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The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
The Censor Keeps a Copy
Twenty years ago, give or take, a friend told me a story he expected me to admire. He was a Latter-day Saint who worked in technology, and he was, as I understood it then, the bishop of his ward, an unpaid office the church gives to laymen who keep their day jobs, so he kept a company's hours all week and presided over a congregation on Sundays. There was a Mormon bookstore he went into often, and one day he walked in and found a new display for Goosebumps, the paperbacks with the dripping green logo about haunted masks, a ventriloquist's dummy with a mind of its own, and a werewolf in a Florida swamp. He spoke to the owner. The owner told him the books were selling well and that those sales were keeping the store alive. My friend pressed him on content, judged the whole series blasphemous, an invitation to the occult at a child's price, and let it be understood that if the titles stayed on the shelf a report would go to the stake president. A week later he came back. The books were gone, the owner was distant and cold, and my friend bought a couple of books, in his own phrase, to make up the difference. He told me this the way another man might tell you he had coached his kid's team to a championship. He was proud. The word I have settled on, twenty years later, is forensic: he had investigated, prosecuted, and won, and he walked out of that store on the high of it. […] -
A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules.
-- Frank Zappa⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrankZappa #Music
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Mangrove #RabbitKey #Everglades #Florida
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Summer '82: When Zappa Came to Sicily released in 2013
The children and grandchildren of those who'd emigrated years before, that my father would promptly immortalize with his super 8.
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Released this day in 1966 Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, "Freak Out". Produced by Tom Wilson it just missed being the first rock double album to Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde".
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AUDIOPHILE MAN - MUSIC ALERTS
Zappa, Beefheart, Kim Wilde, Art of Noise and orange Ian Dury vinyl? This week’s Music Alerts is pure wax addiction. 🔥🎶
Click: https://youtu.be/dcRjeQ9H2EQ
#Vinyl #VinylCommunity #NowSpinning #RecordStoreDay #FrankZappa #KimWilde #ArtOfNoise #IanDury -
"Valley Girl" is a song by American musician #FrankZappa, released as the sole single from his 35th album #ShipArrivingTooLateToSaveADrowningWitch (1982), and featuring his then-14-year-old daughter #Moon. Though Zappa intended it to mockingly satirize #SanFernandoValley teen culture, the song's success inadvertently popularized the "#valleyGirl" stereotype and its associated mannerisms. It peaked at number 32 on the U.S. #Billboard Hot 100.
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The only difference between a cult and a religion is the amount of real estate they own.
-- Frank Zappa⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #FrankZappa #Cult #Religion
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah
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Wer Frank #Zappa spielt, kann kein schlechter Mensch sein.
🥁🎹🎸🎙️👨🏼🎤
#klassikpopetc
#klassikpopetcetera
#DLF #Radio
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Mark Volman, of Turtles ‘Happy Together’ fame, dies at 78
Mark Volman, the singer who co-founded the buoyant 1960s hitmakers the Turtles and was half of the humorous…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Entertainment #duo #eddie #favor #favoriteband #flo #FrankZappa #Group #happytogether #howardkaylan #label #MarkVolman #ownname #right #Turtles #whitewhale
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Released this day in 1966 Frank Zappa and The Mother of Invention, "Freak Out". Produced by Tom Wilson it only missed being the first rock double album by a couple months to Dylan's "Blonde On Blonde".
#FrankZappa #TheMothersOfInvention #FreakOut #VintageVinyl -
Frank Zappa
#FrankZappa #Zappa #musicista #guitar #musician #peachesenregalia #WeReOnlyinItForTheMoney #TheMothersOfInventions #FreakOut #OneSizeFitsAll #music #noAI #caricature #caricatura #caricaturas #caricatures #caricaturedrawing #caricatures_world #caricatureportrait #caricatureillustration #pencil #pencildrawing #matt #matteopaolelli -
#OTD Frank Zappa performed his last show in 1992 with Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, Germany
**The Yellow Shark**
32 years since.
Zappa passed away in December 1993.FZ was composing and performing music on his synclavier which he thought was not possible to be played by human musicians but Ensemble Modern convinced him they could do this.
Which was true.
"The Yellow Shark" was performed live in Berlin, Vienna and Frankfurt.
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"I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment." -Frank Zappa (from Wikiquote: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa )
I LOVE Frank Zappa! And I love monster movies (in a smaller way).
#FrankZappa #SpeakOut #FreakOut #SpeakUp https://stranger.social/@lednaBM/112841387880788376 -
Ich bin in #FrankfurtAmMain aufgewachsen, in den 20 Jahren, in denen der legendäre #HilmarHoffmann dort #Kulturdezernent war.
In dieser Zeit, seit Mitte der #1980er Jahre, organisierten #DieterRexroth & Team die #FrankfurtFeste in & um die #AlteOper.
Dank dieses #Musikfestival|s konnten wir in #Frankfurt Opern wie #AmandasTraum von #HaraldWeiß, die #Vexations von #ErikSatie, aber auch #YellowShark von #FrankZappa hören.
#Rexroth starb heute morgen. 😢
🔗 https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/zum-tod-von-dieter-rexroth-dlf-kultur-ed4daae6-100.html
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🏷️ #RIP
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Today In Metal History 🤘 December 21st, 2023🤘 FRANK ZAPPA, INTO ETERNITY, FLOTSAM AND JETSAM, THE WHO
TALENT WE LOST R.I.P. FRANK Vincent ZAPPA: 1940 - 1993 (aged 52) R.I.P. Robert “Rob” Doherty (INTO ETERNITY, FINAL DARKNESS) - 1970 - 2012 (aged 41) HEAVY BIRTHDAYS Happy 52nd Brett Allen Scallions (FUEL, WORLD FIRE BRIGADE) - 1971 HEAVY...
