{"id":1102,"date":"2008-09-05T18:37:46","date_gmt":"2008-09-06T02:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1102"},"modified":"2008-09-05T18:37:46","modified_gmt":"2008-09-06T02:37:46","slug":"like-marijuana-leads-to-heroin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torturedpotato.com\/cheeseblog\/?p=1102","title":{"rendered":"Like Marijuana Leads to Heroin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jack Johnson <\/a>relaxes me.<\/p>\n

Does this make me <\/p>\n

a) on a downhill run to becoming someone who pays money to see Celine Dion in concert (incidentally, she has covered a Heart song, note for note, for why?)<\/p>\n

b) overtaxed and not myself because of
\nb.1) hormones
\nb.2) exhaustion<\/p>\n

c) an innocent victim of mind toxins?<\/p>\n

When we went to water aerobics classes at the aquatic centre 3 years ago, one of the instructor people always put on Jack Johnson for the cool-down portion of the session. And I was all, what the hell is this beachy shit? And Saint Aardvark was all, hey, I am loving this groovy groove. So last year I bought him a Jack Johnson CD for Christmas and he was kind of lukewarm on it, I think, but it ended up in our computerstereo and one day a few weeks ago, a bad day, I went in and saw it there in our computerstereo and I played it and it was like taking valium. I instantly went to a good place where a breeze was blowing and my favourite drink was on tap. And because of that, the children in my care were also relaxed and so we had a much better afternoon than we might have had.<\/p>\n

But Jack Johnson seems almost sly-ly inoffensive. He is inoffensive with an agenda. Is he a gateway drug of which I should be wary, lest what credibility I have left be mysteriously removed by the hipster police while I sleep? Or should I be more practical and say “whatever works” where “works” means keeping me and my spawn alive one more day.<\/p>\n

I do not know.<\/p>\n

In other music news, I, an avowed foe of the Barenaked Ladies (except for the song Brian Wilson, preferably live) am totally a fan of their album for children, Snacktime.<\/a> I think all their lives they were working up to a CD for children. <\/p>\n

Yeah, the hipsters are coming for my cred tonight, I think. Oh well. That’ll leave more room in the closest for plastic crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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