I'm a Zappa nut. And I'll guiltily admit to being steered toward his madness and mayhem by Phish, when I first heard their cover of "Peaches en Regalia". I've been longing to catch one of his son, Dweezil's "Zappa Plays Zappa" shows, but so far, no go. Turns out Zappa's music was adopted by young … Continue reading Zappa and Lithuania
Brief Update on the Life of My Parents
By Finnegan Turner Lamb "Mama.....working" "Daa.....sleeping" ____ Finn speaks highly of us with his limited vocabulary a combination of baby sign language first words and dimple laden facial expressions with sparse language he reduces our complicated, cluttered lives to zen simplicity we sleep we work repeat but i add reminding him we play we love
About Time!
In cased you missed it, Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zaidi hucked his shoes at outgoing President Bush and shouted, "this is a goodbye kiss from the Iraqi people, dog," at a press conference in Baghdad. The BBC reported that "showing the soles of shoes to someone is a sign of contempt in Arab culture." See the … Continue reading About Time!
Stuff White People Like
OK, well this blog really doesn't need any more traffic (15,877,218 hits), guess I missed the mass hysteria which drove curious people to learn more about white folk. But anyway it's hilarious and I just had to give them some props for the tongue-in-cheek humor which apparently many people, of all races, find either extremely … Continue reading Stuff White People Like
Some Random Things
OK, well maybe not that random considering my music and book junkie tendencies. Discovered the Hype Machine last week while waiting for my copy of the Drive-By Truckers latest album Brighter than Creations Dark to arrive. Just read about Drexel's College of Media Arts & Design and the student run music label/production company they operate … Continue reading Some Random Things