Difference between revisions of "Dada"
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| + | <blockquote>[[Intercontinental Absurdities|INTERCONTINENTAL ABSURDITIES]] (founded 1968) is a company dedicated to [[Dada]] in Action. In | ||
| + | the early days, I didn't even know what to call the stuff my life was made of. You can imagine my | ||
| + | delight when I discovered that someone in a distant land had the same idea -- AND a nice, short name | ||
| + | for it.</blockquote> | ||
| + | <div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div> | ||
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| + | In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our | ||
| + | hit." We didn't have a 'hit,' but the producer said, "Lip-sync your hit -- or else."So I asked, "Do you | ||
| + | have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one.</p> | ||
| + | <p>From it, I gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set. We had been asked to pretend | ||
| + | to play either "[[How Could I Be Such A Fool|How Could I Be Such a Fool?]]" or "[[Who Are The Brain Police?|Who Are the Brain Police?]]" so I suggested that each | ||
| + | member of the group choose a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related | ||
| + | to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded -- Detroit's first whiff | ||
| + | of homemade prime-time [[Dada]].</p> | ||
| + | <div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div> | ||
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| + | [[wikipedia:Dada|Dada Article]] | ||
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[[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]] | [[Category:The Real Frank Zappa Book (The List)]] | ||
Revision as of 21:37, 28 October 2006
INTERCONTINENTAL ABSURDITIES (founded 1968) is a company dedicated to Dada in Action. In
the early days, I didn't even know what to call the stuff my life was made of. You can imagine my delight when I discovered that someone in a distant land had the same idea -- AND a nice, short name
for it.
In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our hit." We didn't have a 'hit,' but the producer said, "Lip-sync your hit -- or else."So I asked, "Do you
have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one.
From it, I gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set. We had been asked to pretend to play either "How Could I Be Such a Fool?" or "Who Are the Brain Police?" so I suggested that each member of the group choose a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded -- Detroit's first whiff of homemade prime-time Dada.
