On Sun, Jan 03, 2010 at 02:25:33PM -0500, Ricardus Vincente wrote: > On Sun, 2010-01-03 at 11:13 -0800, Ken Restivo wrote: > > In Frank Zappa's autobiography, he describes the time that Dweezil was > > born in 1971, when the hospital administrator would not admit his > > wife, who was in labor, until he'd finished filling out a bunch of > > forms and paperwork. The forms were filled with stupid questions, and > > he hurried through the process in the best interests of his wife and > > child. > > > > Where the forms demanded he list their "Religion", he wrote > > "Musician". Seems perfectly good enough to me. > > > > I suppose "Gentoo" or "Linux" would work just as well. I might have to > > list "Debian" for mine, if asked. > > > > Others might list the Church of Emacs instead, praise St. IGNUtius. > > > > Happy New Year, all! > > > > -ken > > Was that in The Real Frank Zappa Book? Yep, that's the one. > > I have to find my copy of that, because he had a REALLY GOOD rant > against people who think they like music.... as long as it sounds just > like every other song that goes BOOM... CHUCK... BOOM... CHUCK. > The whole book is basically one big REALLY GOOD rant. To pick a nit, it was the 80's, so IIRC he wrote "BOOM...CHACK...BOOM BOOM CHACK", otherwise known as "The (early days) R.E.M. Beat", and also used in pop-metal tunes of the day such as Def Leppard's "Rock of Ages". I suppose nowadays the corrollary would be "OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ OONTZ" (or "UNCE UNCE UNCE UNCE" in many European languages). > I have been wanting to quote that for years. > Thanks, I always love some Zappa quotes. -ken _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
