ODE TO THE AMERICAN ELM --FRANK ZAPPA -- SOFA No. 1

ONE DOES NOT OFTEN HAVE THE CHANCE THESE DAYS TO SEE AN AMERNIKAN ELM IN FULL REGALIA AS THEY WERE ONCE SEEN DECADES AGO, WHERE ELM STREETS IN TOWNS AND CITIES AND HAMLETS ALL HAD ACTUAL ELM'S.THEY WERE ONCE LINED WITH THEM...THEY HAVE SINCE ALL BEEN WIPED OUT BY THE DUTCH ELM BEETLE AND THE TINY VIRUS IT CARRIES ON ITS BACK AS IT BORES THROUGH THE BARK AND TUNNELS ABOUT...

MONOCULTURES SUCK.
THIS PARTICULAR LONESOME COWBOY ELM HAS FOR THE LAST 20 YEARS BEEN A MAGNET TO MY EYE. THIS TREE IS A NOT JUST A DYING SPECIES DUE TO THE DUTCH ELM DISEASE, IT IS SYMBOLIC TO ME IN THE FORM OF THE AMERNIKAN INDIVIDUAL AS WELL.

GOD FORBID ANYONE STANDS UP AND STANDS OUT THESE DAYS. WE ALL CAN BE AS GRACEFUL AND STUNNING AS THIS LONESONE COWBOY TREE IF WE DARE TO BE AN INDIVIDUAL; TO BE A STEAK INSTEAD OF GROUND BEEF, TO BE A "ME" INSTEAD OF A "WE," TO BE AN I INSTEAD OF A STATISTIC.

YOU SORT IT OUT AND DECIDE.

FRANK ZAPPA -- SOFA No 1

I LOVE THIS TREE BECAUSE IT REFUSES TO BUY INTO THE BULLSHIT AND DEFIES THOSE IN THE KNOW. ONE DOESN'T NEED TO HAVE AN EPIPHANY. ALL THEY NEED IS THE LIBERTY TO MAKE THEIR OWN DECISIONS WHEN THEY LOOK IN THE MIRROR OR MINGLE IN THE MARKET-- AND THE COURAGE TO NOT BE AFRAID AT WHAT THEY SEE.

THE PRESENT DAY ELM TREE REFUSES TO DIE!

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[mogsydog]

Love this vid, love this track ... thank PJ! :)

[plasticjesus108]

@mogsydog THANKS FOR WATCHING.

[stuzapusa]

I'll be the Seventh View, Like and Favorite!!! Thank You Jesus!!!

[plasticjesus108]

@stuzapusa ANYTIME

[bnfox]

gorgeous musically and conceptually - great job and a very sad arboreal tragedy indeed - a moving story you tell...a metaphor for what is happening to this country?

[plasticjesus108]

@bnfox THANKS FOR GETTING IT, BUT IT'S BEYOND THIS COUNTRY. STUPIDITY AND IGNORANCE HAS GONE VIRAL. WHO'D HAVE GUESSED IT WOULD EVER GO IN REVERSE? THANKS FOR STOPPING BY.

[TBonePickensetc]

The American system died back around 1948 thats when the military industrial congressional complex put the nail in the coffin of creative thinking. Corporations run it now. They sell books like 1984 which people buy and read and then think they know something. Thats all fake. Zappa ended up being fake also. He did not get at real alternative and was never a real social activist cept for maybe his first work... Freak Out. After that he was just a failed commercial artist.