappa influenced memories and thoughts :-)

Evelyn, a Modified Dog - it just has to be! The imagery is fantastic in this song and brings up a personal 'pet' hate - exactly. I don't think I should move on with this as I may alienate a lot of people. Don't get me wrong, I like pets but it's the concept that  I hate. Imagine dogs were an alien race...we have manipulated, mistreated, abused, misused them like, well, people of other races...oh yeah, no change there, then...:-( We'll never learn...if there was other life in this universe, I'm sure their GPS says, "You are entering an awareness-restrictive zone", when they get near us.
Here's Evelyn....Ooo, this is some animation...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtSU8jTEJH0
...or I guess you'd rather see a variation by the 'Grande Mothers' :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGCUM0ahtNE

Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow - Blogging from A-Z Challenge April 2014

Yep, it's 'D' already in my 'Zappa and how he has affected my life' theme on "Blooging...Blogging from A-Z Challenge"!!

Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow. It just tickles me pink, I've seen it so many times (and probably done it in some drunken state. It also reminds me of Bob Rivers' Christmas song, those damn Twisted Christmas Tunes! here's that one...(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4nkqK_bS2U)
As with all Zappa songs, there's a serious side and I'm all for banning seal culling or fur trapping or whatever it's called. But it also gives a fantastic imagery! (See, I'm well into musical imagery). That's it for today :-)
Here's an animation of 'Don't Eat the Yellow Snow'!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBpJgL8Aa5o

And when you're done here, please go over to the fantastic K.A. DaVur's 'Blogging A-Z Challenge' here...:-)
http://msdavur.blogspot.hu/2014/04/a-to-z-challenge-day-4-damien-rice.html

Cosmic Debris - Blogging from A- Z Challenge April 2014

Well, it's not just me doing this 'Blogging from A-Z Challenge", there's another 2200+ bloggers, including one awesome fantastic writer K.A. DaVur! Go and meet her here :-)

Yes, it's 'C', and it could've been a lot of things Zappa-ish, but it has to be "Cosmic Debris". Whenever my mind wanders, "Cosmic Debris" starts up, invades my brain with that little catchy riff and then I remember those guys who I used to know, toking up in a nowhere music band environment, getting a kick out of playing the 'rock star' and doing nothing about it. I think they're still out there, somewhere...
I tried to play this once and found it quite difficult, but that didn't put me off trying :-)
You've gotta love the imagery within Zappa's songs, they're spot on!
See it here...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dp6LT2MdaPI