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...Statesman griped, "I don't remember ever seeing animated retching before, and hope to never see it again." Campus critics took a different view. Ren's constant bleat -- "You bloated sack of protoplasm!" -- began to replace Bart Simpson's "Eat my shorts!" as their put-down of choice. Frank Zappa joined the fan club. So did Robert De Niro and pop singer Matthew Sweet. Dormitories at Yale, the University of Michigan and U.S.C. staged viewing parties, where undergraduates displayed their new Ren & Stimpy T shirts...
...wish Frank Zappa would bepresident. I'm a devout American. I think theprinciples, the original concept of the americandemocracy, is a beautiful concept for agovernment. I'm not sure if the execution lives upto it. I'm afraid if I vote for Zappa, I would besupporting Bush. So my answer is anybody but Bush...
Most fun are the odd couplings of people and events. Julia Child talks about riding in her family's first automobile, circa 1920. Frank Zappa recalls hiding under the bed during blackouts in World War II. Senator Bill Bradley reveals that he once plucked a leaf from Elvis' Graceland estate while on a Boy Scout trip to Memphis. Dick Clark reminisces about his brother's death at the Battle of the Bulge...
...DYLAN: THE BOOTLEG SERIES, VOLS. 1-3 (Columbia). Since its release almost five months ago, this mind-snapping collection of rare, unreleased or alternate takes of 58 Dylan tunes has racked up sales over 300,000 and has inspired everyone from Paul McCartney to Frank Zappa to scour their vaults. This collection ($45.95 for the 3-CD set) stands apart, though: it is the audio notebooks of rock's greatest songwriter. Songs that Dylan leaves off a record would make history for anyone else. The last three tunes in Vol. 3, including the beautiful Series of Dreams, are the most...
...with having their profits pilfered, musicians are striking back with the weapon they know best -- their own music. Next week Zappa will kick off his "Beat the Boots!" campaign with the release of a 10-album Bootleg Box of his own music that had been bootlegged. Says Zappa: "I think it's up to artists to do whatever they can to stand up for their rights...