Time Is Money
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| Roy Estrada was replaced by Patrick O'Hearn, a friend of Bozzio's from San Francisco; he called round to see Bozzio at Zappa's studio carrying his upright bass and Zappa asked him if he 'could play that dog kennel'. It was O'hearn's acoustic capability that enabled him to supply bass for the weirded-out jazz of 'Flambay' and 'Time Is Money'. | ||
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From my Couch-In-The-Sky, As my planet goes by, I behold all your misery below there! I have seen all your lying, And crying, and dying, And, believe me, Your planet is nowhere! |
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DRAKMA reclines on the immense SOFA. NOT QUITE CARL SAGAN: "And thus, from her grotesquely-tufted maroon SOFA, not far from a pinky bullet- shaped object that MIGHT or MIGHT NOT be A hair dryer, the sinister DRAKMA surveys the Pageant of Human Folly. amused by the imaged on her enormous viewing screen." |
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And if the equation, As set forth above, Is proved when we get to The bottom line... The 'Powers Financial' I'll hold o'er your world |
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| It was explained in TOU HUNCHENTOOT version during cosmic copulation in terms of Quantum-Economics like this | ||
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DRAKMA: (voice-over) "Oh, HUNCHENTOOT, HUNCHENTOOT! HUNCHEN- TOOT! HUNCHENTOOT! There has NEVER been a love such as ours! Don't let me dis- tract you, BUT . . . Do you REALIZE how FAR we are RIGHT NOW From THE EARTH IT- SELF?! Do you realize the IMPORTANCE of the fact that THE DISTANCE between THEM and US is nothing but SPACE! And. WHO IS TO SAY, HUNCHENTOOT, HUNCHENTOOT, HUNCHEN- TOOT, HUNCHENTOOT, whether or not THAT SPACE could BELONG to someone . . . HUN- CHENTOOT, my Valiant Insect, I, DRAKMA (Queen of Cosmic Greed) do hereby, with YOU as my LEGAL WITNESS, claim THAT SPACE AND ALL OTHER SPACE as MY OWN PERSONAL PROPERTY! Because . . . IF TIME MONEY (as the Earthlings believe), and, IF SPACE IS A LONG, LONG, TIME (AS should be evident to any fool), then `MY SPACE' (in terms of TIME) . . . when converted from LIGHT YEARS to COLD CASH will make me THE RICHEST HOT SPACE_GIRL IN ALL THE UNIVERSE!" |
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Will complete my fantastic design! And the whole 'Equivalent Earth' shall be mine! |
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| All actions of the comedy took place in some equivalent to current our time-space warp. Or in exact words of NOT QUITE CARL SAGAN: | ||
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". . . . which reminds me of a little story! ONCE UPON A TIME, during some `EQUIVALENT Time-Cycle' in some `EQUIVA- LENT Civilization', there did occur on the `EQUIVALENT Earth' (and in the `EQUI- VALENT Void' surrounding it), a most peculiar situation, wherein a mysterious, and, as yet, un-named sizable chunk of Celestial Debris . . . " |
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And the whole 'Equivalent Earth' shall be mine! And the whole 'Equivalent Earth' shall be mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! Mine! |
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Any proposal? I'd like to hear!
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Provocation, compilation and design © Vladimir Sovetov, 1994-2004 You could download, copy and redistribute this material freely as long as you keep copyright notice intact and don't make any profite on it. |