I Unzipped Zoogz Rift Today

From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>
Newsgroups: alt.fan.frank-zappa, alt.destroy.the.earth, alt.slack, alt.fan.keanu-reeves, alt.fan.capt-beefheart
Date: Tue, Oct 8, 2002 8:55 PM

Yes, I inserted my Zoogz. My new Zoogz Rift Collected Works CD-R Number
One of Two. Upon it I found ONE HUGE ZIP FILE, 632 mb large. He said
it was zipped; I had wondered if it was song by song or album by album.

I have to admit that i also wondered why one would compress something
that was already pretty damn compressed.

But I took that file and I looked right in its little zipper and sure
enough, fossilized inside that seemingly solid block were *93 ZOOGZ
RIFT SONGS* in MP3 format.

Wellsir, I set ol' Muleskinner to skinnin' went for a walk, and when I
returned, there was a folder on my hard drive with those 93
now-unzipped freestanding mp3 files, alphabettized by title. CDR 1 goes
through the Ms of Zoogz' lifelong song titles.

Ready to play for 12 hours straight.

But I wanted to put them on a CD so I could play them in my APEX DVD
player and get them off my hard drive.

I found that all 93 would fit on one CD because en toto they were only
640 mb.

I am curious why what would fit on a CD and play normally would be
turned into a zip file of the same size, pretty much, but which cannot
be played.

This is the kind of thing that proves that Zoogz is more than a genius;
he is truly a SubGenius, which, while clumsy, is BETTER!!

And by Gobbs it was WORTH IT! I now have a CD-R blaring off my speakers
that will bathe me in Zoogzsound for HALF A DAY! By then I'll have
unzipped CDR #2.

Having every single song in alphabetical order on 2 CDs is just the
kind of thing that appeals to the nerdy completist in me. I have
probably almost all of Zoogz' fine fine shit, but it's scattered around
across media from LPs to cassettes to holocubes to CDs and now CD-Rs.

"Please don't make me watch Satan masturbate!" cried out Zoogz just
now. So plaintive.

It inspires me to attempt to methodically play every single Zoogz Rift
song on the Hour of Slack over a 90 show period, two per show. That
would get us to show number 959.

This was impossible in the old days when Hour of Slack was mastered on
cassette, because Zoogz says FUCK and SHIT a lot and those single words
are the very devil to "bleep" on cassette.

They are however SUBGENIUS'S PLAY with digital editing. I made myself a
plug-in that fast-forwards through AIFF files and finds the wave forms
common to somehone hollering FUCK or SHIT over loud rock music.

Lately I have used a "Wrong Answer Buzz" sound to oblterate Fucks and
Shits for the common man's radio. (The internet and Canadian versions
are still all befucked and SHITty.) These buzzes draw special attention
to the cussword by indicating its absence in an irritating manner, and
teach child listeners to learn from context.

Playing Zoogz' Life alphabetically on Hour of Slack will keep those
kids off the street and will give me a GOAL, a PLAN, a SCENARIO... a
BLUEPRINT to follow, a GUIDEBOOK, a TRAIL, a winding stream of glowing
radioactive aural pee to follow in the darkness. Hour of Slack will no
longer be a meandering, unfocused mess.

It will be ALPHABETICAL!!

Also it will have BEAUTIFUL MUSIC and INTELLIGENT LYRICS.

--
4th Stangian Orthodox MegaFisTemple Lodge of the Wrath of Dobbs Yeti,
Resurrected (Rev. Ivan Stang, prop.)
P.O. Box 181417, Cleveland, OH 44118 (fax 216-320-9528)
A subsidiary of:
The SubGenius Foundation, Inc. / P.O. Box 204206, Austin, TX 78720-4206
Dobbs-Approved Authorized Commercial Outreach of The Church of the SubGenius
SubSITE: http://www.subgenius.com
For SubGenius Biz & Orders: call toll free to 1-888-669-2323
or email: jesus@subgenius.com
PRABOB

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From: "Batpuller" <batpuller@hotmail.com>

"Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com> wrote in message
news:081020022055176093%stang@subgenius.com...
> Yes, I inserted my Zoogz. My new Zoogz Rift Collected Works CD-R Number
> One of Two. Upon it I found ONE HUGE ZIP FILE, 632 mb large. He said
> it was zipped; I had wondered if it was song by song or album by album.
>

I got a little rubber hand with my Zoogz discs. What did you get?

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From: "Rev. Ivan Stang" <stang@subgenius.com>

In article <XZWo9.96$6C3.36450@news.uswest.net>, Batpuller
<batpuller@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> I got a little rubber hand with my Zoogz discs. What did you get?
>
>

Some goofy Chinese candywith an inexplicable sticker inside, and a 3-D
magic blinking-eyesballs card. Plus the CD-Rs were autographed with
Zoogz' signature. Which is about as readable as "Bob"s.

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Subject: Re: I UnZipped Zoogz Rift Today...
From: bobdiddley@aol.com (Bobdiddley)
Newsgroups: alt.slack
Date: Wed, Oct 9, 2002 2:03 PM
Message-ID: <20021009140308.17119.00000368@mb-fd.aol.com>

>> Lately I have used a "Wrong Answer Buzz" sound to oblterate Fucks and
>> Shits for the common man's radio. (The internet and Canadian versions
>> are still all befucked and SHITty.)
This is one of several reasons I like living in Canada. In the 'Land of the
Free, Home of the Brave', there are all these great liberties guaranteed in the
Constitution, but not available on the street (even BEFORE the Butch
administration took them out of circulation). Canada has no such guarantees in
writing, but in actuality, you get to say pretty much anything you fuckin' well
want to. CBC tv (gov't-sponsored public broadcasting) ran Kids in the Hall, and
they said that stuff nearly every show. Lately, there's been a series of Coen
Bros. films shown at 9:00 to the whole nation - and supposedly, everyone who
has CBC on cable - expletives intact. As long as you'e not saying something
hateful or slanderous towards anyone, it's a say-what-you-will kind of place.

Cheaper food, more actual personal freedoms, less money spent on the military -
these are a few of my favourite things (also, those cute extra letters Canada
inherited from the Brits - honour, labour, etc.)

>These buzzes draw special attention
>> to the cussword by indicating its absence in an irritating manner, and
>> teach child listeners to learn from context.

Yes, there is an upside to nearly everything, including de facto censorship.

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