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punknaynowned
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my thing is that I have crazy hair and by the time I was twenty I decided to go with it. But then a year later they made the movie Yahoo Serious.
The character actually looked a lot like me. I hated it but stuck with it. A couple years later, when I joined the military, they shaved it off and
wow did they make fun of me. That was my bootcamp, til I caught pneumonia and got stuck in the hospital in Orlando, FL, January 1990.
From marching around parade style with someone always yelling at someone for them to act right, down to how to fold your underwear and how much hair
on your face to have and where and how to stand up straight and still and move your head and touch your cap. They grind it out one thing at a time if
necessary to hold still and contain any individuality. But then after an awful day or two I was laying in a bed with a window, 8 flights up in a tower
overlooking the parade grounds or a pond with tall Florida evergreens dotting the rim of the shore. I watched the invasion of Iraq thru the view of
CNN from the hospital bed while my new buddies marched around and did endless exercise pushups and jogged miles. They didn't get to see what I could
see even though everyone who visited me wore masks and gloves. Discharged from hospital I was assigned to a medical unit where other convalescents
slowly got better. Mass Physical Exercise was not part of teh schedule as some like me had to repair themselves internally before they could begin
again. I was also excused from the common practice where everyone wore gasmasks and exited a teargassed building. But without the extra training, I
passed the needed last physical exams. Simple Timed pushups, situps and 3/2 mile jog. I made it anyway.
But everywhere they sent me, I always saw the left behinds, the sickly in bootcamp, the kitchen slurry mess, the smokers on the back patio, the
delivery people on the move. Not the upfront or the store front, the guards at post, the commanders in their cars. That view I don't know. My
memory of the guards out front is when I was drunk and they didn't like my attitude.
But that was twenty years ago. The way I figure I got my hair was from both of my grandmothers who each had crazy hair in different ways.
[Edited on 3-12-10 by punknaynowned]
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polydigm
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Hey Ned, I didn't realise you were ex military.
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punknaynowned
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yeah I don't advertize it. Less than 10% of my life and while my experience may have been an uncommon one there and no less 'important' than anyone
else's, I figure people in general hear waaaaaaaayyy too much about all that kind of thing all the time anyway. So why add to it?
If I recall it I try to write it down as sometimes, as people sharing our personal experiences, we can help each other. Even if or even especially
if, our experiences/life journeys are different.
Nice to see ya G!
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polydigm
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Don't worry, I don't like you any less now that I know. 
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BBP
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Whoa, has it really been three days since my last post here? Oh boy...
Anyway I bought an alto recorder. It's large, but they sound so cool!
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BBP
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Wondering how quiet this place has become. Come ON people! This isn't DweezilZappaWorld!!
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MTF
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Quote: Originally posted by BBP  | | Wondering how quiet this place has become. Come ON people! This isn't DweezilZappaWorld!! |
That's cold.
But it's true: Dweezil's about as compelling as a bucket of fish...
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BBP
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 Weird, though. Such a fascinating background, and such a total boring blog
writer.
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DED
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I also started out to write a blog. The first months I was surely delivering each week a blogstory, but somehow after sometime it slows down. Now I
can write 10 or more blogstories a day, there is enough base material. but i think there is something in between my brain and keyboard that is
disfunctioning.
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polydigm
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I'm really lonely at the moment. My wife and two sons got on a plane for Paris yesterday then they're off to England later in the week. I'm meeting up
with them later on because I've still got work and stuff to do.
I know what you mean about DweezilZappaWorld. Right at the start it was interesting but got boring real quick and I stopped going regularly ages ago.
I pop in every now and then. Last time I dropped in was to check out why some strange guy was serenading me via messages but I never really figured
out why.
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BBP
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(hugs Poly in a friendly fashion) Play some Zappa!
I'm now listening to The Man From Utopia, in other words, we've reached the year of my birth. I really like the song SEX on it, which is playing now.
Because it's on my second compilation (Have I Offended Someone?) I managed to get into it without having to listen to The Man From Utopia Meets Mary
Lou.
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MTF
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I think of The Man From Utopia in the same way as Weasels Ripped My Flesh, Apostrophe and Sleep Dirt. These are all albums that don't have a central
theme, and contain worthy songs that didn't fit on other albums.
Basically, they're albums of leftovers. But any good cook can whip up a fine meal from leftovers, and Zappa was the musical equivalent of a master
chef...
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BBP
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To me the whole sound of Apostrophe is what binds the album, much more than on Weasels or Sleep Dirt. Also, track 1 and 2 belong together, as do track
3 and 4.
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BBP
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Knitted a baret.
Quit DweezilZappaWorld.
Feeling better!
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polydigm
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Thanks for the hug, still feeling lonely, but it's getting closer, not long to go now.
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Huck_Phlem
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I think sleep dirt has a sound of it's own more than any other Zappa album!
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polydigm
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I think that's true whichever version you're talking about. I've always been in awe of this album.
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BBP
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It's a good album. I should listen more to it, really. I only have the vinyl, and by my digital 90s ears it seems to sound so soft!
Still living in a cheap christmas card here... listening to Make A Jazz Noise Here. Today I will be visiting a long-time friend of mine, am looking
forward to it!
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Huck_Phlem
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I have a promotional copy on vinyl. Just listened to it today on my awesome vintage stereo. ahhhhh nice.
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polydigm
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I've been listening to the CD version for some time. My eldest son decided to get a bit nuts about vinyl a while back and recently got himself a turn
table. One night he put Sleep Dirt on and I realised I missed the instrumental versions. But, I'm not one of those fanatics who hates the vocal
versions.
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