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<blockquote>[[Intercontinental Absurdities|INTERCONTINENTAL ABSURDITIES]] (founded 1968) is a company dedicated to [[Dada]] in Action. In
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the early days, I didn't even know what to call the stuff my life was made of. You can imagine my
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delight when I discovered that someone in a distant land had the same idea -- AND a nice, short name
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for it.</blockquote>
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<div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
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<blockquote><p>
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In Detroit, we did a television show where we were asked to do something perverted: "lip-sync our
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hit." We didn't have a 'hit,' but the producer said, "Lip-sync your hit -- or else."So I asked, "Do you
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have a prop department here?" Fortunately, there was one.</p>
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<p>From it, I gathered an assortment of random objects and built a set. We had been asked to pretend
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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
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member of the group choose a repeatable physical action, not necessarily in sync with (or even related
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to) the lyrics, and do it over and over until our spot on the show was concluded -- Detroit's first whiff
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of homemade prime-time [[Dada]].</p>
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<div align=right>[[The Real Frank Zappa Book]]</div>
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[[wikipedia:Dada|Dada Article]]
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Revision as of 22:37, 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.

The Real Frank Zappa Book


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.

Dada Article