Epistemic Ingemination

:: Art, Science, Politics, Humor, Geekery: Randy Kirchhof's Weblog

NOTE: this blog is no longer active as of 12/07. New one: http://blog.kirchhof.com

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

Home Page MySpace Page Shelfari Page Tips, Rants, etc: E-mail Randy

Sun, 12 Aug 2007

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:

Posted at 13:21 by Randy Kirchhof [Permalink] [Reload all] [E-mail]