Nuns
Roman Catholic nuns are recurring characters in Frank Zappa's work.
One of his favorite compositions was The Devils of Loudun by Krzysztof Penderecki, particularly the scene where a nun receives an enema.
References
- King Kong (1971+1982 - various): "I want a nun! I want a nun!"
- Keith Moon plays a nun in 200 Motels (The Film).
- A Nun Suit Painted On Some Old Boxes
- Penis Dimension: "Yes, or they become Carmelite Nuns!""
- The Pleated Gazelle: "Broth reminds me of nuns"
- Little Green Scratchy Sweaters & Courduroy Ponce: "Broths reminds me of nuns / I see them smashing kids with rulers / disciplining munchkins cretins"
- Catholic Girls
- A nun can be seen in the music video of You Are What You Is.
- Sister Ghenghis-Adonis-Osmosis, Sister Jasmine Noxema-Tapioca and Sister Owl-Gonkwin-Jane Cow-Hoon are nuns in Thing-Fish.
- The Mammy Nuns
- The Massive Improve'lence: "I want a nun! I want a nun!" (...) What the fuck kinda nun you want?"
Quotes
"The Baltimore catechism is one of the most absurd things in my recollection. It's so vivid. That little blue and white cover and the stuff that was in there. I used to have to go to catechism class and the nuns would show you charts of hell. They would flip the page back and show you the fire and monsters and shit in there that can happen to you if you do all this stuff. I'm going, "Hey, this is something. This is really exciting." But you know, I've seen worse monsters in some of the audiences we've played for, and they were probably suffering more than the ones in that fake fire on the poster." - Frank Zappa in Frank Zappa: America's Weirdest Rock Star Comes Clean, Interview by John Swenson, High Times #55, March 1980.
"They tried to make me go to Catholic school, too. It lasted a very short time. When the penguin came after me with a ruler, I was out of there." - Frank Zappa. Interview in Playboy, 1993.
