Turns out Zappa's "Joe's Garage" (1979) is now a prescient fable for 2025, and the ages [View all]
It was Zappa's magnum opus screed against the recording industry, but take out "recording industry" and insert "Trump's second term" and you're good to go.
I base this on the running narrative from the "Central Scrutinizer"...Zappa, who gleefully revels in the cruelty of always dreaming big dreams guitarist "Joe" getting his spirit thoroughly crushed in the machine.
Zappa fans know what I'm talking about. Everyone else, probably not so much. But I'm listening to "Watermelon in Easter Hay" right now, and listened to the Scrutinizer intro, and said to myself "TRUMP."
That's what 2025 has been all about...cruelty, breaking those who can be broken, and threatening a legal hellscape for those who can't. Just crushing them till there's nothing left.
I miss Frank ALL THE TIME, but part of me is glad that he's not here to witness it. It's everything he predicted, but unbelievably much worse.
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