Word: perverted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...America. We must say that the death from the skies over Hanoi and Laos does not emanate from Nebraska and Detroit: that the mountain people in Appalachia do not hate the mountain people in the Central Highlands; that the Nixons and the Kissingers do not represent America but pervert it. That must continue to be our task as students; we who can disrupt our routines with ease must act for those who are constrained by a nine-to-five system. We can deal with the makers of bombs and the designers of contingency plans later: for now, we must...
Well, this will show you how crazy business is sometimes. The banker had only one condition. He was a pervert. He wanted some stag movies, one of those blue films that were being made in Hollywood, and he said he'd come up with the money if we could get a really hot stag film. Noah told me this on the telephone. So I scoured Hollywood and came up with some film. It was disgusting. I ran it off at home to see what it was like-Billie [Actress Billie Dove] was with me and she nearly died...
...reduced to desperate paranoia. The only thing the Mothers ever talk about is getting drunk, getting laid, and getting paid. They all hate working for Zappa and think he is ripping them off. They are sure that he has their rooms bugged, so he can steal all their ideas, pervert them, copyright them, and claim them as his own. (At one point we actually see Larry the Dwarf, disguised as Zappa, transcribing a tape of the band into a music notebook and then perverting it by pouring coffee all over the page and hitting it with a blunt object...
With everyone finally in tune. Zappa opened the set by harranguing the audience with such statements as, "Some people say we're perverted, and they're right. And just to show you how perverted we really are, even though you're rude and obnoxious, we still love you!" The audience howled for more. But it wasn't more of Zappa the pervert they got, it was Zappa the musical genius...
...self-consciousness is what at this stage Jones' Black Power mission is really all about. "We are self-conscious now," he writes, "because we are trying to break from slavery. If we could see it continuously as people, as the devil collecting and using our energies to pervert the world, then there would be no pause, no rhetoric, only action, which is divine...