Lawson discussing his working relationship with Frank; the Persuasions published an album under the Straight label. This is from the documentary From Straight to Bizarre; I posted the trailer last October.
Month: July 2013
Ditko Package
Got this in the mail on Saturday:
It's what I bought in the Ditko Kickstarter back in April -- The Ditko Public Service Package #2, plus various other goodies, some Ditko and some non-Ditko, from publisher Robin Snyder's collection.
I've barely scratched the surface of this delightful haul, and I think it's far too early for me to do a writeup that would do it any kind of justice. Suffice it to say it's just what I'd hoped for -- brilliant and raw and undiluted and baffling and infuriating and contradictory and didactic and oblique and funny and heartbreaking and ingenious and so very, very pretty to look at, in turns and sometimes all at once.
So yeah, I'm pretty happy with it.
Bring on the next Ditko Kickstarter.
But I'll need some time to finish reading all my stuff from this one.
Frank Zappa's Classical Comeback
Posted by, no shit, the Financial Times on June 20. You know, for everything that's wrong with the British press, you sure as hell wouldn't see an American paper with a name like "The Financial Times" doing this story in America.
Memoriam
I grew up in Prescott, kinda.
I didn't know any of the Granite Mountain Hotshots, but I guess my brother went to high school with some of them.
I dunno what the hell else to say. Here's a link to Prescott Firefighter's Charities. And thank a firefighter today, why don'tcha.
And it's a small thing, but hey, if you could try and pronounce the name of the place they're from right, that wouldn't hurt. It's "Preskit". Like "Biscuit".
- Andrew Ashcraft
- Robert Caldwell
- Travis Carter
- Dustin Deford
- Christopher MacKenzie
- Eric Marsh
- Grant McKee
- Sean Misner
- Scott Norris
- Wade Parker
- John Percin
- Anthony Rose
- Jesse Steed
- Joe Thurston
- Travis Turbyfill
- William Warneke
- Clayton Whitted
- Kevin Woyjeck
- Garret Zuppiger
My thanks to them. My condolences to their friends and family.
That's it, I guess.