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Sun, 12 Aug 2007

How Did I Miss This For So Long?

Frank Zappa. A mentor of a sort, my employer for a bit, the most intelligent human being with whom I've ever had the privilege to be associated; perhaps the only fully-functional genius that I've ever met. What I didn't know is that he played Saturday Night Live on Christmas night in 1976—and performed "Slime From The Video"—and had Don Pardo do a voice-over of the lyrics as slime came out of the studio monitors.

There is no possibility of this song being performed better. Pure, inspired genius-within-genius, all from deep inside the belly of the very beast discussed in the lyrics. Absolutely one of the coolest things that I've ever seen:

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