Yeah, I think that Zappa definitely felt like he was superior for "choosing" to write stupid music, even as that music got stupider. BUT one of his criticisms in "Tinseltown Rebellion" is that punks are just "acting dumb" to make money, and on the other hand, elsewhere "dumb" is, like "ugly", a word he uses to express with SOME affection the hopelessness of the human condition. I think in the end it's just a combination of arrogance and projection that keep him from seeing any common ground with punk rock, not any super-precise vocabulary he's using.
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Date: 2004-04-30 08:49 am (UTC)