Category: Art

The Apostle Matthew Levi

MATTHEW LEVI  •  Terry Kruger Jesus the Son of God was a man among men, and the men closest to him were twelve diverse, unique personalities of that day.  The Bible and apocrypha contain scant few historical insights concerning these men;  until the appearance of The Urantia Book in 1955, almost nothing was known about their personal natures, not excepting …

EVERYTHING IS HEALING NICELY

EVERYTHING IS HEALING NICELY: Bullshit, Das Ist Nicht Echt — "Bullshit, This Is Not Real"Bullshit, Das Ist Nicht Echt*  •  Original mashup¹ for Zappadan by Terry Kruger
(If you want to read his robe you must click it.)

For many of the Zappanese intelligentsia, 200 Motels was a prototype of a dimension of Frank Zappa that was relatively unknown.  But there were inklings of the future there for the listening, Would You Like A Snack?,  Half A Dozen Provocative Squats,  The Girl Wants To Fix Him Some Broth. . .  If all you listen to is Joe’s Garage and Burnt Weenie Sandwich, it’s time to push the envelope.

Roland’s Big Event/Strat Vindaloo

By Frank Zappa

From the posthumously released album “Everything Is Healing Nicely” (1999).

EVERYTHING IS HEALING NICELY Oil painting of Frank Zappa’s mouth by C. Breman, used as a portion of the cover art for the 1999 album

 

Christ Consolator by Carl Bloch, 1886

¹Original oil painting by Carl Bloch, exhibited at Charlottenborg, Sweden, in 1886

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 * Bullshit, das ist nicht echt. . . ” Bullshit, this is not real. . .

ZAPPADAN

Joe has realized, at last, that imaginary guitar notes, and imaginary vocals, exist only in the imagination of the imaginer… and ultimately, who gives a fuck, anyway…

Mitty And The Moochers

The classic 1932 cartoon featured the first film of Cab Calloway, whose moon walking moves were rotoscoped by Max Fleischman  on to his dancing walrus

“Money is not the tool of the moochers, who claim your product by tears, or of the looters, who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the men who produce. Is this what you consider evil?” –Ayn Rand, “Hunger and Freedom”

“There are 47 percent of the people who will vote for the president no matter what. All right, there are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent upon government, who believe that they are victims, who believe that government has a responsibility to care for them, who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing, to you name it. That that’s an entitlement. And the government should give it to them. And they will vote for this president no matter what. And I mean, the president starts off with 48, 49, 48—he starts off with a huge number. These are people who pay no income tax. Forty-seven percent of Americans pay no income tax. So our message of low taxes doesn’t connect. And he’ll be out there talking about tax cuts for the rich. I mean that’s what they sell every four years. And so my job is not to worry about those people—I’ll never convince them that they should take personal responsibility and care for their lives.“–Mitt Romney, Boca Raton, Florida, May 2012

The Creation Of Adam’s Apple

Be with you in a minute, Dad The Bible assumes that God created Adam as a fully developed man. But per the passage below from The Urantia Book, re “circular simultaneity,” what Michelangelo saw in his mind’s eye as he contemplated Genesis’ account of the creation of the first man, could be but a snapshot in the non-linear cycle of creation …

Are We Insane?

ARE WE INSANE?  Is anxiety,  and even depression, a rational response to what passes for reality these days? Chris Hedges seems to think so. Here’s how he frames the issue: Welcome to the Asylum When civilizations start to die, they go insane. . .  Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk …