The Man With the Woman Head...

Are you with me on this people?

The man with the woman head -

Polynesian wallpaper made the face stand out, a mixture of Oriental and early vaudeville jazz poofter, forming a hard, beetle-like triangular chin much like a praying mantis. Smoky razor-cut, low on the ear neck profile. The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand. Dark circles collected under the wrinkled, folded eyes, map-like from too much turquoise eyepaint. He showed his old tongue through ill-fitting wooden teeth, stained from too much opium, chipped from the years. The feet, brown wrinkles above straw loafers. A piece of coconut in a pink seashell caught the tongue and knotted into thin white strings. Charcoal grey Eisenhower jacket zipped into a loaded green ascot. A coil of ashes collected on the white-on-yellow dacs.

Four slender bones with rings and nails endured the weight of a hard fast black rubber cigarette holder. I could just make out Ace as he carried the tray and mouthed, "You cheap son of a bitch"

as a straw fell out of a Coke, cartwheeled into the gutter.

So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood,

So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood,

So this was a drive-in restaurant in Hollywood.

Frank Zappa was one of the most incredible musicians that ever lived. Besides being a virtuoso guitarist, he had a positive knack for assembling some of the best bands you "never heard in your life". Bongo Fury was a live show recorded in Austin, TX with fellow offbeat composer, Captain Beefheart. I was fortunate enought to see Mr. Zappa with his full complement at Tulane's McAllister Auditorium. Bruce & Tom Fowler, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Terry Bozzio, & George Duke were among the greatest ensemble bands that Zappa ever brought on the road. He's gone now; one of the great musicians that went before their time. He joins the ranks of Hendrix, Lennon and others who deserved to stay here longer.

The green monster you see above is Maggie the Chameleon Monster. She is mine, but she is a bitch. She's my l'il dinosaur and I love her. Even though she is the most unsociable creature  in the world.