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[stoneonstone]

Frank Zappa<br><br>Interview in Playboy<br>May 2, 1993<br><br>[tiny snippet]<br><br>Playboy: Is there rhyme or reason behind the subjects you choose to attack?<br><br>Frank Zappa: Whatever I'm mad at at the time. I like things that work. If something doesn't, the first question you have to ask is, Why? if it's not working and you know why, then you have to ask, "Why isn't somebody doing something about it?" The government, for starters. Most institutions. The nation's education system is completely fucked up.<br><br>Playboy: Fucked up how?<br><br>Frank Zappa: The schools are worthless because the books are worthless. They still are on the level of George Washington and the cherry tree and "I cannot tell a lie." The books have all been bowdlerized by committees responding to pressure from right-wing groups to make every aspect of the history books consistent with the cryptofascist view-point. When you send your kids to school, that's what they're dealing with. Your children are being presented with these documents, part of a multibillion-dollar industry, which are absolutely fraudulent. Kids' heads are crammed with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/interviews/Playboy/Introduction.html">www.science.uva.nl/~robbe....html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://http://www.science.uva.nl/~robbert/zappa/interviews/Playboy/Introduction.html">Zappa 1993 interview</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>

[orz]

great interview, thanks for posting! <p></p><i></i>

[Sweejak]

<!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>By the mid-1980s Zappa's reputation as an outspoken social critic had drawn him into various non- or extra-musical contexts, the most visible of these being precipitated by the public hearings held in September 1985 to address the record ratings system demanded by the Parents' Music Resource Center. Amongst the list of music industry figures called to speak -- ranging from Twisted Sister's Dee Snider to country boy John Denver -- Zappa delivered the most thoroughly researched and well-considered testimony; this increased public profile immediately resulted in several invitations to speak as a guest lecturer, most often on the topic of censorship. In 1989 he composed a score to the Cousteau Society documentary Outrage at Valdez in order to draw more attention to the ecological disaster it portrayed, and for which he donated his fee back to the Society. As the 1980s came to a close, Frank also became more active in different business ventures, establishing Why Not?, a consulting company geared towards facilitating U.S. investment in the Soviet Union just prior to the fall of communism; these dealings eventually led to a request in 1990 from Czech president Vaclav Havel for Zappa to officially represent Czechia's trade interests in the United States (an arrangement that was forcibly terminated by the first Bush administration soon afterwards). For a brief period in 1991, he even researched the possibility of running for president himself, and a few grassroots groups continued to pursue this idea independently until Zappa's death two years later.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.nndb.com/people/737/000024665/">www.nndb.com/people/737/000024665/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Z and B Videos:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.beefheart.com/filtered/index.html">www.beefheart.com/filtered/index.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dg48LhD86w&mode=related&search=">www.youtube.com/watch?v=2...ed&search=</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=sweejak@rigorousintuition>Sweejak</A> at: 8/30/06 7:42 pm<br></i>