Thus Spake Captain Beefheart

"If you want to be a different fish you gotta jump out of the school."

Captain Beefheart said that his formal education was "half a day of kindergarten."  (He also said that he had a friend who said he stayed too long.)

Found a bunch 1 of Beefheart music on Amazon's free listen thing, so I've been hittin' that pipe.

Read a review of the compilation Captain Beefheart: Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972 (Rhino, 2014) by Andy Beta who said that Beefheart's music was "the closest rock music could get to cubism."  Which made me go hmmmmmm.  (Which autocorrect first wanted to make "hammy" and then "cmmmmmmmm."  Interesting.)  

Also interesting, this bit from the song "Lick My Decals Off, Baby":

“Rather than I want to hold your hand/ I wanna swallow you whole/ ‘n I wanna lick you everywhere it’s pink/ ‘n everywhere you think.” 

In another review, I read this line:  "For Trout Mask Replica, Beefheart and his band practiced for 14 hours a day, sometimes they slept in the studio."  Holy shit!  It's kind of hard not to take that kind of insanity seriously, ya know?

1 Dust Sucker,  Prime Quality Beef, Dichotomy, & Captain Beefheart Live at Bickershaw 1972