Ze Frank
Ze Frank (/ˈzeɪ/; born Hosea Jan Frank on March 31, 1972) is an American online performance artist, composer, humorist and public speaker based in Los Angeles, California. He is currently the president of BuzzFeed Motion Pictures.
Personal life
Frank was born to German-American parents and raised in a suburb of Albany, New York. He has a sister, who is a painter, as was indicated in the show.
He was educated at Montessori school, known for its constructivist teaching methods, and graduated with a B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1995. At the university, he played guitar and sang lead vocals for a funk/jam band called Dowdy Smack, along with Blues Traveler bassist Tad Kinchla, until its dissolution in 1998. In 2003 he married his longtime girlfriend Jody Brandt whom he met at Brown University. Jody is a licensed psychologist. At the end of 2008, Frank and his wife moved from Brooklyn Heights, NYC, to Westwood, Los Angeles, CA.
He was listed as second author on a paper published in The Journal of Neuroscience, which was featured briefly in episode 21 of a show on May 25, 2012 called My Pupils, explaining that his study of neuroscience of vision was motivated by his harmless anisocoria condition.
Podcasts:
Ze Frank
ALBUMS
- Whole released: 2009
- Chillout released: 2008
- Social Network for Two released: 2007
- Great released: 2007
- Scared released: 2007
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by Frank Black
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by SOiL
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by Butthole Surfers
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by Boondox
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by Jay Jay Johanson
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by Legend
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by Rebelution
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by Massacre
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by Nneka
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by Crimson Thorn
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by Degradead
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by Burn Season
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by From Zero
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by Christina Carter
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by Bulldoze
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by Queer as Folk: Showtime Series Soundtrack
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by Metus
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by Masquerade
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by Hefner
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by Ivanhoe
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by War Against Sleep
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by Satchel
Suffering
by: Frank BlackI heard about your happiness
And all the plans that you're involved in
Since you're gone you'd be impressed
To know I, too, have been evolving
But I don't think you comprehend
I've been suffering
Yeah, I've been suffering
Guess I'll be suffering up around the bend
This love is a cancer in me
I can feel it advancing in me
This fire it is my light in the world
Well, I found me a new friend
I've been suffering
Yeah, I've been suffering
Guess I'll be suffering up around the bend
I hung around in a leather bar
They threw me on the cement
Slept all night in my plastic car
Got in an accident
I brushed by you in the supermart
And I had me a touch of what's real
It was real when you crushed me with your steel
Black clouds roll through my mind
Who says anyway these halls are sovereign?
I am a hater of the human kind
So keep away, this heart's not softening
No, I don't think that it's the end of this suffering
Yeah, I've been suffering
I've been suffering
I've been suffering