Tuesday, August 16, 2011

LONG LIVE FRANK ZAPPA

Me and Russell used to like to take a Raleigh cigarette, and mush it up a little, and bend it till it looked like a banana. Then we’d make a cup of hot tea, with a little lemon and Angel Dust in it, and smoke the cigarette, which somehow tasted better for being bent and mushed and we couldn’t feel our fingers, and after a little while we couldn’t feel our lips either. We’d freak out a little, wondering how many cigarettes we had lit, and whether we would be able to actually escape from a burning house if the need should arise. We’d play a little Parcheesi and listen to Apostrophe’, and discuss how they ever came up with such a genius title for an album as Overnite Sensation,  and after a bit we would gather up enough courage to stumble outside into the open air to play a little Speed Frisbee. Because Raleigh cigarettes, bent up and mushy combined with hot tea lemon and Angel Dust will make it impossible to operate heavy machinery (even a toaster seems HUGE) or move very fast, and if you stand about five feet apart from each other and throw the Frisbee back and forth as fast as you can you can rally have yourself a time.

4 comments:

red dirt girl said...

i posted some horses for you, cowboy!

xxx

Martijn said...

Zappa is great, even without drugs. There... the squarest thing I'll ever say. Hey Steve.

bulletholes said...

Drugs? What drugs? It was the bent up Raleigh. You should try one.

Kim said...

Do they still make raleighs? Dweezil Zappa is touring playing his dad's stuff. Really good job too