On Tuesday, my Music Nerds group got together to discuss Frank Zappa's "Apostrophe" from 1974. It's really quite something. I won't go into a ton of detail, but I was interested how composer-oriented it seemed for me. At times it even reminded me of Dan Deacon, a favourite musican of mine. I'll leave you with this quote from Zappa:

Question: As a man with a sense of history, though, do you have any idea of how you'd like to be remembered?

Zappa: I don't care whether I'm remembered. As a matter of fact, there's a lot of people who would like to forget about me as soon as possible, and I'm on their side! You know? Just ... hurry up and get it over with. I do what I do because I like doing it, I do it for my amusement first, if it amuses you ... that's fine. I'm happy that you'll participate in it. But, uh, after I am dead and gone, there is no need to deal with any of this stuff, because it is not written for future generations, it is not performed for future generations. It is performed for now. Get it while it's hot, you know? That's it.

Last night, my nascent music club discussed Palace Music (Bonnie Prince Billy's) Arise Therefore. I wasn't super into this album at first. My listens felt like the album was marching along in the background (possibly the drum machine), and with moer warbling than I'm used to. Then, I listened to it while drawing and doing nothing else and I really liked it.