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Delayed Reaction: 'Uncle Meat'

Photo courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
IT'S NOT often that a film is released 18 years after its soundtrack. But then again, The Mothers of Invention were never too hot on conventional wisdom.

"Uncle Meat," the silver-screen counterpart to the band's 1969 soundtrack of the same title, went straight to video in 1987 after a lack of funds delayed the project for the better part of two decades. The movie features a slew of unique tracks by writer, director and band frontman Frank Zappa, including songs titled "The Voice of Cheese" and "Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague."

Curious? Well, you're in luck — the film is screening Monday at the Library of Congress as part of the Frank Zappa Mini Film Festival.

» Library of Congress Mary Pickford Theatre, 101 Independence Avenue, SE; Mon., 7 p.m., free; 202-707-5677. (Capitol South)

Written by Express' Thomas Floyd
Photo courtesy Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

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