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No matter how much older and supposedly wiser I get, I always end up posting humiliating nonsense on the internets when I'm too tired (or sun-crazy) to censor myself. Oy! So, embarrassing faux pas and typos aside, I was very impressed last night to discover (via an unrelated Google search for various Zappa offspring), this "super-cute" photo of Diva Zappa, on a Vox blog. It's there to promote Worn Free T-shirts, a company which copies vintage T-shirt designs worn by famous musicians, and then recreates them for discerning hipsters like you and I to purchase. And if their Tees are good enough to grace the bods of Diva Zappa and Ellen Page, then (by crikey) they're good enough for anyone!
In other Zappa news (this, in fact, being the report that spurred the above random Googling):
"A bronze statue of Frank Zappa is to be erected in Baltimore in the US. A group of Lithuanian artists built a bust of the late musician in the capital Vilnius in 1995 and has now donated a replica to his home city. A Zappa fan club pitched the idea to Baltimore's public art commission, which voted unanimously to accept it. Lithuanian PR consultant Arturas Baublys said before the decision: "It's carved already, and it's ready to be shipped to the US. Whenever Baltimore says, 'OK,' and gives us an address to ship it to, we pack it and we ship it on our costs. And that's a nation of three and a half million giving a present to the United States." Baublys estimated the cost of creating and shipping the bust at around $50,000. The art commission is now in the process of deciding where to place it. Zappa died in 1993 from prostate cancer, aged 52. He had no known connection to Lithuania." - Digital Spy
In other, other Zappa news... Confessions (of a Deprived Youth), by Dweezil and Ahmet is still one of my favourite albums of all time. And 'Vanity' remains one of my fave songs of all time... can't find the video on YouTube, so I'm glad I have my own taped-off-TV-on-to-VHS-on-to-DVD copy to enjoy!
PS. See! I can spell "Zappa"!! Dammit!!!
