03 Apr 10
Originally posted by SeitseOK, a secondary catagory: Most Pretentious Book About An Artist's Work...
Starrman will scratch your face like a feline in full rage mode.
After I scratch his.
Ben Watson's The Negative Dialectics Of Poodle Play on the works of Frank Zappa.
Exquisitely pretentious and far-fetched. To the point of sheer genius.
03 Apr 10
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The thing about Zappa was, even though he talked a lot of zomg he knew it was zomg and that makes it as much a joke as a special, secret piece of knowledge. I don't think anyone could consider Zappa pretentious, he did it for the lulz. Seriously and with the utmost detail, but lulz nonetheless.
Those who wrote about, or surrounded him (Steve Vai is a good example) cannot always be said to have got the joke, though.
