Fortress of Attitude

Going thru my musical archives, I noticed my Zappa holdings have dwindled down to 3 cds.... I am still (and probably always will be) a fan of his work, but the older I get, the less I like the lyrics; they get in the way of the music. Now I'm down to The Yellow Shark, Shut Up N'Play Yer Guitar and the recently purchased and aforementioned Boulez Conducts Zappa: The Perfect Stranger.

Y'know, I'da voted for him if he had run for office. Yes, you heard that right and yes I am a conservative. I'll leave you to work it out. He passed too soon.

I loved his autobiography and ought to purchase my own copy. Finding out that he grew up with Captain Beefheart, and a relative of Zappa's was responsible for Van Vliet choosing his musical ID floored me. I still find his claim of never having used drugs a little much to swallow. Not unlike the 6 potassium pills I take a day....

So, does humor belong in music? Not for me. Not with Zappa, anyway...

And a not-too-terribly-related question: Why paint cats?
Might as well ask why librarians blog....

A follow-up note about Captain Beefheart: I've finally got confirmation on something I thought I saw many moons ago!! He was the musical guest on some rerun or other of SNL. I swear I heard someone in the audience cursing them out at the end of the performance and I was right!!! Very odd to find out who it was that was doing the cursing.

Now the follow-up wonderment is: Why wasn't the cursing editted out of the rerun?

Curious...