the idea of Bob Saget doing the bootylicious dance may make my head explode. But now I think the crazy in love horn section should follow him around everywhere.

Come to think of it I do have a lot in common with Jay-Z. I also have beef with Nas, for starters.

Yo, msbelle, I posted this in Bitches (I think) but I've got a sooper sekrit message for you: I got a fever...and the only prescription...is more cowbell.

Also: BWHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

FRANK! you finally watched it. I don't read Bitches, so thanks for re-posting.

My brother just saw it for the first time and did not find it as funny as I had built it up.

how's the Petra Haden now that you've had some time w/ it?

I agree with the consensus that it's not something I'm going to listen to often, but it's very cool how she found some great low-key elements of the songs to emphasize. It's sort of like a good essay about a great book: when I get back to the original album, I hear new things thanks to Petra Haden.

LJ: I just got the thatdog album recently from a friend. I like it, but I like her solo album with Bill Frisell better. She also sings on a couple of Mike Watt's albums, including his proggy last one. She's also Charlie Haden's daughter, if you're curious.

I haven't heard Antony & the Johnsons yet, but y'all are making me want to.

Hee. I just unwrapped Johnny Cash's American Songs and played "Delia's Gone" while taking my daughter to high school.

I think her eyebrows went straight through her hairline and kept going.

I just got the thatdog album recently from a friend

Which one? I had "Totally Crushed Out," but I think they made a few others. I should look into her solo album.

And I don't exactly know who Charlie Haden is, other than a vague sense he has something to do with jazz.

And I don't exactly know who Charlie Haden is, other than a vague sense he has something to do with jazz.

Heh. Where's that boucher?

Charlie Haden was the bass player in Ornette Coleman's revolutionary free jazz group from the late 50s/early 60s. He's a white guy with a country background, who played in (I think) country or western swing groups before he hooked up with Ornette (plastic sax) and Don Cherry (pocket trumpet). He's had a long and distinguished career since then.

I would like to start a small shitstorm, if I may. I think Frank Zappa sucks. Okay, not sucks--I recognize his immense talents as a muscian and a composer, but the lyrics of his songs always feel like he wrote down whatever was amusing him that day and didn't give a shit. This bugs me. They aren't about anything and they don't mean anything and they feel like work of a writer whoi is too arrogant or too slipshod to rewrite anything. Even the funny stuff isn't really that funny. The only way I can deal with them is to think of the voice as another musical instrument, but since Zappa wasn't much of a singer, his voice doesn't add musicallity (is that a word?) to this work.

Why this should bug me so much as to make much of Zappa's work almost unlistenable, when I find John Linnell's goofy lyrics adorable and catchy, I don't know. So, Zappa-lovers, what am I not getting?

I've never been a Zappa fan either Robin. But I do remember an interview or something where he said that he only writes lyrics because he needs to sing something. He only really cares about the music.