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Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention: "Trouble Every Day"

A fan-made lyric video for Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention's "Trouble Every Day," from the album Freak Out!, released in 1966.

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	Alien Contact by Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Paul McAuley (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Ernest Hogan (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 388 ratings — published 2011 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Live! From Planet Earth: Stories by George Alec Effinger, Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Michael Bishop (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2005 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Is Anybody Out There? by Nick Gevers (Editor), Paul McAuley (Goodreads Author) (Introduction), Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.42 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witpunk by Claude Lalumière (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 3.08 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Thousand Deaths: Stories by George Alec Effinger, Marty Halpern (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Mike Resnick (Introduction) 3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Silver Gryphon by Gary Turner (Editor), Richard Paul Russo (Contributor), James Patrick Kelly (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.40 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Marty Halpern wrote a new blog post Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention: "Trouble Every Day" A fan-made lyric video for Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention's "Trouble Every Day," from the album Freak Out!, released in 1966.
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“like a samurai Jackson Pollock, I scream through my mask and thrash the disgusting little buggers into tinier flying sky-serpents that merrily decorate me, and the canvas on the walls.”
― Marty Halpern, Alien Contact

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“when the form of a practical object was less utilitarian than it might be, then it was art.”
― Marty Halpern, Alien Contact

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“Another annoying thing about frontiers: when they’re not frontiers anymore, the civilizations that move in like to think that the people who came first were stupid.”
― Marty Halpern, Alien Contact

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