A guitar teacher of mine, after marking me on an exam, told me my soloing was “angular” and asked me if I was deliberately copying Zappa. Honestly, it was a really boring exam with a really low pass bar, so I was stretching the limits of unmusicality in what I could play while still passing the thing.

Frank Zappa x 25 Quotes

1. If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.

2. You can’t be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you…

It’s New to Elliot: week of 3/20/16

This edition of It’s New to Elliot is being curated by my good friend, Patrick Tape Fleming. Patrick is the mastermind behind Gloom Balloon and has spent half his life in The Poison Control Center. He loves music beyond comprehension, so I trusted that he would…