At 08:56 PM 12/17/04 -0500, R.A. Hettinga wrote:
the shiny pages of ''Hippie'' is to breathe deeply. My copy fell open at a manifesto by Frank Zappa, in which he admitted that ''A freak is not a freak if ALL are freaks,'' and went on to assert that ''Looking and acting eccentric IS NOT ENOUGH.'' How true.
I didn't bother wasting my attention enough to see if FZ was deemed a freak or not in this article. I will tell you that he was not into pharmaceuticals but was one of the finest american composers of the last century ---and Tipper Gore[1] will burn in hell for wasting his time. If you want to appreciate his brilliance, the _yellow shark_ album (which puts to music the US form required of immigrants) will inform you. [1] A publicly known mentally ill person who spawned drug-abusing future citizens and slept with liars.