THIS Rhett Butler Will Never Die

well, i finally regained access to my BraveJournal blog, where i like to do my personal blogging. i've survived the holidays pretty much. spent them alone basically. very alone. very very. alone. uh, got my new camera. the months ahead are going to be lean, as i will too become... thank you all who have ever taken the time to read what i type here. i appreciate it. honestly i do. oh, i'm going to start a Flickr project on the first of the year. 365 days of a self portrait of being bipolar i'm going to call it...

Adrian Belew (born December 23, 1949 as Robert Steven Belew) is an American guitarist and vocalist (and sometimes drummer, pianist and bass player), perhaps best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock group King Crimson, which he first joined in 1981. He has also released a number of solo albums for Island Records and Atlantic Records, and has worked with many other musicians. He was nominated for a Grammy in 2005, for his single, "Beat Box Guitar", which was nominated for Best Rock Instrumental Performance. In addition, Belew is well-regarded for his contributions, particularly on guitar, to various other artists' recordings. In 1977, he performed with Frank Zappa, appearing in Zappa's 1979 concert film Baby Snakes, as well as Zappa's controversial album Sheik Yerbouti. In addition to playing lead guitar on David Bowie's 1979 album, Lodger, he also supported him on his Stage world tour in 1978 and the Sound + Vision world tour in 1990 as music...

It's the birthday of the singer, songwriter, and composer Frank Zappa , (books by this author) born in Baltimore, Maryland (1940). When he was 15, he read a magazine article that described the work of the avant-garde classical composer Edgar Varese as "the ugliest music in the world," and he decided he had to hear it. That turned him into a huge fan of 20th-century classical music. He later said, " I didn't have any kind of musical training, so it didn't make any difference to me if I was listening to Lightnin' Slim ... or Stravinsky. To me, it was all good music." Out of high school, Zappa supported himself as a greeting-card designer, window dresser, and encyclopedia salesman. At night, he played with various bar bands, and he began experimenting with playing atonal classical music on an electric guitar, backed by a rock-and-roll rhythm. He said his goal at the time was to make music that would cause people to run from the room the moment they hear...

this site gave me a lot of joy tonight. i actually laughed out loud looking at all these photos and fantasized a bit about what it must be like to have such a close relationship with one's son. really, really awesome works of art. http://jumpingboy.com