Well, as I was at work and remembered it was that time of year when I can indulge on my Franks and let all other fanhoods simmer, I got to play some of his albums while handling my sheer infinite amount of complaint e-mails. Frank's a bath of sanity sometimes, particularly when you get inane complaints like when we got the Cola Zero addict who was complaining there wasn't any at the resort in Tunisia she was going to.

At any rate, I played Freak Out! and Absolutely Free as stream via Youtube, played WOIIFTM as well but the album I had sounded so different in a non-enjoyable way that I was happy to return to my CDs this evening. I combined WOIIFTM with my current addiction Blue Prince, the smash indie gaming hit adventure/puzzle game. Then onto Ruben (Greasy Love Songs version) and now Lumpy Gravy.

WOIIFTM may have been the overdubbed bass and drum version.

Lumpy Gravy- will have to give my old vinyl copy a spin too.

Yesterday I got to listen Hot Rats in the office, now playing Uncle Meat and I have Weasels and BWS beside me. I'm looking forward to Weeny as it's one of my favourites.

they are all great including Weeny, Uncle is my favourite

You have 1 day let to vote for Frank in the Top 2000: https://www.nporadio2.nl/nieuws/top2000/506d8c59-55fd-4950-a...

Give Frank to the hungry people of The Netherlands!

Good news - instead of just Dancin' Fool, you can now vote for 3 Zappa songs in total, the others are Cosmik Debris and Bobby Brown Goes Down

Today it's the Pining For Mark Volman day with 200 Motels, Chunga (now playing) JABFLA and Fillmore.

Don't forget Mark on the early Sofa, thinks its on YCDTOSA Vol 1

Also did Waka/Jawaka/ Grand Wazoo, Over-Nite Sensation and now Apostrophe (')

impressive- all good stuff- could lead on to Little dots. and imaginary diseases

Today I listened to Roxy while working, now it's One Size Fils All, with ZINY, Bongo Fury and Zoot Allures waiting in the wings.

Yesterday during work listening didn't work out as well (there I can only resort to Youtube), but yesterday I got to do Zoot and Bongo along with Studio Tan and Orchestral Favourites and the first CD of Joe's Garage. Just did Sleep Dirt, now SHeik, will then continue with Joe's and then move on to the 80s.

Ah, after YAWYI, Ship and Tinseltown Rebellion, it's now time for the epic Yellow Snow suite in YCDTOSA vol 1!

After that I played Man from Utopia, Thing-Fish, LSO, Perfect Stranger and Them or Us, and yesterday also the first 2 CDs of SUNPYG.

I'm now having to choose what I will play before going to the alpacas - I had a hard time choosing and wnt with DHBIM and Jazz From Hell, only now realising I have the third CD of Shut Up waiting for me - and that's the one with the glorious magnificent Duck duck Goose

Just another facebook finding:

46 years ago tonight
Cutting a cake shaped like a snake for the premiere of "Baby Snakes" at Victoria Theater in Times Square, NYC on December 21st in 1979, his 39th Birthday (Photo from The New York Times, hence its poor quality)
For Zappaphiles: A One-Man Enterprise
"BABY SNAKES" is a shapeless, inexcusably long concert film made of, by and about Frank Zappa, whose particular blend of avant-garde pretension and sophomoric glee doesn't do much to make the time fly. Mr. Zappa, with the members of his band, performs lengthy musical selections and complains obscurely about his former record company. He and the band also play with a toy police car, a gas mask, and an inflatable female doll, which they maul with either unabashed misogyny or a rather too subtle satirical imitation of same. "Baby Snakes," which opens today at the Victoria Theater, also contains sequences of stop-motion clay animation, deftly executed by Bruce Bickford but with an exhausting emphasis upon maggoty shapes and putrefaction. Mr. Zappa, in the production notes, explains the "story" of one of the animated sequences this way: "In one scene (and you won't believe this if you haven't seen it yet) two clay people are watching a movie. One guy really likes it. He likes it so much his head turns into a hamburger. He turns to the guy sitting next to him and uses his hamburger-head to bite the face off the other guy, allowing the upper bun to close on the remnants of the victim's features. When it opens again, a tiny version of the victim appears in the middle of the murderous burger patty. Behind the little victim a building grows up (a disco) and dozens of tiny cars (about the size of eraser crumbs) drive through a portal in it." Mr. Zappa's film includes interviews with his fans, who explain why they think he is so wonderful. "Baby Snakes" is for them and them alone.

Very Cool and the critics have not gotten any better.........