scattered limbs
car climbed a curb
to kill this seedling



This may be common knowledge in Zappan circles, but it was a surprise to me. One of his rarer albums, Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch (1982)--i finally found it in Savannah, i think--has always puzzled me by its title. Well, yesterday we got a book in from 1953, Roger Price's Droodles, consisting entirely of ultra-simple, enigmatic cartoons, and the humorous captions that cause them to make sense. On page 55, i found "Ship Arriving Too Late to Save Drowning Witch" (& the drawing which he used on the album cover). --He must have had this book, too.


"No Second Titanic"

walk through gilded years
music at your fingertips

the audience applauds
how much more like them i am now

walk through gilded years
new plagues
the audience applauds

lego rocket to the moon



At Starbucks i heard a vocal cover of "Bolero" by Angelique Kidjo--though she calls it "Djin Djin" on the album.