Whatchamacallits & Dingleberries

Posted on December 3, 2018 by JMN

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Frank Zappa … compared his music to Calder’s sculptures, describing his cerebral, often atonal songs as “a multicolored whatchamacallit, dangling in space, that has big blobs of metal connected to pieces of wire, balanced ingeniously against little metal dingleberries on the other end.”

(Nancy Hass, “How Artists Are Challenging Alexander Calder’s Mobiles,” NYTimes, 11-29-18)

(c) 2018 JMN.

About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.
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