My dad was a Zappa dad, and I grew up with Zappa. Main feeling about this doc is that he just did so many things that no survey-type documentary of this length would be able to go into any of them in depth, that it would have to be a miniseries, and it’s not like there’s any streaming service that would give the money to make that happen, not to mention the whole situation with the Zappa kids.

Just thinking about the local Fox affiliate in Philadelphia continuing to show a story about the singer Babyface for at least two minutes before joining the other networks in covering 9/11.

It was fun talking about this film in the parking lot afterward.

A picaresque epic, in the mode of an 1800s novel,  about being meaningless in America. Captures that weird vibe of having complete Athlete Mentality in a sport that doesn’t bring in a lot of money.