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the last email from my editor gave me the impression of, okay, what now? how the hell do we market your book?
sell it to churches, man. there are so many references to jesus in the book.....
i don't know what to tell him. just put it out there. if someone is curious enough to pick it up, get excited and buy and read it, then there should be some sort of reward at the end (or punishment-- what? i sat through all this shit for this?). at first i was nervous and concerned about the marketing. but now, i know it's looming over me but i'm not too worried. it exists, it has been separated from me like a child leaving home. it's contents are immortalized. it has a life of its own and will need to learn how to live without me. i know it can't sell itself, but that's what i will force it to do. honestly, it feels anticlimactic. but at least, i have product. and partly, that is the concensus within the book. we are all product.
last night, Skipper's, Bogus Pomp played the music of Frank Zappa. i can't remember the last time i saw those guys (but i saw Jerry Outlaw open for Adrian a few weeks ago) but they were tight and fun AND funny. the sound was perfect where i saw it, possibly the clearest shows of their's i've heard in the nine years i've been seeing them. lots of rarities like "Penguin in Bondage" and "Carolina Hardcore Ecstasy" (a love song, really...). they didn't play "Peaches en Regalia" but did a wonderful "Let's All Move to Cleveland". second set opened with "Chunga's Revenge" into "Little House I Used to Live In" right into a fantastic "King Kong". then came "Willie the Pimp", "G-Spot Tornado" and "City of Tiny Lights" which would have sounded great if Adrian had sang it with them. then, a song i've never heard them play: "Illinois Enema Bandit" (based on a true story). yes yes yes. i was laughing before they could even start it once they announced it.
the set seemed cut short. they only played "Zomby Woof" to close the set and that was it. no "Muffin Man" or "Watermelon in Easter Hay". oddly some of the songs seemed drained out of energy. maybe because their sound man was arrested after their first set. too bad.
"The audience sits inside a piano and they listen to it grow."
--Frank Zappa, Civilization Phase III
there was a drunken woman stumbling about, a birthday girl, not unlike the character Carol on saturday night live. she made sure she let everyone know she was drunk and it was her birthday. when the band played "Yo Mama" it seemed taylor-written just for her:
"Maybe you should live with yo mama
She can do yo laundry and cook for you...
Maybe you should live with yo mama
You're really kinda ugly and stupid too...."
what a show....
