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I really fail to see how anything I said about Broken Hearts are for Assholes qualifies me as sad or depressed or negative...and yet you call me a "tragic figure".

It's amazing how much communication goes on between forum posters and how little personal knowledge is actually passed between them.

I deny any negative propensities. I am a realist...I see the world as it is, not as some sort of candy coated popcorn. My life is chaotic and uncertain, but not too boring. A tragic figure, I am not.

All I said was Broken Hearts are for Assholes is about getting pounded in the ass...the innuendo being that having your heart broke is the equivalent of anal sex. Some folks like it.

That is all.

OMG DUDE, you need to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative!!!! Just like Bing said!!!

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You gotta give the people something good to read, on a Sunday

Ya you better try the Candy Coated Popcorn, IMHO it doesn't seem like this taken it in the ass to be tragic thing is working for you...

Funny: my swelling, itching brain is saying the exact opposite.

It's a beautiful world...

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My new question is from the very end of Joe' Garage:



Grass bone? Ankle bone?... why, what for, what is it?...

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Oh, a ong! Thanx, I didn't know that!

But.. why "grass bone", where does it come from?...

Hi all,

I have some questions on Beauty Knows No Pain. As usual: I get the whole idea, but the tiny little details.... So, here they are:

- Even if yer plain / You could be tryin' it out - try out what? there was not "doing something" in the previous part of the song...
- Your head is north, your feet is south - I've only found this sentence in a.) this FZ-tune and b.) in a text about lot of people sleeping in tents (maybe), with their "heads to north and feet to south" - what is it for, here?
- And you save the rest for Charlie's Mouth - ?....

thanks!

Some fine grain Zappalogy, ladies and gents...

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The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true Art and Science. - Albert Einstein

Even if yer plain / You could be tryin' it out - I believe this refers to the "bikini wax/colored pencil etc." portion that come after. As in, even if you are plain looking, you could try all of this makeup and other changes to make you look beautiful.

Your head is north, your feet is south - I think this refers to the guy being so dumb that he needs the cardinal directions to identify where his head and feet are.

And you save the rest for Charlies enormous mouth - as in, his male member is going to go into Charlie's enormous mouth.

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A classic quote from a Scottish detective/murder show I like to watch. Try to imagine the scottish accent if you can while reading it.

"You couldn't find your own arse if it sat on your face".

That "you could be trying it out" thing could be trying out pain.

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The way I see it Barry, this should be a very dynamite show.

hm, thanks all, guys!

Okay, now somebody explain Pena by Captain Beefheart to me.

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Hi all again,

my next question is on Our Bizarre Relationship from Uncle Meat.

- just one note: the text suggests that each night FZ had a different girl in his bed - that's a bit unlikely to me, since he was married already at that time. What do you think?
- the question: "Elmer and Phil, because they were too sick to ball" - can "ball" be "having sex" here (as 'urbandictionary' suggests, or?...) And what can "sick" exactly be here?
- Elmer has a mentality of approximately One Peanut. Possibly. - ?...
- "he didn't see how anyone could ever make it that insisted on saying FUCK on stage." - I think I undertand it, but not sure. That middle part confuses me a bit.

I've find a note where FZ say that Suzy Creamsheese lives only in his imagination. Does it mean that all that above is just part of that fantasy - using real names?...

thanks!!!

- just one note: the text suggests that each night FZ had a different girl in his bed - that's a bit unlikely to me, since he was married already at that time. What do you think?
I figure it's an improvised rock-star tale. Partly fact, partly fiction.
- the question: "Elmer and Phil, because they were too sick to ball" - can "ball" be "having sex" here (as 'urbandictionary' suggests, or?...) And what can "sick" exactly be here?
Yes, ball means having sex. Also, being over 40, but still hanging out with the younger crowd probably left Phil and Elmer too drunk/hungover to move much.
- Elmer has a mentality of approximately One Peanut. Possibly. - ?...
Elmer Valentine, co-founder of the Whiskey-A-Go-Go, was not quick at understanding things.
- "he didn't see how anyone could ever make it that insisted on saying FUCK on stage." - I think I undertand it, but not sure. That middle part confuses me a bit.
A performer won't become popular enough to be famous, if he wasn't a nice, family-type person on stage.

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Wow, I'm getting closer, thanks!

thinking on this, this is strange, anyway. Most of the "built-in stories" had some (large amount) of truth in them: Jeff Simmons quitting the band, the hotel-stories in '74, etc. So this story popping up on an album, telling a story (supposedly about FZ, with all real characters and places, like: Laurel Canyon) that girls come in and out of his bed in 1967-68, with dirt and fleas and crabs... Just seems to be straaaaaaange. To me.

The Air (Uncle Meat album)

An interesting song... what is is about? Sometimes seems to me that a conflict at the customs, a fight with the gurads, in slow motion..

Or? What dou you think? I'm interested in every little detail - what do you think?

Second part of "The Air" quite obviously refers to FZ' incarceration in 1965 on the false porn charges.

Now I've got a question too: in the anti-rock-critics rant "Packard Goose" FZ implies that any critic who's got enough sense would actually put down his pen and "have himself a squat on a cosmic utensil". Now what could that refer to?

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Lies are like quicksand, soft and comfortable, but they will swallow us. Truth is like bedrock, hard and uncomfortable, but we can always stand on it

I always thought that means being dead and being buried in a certain alignment.

Th.

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The answer might (?) be in Bobby Brown (source):

(Reporter) There is some funny words in the song and I asked him what Tower of Power is. Considering my old aunt I let Zappa himself explain the word.
(FZ) The Tower of Power is a..... You know what S & M is?
(Reporter) Yeah
(FZ) It's a S & M device that they sell at a store in Los Angeles. It's a stool... small stool, You know to sit on. That has this spindle that comes up, that's sticks up Your asshole and it has straps on the legs of the stool where You supposed to put a persons ankle into the straps on the edge of the stool. And they actually sell this thing here and it's called the Tower of Power.

I'm reading / listenning to Mudd Club right now, and there are some parts taht are hard for me to understand - grammatically (full of "to", "from", "for", etc...):




I almost understand it, but... do I?...