WALK AMONG US.

Things have been quiet around the blog, which I kind of had come to peace with, the holidays in mind, but I felt it would be inappropriate to leave the news of the death of Captain Beefheart, who passed away last friday, unmentioned. I was still in a process of getting to know his work (I own and dig the obligatory Trout Mask Replica) and feel kind of thrown off as I suddenly feel like I should have paid him more attention - sooner. The Guardian wrote a nice and respectful obituary: Read it here. May he rest in peace.

Also newsworthy, and not totally off topic as the event now have been updated with some notes about Beefheart, is an upcoming "birthday":

Tomorrow Frank Zappa, another guy whose work I still have on my to-do list, would have turned 70. This day is marked at my workplace - the main library of Copenhagen - with a special event! It started out as a smaller happening created by some fans in the music section of the library, but is now looking out to be a pretty big deal with newspapers dropping by and hundreds "attending" on Facebook/by email sign-ups. I will be attending and working the bar. Info in Danish taken from the Facebook event page:

FRANK ZAPPA 70 år

- Stort arrangement på Hovedbiblioteket

Frank Zappa ville have fyldt 70 år den 21. december.
Det markeres på Hovedbiblioteket med en vild aften i Zappas ånd.

• Legendariske Cal Schenkel (manden bag de mest utrolige Frank Zappa pladecovers) laver noget særligt til dagen. Det vil også være muligt at købe hans værker - billigt.

• Super fan Ole Lysgård fortæller anekdoter fra et langt liv med Frank Zappa.

• Komponist Jesper Hendze introducerer sin 'Trio (In Memoriam Frank Zappa)' som spilles LIVE af Glinka Trio.

• Trommevirtuosen Kalle Mathisen (Kalles World Tour) spiller et særligt sæt med indbyggede Zappa referencer.

• Quiz på scenen med Torben Petersen. Flotte præmier fra den tyske Zappanale. (www.zappanale.de/)

• VJ Benno Bodnia fyrer op under pladespilleren og storskærmen.

Københavns Hovedbibliotek tirsdag 21. december kl. 18-22 Fri Entré.
Send en mail til Lars Kjelfred på larsra@kff.kk.dk eller tilmeld dig på facebook - gå ind under Københavns Hovedbibliotek.
Arrangementet er både til inkarnerede og nysgerrige.

OBS: Nu med Captain Beefheart.
Lars Movin der tidligere i år udgav en fantastisk bog om Beefheart kommer forbi med et par velvalgte ord om kaptajnen og viser sin kortfilm I Don't Even Have a Boat - Calling the Captain - hvor Beefheart blandt andet taler om Zappa.

*Andet nyt: "Ikke kun for skæg" i samarbejde med Kræftens Bekæmpelse

Frank Zappa 70 years celebration, Københavns Hovedbibliotek/Cph main library, 21/12-10 6-10PM