Electric Josh

The kid just sang us part of the chorus to Tattoo and the whole first verse of Heaven And Hell, both by The Who, while I goofed around on the computer and her mom read a book. She's now making pretend food for us to eat. This after earlier offering each of us a beer with a big smile as though offering a dog a treat: "Hey Dad, do you want a beer?" Nice.
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Frank Zappa on Crossfire in 1986. In addition to making Robert Novak and some Washington Times columnist look like fools, he swears on television as tastefully as I've ever seen. The clips full of scary, evil music that lead out to the ad break halfway through the segment include I Wanna Rock by Twisted Sister, which is a generic party song, whose inclusion proves that these guys had no idea what the hell they were talking about. I remember in high school when the song Suicide Solution by Ozzy Osbourne was held up as an example of rock music that glorified suicide: people seemed not to notice that the song was about the evils of alcohol. Frank even lucidly defends Van Halen's video for Hot For Teacher against these humorless jerks. Man, I wish we still had Frank Zappa.
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